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The Men’s Individual Road Race at the 1952 Summer Olympics was held on 2 August the 2nd last day of the Olympics on a 112 km course running counter-clockwise from Käpylä through Pakila and Maunula and back to Käpylä. The course was circled seventeen times so the total length of the competition was 1904 km. About half of the road was hard-surfaced the other half sand-surfaced.There were 154 entries from 31 nations and 112 participants from 30 nations..