Nancy Hallam and Gweneth Molony became Australia's first women athletes at the Winter Olympics as they competed in the ladies' singles figure skating; they finished 14th and 21st respectively.

[3] The 1952 Winter Olympics was held at Oslo in Norway and took place from 14 to 25 February; a total of 694 athletes competed from 30 nations.

Bill Day finished the best of the Australians as he placed 67th, forty-five seconds behind gold medalist Stein Eriksen from Norway.

Bill Day was the leading Australian out of the three entries as he finished 60th, a full minute off the pace from Zeno Colò from Italy who won the gold medal.

[14][15] Australia entered three figure skaters in the 1952 Games with Adrian Swan, Nancy Burley and Gweneth Molony representing the nation.

[19] In the ladies' singles, Burley and Molony, who both only competed in the 1952 Games, were selected on 14 October 1951 as part of the announcement that included the skiing reveal as well.

[6][20] Heading into the Olympics, Molony was the two-time defending national ladies' singles champion who had won at the Glaciarium.

[26] The following day, he competed in the men's 1500 metres where he came in 30th position out of 39 with a time of 2:30.4, ten seconds behind the gold medallist in Hjalmar Andersen from Norway.