Bulgaria competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.

63 competitors, 54 men and 9 women, took part in 34 events in 8 sports.

The other two teams in each quarterfinals played in the fifth through eighth place classification.

Bulgaria entered four boxers to compete in each of the following weight classes into the Olympic boxing tournament.

Boris Nikolov won the first medal for Bulgaria in their Summer Olympics history with his bronze medal in Men's middleweight category,where he reached the semifinal,but lost from Vasile Tiță from Romania.The rules in the boxing are allowing both of the semifinal losers to win bronze medal without a match between them.