List of 1956 Summer Olympics medal winners

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

Athletics

See also: Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Australien)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Vereinigte Staaten	16	10	5	31
2	Soviet Union	5	7	10	22
3	Australien*	4	2	6	12
4	Great Britain	1	4	2	7
5	Polen	1	1	0	2
6	Norwegen	1	0	2	3
7	Czechoslovakia	1	0	1	2
8	Brasilien	1	0	0	1
	Frankreich	1	0	0	1
	Irland	1	0	0	1
	Neuseeland	1	0	0	1
12	United Team of Germany	0	5	2	7
13	Ungarn	0	2	0	2
14	Chile	0	1	0	1
	Island	0	1	0	1
	Yugoslavia	0	1	0	1
17	Finnland	0	0	3	3
18	Griechenland	0	0	1	1
	Schweden	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		33	34	33	100

Men's events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Bobby Morrow  Vereinigte Staaten	10.5	Thane Baker  Vereinigte Staaten	10.5	Hector Hogan  Australien	10.6
200 metres	Bobby Morrow  Vereinigte Staaten	20.6 (OR)	Andy Stanfield  Vereinigte Staaten	20.7	Thane Baker  Vereinigte Staaten	20.9
400 metres	Charles Jenkins  Vereinigte Staaten	46.7	Karl-Friedrich Haas  United Team of Germany	46.8	Voitto Hellsten  Finnland	47.0
					Ardalion Ignatyev  Soviet Union	47.0
800 metres	Tom Courtney  Vereinigte Staaten	1:47.7 (OR)	Derek Johnson  Great Britain	1:47.8	Audun Boysen  Norwegen	1:48.1
1500 metres	Ron Delany  Irland	3:41.2 (OR)	Klaus Richtzenhain  United Team of Germany	3:42.0	John Landy  Australien	3:42.0
5000 metres	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	Vladimir Kuts  Soviet Union	28:45.6 (OR)	József Kovács  Ungarn	28:52.4	Al Lawrence  Australien	28:53.6
110 metres hurdles	Lee Calhoun  Vereinigte Staaten	13.5 (OR)	Jack Davis  Vereinigte Staaten	13.5 (OR)	Joel Shankle  Vereinigte Staaten	14.1
400 metres hurdles	Glenn Davis  Vereinigte Staaten	50.1 (=OR)	Eddie Southern  Vereinigte Staaten	50.8	Josh Culbreath  Vereinigte Staaten	51.6
3000 metres steeplechase	Chris Brasher  Great Britain	8:41.2 (OR)	Sándor Rozsnyói  Ungarn	8:43.6	Ernst Larsen  Norwegen	8:44.0
4 × 100 metres relay	Vereinigte Staaten (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	Vereinigte Staaten (USA) Lou Jones Jesse Mashburn Charles Jenkins Tom Courtney	3:04.8	Australien (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	Alain Mimoun  Frankreich	2:25:00	Franjo Mihalić  Yugoslavia	2:26:32	Veikko Karvonen  Finnland	2:27:47
20 kilometres walk	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	Norman Read  Neuseeland	4:30:42.8	Yevgeny Maskinskov  Soviet Union	4:32:57.0	John Ljunggren  Schweden	4:35:02.0
High jump	Charles Dumas  Vereinigte Staaten	2.12 m (OR)	Chilla Porter  Australien	2.10 m	Igor Kashkarov  Soviet Union	2.08 m
Pole vault	Bob Richards  Vereinigte Staaten	4.56 m (OR)	Bob Gutowski  Vereinigte Staaten	4.53 m	Georgios Roubanis  Griechenland	4.50 m
Long jump	Greg Bell  Vereinigte Staaten	7.83 m (OR)	John Bennett  Vereinigte Staaten	7.68 m	Jorma Valkama  Finnland	7.48 m
Triple jump	Adhemar Ferreira da Silva  Brasilien	16.35 m (OR)	Vilhjálmur Einarsson  Island	16.26 m	Vitold Kreyer  Soviet Union	16.02 m
Shot put	Parry O'Brien  Vereinigte Staaten	18.57 m (OR)	Bill Nieder  Vereinigte Staaten	18.18 m	Jiří Skobla  Czechoslovakia	17.65 m
Discus throw	Al Oerter  Vereinigte Staaten	56.36 m (OR)	Fortune Gordien  Vereinigte Staaten	54.81 m	Des Koch  Vereinigte Staaten	54.40 m
Hammer throw	Hal Connolly  Vereinigte Staaten	63.19 m (OR)	Mikhail Krivonosov  Soviet Union	63.03 m	Anatoliy Samotsvetov  Soviet Union	62.56 m
Javelin throw	Egil Danielsen  Norwegen	85.71 m (WR)	Janusz Sidło  Polen	79.98 m	Viktor Tsybulenko  Soviet Union	79.50 m
Decathlon	Milt Campbell  Vereinigte Staaten	7937 (OR)	Rafer Johnson  Vereinigte Staaten	7587	Vasili Kuznetsov  Soviet Union	7465

Women's events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Betty Cuthbert  Australien	11.5	Christa Stubnick  United Team of Germany	11.7	Marlene Mathews  Australien	11.7
200 metres	Betty Cuthbert  Australien	23.4 (=OR)	Christa Stubnick  United Team of Germany	23.7	Marlene Mathews  Australien	23.8
80 metres hurdles	Shirley Strickland de la Hunty  Australien	10.7 (OR)	Gisela Köhler  United Team of Germany	10.9	Norma Thrower  Australien	11.0
4 × 100 metres relay	Australien (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	Vereinigte Staaten (USA) Mae Faggs Margaret Matthews Wilma Rudolph Isabelle Daniels	44.9
High jump	Mildred McDaniel  Vereinigte Staaten	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	Elżbieta Krzesińska  Polen	6.35 m (=WR)	Willye White  Vereinigte Staaten	6.09 m	Nadezhda Dvalishvili  Soviet Union	6.07 m
Shot put	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	Olga Fikotová  Czechoslovakia	53.69 m (OR)	Irina Beglyakova  Soviet Union	52.54 m	Nina Ponomaryova  Soviet Union	52.02 m
Javelin throw	Inese Jaunzeme  Soviet Union	53.86 m (OR)	Marlene Ahrens  Chile	50.38 m	Nadezhda Konyayeva  Soviet Union	50.28 m

Basketball

See also: Basketball at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Vereinigte Staaten	1	0	0	1
2	Soviet Union	0	1	0	1
3	Uruguay	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		1	1	1	3

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's	Vereinigte Staaten (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

See also: Boxing at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Australien)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	3	1	2	6
2	Great Britain (GBR)	2	1	2	5
3	Vereinigte Staaten (USA)	2	1	0	3
4	Rumänien (ROU)	1	2	1	4
5	United Team of Germany (EUA)	1	1	0	2
6	Ungarn (HUN)	1	0	0	1
7	Irland (IRL)	0	1	3	4
8	Chile (CHI)	0	1	2	3
9	Italien (ITA)	0	1	1	2
10	Südkorea (KOR)	0	1	0	1
11	Frankreich (FRA)	0	0	2	2
	Polen (POL)	0	0	2	2
	Südafrika (RSA)	0	0	2	2
14	Argentinien (ARG)	0	0	1	1
	Australien (AUS)*	0	0	1	1
	Finnland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		10	10	20	40

Medalists

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

Canoeing

See also: Canoeing at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Australien)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Rumänien (ROU)	3	0	0	3
2	Soviet Union (URS)	2	3	2	7
3	Schweden (SWE)	2	0	0	2
4	Ungarn (HUN)	1	3	3	7
5	United Team of Germany (EUA)	1	2	1	4
6	Frankreich (FRA)	0	1	0	1
7	Australien (AUS)*	0	0	1	1
	Österreich (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Dänemark (DEN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		9	9	9	27

Men's events

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

Women's events

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

Cycling

See also: Cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Australien)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italien	3	1	1	5
2	Frankreich	2	2	0	4
3	Australien*	1	0	1	2
4	Czechoslovakia	0	2	0	2
5	Great Britain	0	1	2	3
6	Südafrika	0	0	1	1
	United Team of Germany	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		6	6	6	18

Road cycling

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual road race	Ercole Baldini  Italien	Arnaud Geyre  Frankreich	Alan Jackson  Great Britain
Team road race	Frankreich (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

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

Diving

See also: Diving at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Vereinigte Staaten (USA)	3	4	2	9
2	Mexiko (MEX)	1	0	1	2
3	Kanada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		4	4	4	12

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 m springboard	Bob Clotworthy  Vereinigte Staaten	Donald Harper  Vereinigte Staaten	Joaquín Capilla  Mexiko
10 m platform	Joaquín Capilla  Mexiko	Gary Tobian  Vereinigte Staaten	Richard Connor  Vereinigte Staaten

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 m springboard	Pat McCormick  Vereinigte Staaten	Jeanne Stunyo  Vereinigte Staaten	Irene MacDonald  Kanada
10 m platform	Pat McCormick  Vereinigte Staaten	Juno Stover-Irwin  Vereinigte Staaten	Paula Jean Myers-Pope  Vereinigte Staaten

Equestrian events

See also: Equestrian events at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Schweden)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Schweden (SWE)*	3	0	0	3
2	United Team of Germany (EUA)	2	3	1	6
3	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	2	3
4	Italien (ITA)	0	2	1	3
5	Dänemark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
6	Kanada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
	Schweiz (SUI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		6	6	6	18

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.

Medalists

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual dressage	Henri Saint Cyr and Juli (SWE)	Lis Hartel and Jubilee (DEN)	Liselott Linsenhoff and Adular (EUA)
Team dressage	Schweden (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	Schweiz (SUI) Gottfried Trachsel and Kursus Henri Chammartin and Wöhler Gustav Fischer and Vasello
Individual eventing	Petrus Kastenman and Iluster (SWE)	August Lütke-Westhues and Trux von Kamax (EUA)	Francis Weldon and Kilbarry (GBR)
Team eventing	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	Kanada (CAN) John Rumble and Cilroy Jim Elder and Colleen Brian Herbinson and Tara
Individual jumping	Hans Günter Winkler and Halla (EUA)	Raimondo D'Inzeo and Merano (ITA)	Piero D'Inzeo and Uruguay (ITA)
Team jumping	United Team of Germany (EUA) Hans Günter Winkler and Halla Fritz Thiedemann and Meteor Alfons Lütke-Westhues and Ala	Italien (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

See also: Fencing at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italien (ITA)	3	2	2	7
2	Ungarn (HUN)	2	1	1	4
3	Frankreich (FRA)	1	1	2	4
4	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	0	1
5	Polen (POL)	0	2	0	2
6	Rumänien (ROM)	0	1	0	1
7	Soviet Union (URS)	0	0	2	2
Totals (7 entries)		7	7	7	21

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual épée	Carlo Pavesi  Italien	Giuseppe Delfino  Italien	Edoardo Mangiarotti  Italien
Team épée	Italien (ITA) Giuseppe Delfino Franco Bertinetti Alberto Pellegrino Giorgio Anglesio Carlo Pavesi Edoardo Mangiarotti	Ungarn (HUN) Bela Rerrich Ambrus Nagy Barnabas Berzsenyi Jozsef Marosi Jozsef Sakovics Lajos Balthazár	Frankreich (FRA) Yves Dreyfus Rene Queyroux Daniel Dagallier Claude Nigon Armand Mouyal
Individual foil	Christian d'Oriola  Frankreich	Giancarlo Bergamini  Italien	Antonio Spallino  Italien
Team foil	Italien (ITA) Vittorio Lucarelli Luigi Arturo Carpaneda Manlio Di Rosa Giancarlo Bergamini Antonio Spallino Edoardo Mangiarotti	Frankreich (FRA) Bernard Baudoux Rene Coicaud Claude Netter Roger Closset Christian d'Oriola Jacques Lataste	Ungarn (HUN) Lajos Somodi Jozsef Gyuricza Endre Tilli Jozsef Marosi Mihaly Fülöp Jozsef Sakovics
Individual sabre	Rudolf Kárpáti  Ungarn	Jerzy Pawłowski  Polen	Lev Kuznetsov  Soviet Union
Team sabre	Ungarn (HUN) Attila Keresztes Aladár Gerevich Rudolf Kárpáti Jenö Hamori Pál Kovács Daniel Magay	Polen (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

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual foil	Gillian Sheen  Great Britain	Olga Orban  Rumänien	Renée Garilhe  Frankreich

Field hockey

See also: Field hockey at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Indien	1	0	0	1
2	Pakistan	0	1	0	1
3	United Team of Germany	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		1	1	1	3

Medalists

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's	Indien (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

See also: Association football at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	1	0	0	1
2	Yugoslavia	0	1	0	1
3	Bulgarien	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		1	1	1	3

Medalists

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	Bulgarien (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

See also: Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	11	6	6	23
2	Ungarn (HUN)	4	2	1	7
3	Japan (JPN)	1	5	5	11
4	United Team of Germany (EUA)	1	0	0	1
5	Schweden (SWE)	0	2	1	3
6	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	1	0	1
7	Rumänien (ROU)	0	0	2	2
8	Finnland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	Polen (POL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		17	16	17	50

Men’s events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual all-around	Viktor Chukarin  Soviet Union	Takashi Ono  Japan	Yuri Titov  Soviet Union
Team all-around	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	Finnland (FIN) Raimo Heinonen Olavi Laimuvirta Onni Lappalainen Berndt Lindfors Martti Mansikka Kalevi Suoniemi
Floor exercise	Valentin Muratov  Soviet Union	Nobuyuki Aihara  Japan	none awarded (as there was a tie for silver)
		William Thoresson  Schweden
		Viktor Chukarin  Soviet Union
Horizontal bar	Takashi Ono  Japan	Yuri Titov  Soviet Union	Masao Takemoto  Japan
Parallel bars	Viktor Chukarin  Soviet Union	Masumi Kubota  Japan	Takashi Ono  Japan
			Masao Takemoto  Japan
Pommel horse	Boris Shakhlin  Soviet Union	Takashi Ono  Japan	Viktor Chukarin  Soviet Union
Rings	Albert Azaryan  Soviet Union	Valentin Muratov  Soviet Union	Masao Takemoto  Japan
			Masumi Kubota  Japan
Vault	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

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

Modern pentathlon

See also: Modern pentathlon at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	1	0	0	1
	Schweden (SWE)	1	0	0	1
3	Finnland (FIN)	0	1	2	3
4	Vereinigte Staaten (USA)	0	1	0	1
Totals (4 entries)		2	2	2	6

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual	Lars Hall  Schweden	Olavi Mannonen  Finnland	Väinö Korhonen  Finnland
Team	Soviet Union (URS) Igor Novikov Ivan Deryugin Aleksandr Tarasov	Vereinigte Staaten (USA) William Andre Jack Daniels George Lambert	Finnland (FIN) Olavi Mannonen Väinö Korhonen Berndt Katter

Rowing

See also: Rowing at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Australien)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Vereinigte Staaten (USA)	3	2	1	6
2	Soviet Union (URS)	2	1	1	4
3	Kanada (CAN)	1	1	0	2
4	Italien (ITA)	1	0	0	1
5	Australien (AUS)*	0	1	2	3
6	Schweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
	United Team of Germany (EUA)	0	1	0	1
8	Österreich (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Finnland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	Frankreich (FRA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		7	7	7	21

Medalists

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Single sculls	Vyacheslav Ivanov  Soviet Union	Stuart Mackenzie  Australien	John B. Kelly Jr.  Vereinigte Staaten
Double sculls	Soviet Union Aleksandr Berkutov Yuriy Tyukalov	Vereinigte Staaten Pat Costello Jim Gardiner	Australien Murray Riley Mervyn Wood
Coxless pair	Vereinigte Staaten James Fifer Duvall Hecht	Soviet Union Igor Buldakov Viktor Ivanov	Österreich Josef Kloimstein Alfred Sageder
Coxed pair	Vereinigte Staaten 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	Kanada Archibald MacKinnon Lorne Loomer Walter D'Hondt Donald Arnold	Vereinigte Staaten John Welchli John McKinlay Art McKinlay James McIntosh	Frankreich René Guissart Yves Delacour Gaston Mercier Guy Guillabert
Coxed four	Italien Alberto Winkler Romano Sgheiz Angelo Vanzin Franco Trincavelli Ivo Stefanoni	Schweden Olle Larsson Gösta Eriksson Ivar Aronsson Evert Gunnarsson Bertil Göransson	Finnland Kauko Hänninen Reino Poutanen Veli Lehtelä Toimi Pitkänen Matti Niemi
Eight	Vereinigte Staaten (USA) Thomas Charlton David Wight John Cooke Donald Beer Caldwell Esselstyn Charles Grimes Rusty Wailes Robert Morey William Becklean	Kanada (CAN) Philip Kueber Richard McClure Robert Wilson David Helliwell Wayne Pretty Bill McKerlich Douglas McDonald Lawrence West Carlton Ogawa	Australien (AUS) Michael Aikman David Boykett Fred Benfield Jim Howden Garth Manton Walter Howell Adrian Monger Brian Doyle Harold Hewitt

Sailing

See also: Sailing at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Australien)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Schweden (SWE)	2	0	0	2
2	Dänemark (DEN)	1	1	0	2
3	Vereinigte Staaten (USA)	1	0	1	2
4	Neuseeland (NZL)	1	0	0	1
5	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	2	3
6	Australien (AUS)*	0	1	1	2
7	Belgien (BEL)	0	1	0	1
	Italien (ITA)	0	1	0	1
9	Bahamas (BAH)	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		5	5	5	15

Medalists

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

Shooting

See also: Shooting at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	3	4	1	8
2	Kanada (CAN)	1	0	1	2
	Finnland (FIN)	1	0	1	2
	Italien (ITA)	1	0	1	2
	Rumänien (ROU)	1	0	1	2
6	Schweden (SWE)	0	1	1	2
7	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	1	0	1
	Polen (POL)	0	1	0	1
9	Vereinigte Staaten (USA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		7	7	7	21

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 m pistol	Pentti Linnosvuo  Finnland	Makhmud Umarov  Soviet Union	Offutt Pinion  Vereinigte Staaten
25 m rapid fire pistol	Ștefan Petrescu  Rumänien	Yevgeny Cherkasov  Soviet Union	Gheorghe Lichiardopol  Rumänien
50 m rifle prone	Gerald Ouellette  Kanada	Vasily Borisov  Soviet Union	Stuart Boa  Kanada
50 m rifle three positions	Anatoli Bogdanov  Soviet Union	Otakar Hořínek  Czechoslovakia	John Sundberg  Schweden
300 m free rifle three positions	Vasily Borisov  Soviet Union	Allan Erdman  Soviet Union	Vilho Ylönen  Finnland
100 m running deer	Vitali Romanenko  Soviet Union	Per Olof Sköldberg  Schweden	Vladimir Sevryugin  Soviet Union
Trap	Galliano Rossini  Italien	Adam Smelczyński  Polen	Alessandro Ciceri  Italien

Swimming

See also: Swimming at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Australien)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australien (AUS)*	8	4	2	14
2	Vereinigte Staaten (USA)	2	4	5	11
3	Japan (JPN)	1	4	0	5
4	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	1	2
	United Team of Germany (EUA)	1	0	1	2
6	Ungarn (HUN)	0	1	1	2
7	Soviet Union (URS)	0	0	2	2
8	Südafrika (RSA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		13	13	13	39

Men's events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Jon Henricks  Australien	55.4 (WR)	John Devitt  Australien	55.8	Gary Chapman  Australien	56.7
400 m freestyle	Murray Rose  Australien	4:27.3 (WR)	Tsuyoshi Yamanaka  Japan	4:30.4	George Breen  Vereinigte Staaten	4:32.5
1500 m freestyle	Murray Rose  Australien	17:58.9	Tsuyoshi Yamanaka  Japan	18:00.3	George Breen  Vereinigte Staaten	18:08.2
100 m backstroke	David Theile  Australien	1:02.2 (WR)	John Monckton  Australien	1:03.2	Frank McKinney  Vereinigte Staaten	1:04.5
200 m breaststroke	Masaru Furukawa  Japan	2:34.7	Masahiro Yoshimura  Japan	2:36.7	Kharis Yunichev  Soviet Union	2:36.8
200 m butterfly	William Yorzyk  Vereinigte Staaten	2:19.3	Takashi Ishimoto  Japan	2:23.8	György Tumpek  Ungarn	2:23.9
4 × 200 m freestyle relay	Australien (AUS) Kevin O'Halloran John Devitt Murray Rose Jon Henricks	8:23.6 (WR)	Vereinigte Staaten (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

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

Water polo

See also: Water polo at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Ungarn	1	0	0	1
2	Yugoslavia	0	1	0	1
3	Soviet Union	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		1	1	1	3

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's	Ungarn (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

See also: Weightlifting at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Vereinigte Staaten (USA)	4	2	1	7
2	Soviet Union (URS)	3	4	0	7
3	Argentinien (ARG)	0	1	0	1
4	Italien (ITA)	0	0	2	2
5	Frankreich (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Iran (IRI)	0	0	1	1
	Polen (POL)	0	0	1	1
	Südkorea (KOR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		7	7	7	21

Medalists

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
56 kg	Charles Vinci  Vereinigte Staaten	Vladimir Stogov  Soviet Union	Mahmoud Namjoo  Iran
60 kg	Isaac Berger  Vereinigte Staaten	Yevgeni Minaev  Soviet Union	Marian Zieliński  Polen
67.5 kg	Igor Rybak  Soviet Union	Ravil Khabutdinov  Soviet Union	Kim Chang-Hee  Südkorea
75 kg	Fyodor Bogdanovsky  Soviet Union	Pete George  Vereinigte Staaten	Ermanno Pignatti  Italien
82.5 kg	Tommy Kono  Vereinigte Staaten	Vasili Stepanov  Soviet Union	James George  Vereinigte Staaten
90 kg	Arkadi Vorobyev  Soviet Union	David Sheppard  Vereinigte Staaten	Jean Debuf  Frankreich
+90 kg	Paul Anderson  Vereinigte Staaten	Humberto Selvetti  Argentinien	Alberto Pigaiani  Italien

Wrestling

See also: Wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	6	2	5	13
2	Türkei (TUR)	3	2	2	7
3	Iran (IRI)	2	2	0	4
4	Japan (JPN)	2	1	0	3
5	Finnland (FIN)	2	0	2	4
6	Bulgarien (BUL)	1	3	0	4
7	Schweden (SWE)	0	1	3	4
8	Ungarn (HUN)	0	1	1	2
	Italien (ITA)	0	1	1	2
	Vereinigte Staaten (USA)	0	1	1	2
11	Belgien (BEL)	0	1	0	1
	United Team of Germany (EUA)	0	1	0	1
13	Rumänien (ROU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		16	16	16	48

Freestyle

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

Greco-Roman

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight	Nikolai Solovyov  Soviet Union	Ignazio Fabra  Italien	Dursun Ali Egribas  Türkei
Bantamweight	Konstantin Vyrupayev  Soviet Union	Edvin Vesterby  Schweden	Francisc Horvat  Rumänien
Featherweight	Rauno Mäkinen  Finnland	Imre Polyák  Ungarn	Roman Dzeneladze  Soviet Union
Lightweight	Kyösti Lehtonen  Finnland	Riza Dogan  Türkei	Gyula Tóth  Ungarn
Welterweight	Mithat Bayrak  Türkei	Vladimir Maneyev  Soviet Union	Per Gunnar Berlin  Schweden
Middleweight	Givi Kartozia  Soviet Union	Dimitar Dobrev  Bulgarien	Rune Jansson  Schweden
Light Heavyweight	Valentin Nikolayev  Soviet Union	Petko Sirakov  Bulgarien	Karl-Erik Nilsson  Schweden
Heavyweight	Anatoli Parfenov  Soviet Union	Wilfried Dietrich  United Team of Germany	Adelmo Bulgarelli  Italien

External links

• "Melbourne - Stockholm 1956". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee.