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List of 1956 Summer Olympics medal winners

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The 1956 Summer Olympics were held in Melbourne, Australia, from 22 November to 18 December 1956.

Athletics

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Medal table

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  *   Host nation (Australia)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States1610531
2 Soviet Union571022
3 Australia*42612
4 Great Britain1427
5 Poland1102
6 Norway1023
7 Czechoslovakia1012
8 Brazil1001
 France1001
 Ireland1001
 New Zealand1001
12 United Team of Germany0527
13 Hungary0202
14 Chile0101
 Iceland0101
 Yugoslavia0101
17 Finland0033
18 Greece0011
 Sweden0011
Totals (19 entries)333433100

Men's events

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
details
Bobby Morrow
 United States
10.5 Thane Baker
 United States
10.5 Hector Hogan
 Australia
10.6
200 metres
details
Bobby Morrow
 United States
20.6
(OR)
Andy Stanfield
 United States
20.7 Thane Baker
 United States
20.9
400 metres
details
Charles Jenkins
 United States
46.7 Karl-Friedrich Haas
 United Team of Germany
46.8 Voitto Hellsten
 Finland
47.0
Ardalion Ignatyev
 Soviet Union
47.0
800 metres
details
Tom Courtney
 United States
1:47.7
(OR)
Derek Johnson
 Great Britain
1:47.8 Audun Boysen
 Norway
1:48.1
1500 metres
details
Ron Delany
 Ireland
3:41.2
(OR)
Klaus Richtzenhain
 United Team of Germany
3:42.0 John Landy
 Australia
3:42.0
5000 metres
details
Vladimir Kuts
 Soviet Union
13:39.6
(OR)
Gordon Pirie
 Great Britain
13:50.6 Derek Ibbotson
 Great Britain
13:54.4
10,000 metres
details
Vladimir Kuts
 Soviet Union
28:45.6
(OR)
József Kovács
 Hungary
28:52.4 Al Lawrence
 Australia
28:53.6
110 metres hurdles
details
Lee Calhoun
 United States
13.5
(OR)
Jack Davis
 United States
13.5
(OR)
Joel Shankle
 United States
14.1
400 metres hurdles
details
Glenn Davis
 United States
50.1
(=OR)
Eddie Southern
 United States
50.8 Josh Culbreath
 United States
51.6
3000 metres steeplechase
details
Chris Brasher
 Great Britain
8:41.2
(OR)
Sándor Rozsnyói
 Hungary
8:43.6 Ernst Larsen
 Norway
8:44.0
4 × 100 metres relay
details
 United States (USA)
Ira Murchison
Leamon King
Thane Baker
Bobby Morrow
39.5
(WR)
 Soviet Union (URS)
Leonid Bartenyev
Boris Tokarev
Yuriy Konovalov
Vladimir Sukharev
39.8  United Team of Germany (EUA)
Lothar Knörzer
Leonhard Pohl
Heinz Fütterer
Manfred Germar
40.3
4 × 400 metres relay
details
 United States (USA)
Lou Jones
Jesse Mashburn
Charles Jenkins
Tom Courtney
3:04.8  Australia (AUS)
Leon Gregory
David Lean
Graham Gipson
Kevan Gosper
3:06.2  Great Britain (GBR)
John Salisbury
Michael Wheeler
Peter Higgins
Derek Johnson
3:07.2
Marathon
details
Alain Mimoun
 France
2:25:00 Franjo Mihalić
 Yugoslavia
2:26:32 Veikko Karvonen
 Finland
2:27:47
20 kilometres walk
details
Leonid Spirin
 Soviet Union
1:31:27.4
(OR)
Antanas Mikėnas
 Soviet Union
1:32:03.0 Bruno Junk
 Soviet Union
1:32:12.0
50 kilometres walk
details
Norman Read
 New Zealand
4:30:42.8 Yevgeny Maskinskov
 Soviet Union
4:32:57.0 John Ljunggren
 Sweden
4:35:02.0
High jump
details
Charles Dumas
 United States
2.12 m
(OR)
Chilla Porter
 Australia
2.10 m Igor Kashkarov
 Soviet Union
2.08 m
Pole vault
details
Bob Richards
 United States
4.56 m
(OR)
Bob Gutowski
 United States
4.53 m Georgios Roubanis
 Greece
4.50 m
Long jump
details
Greg Bell
 United States
7.83 m
(OR)
John Bennett
 United States
7.68 m Jorma Valkama
 Finland
7.48 m
Triple jump
details
Adhemar Ferreira da Silva
 Brazil
16.35 m
(OR)
Vilhjálmur Einarsson
 Iceland
16.26 m Vitold Kreyer
 Soviet Union
16.02 m
Shot put
details
Parry O'Brien
 United States
18.57 m
(OR)
Bill Nieder
 United States
18.18 m Jiří Skobla
 Czechoslovakia
17.65 m
Discus throw
details
Al Oerter
 United States
56.36 m
(OR)
Fortune Gordien
 United States
54.81 m Des Koch
 United States
54.40 m
Hammer throw
details
Hal Connolly
 United States
63.19 m
(OR)
Mikhail Krivonosov
 Soviet Union
63.03 m Anatoliy Samotsvetov
 Soviet Union
62.56 m
Javelin throw
details
Egil Danielsen
 Norway
85.71 m
(WR)
Janusz Sidło
 Poland
79.98 m Viktor Tsybulenko
 Soviet Union
79.50 m
Decathlon
details
Milt Campbell
 United States
7937
(OR)
Rafer Johnson
 United States
7587 Vasili Kuznetsov
 Soviet Union
7465

Women's events

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
details
Betty Cuthbert
 Australia
11.5 Christa Stubnick
 United Team of Germany
11.7 Marlene Mathews
 Australia
11.7
200 metres
details
Betty Cuthbert
 Australia
23.4
(=OR)
Christa Stubnick
 United Team of Germany
23.7 Marlene Mathews
 Australia
23.8
80 metres hurdles
details
Shirley Strickland de la Hunty
 Australia
10.7
(OR)
Gisela Köhler
 United Team of Germany
10.9 Norma Thrower
 Australia
11.0
4 × 100 metres relay
details
 Australia (AUS)
Shirley Strickland de la Hunty
Norma Croker
Fleur Mellor
Betty Cuthbert
44.5
(WR)
 Great Britain (GBR)
Anne Pashley
Jean Scrivens
June Paul
Heather Armitage
44.7  United States (USA)
Mae Faggs
Margaret Matthews
Wilma Rudolph
Isabelle Daniels
44.9
High jump
details
Mildred McDaniel
 United States
1.76 m
(WR)
Thelma Hopkins
 Great Britain
Mariya Pisareva
 Soviet Union
1.67 m none awarded
(as there was a tie for silver)
Long jump
details
Elżbieta Krzesińska
 Poland
6.35 m
(=WR)
Willye White
 United States
6.09 m Nadezhda Dvalishvili
 Soviet Union
6.07 m
Shot put
details
Tamara Tyshkevich
 Soviet Union
16.59 m
(OR)
Galina Zybina
 Soviet Union
16.53 m Marianne Werner
 United Team of Germany
15.61 m
Discus throw
details
Olga Fikotová
 Czechoslovakia
53.69 m
(OR)
Irina Beglyakova
 Soviet Union
52.54 m Nina Ponomaryova
 Soviet Union
52.02 m
Javelin throw
details
Inese Jaunzeme
 Soviet Union
53.86 m
(OR)
Marlene Ahrens
 Chile
50.38 m Nadezhda Konyayeva
 Soviet Union
50.28 m

Basketball

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Medal table

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RankNOCGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States1001
2 Soviet Union0101
3 Uruguay0011
Totals (3 entries)1113

Medalists

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's  United States (USA)
Carl Cain
Bill Hougland
K.C. Jones
Bill Russell
James Walsh
William Evans
Burdette Haldorsson
Ronald Tomsic
Dick Boushka
Gilbert Ford
Robert Jeangerard
Charles Darling
 Soviet Union (URS)
Valdis Muižnieks
Maigonis Valdmanis
Vladimir Torban
Stasys Stonkus
Kazys Petkevičius
Arkadi Bochkarev
Jānis Krūmiņš
Mikhail Semyonov
Algirdas Lauritenas
Yuri Ozerov
Viktor Zubkov
Mikhail Studenetsky
 Uruguay (URU)
Carlos Blixen
Ramiro Cortes
Héctor Costa
Nelson Chelle
Nelson Demarco
Héctor García Otero
Carlos Gonzáles
Sergio Matto
Oscar Moglia
Raúl Mera
Ariel Olascoaga
Milton Scaron

Boxing

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Medal table

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  *   Host nation (Australia)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Soviet Union (URS)3126
2 Great Britain (GBR)2125
3 United States (USA)2103
4 Romania (ROU)1214
5 United Team of Germany (EUA)1102
6 Hungary (HUN)1001
7 Ireland (IRL)0134
8 Chile (CHI)0123
9 Italy (ITA)0112
10 South Korea (KOR)0101
11 France (FRA)0022
 Poland (POL)0022
 South Africa (RSA)0022
14 Argentina (ARG)0011
 Australia (AUS)*0011
 Finland (FIN)0011
Totals (16 entries)10102040

Medalists

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
Flyweight
(−51 kg)
details
Terence Spinks
 Great Britain
Mircea Dobrescu
 Romania
John Caldwell
 Ireland
René Libeer
 France
Bantamweight
(−54 kg)
details
Wolfgang Behrendt
 United Team of Germany
Song Soon-Chun
 South Korea
Claudio Barrientos
 Chile
Frederick Gilroy
 Ireland
Featherweight
(−57 kg)
details
Vladimir Safronov
 Soviet Union
Thomas Nicholls
 Great Britain
Henryk Niedźwiedzki
 Poland
Pentti Hämäläinen
 Finland
Lightweight
(−60 kg)
details
Richard McTaggart
 Great Britain
Harry Kurschat
 United Team of Germany
Anatoly Lagetko
 Soviet Union
Anthony Byrne
 Ireland
Light welterweight
(−63.5 kg)
details
Vladimir Yengibaryan
 Soviet Union
Franco Nenci
 Italy
Constantin Dumitrescu
 Romania
Henry Loubscher
 South Africa
Welterweight
(−67 kg)
details
Nicolae Linca
 Romania
Fred Tiedt
 Ireland
Kevin Hogarth
 Australia
Nicholas Gargano
 Great Britain
Light middleweight
(−71 kg)
details
László Papp
 Hungary
José Torres
 United States
John McCormack
 Great Britain
Zbigniew Pietrzykowski
 Poland
Middleweight
(−75 kg)
details
Gennadi Schatkov
 Soviet Union
Ramón Tapia
 Chile
Gilbert Chapron
 France
Victor Zalazar
 Argentina
Light heavyweight
(−81 kg)
details
James Boyd
 United States
Gheorghe Negrea
 Romania
Carlos Lucas
 Chile
Romualdas Murauskas
 Soviet Union
Heavyweight
(+81 kg)
details
Pete Rademacher
 United States
Lev Mukhin
 Soviet Union
Daniel Bekker
 South Africa
Giacomo Bozzano
 Italy

Canoeing

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Medal table

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  *   Host nation (Australia)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Romania (ROU)3003
2 Soviet Union (URS)2327
3 Sweden (SWE)2002
4 Hungary (HUN)1337
5 United Team of Germany (EUA)1214
6 France (FRA)0101
7 Australia (AUS)*0011
 Austria (AUT)0011
 Denmark (DEN)0011
Totals (9 entries)99927

Men's events

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
C-1 1000 metres
details
Leon Rotman
 Romania
István Hernek
 Hungary
Gennady Bukharin
 Soviet Union
C-1 10000 metres
details
Leon Rotman
 Romania
János Parti
 Hungary
Gennady Bukharin
 Soviet Union
C-2 1000 metres
details
 Romania
Alexe Dumitru
Simion Ismailciuc
 Soviet Union
Pavel Kharin
Gratsian Botev
 Hungary
Károly Wieland
Ferenc Mohácsi
C-2 10000 metres
details
 Soviet Union
Pavel Kharin
Gratsian Botev
 France
Georges Dransart
Marcel Renaud
 Hungary
Imre Farkas
József Hunics
K-1 1000 metres
details
Gert Fredriksson
 Sweden
Igor Pissarov
 Soviet Union
Lajos Kiss
 Hungary
K-1 10000 metres
details
Gert Fredriksson
 Sweden
Ferenc Hatlaczky
 Hungary
Michel Scheuer
 United Team of Germany
K-2 1000 metres
details
 United Team of Germany
Michel Scheuer
Meinrad Miltenberger
 Soviet Union
Mikhail Kaaleste
Anatoli Demitkov
 Austria
Maximilian Raub
Herbert Wiedermann
K-2 10000 metres
details
 Hungary
János Urányi
László Fábián
 United Team of Germany
Fritz Briel
Theodor Kleine
 Australia
Dennis Green
Walter Brown

Women's events

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
K-1 500 metres
details
Yelizaveta Dementyeva
 Soviet Union
Therese Zenz
 United Team of Germany
Tove Søby
 Denmark

Cycling

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Medal table

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  *   Host nation (Australia)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Italy3115
2 France2204
3 Australia*1012
4 Czechoslovakia0202
5 Great Britain0123
6 South Africa0011
 United Team of Germany0011
Totals (7 entries)66618

Road cycling

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
Individual road race
details
Ercole Baldini
 Italy
Arnaud Geyre
 France
Alan Jackson
 Great Britain
Team road race
details
 France (FRA)
Arnaud Geyre
Maurice Moucheraud
Michel Vermeulin
 Great Britain (GBR)
Arthur Brittain
William Holmes
Alan Jackson
 United Team of Germany (EUA)
Reinhold Pommer
Gustav-Adolf Schur
Horst Tüller

Track cycling

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
Pursuit team
details
 Italy (ITA)
Valentino Gasparella
Antonio Domenicali
Leandro Faggin
Franco Gandini
Virginio Pizzali
 France (FRA)
Michel Vermeulin
René Bianchi
Jean Graczyk
Jean-Claude Lecante
 Great Britain (GBR)
Tom Simpson
Donald Burgess
Mike Gambrill
John Geddes
Sprint
details
Michel Rousseau
 France
Guglielmo Pesenti
 Italy
Dick Ploog
 Australia
Tandem
details
 Australia
Ian Browne
Tony Marchant
 Czechoslovakia
Ladislav Fouček
Václav Machek
 Italy
Giuseppe Ogna
Cesare Pinarello
Time trial
details
Leandro Faggin
 Italy
Ladislav Fouček
 Czechoslovakia
Alfred Swift
 South Africa

Diving

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Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States (USA)3429
2 Mexico (MEX)1012
3 Canada (CAN)0011
Totals (3 entries)44412

Men's events

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
3 m springboard
details
Bob Clotworthy
 United States
Donald Harper
 United States
Joaquín Capilla
 Mexico
10 m platform
details
Joaquín Capilla
 Mexico
Gary Tobian
 United States
Richard Connor
 United States

Women's events

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
3 m springboard
details
Pat McCormick
 United States
Jeanne Stunyo
 United States
Irene MacDonald
 Canada
10 m platform
details
Pat McCormick
 United States
Juno Stover-Irwin
 United States
Paula Jean Myers-Pope
 United States

Equestrian events

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Medal table

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  *   Host nation (Sweden)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Sweden (SWE)*3003
2 United Team of Germany (EUA)2316
3 Great Britain (GBR)1023
4 Italy (ITA)0213
5 Denmark (DEN)0101
6 Canada (CAN)0011
 Switzerland (SUI)0011
Totals (7 entries)66618

Note: the 1956 equestrian events were held in Stockholm, Sweden, due to Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service regulations, which required a six-month quarantine for horses.[1]

Medalists

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
Individual dressage
details
 Henri Saint Cyr
and Juli (SWE)
 Lis Hartel
and Jubilee (DEN)
 Liselott Linsenhoff
and Adular (EUA)
Team dressage
details
 Sweden (SWE)
Henri Saint Cyr
and Juli
Gehnäll Persson
and Knaust
Gustaf Adolf Boltenstern Jr.
and Krest
 United Team of Germany (EUA)
Liselott Linsenhoff
and Adular
Hannelore Weygand
and Perkunos
Anneliese Küppers
and Afrika
 Switzerland (SUI)
Gottfried Trachsel
and Kursus
Henri Chammartin
and Wöhler
Gustav Fischer
and Vasello
Individual eventing
details
 Petrus Kastenman
and Iluster (SWE)
 August Lütke-Westhues
and Trux von Kamax (EUA)
 Francis Weldon
and Kilbarry (GBR)
Team eventing
details
 Great Britain (GBR)
Francis Weldon
and Kilbarry
Arthur Rook
and Wild Venture
Bertie Hill
and Countryman III
 United Team of Germany (EUA)
August Lütke-Westhues
and Trux von Kamax
Otto Rothe
and Sissi
Klaus Wagner
and Prinzeß
 Canada (CAN)
John Rumble
and Cilroy
Jim Elder
and Colleen
Brian Herbinson
and Tara
Individual jumping
details
 Hans Günter Winkler
and Halla (EUA)
 Raimondo D'Inzeo
and Merano (ITA)
 Piero D'Inzeo
and Uruguay (ITA)
Team jumping
details
 United Team of Germany (EUA)
Hans Günter Winkler
and Halla
Fritz Thiedemann
and Meteor
Alfons Lütke-Westhues
and Ala
 Italy (ITA)
Raimondo D'Inzeo
and Merano
Piero D'Inzeo
and Uruguay
Salvatore Oppes
and Pagoro
 Great Britain (GBR)
Wilfred White
and Nizefela
Pat Smythe
and Flanagan
Peter Robeson
and Scorchin

Fencing

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Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Italy (ITA)3227
2 Hungary (HUN)2114
3 France (FRA)1124
4 Great Britain (GBR)1001
5 Poland (POL)0202
6 Romania (ROM)0101
7 Soviet Union (URS)0022
Totals (7 entries)77721

Men's events

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual épée
details
Carlo Pavesi
 Italy
Giuseppe Delfino
 Italy
Edoardo Mangiarotti
 Italy
Team épée
details
 Italy (ITA)
Giuseppe Delfino
Franco Bertinetti
Alberto Pellegrino
Giorgio Anglesio
Carlo Pavesi
Edoardo Mangiarotti
 Hungary (HUN)
Bela Rerrich
Ambrus Nagy
Barnabas Berzsenyi
Jozsef Marosi
Jozsef Sakovics
Lajos Balthazár
 France (FRA)
Yves Dreyfus
Rene Queyroux
Daniel Dagallier
Claude Nigon
Armand Mouyal
Individual foil
details
Christian d'Oriola
 France
Giancarlo Bergamini
 Italy
Antonio Spallino
 Italy
Team foil
details
 Italy (ITA)
Vittorio Lucarelli
Luigi Arturo Carpaneda
Manlio Di Rosa
Giancarlo Bergamini
Antonio Spallino
Edoardo Mangiarotti
 France (FRA)
Bernard Baudoux
Rene Coicaud
Claude Netter
Roger Closset
Christian d'Oriola
Jacques Lataste
 Hungary (HUN)
Lajos Somodi
Jozsef Gyuricza
Endre Tilli
Jozsef Marosi
Mihaly Fülöp
Jozsef Sakovics
Individual sabre
details
Rudolf Kárpáti
 Hungary
Jerzy Pawłowski
 Poland
Lev Kuznetsov
 Soviet Union
Team sabre
details
 Hungary (HUN)
Attila Keresztes
Aladár Gerevich
Rudolf Kárpáti
Jenö Hamori
Pál Kovács
Daniel Magay
 Poland (POL)
Zygmunt Pawlas
Jerzy Pawłowski
Wojciech Zabłocki
Andrzej Ryszard Piątkowski
Marian Zygmunt Kuszewski
Ryszard Zub
 Soviet Union (URS)
Yakov Rylsky
David Tyshler
Lev Kuznetsov
Yevgeni Cherepovsky
Leonid Bogdanov

Women's events

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual foil
details
Gillian Sheen
 Great Britain
Olga Orban
 Romania
Renée Garilhe
 France

Field hockey

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Medal table

[edit]
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 India1001
2 Pakistan0101
3 United Team of Germany0011
Totals (3 entries)1113

Medalists

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
Men's  India (IND)
Leslie Claudius
Ranganathan Francis
Haripal Kaushik
Amir Kumar
Raghbir Lal
Shankar Lakshman
O. P. Malhotra
Govind Perumal
Amit Singh Bakshi
Raghbir Singh Bhola
Balbir Singh Dosanjh
Hardyal Singh Garchey
Randhir Singh Gentle
Balkishan Singh Grewal
Gurdev Singh Kullar
Udham Singh Kullar
Bakshish Singh
Charles Stephen
 Pakistan (PAK)
Zakir Hussain
Munir Ahmed Dar
Ghulam Rasool
Anwar Ahmed Khan
Qazi Massarrat Hussain
Noor Alam
Abdul Hamid
Habibur Rehman
Ahmed Naseer Bunda
Motiullah
Latif-ur Rehman
Akhtar Hussain
Habib Ali Kiddie
Manzoor Hussain Atif
 United Team of Germany (EUA)
Günther Brennecke
Hugo Budinger
Werner Delmes
Hugo Dollheiser
Eberhard Ferstl
Alfred Lücker
Helmut Nonn
Wolfgang Nonn
Heinz Radzikowski
Werner Rosenbaum
Günther Ullerich

Football

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Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Soviet Union1001
2 Yugoslavia0101
3 Bulgaria0011
Totals (3 entries)1113

Medalists

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's  Soviet Union (URS)
Lev Yashin
Nikolai Tishchenko
Mikhail Ogonkov
Aleksei Paramonov
Anatoli Bashashkin
Igor Netto
Boris Tatushin
Anatoli Isayev
Eduard Streltsov
Valentin Ivanov
Vladimir Ryzhkin
Boris Kuznetsov
Iosif Betsa
Sergei Salnikov
Boris Razinsky
Anatoli Maslenkin
Anatoli Ilyin
Nikita Simonyan
Yury Belyayev
Anatoli Porkhunov
 Yugoslavia (YUG)
Sava Antić
Ibrahim Biogradlić
Mladen Koščak
Dobroslav Krstić
Luka Liposinović
Muhamed Mujić
Zlatko Papec
Petar Radenković
Nikola Radović
Ivan Santek
Dragoslav Šekularac
Ljubiša Spajić
Todor Veselinović
Blagoja Vidinić
 Bulgaria (BUL)
Stefan Bozhkov
Todor Diev
Georgi Dimitrov
Milcho Goranov
Ivan Petkov Kolev
Nikola Kovachev
Manol Manolov
Dimitar Milanov
Georgi Naydenov
Panayot Panayotov
Kiril Rakarov
Gavril Stoyanov
Krum Yanev
Yordan Yosifov
Pavel Vladimirov
Iliya Kirchev

Gymnastics

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Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Soviet Union (URS)116623
2 Hungary (HUN)4217
3 Japan (JPN)15511
4 United Team of Germany (EUA)1001
5 Sweden (SWE)0213
6 Czechoslovakia (TCH)0101
7 Romania (ROU)0022
8 Finland (FIN)0011
 Poland (POL)0011
Totals (9 entries)17161750

Men’s events

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
Individual all-around
details
Viktor Chukarin
 Soviet Union
Takashi Ono
 Japan
Yuri Titov
 Soviet Union
Team all-around
details
 Soviet Union (URS)
Albert Azaryan
Viktor Chukarin
Valentin Muratov
Boris Shakhlin
Pavel Stolbov
Yuri Titov
 Japan (JPN)
Nobuyuki Aihara
Akira Kono
Masami Kubota
Takashi Ono
Masao Takemoto
Shinsaku Tsukawaki
 Finland (FIN)
Raimo Heinonen
Olavi Laimuvirta
Onni Lappalainen
Berndt Lindfors
Martti Mansikka
Kalevi Suoniemi
Floor exercise
details
Valentin Muratov
 Soviet Union
Nobuyuki Aihara
 Japan
none awarded
(as there was a tie for silver)
William Thoresson
 Sweden
Viktor Chukarin
 Soviet Union
Horizontal bar
details
Takashi Ono
 Japan
Yuri Titov
 Soviet Union
Masao Takemoto
 Japan
Parallel bars
details
Viktor Chukarin
 Soviet Union
Masumi Kubota
 Japan
Takashi Ono
 Japan
Masao Takemoto
 Japan
Pommel horse
details
Boris Shakhlin
 Soviet Union
Takashi Ono
 Japan
Viktor Chukarin
 Soviet Union
Rings
details
Albert Azaryan
 Soviet Union
Valentin Muratov
 Soviet Union
Masao Takemoto
 Japan
Masumi Kubota
 Japan
Vault
details
Helmut Bantz
 United Team of Germany
none awarded
(as there was a tie for gold)
Yuri Titov
 Soviet Union
Valentin Muratov
 Soviet Union

Women's events

[edit]
Games Gold Silver Bronze
Individual all-around
details
Larisa Latynina
 Soviet Union
Ágnes Keleti
 Hungary
Sofia Muratova
 Soviet Union
Team all-around
details
 Soviet Union (URS)
Polina Astakhova
Lyudmila Yegorova
Lidia Kalinina
Larisa Latynina
Tamara Manina
Sofia Muratova
 Hungary (HUN)
Andrea Molnár-Bodó
Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles
Ágnes Keleti
Alice Kertész
Margit Korondi
Olga Lemhényi-Tass
 Romania (ROU)
Georgeta Hurmuzachi
Sonia Iovan
Elena Leușteanu
Elena Mărgărit
Elena Săcălici
Emilia Vătășoiu
Balance beam
details
Ágnes Keleti
 Hungary
Eva Bosáková
 Czechoslovakia
none awarded
(as there was a tie for silver)
Tamara Manina
 Soviet Union
Floor exercise
details
Ágnes Keleti
 Hungary
none awarded
(as there was a tie for gold)
Elena Leușteanu
 Romania
Larisa Latynina
 Soviet Union
Uneven bars
details
Ágnes Keleti
 Hungary
Larisa Latynina
 Soviet Union
Sofia Muratova
 Soviet Union
Vault
details
Larisa Latynina
 Soviet Union
Tamara Manina
 Soviet Union
Olga Lemhényi-Tass
 Hungary
Ann-Sofi Pettersson
 Sweden
Team, portable apparatus
details
 Hungary (HUN)
Andrea Molnár-Bodó
Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles
Ágnes Keleti
Alice Kertész
Margit Korondi
Olga Lemhényi-Tass
 Sweden (SWE)
Karin Lindberg
Ann-Sofi Pettersson
Eva Rönström
Evy Berggren
Doris Hedberg
Maud Karlén
 Soviet Union (URS)
Polina Astakhova
Lyudmila Yegorova
Lidia Kalinina
Larisa Latynina
Tamara Manina
Sofia Muratova
 Poland (POL)
Helena Rakoczy
Natalia Kot-Wala
Danuta Stachow
Dorota Horzonek-Jokiel
Barbara Ślizowska
Lidia Szczerbińska

Modern pentathlon

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Medal table

[edit]
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Soviet Union (URS)1001
 Sweden (SWE)1001
3 Finland (FIN)0123
4 United States (USA)0101
Totals (4 entries)2226

Medalists

[edit]
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual
details
Lars Hall
 Sweden
Olavi Mannonen
 Finland
Väinö Korhonen
 Finland
Team
details
 Soviet Union (URS)
Igor Novikov
Ivan Deryugin
Aleksandr Tarasov
 United States (USA)
William Andre
Jack Daniels
George Lambert
 Finland (FIN)
Olavi Mannonen
Väinö Korhonen
Berndt Katter

Rowing

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Medal table

[edit]

  *   Host nation (Australia)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States (USA)3216
2 Soviet Union (URS)2114
3 Canada (CAN)1102
4 Italy (ITA)1001
5 Australia (AUS)*0123
6 Sweden (SWE)0101
 United Team of Germany (EUA)0101
8 Austria (AUT)0011
 Finland (FIN)0011
 France (FRA)0011
Totals (10 entries)77721

Medalists

[edit]
Games Gold Silver Bronze
Single sculls
details
Vyacheslav Ivanov
 Soviet Union
Stuart Mackenzie
 Australia
John B. Kelly Jr.
 United States
Double sculls
details
 Soviet Union
Aleksandr Berkutov
Yuriy Tyukalov
 United States
Pat Costello
Jim Gardiner
 Australia
Murray Riley
Mervyn Wood
Coxless pair
details
 United States
James Fifer
Duvall Hecht
 Soviet Union
Igor Buldakov
Viktor Ivanov
 Austria
Josef Kloimstein
Alfred Sageder
Coxed pair
details
 United States
Arthur Ayrault
Conn Findlay
Kurt Seiffert
 United Team of Germany
Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck
Horst Arndt
Rainer Borkowsky
 Soviet Union
Ihor Yemchuk
Heorhiy Zhylin
Vladimir Petrov
Coxless four
details
 Canada
Archibald MacKinnon
Lorne Loomer
Walter D'Hondt
Donald Arnold
 United States
John Welchli
John McKinlay
Art McKinlay
James McIntosh
 France
René Guissart
Yves Delacour
Gaston Mercier
Guy Guillabert
Coxed four
details
 Italy
Alberto Winkler
Romano Sgheiz
Angelo Vanzin
Franco Trincavelli
Ivo Stefanoni
 Sweden
Olle Larsson
Gösta Eriksson
Ivar Aronsson
Evert Gunnarsson
Bertil Göransson
 Finland
Kauko Hänninen
Reino Poutanen
Veli Lehtelä
Toimi Pitkänen
Matti Niemi
Eight
details
 United States (USA)
Thomas Charlton
David Wight
John Cooke
Donald Beer
Caldwell Esselstyn
Charles Grimes
Rusty Wailes
Robert Morey
William Becklean
 Canada (CAN)
Philip Kueber
Richard McClure
Robert Wilson
David Helliwell
Wayne Pretty
Bill McKerlich
Douglas McDonald
Lawrence West
Carlton Ogawa
 Australia (AUS)
Michael Aikman
David Boykett
Fred Benfield
Jim Howden
Garth Manton
Walter Howell
Adrian Monger
Brian Doyle
Harold Hewitt

Sailing

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Medal table

[edit]

  *   Host nation (Australia)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Sweden (SWE)2002
2 Denmark (DEN)1102
3 United States (USA)1012
4 New Zealand (NZL)1001
5 Great Britain (GBR)0123
6 Australia (AUS)*0112
7 Belgium (BEL)0101
 Italy (ITA)0101
9 Bahamas (BAH)0011
Totals (9 entries)55515

Medalists

[edit]
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Finn
details
Paul Elvstrøm
 Denmark
André Nelis
 Belgium
John Marvin
 United States
Star
details
 United States
Herbert Williams
Lawrence Low
 Italy
Agostino Straulino
Nicolò Rode
 Bahamas
Durward Knowles
Sloane Farrington
12 m2 sharpie
details
 New Zealand
Peter Mander
Jack Cropp
 Australia
Rolland Tasker
John Scott
 Great Britain
Jasper Blackall
Terence Smith
Dragon
details
 Sweden
Folke Bohlin
Bengt Palmquist
Leif Wikström
 Denmark
Ole Berntsen
Cyril Andresen
Christian von Bülow
 Great Britain
Graham Mann
Ronald Backus
Jonathan Janson
5.5 metre
details
 Sweden
Lars Thörn
Hjalmar Karlsson
Sture Stork
 Great Britain
Robert Perry
David Bowker
John Dillon
Neil Kennedy-Cochran-Patrick
 Australia
Jock Sturrock
Douglas Buxton
Devereaux Mytton

Shooting

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Medal table

[edit]
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Soviet Union (URS)3418
2 Canada (CAN)1012
 Finland (FIN)1012
 Italy (ITA)1012
 Romania (ROU)1012
6 Sweden (SWE)0112
7 Czechoslovakia (TCH)0101
 Poland (POL)0101
9 United States (USA)0011
Totals (9 entries)77721

Medalists

[edit]
Event Gold Silver Bronze
50 m pistol
details
Pentti Linnosvuo
 Finland
Makhmud Umarov
 Soviet Union
Offutt Pinion
 United States
25 m rapid fire pistol
details
Ștefan Petrescu
 Romania
Yevgeny Cherkasov
 Soviet Union
Gheorghe Lichiardopol
 Romania
50 m rifle prone
details
Gerald Ouellette
 Canada
Vasily Borisov
 Soviet Union
Stuart Boa
 Canada
50 m rifle three positions
details
Anatoli Bogdanov
 Soviet Union
Otakar Hořínek
 Czechoslovakia
John Sundberg
 Sweden
300 m free rifle three positions
details
Vasily Borisov
 Soviet Union
Allan Erdman
 Soviet Union
Vilho Ylönen
 Finland
100 m running deer
details
Vitali Romanenko
 Soviet Union
Per Olof Sköldberg
 Sweden
Vladimir Sevryugin
 Soviet Union
Trap
details
Galliano Rossini
 Italy
Adam Smelczyński
 Poland
Alessandro Ciceri
 Italy

Swimming

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Medal table

[edit]

  *   Host nation (Australia)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Australia (AUS)*84214
2 United States (USA)24511
3 Japan (JPN)1405
4 Great Britain (GBR)1012
 United Team of Germany (EUA)1012
6 Hungary (HUN)0112
7 Soviet Union (URS)0022
8 South Africa (RSA)0011
Totals (8 entries)13131339

Men's events

[edit]
Games Gold Silver Bronze
100 m freestyle
details
Jon Henricks
 Australia
55.4 (WR) John Devitt
 Australia
55.8 Gary Chapman
 Australia
56.7
400 m freestyle
details
Murray Rose
 Australia
4:27.3 (WR) Tsuyoshi Yamanaka
 Japan
4:30.4 George Breen
 United States
4:32.5
1500 m freestyle
details
Murray Rose
 Australia
17:58.9 Tsuyoshi Yamanaka
 Japan
18:00.3 George Breen
 United States
18:08.2
100 m backstroke
details
David Theile
 Australia
1:02.2 (WR) John Monckton
 Australia
1:03.2 Frank McKinney
 United States
1:04.5
200 m breaststroke
details
Masaru Furukawa
 Japan
2:34.7 Masahiro Yoshimura
 Japan
2:36.7 Kharis Yunichev
 Soviet Union
2:36.8
200 m butterfly
details
William Yorzyk
 United States
2:19.3 Takashi Ishimoto
 Japan
2:23.8 György Tumpek
 Hungary
2:23.9
4 × 200 m freestyle relay
details
 Australia (AUS)
Kevin O'Halloran
John Devitt
Murray Rose
Jon Henricks
8:23.6 (WR)  United States (USA)
Dick Hanley
George Breen
Bill Woolsey
Ford Konno
8:31.5  Soviet Union (URS)
Vitaly Sorokin
Vladimir Struzhanov
Gennady Nikolayev
Boris Nikitin
8:34.7

Women's events

[edit]
Games Gold Silver Bronze
100 m freestyle
details
Dawn Fraser
 Australia
1:02.0 (WR) Lorraine Crapp
 Australia
1:02.3 Faith Leech
 Australia
1:05.1
400 m freestyle
details
Lorraine Crapp
 Australia
4:54.6 (OR) Dawn Fraser
 Australia
5:02.5 Sylvia Ruuska
 United States
5:07.1
100 m backstroke
details
Judy Grinham
 Great Britain
1:12.9 (WR) Carin Cone
 United States
1:12.9 (WR) Margaret Edwards
 Great Britain
1:13.1
200 m breaststroke
details
Ursula Happe
 United Team of Germany
2:53.1 (OR) Éva Székely
 Hungary
2:54.8 Eva-Maria Elsen
 United Team of Germany
2:55.1
100 m butterfly
details
Shelley Mann
 United States
1:11.0 (OR) Nancy Ramey
 United States
1:11.9 Mary Sears
 United States
1:14.4
4 × 100 m freestyle relay
details
 Australia (AUS)
Dawn Fraser
Faith Leech
Sandra Morgan
Lorraine Crapp
4:17.1 (WR)  United States (USA)
Sylvia Ruuska
Shelley Mann
Nancy Simons
Joan Rosazza
4:19.2  South Africa (RSA)
Natalie Myburgh
Susan Roberts
Moira Abernethy
Jeanette Myburgh
4:25.7

Water polo

[edit]

Medal table

[edit]
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Hungary1001
2 Yugoslavia0101
3 Soviet Union0011
Totals (3 entries)1113

Medalists

[edit]
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's  Hungary (HUN)
Antal Bolvári
Ottó Boros
Dezső Gyarmati
István Hevesi
László Jeney
Tivadar Kanizsa
György Kárpáti
Kálmán Markovits
Miklos Martin
Mihály Mayer
István Szivós
Ervin Zádor
 Yugoslavia (YUG)
Ivo Cipci
Tomislav Franjković
Vladimir Ivković
Zdravko Ježić
Hrvoje Kačić
Zdravko-Ćiro Kovačić
Lovro Radonjić
Marijan Žužej
 Soviet Union (URS)
Viktor Ageev
Pyotr Breus
Boris Goykhman
Nodar Gvakhariya
Vyacheslav Kurennoy
Boris Markarov
P'et're Mshveniyeradze
Valentin Prokopov
Mikhail Ryzhak
Yury Shlyapin

Weightlifting

[edit]

Medal table

[edit]
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States (USA)4217
2 Soviet Union (URS)3407
3 Argentina (ARG)0101
4 Italy (ITA)0022
5 France (FRA)0011
 Iran (IRI)0011
 Poland (POL)0011
 South Korea (KOR)0011
Totals (8 entries)77721

Medalists

[edit]
Games Gold Silver Bronze
56 kg
details
Charles Vinci
 United States
Vladimir Stogov
 Soviet Union
Mahmoud Namjoo
 Iran
60 kg
details
Isaac Berger
 United States
Yevgeni Minaev
 Soviet Union
Marian Zieliński
 Poland
67.5 kg
details
Igor Rybak
 Soviet Union
Ravil Khabutdinov
 Soviet Union
Kim Chang-Hee
 South Korea
75 kg
details
Fyodor Bogdanovsky
 Soviet Union
Pete George
 United States
Ermanno Pignatti
 Italy
82.5 kg
details
Tommy Kono
 United States
Vasili Stepanov
 Soviet Union
James George
 United States
90 kg
details
Arkadi Vorobyev
 Soviet Union
David Sheppard
 United States
Jean Debuf
 France
+90 kg
details
Paul Anderson
 United States
Humberto Selvetti
 Argentina
Alberto Pigaiani
 Italy

Wrestling

[edit]

Medal table

[edit]
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Soviet Union (URS)62513
2 Turkey (TUR)3227
3 Iran (IRI)2204
4 Japan (JPN)2103
5 Finland (FIN)2024
6 Bulgaria (BUL)1304
7 Sweden (SWE)0134
8 Hungary (HUN)0112
 Italy (ITA)0112
 United States (USA)0112
11 Belgium (BEL)0101
 United Team of Germany (EUA)0101
13 Romania (ROU)0011
Totals (13 entries)16161648

Freestyle

[edit]
Games Gold Silver Bronze
Flyweight
details
Mirian Tsalkalamanidze
 Soviet Union
M. Ali Khojastehpour
 Iran
Hüseyin Akbaş
 Turkey
Bantamweight
details
Mustafa Dağıstanlı
 Turkey
Mehdi Yaghoubi
 Iran
Mikhail Shakhov
 Soviet Union
Featherweight
details
Shozo Sasahara
 Japan
Joseph Mewis
 Belgium
Erkki Penttilä
 Finland
Lightweight
details
Emam-Ali Habibi
 Iran
Shigeru Kasahara
 Japan
Alimbeg Bestayev
 Soviet Union
Welterweight
details
Mitsuo Ikeda
 Japan
Ibrahim Zengin
 Turkey
Vakhtang Balavadze
 Soviet Union
Middleweight
details
Nikola Stanchev
 Bulgaria
Danny Hodge
 United States
Georgi Skhirtladze
 Soviet Union
Light heavyweight
details
Gholamreza Takhti
 Iran
Boris Kulayev
 Soviet Union
Peter Blair
 United States
Heavyweight
details
Hamit Kaplan
 Turkey
Hussein Mehmedov
 Bulgaria
Taisto Kangasniemi
 Finland

Greco-Roman

[edit]
Games Gold Silver Bronze
Flyweight
details
Nikolai Solovyov
 Soviet Union
Ignazio Fabra
 Italy
Dursun Ali Egribas
 Turkey
Bantamweight
details
Konstantin Vyrupayev
 Soviet Union
Edvin Vesterby
 Sweden
Francisc Horvat
 Romania
Featherweight
details
Rauno Mäkinen
 Finland
Imre Polyák
 Hungary
Roman Dzeneladze
 Soviet Union
Lightweight
details
Kyösti Lehtonen
 Finland
Riza Dogan
 Turkey
Gyula Tóth
 Hungary
Welterweight
details
Mithat Bayrak
 Turkey
Vladimir Maneyev
 Soviet Union
Per Gunnar Berlin
 Sweden
Middleweight
details
Givi Kartozia
 Soviet Union
Dimitar Dobrev
 Bulgaria
Rune Jansson
 Sweden
Light Heavyweight
details
Valentin Nikolayev
 Soviet Union
Petko Sirakov
 Bulgaria
Karl-Erik Nilsson
 Sweden
Heavyweight
details
Anatoli Parfenov
 Soviet Union
Wilfried Dietrich
 United Team of Germany
Adelmo Bulgarelli
 Italy

References

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  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Equestrianism at the 1956 Stockholm Equestrian Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
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