| Date | 22 – 23 July 1952 — 08:00-14:00 (both days) | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Messuhalli II, Helsinki | |
| Participants | 134 from 18 countries | |
| Format | Compulsory and optional exercise performed on all four apparatuses. | |
| Jury | Liisa Orko | FIN |
| Jury | Anna-Liisa Näsmark | SWE |
| Jury | Miliza Sepa | YUG |
This was the début for a women’s individual all-around event at the Olympics, and it was won by Soviet Ukrainian Mariya Gorokhovskaya, followed by her teammate Nina Bocharova in second, with Hungarian Margit Korondi taking bronze.
There were seven women’s gymnastics events in Helsinki, and Gorokhovskaya won a medal in all of them, with two golds and five silver medals. For more than 70 years, she was the only woman to have won seven medals at a single Olympic Games. At Tokyo 2020, that record was equaled by Australian swimmer Emma McKeon, who won four golds and three bronzes at a single Olympics. Further, Gorokhovskaya’s five silver medals in 1952 remains, through 2024, the most silver medals won by any athlete, male or female, at one Olympics.