List of 1956 Summer Olympics medal winners explained

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.

Men's events

100 metres		10.5		10.5		10.6
200 metres		20.6 (OR)		20.7		20.9
400 metres		46.7		46.8		47.0
						47.0
800 metres		1:47.7 (OR)		1:47.8		1:48.1
1500 metres		3:41.2 (OR)		3:42.0		3:42.0
5000 metres		13:39.6 (OR)		13:50.6		13:54.4
10,000 metres		28:45.6 (OR)		28:52.4		28:53.6
110 metres hurdles		13.5 (OR)		13.5 (OR)		14.1
400 metres hurdles		50.1 (=OR)		50.8		51.6
3000 metres steeplechase		8:41.2 (OR)		8:43.6		8:44.0
4 × 100 metres relay	Ira Murchison Leamon King Thane Baker Bobby Morrow	39.5 (WR)	Leonid Bartenyev Boris Tokarev Yuriy Konovalov Vladimir Sukharev	39.8	Lothar Knörzer Leonhard Pohl Heinz Fütterer Manfred Germar	40.3
4 × 400 metres relay	Lou Jones Jesse Mashburn Charles Jenkins Tom Courtney	3:04.8	Leon Gregory David Lean Graham Gipson Kevan Gosper	3:06.2	John Salisbury Michael Wheeler Peter Higgins Derek Johnson	3:07.2
Marathon		2:25:00		2:26:32		2:27:47
20 kilometres walk		1:31:27.4 (OR)		1:32:03.0		1:32:12.0
50 kilometres walk		4:30:42.8		4:32:57.0		4:35:02.0
High jump		2.12 m (OR)		2.10 m		2.08 m
Pole vault		4.56 m (OR)		4.53 m		4.50 m
Long jump		7.83 m (OR)		7.68 m		7.48 m
Triple jump		16.35 m (OR)		16.26 m		16.02 m
Shot put		18.57 m (OR)		18.18 m		17.65 m
Discus throw		56.36 m (OR)		54.81 m		54.40 m
Hammer throw		63.19 m (OR)		63.03 m		62.56 m
Javelin throw		85.71 m (WR)		79.98 m		79.50 m
Decathlon		7937 (OR)		7587		7465

Women's events

100 metres		11.5		11.7		11.7
200 metres		23.4 (=OR)		23.7		23.8
80 metres hurdles		10.7 (OR)		10.9		11.0
4 × 100 metres relay	Shirley Strickland de la Hunty Norma Croker Fleur Mellor Betty Cuthbert	44.5 (WR)	Anne Pashley Jean Scrivens June Paul Heather Armitage	44.7	Mae Faggs Margaret Matthews Wilma Rudolph Isabelle Daniels	44.9
High jump		1.76 m (WR)		1.67 m	none awarded (as there was a tie for silver)
Long jump		6.35 m (=WR)		6.09 m		6.07 m
Shot put		16.59 m (OR)		16.53 m		15.61 m
Discus throw		53.69 m (OR)		52.54 m		52.02 m
Javelin throw		53.86 m (OR)		50.38 m		50.28 m

Basketball

See also: Basketball at the 1956 Summer Olympics.

Medalists

Men's

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

Valdis Muižnieks Maigonis Valdmanis Vladimir Torban Stasys Stonkus Kazys Petkevičius Arkadi Bochkarev Jānis Krūmiņš Mikhail Semyonov Algirdas Lauritenas Yuri Ozerov Viktor Zubkov Mikhail Studenetsky

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.

Medalists

Flyweight (−51 kg)
Bantamweight (−54 kg)
Featherweight (−57 kg)
Lightweight (−60 kg)
Light welterweight (−63.5 kg)
Welterweight (−67 kg)
Light middleweight (−71 kg)
Middleweight (−75 kg)
Light heavyweight (−81 kg)
Heavyweight (+81 kg)

Canoeing

See also: Canoeing at the 1956 Summer Olympics.

Men's events

C-1 1000 metres
C-1 10000 metres
C-2 1000 metres	Alexe Dumitru Simion Ismailciuc	Pavel Kharin Gratsian Botev	Károly Wieland Ferenc Mohácsi
C-2 10000 metres	Pavel Kharin Gratsian Botev	Georges Dransart Marcel Renaud	Imre Farkas József Hunics
K-1 1000 metres
K-1 10000 metres
K-2 1000 metres	Michel Scheuer Meinrad Miltenberger	Mikhail Kaaleste Anatoli Demitkov	Maximilian Raub Herbert Wiedermann
K-2 10000 metres	János Urányi László Fábián	Fritz Briel Theodor Kleine	Dennis Green Walter Brown

Women's events

K-1 500 metres

Cycling

See also: Cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics.

Road cycling

Individual road race
Team road race	Arnaud Geyre Maurice Moucheraud Michel Vermeulin	Arthur Brittain William Holmes Alan Jackson	Reinhold Pommer Gustav-Adolf Schur Horst Tüller

Track cycling

Pursuit team	Valentino Gasparella Antonio Domenicali Leandro Faggin Franco Gandini Virginio Pizzali	Michel Vermeulin René Bianchi Jean Graczyk Jean-Claude Lecante	Tom Simpson Donald Burgess Mike Gambrill John Geddes
Sprint
Tandem	Ian Browne Tony Marchant	Ladislav Fouček Václav Machek	Giuseppe Ogna Cesare Pinarello
Time trial

Diving

See also: Diving at the 1956 Summer Olympics.

Men's events

3 m springboard
10 m platform

Women's events

3 m springboard
10 m platform

Equestrian events

See also: Equestrian events at the 1956 Summer Olympics.

Medal table

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

Individual dressage
Team dressage	Henri Saint Cyr and Juli Gehnäll Persson and Knaust Gustaf Adolf Boltenstern Jr. and Krest	Liselott Linsenhoff and Adular Hannelore Weygand and Perkunos Anneliese Küppers and Afrika	Gottfried Trachsel and Kursus Henri Chammartin and Wöhler Gustav Fischer and Vasello
Individual eventing
Team eventing	Francis Weldon and Kilbarry Arthur Rook and Wild Venture Bertie Hill and Countryman III	August Lütke-Westhues and Trux von Kamax Otto Rothe and Sissi Klaus Wagner and Prinzeß	John Rumble and Cilroy Jim Elder and Colleen Brian Herbinson and Tara
Individual jumping
Team jumping	Hans Günter Winkler and Halla Fritz Thiedemann and Meteor Alfons Lütke-Westhues and Ala	Raimondo D'Inzeo and Merano Piero D'Inzeo and Uruguay Salvatore Oppes and Pagoro	valign=top	Wilfred White and Nizefela Pat Smythe and Flanagan Peter Robeson and Scorchin

Fencing

See also: Fencing at the 1956 Summer Olympics.

Men's events

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

Women's events

Individual foil

Field hockey

See also: Field hockey at the 1956 Summer Olympics.

Medalists

Men's

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

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

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.

Medalists

Men's

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

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

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.

Men’s events

Individual all-around
Team all-around	Albert Azaryan Viktor Chukarin Valentin Muratov Boris Shakhlin Pavel Stolbov Yuri Titov	Nobuyuki Aihara Akira Kono Masami Kubota Takashi Ono Masao Takemoto Shinsaku Tsukawaki	Raimo Heinonen Olavi Laimuvirta Onni Lappalainen Berndt Lindfors Martti Mansikka Kalevi Suoniemi
Floor exercise			none awarded (as there was a tie for silver)
Horizontal bar
Parallel bars
Pommel horse
Rings
Vault		none awarded (as there was a tie for gold)

Women's events

Individual all-around
Team all-around	Polina Astakhova Lyudmila Yegorova Lidia Kalinina Larisa Latynina Tamara Manina Sofia Muratova	Andrea Molnár-Bodó Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles Ágnes Keleti Alice Kertész Margit Korondi Olga Lemhényi-Tass	Georgeta Hurmuzachi Sonia Iovan Elena Leușteanu Elena Mărgărit Elena Săcălici Emilia Vătășoiu
Balance beam			none awarded (as there was a tie for silver)
Floor exercise		none awarded (as there was a tie for gold)
Uneven bars
Vault
Team, portable apparatus	Andrea Molnár-Bodó Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles Ágnes Keleti Alice Kertész Margit Korondi Olga Lemhényi-Tass	Karin Lindberg Ann-Sofi Pettersson Eva Rönström Evy Berggren Doris Hedberg Maud Karlén	Polina Astakhova Lyudmila Yegorova Lidia Kalinina Larisa Latynina Tamara Manina Sofia Muratova
			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.

Medalists

Individual
Team	Igor Novikov Ivan Deryugin Aleksandr Tarasov	William Andre Jack Daniels George Lambert	Olavi Mannonen Väinö Korhonen Berndt Katter

Rowing

See also: Rowing at the 1956 Summer Olympics.

Medalists

Single sculls
Double sculls	Aleksandr Berkutov Yuriy Tyukalov	Pat Costello Jim Gardiner	Murray Riley Mervyn Wood
Coxless pair	James Fifer Duvall Hecht	Igor Buldakov Viktor Ivanov	Josef Kloimstein Alfred Sageder
Coxed pair	Arthur Ayrault Conn Findlay Kurt Seiffert	Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck Horst Arndt Rainer Borkowsky	Ihor Yemchuk Heorhiy Zhylin Vladimir Petrov
Coxless four	Archibald MacKinnon Lorne Loomer Walter D'Hondt Donald Arnold	John Welchli John McKinlay Art McKinlay James McIntosh	René Guissart Yves Delacour Gaston Mercier Guy Guillabert
Coxed four	Alberto Winkler Romano Sgheiz Angelo Vanzin Franco Trincavelli Ivo Stefanoni	Olle Larsson Gösta Eriksson Ivar Aronsson Evert Gunnarsson Bertil Göransson	Kauko Hänninen Reino Poutanen Veli Lehtelä Toimi Pitkänen Matti Niemi
Eight	Thomas Charlton David Wight John Cooke Donald Beer Caldwell Esselstyn Charles Grimes Rusty Wailes Robert Morey William Becklean	Philip Kueber Richard McClure Robert Wilson David Helliwell Wayne Pretty Bill McKerlich Douglas McDonald Lawrence West Carlton Ogawa	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.

Medalists

Finn
Star	Herbert Williams Lawrence Low	Agostino Straulino Nicolò Rode	Durward Knowles Sloane Farrington
12 m2 sharpie	Peter Mander Jack Cropp	Rolland Tasker John Scott	Jasper Blackall Terence Smith
Dragon	Folke Bohlin Bengt Palmquist Leif Wikström	Ole Berntsen Cyril Andresen Christian von Bülow	Graham Mann Ronald Backus Jonathan Janson
5.5 metre	Lars Thörn Hjalmar Karlsson Sture Stork	Robert Perry David Bowker John Dillon Neil Kennedy-Cochran-Patrick	Jock Sturrock Douglas Buxton Devereaux Mytton

Shooting

See also: Shooting at the 1956 Summer Olympics.

Medalists

50 m pistol
25 m rapid fire pistol
50 m rifle prone
50 m rifle three positions
300 m free rifle three positions
100 m running deer
Trap

Swimming

See also: Swimming at the 1956 Summer Olympics.

Men's events

100 m freestyle		55.4 (WR)		55.8		56.7
400 m freestyle		4:27.3 (WR)		4:30.4		4:32.5
1500 m freestyle		17:58.9		18:00.3		18:08.2
100 m backstroke		1:02.2 (WR)		1:03.2		1:04.5
200 m breaststroke		2:34.7		2:36.7		2:36.8
200 m butterfly		2:19.3		2:23.8		2:23.9
4 × 200 m freestyle relay		8:23.6 (WR)		8:31.5		8:34.7

Women's events

100 m freestyle		1:02.0 (WR)		1:02.3		1:05.1
400 m freestyle		4:54.6 (OR)		5:02.5		5:07.1
100 m backstroke		1:12.9 (WR)		1:12.9 (WR)		1:13.1
200 m breaststroke		2:53.1 (OR)		2:54.8		2:55.1
100 m butterfly		1:11.0 (OR)		1:11.9		1:14.4
4 × 100 m freestyle relay		4:17.1 (WR)		4:19.2		4:25.7

Water polo

See also: Water polo at the 1956 Summer Olympics.

Medalists

Men's

Antal Bolvári Ottó Boros Dezső Gyarmati István Hevesi László Jeney Tivadar Kanizsa György Kárpáti Kálmán Markovits Miklos Martin Mihály Mayer István Szivós Ervin Zádor

Ivo Cipci Tomislav Franjković Vladimir Ivković Zdravko Ježić Hrvoje Kačić Zdravko-Ćiro Kovačić Lovro Radonjić Marijan Žužej

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.

Medalists

56 kg
60 kg
67.5 kg
75 kg
82.5 kg
90 kg
+90 kg

Wrestling

See also: Wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics.

Freestyle

Flyweight
Bantamweight
Featherweight
Lightweight
Welterweight
Middleweight
Light heavyweight
Heavyweight

Greco-Roman

Flyweight
Bantamweight
Featherweight
Lightweight
Welterweight
Middleweight
Light Heavyweight
Heavyweight

Notes and References

1. Equestrianism at the 1956 Stockholm Equestrian Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417053546/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/equestrian/1956/EQU/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . 21 April 2020.