6 metres, Open
| Date | 20 – 28 July 1952 | |
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| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Harmaja, Helsinki | |
| Participants | 56 from 11 countries | |
| Format | Points awarded for placement in each race. Best six of seven scores to count for final placement. | |
The 6-metre class had first been held at the 1908 Olympics, and was on every Olympic yachting program from 1908-52, but it was discontinued after the Helsinki Olympics, as the trend was to smaller Olympic boats. The event was raced on a 13.1 nautical mile (24.2 km) course, the same as for all the larger boats in Helsinki.
American Herman Whiton and Llanoria had won this event in 1948, and he returned to defend his gold medal, although with a different crew, this one including his wife, Emelyn. After six races, Llanoria was far behind the Norwegian boat Elisabeth X, but the Americans won the final race and Norway finished only fifth, to bring Whiton the title. The third-placed Finnish boat, Ralia, had also placed third in 1948, but was then raced by Sweden and was called Ali Baba.
| Pos | Competitors | NOC | Points | Race #1 | Race #2 | Race #3 | Race #4 | Race #5 | Race #6 | Race #7 | ||||||
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| 1 | Llanoria |  USA | 4,870 | 540 (4) | 188 (9) | 1,142 (1) | 1,142 (1) | 239 (8) | 665 (3) | 1,142 (1) | Gold | |||||
| Emelyn Whiton • Eric Ridder • Everard Endt • Herman Whiton • John Morgan • Julian Roosevelt | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Elisabeth X |  NOR | 4,648 | 1,142 (1) | 540 (4) | 841 (2) | 540 (4) | 141 (10) | 1,142 (1) | 443 (5) | Silver | |||||
| Carl Mortensen • Erik Heiberg • Finn Ferner • Johan Martin Ferner • Tor Arneberg | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Ralia |  FIN | 3,944 | 665 (3) | 364 (6) | 665 (3) | 443 (5) | 1,142 (1) | – ( | 665 (3) | Bronze | |||||
| Adolf Konto • Ernst Westerlund • Paul Sjöberg • Ragnar Jansson • Rolf Turkka | ||||||||||||||||
| 4 | May Be VII |  SWE | 3,773 | 841 (2) | – ( | 443 (5) | 665 (3) | 841 (2) | 443 (5) | 540 (4) | ||||||
| Lars Lundström • Karl-Robert Ameln • Martin Hindorff • Sven Salén • Torsten Lord | ||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Djinn |  ARG | 3,393 | 364 (6) | 841 (2) | 540 (4) | 364 (6) | 443 (5) | 841 (2) | 239 (8) | ||||||
| Enrique Sieburger Hadler • Horacio Monti • Hércules Morini • Rufino Rodríguez de la Torre • Werner von Foerster | ||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Ylliam VIII |  SUI | 3,020 | 188 (9) | 1,142 (1) | – ( | 188 (9) | 297 (7) | 364 (6) | 841 (2) | ||||||
| André Firmenich • Charles Stern • François Chapot • Louis Noverraz • Marcel Stern | ||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Trickson VI |  CAN | 3,013 | 239 (8) | 665 (3) | – ( | 841 (2) | 665 (3) | 239 (8) | 364 (6) | ||||||
| Don Tytler • Ken Bradfield • Bill Gooderham • Bill Copeland • Billy Macintosh | ||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Ciocca |  ITA | 2,560 | 443 (5) | 443 (5) | 297 (7) | 297 (7) | 540 (4) | 540 (4) | 297 (7) | ||||||
| Andrea Ferrari • Antonio Cosentino • Enrico Poggi • Giusto Spigno • Pietro Reggio | ||||||||||||||||
| 9 | Titia |  GBR | 1,800 | 297 (7) | 239 (8) | 364 (6) | 239 (8) | 364 (6) | 297 (7) | 101 (11) | ||||||
| Frank Murdoch • Franklin Woodroffe • Kenneth Preston • Martin Sharp • Robert Steele | ||||||||||||||||
| 10 | Nirwana |  GER | 1,190 | 141 (10) | 297 (7) | 188 (9) | 141 (10) | 188 (9) | 188 (9) | 188 (9) | ||||||
| Andreas Howaldt • Götz Freiherr von Mirbach • Hans Kadelbach • Paul-Heinrich Lange • Wolfgang Elsner | ||||||||||||||||
| 11 | Soviet Union |  URS | 864 | 101 (11) | 141 (10) | 239 (8) | 101 (11) | 101 (11) | 141 (10) | 141 (10) | ||||||
| Boris Lobashkov • Fyodor Shutkov • Kirill Kozhevnikov • Nikolay Matveyev • Nikolay Yermakov | ||||||||||||||||