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 (Australia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	16	10	5	31
2	Soviet Union	5	7	10	22
3	Australia*	4	2	6	12
4	Great Britain	1	4	2	7
5	Poland	1	1	0	2
6	Norway	1	0	2	3
7	Czechoslovakia	1	0	1	2
8	Brazil	1	0	0	1
	France	1	0	0	1
	Ireland	1	0	0	1
	New Zealand	1	0	0	1
12	United Team of Germany	0	5	2	7
13	Hungary	0	2	0	2
14	Chile	0	1	0	1
	Iceland	0	1	0	1
	Yugoslavia	0	1	0	1
17	Finland	0	0	3	3
18	Greece	0	0	1	1
	Sweden	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		33	34	33	100

Men's events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Bobby Morrow  United States	10.5	Thane Baker  United States	10.5	Hector Hogan  Australia	10.6
200 metres	Bobby Morrow  United States	20.6 (OR)	Andy Stanfield  United States	20.7	Thane Baker  United States	20.9
400 metres	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	Tom Courtney  United States	1:47.7 (OR)	Derek Johnson  Great Britain	1:47.8	Audun Boysen  Norway	1:48.1
1500 metres	Ron Delany  Ireland	3:41.2 (OR)	Klaus Richtzenhain  United Team of Germany	3:42.0	John Landy  Australia	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  Hungary	28:52.4	Al Lawrence  Australia	28:53.6
110 metres hurdles	Lee Calhoun  United States	13.5 (OR)	Jack Davis  United States	13.5 (OR)	Joel Shankle  United States	14.1
400 metres hurdles	Glenn Davis  United States	50.1 (=OR)	Eddie Southern  United States	50.8	Josh Culbreath  United States	51.6
3000 metres steeplechase	Chris Brasher  Great Britain	8:41.2 (OR)	Sándor Rozsnyói  Hungary	8:43.6	Ernst Larsen  Norway	8:44.0
4 × 100 metres relay	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	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	Alain Mimoun  France	2:25:00	Franjo Mihalić  Yugoslavia	2:26:32	Veikko Karvonen  Finland	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  New Zealand	4:30:42.8	Yevgeny Maskinskov  Soviet Union	4:32:57.0	John Ljunggren  Sweden	4:35:02.0
High jump	Charles Dumas  United States	2.12 m (OR)	Chilla Porter  Australia	2.10 m	Igor Kashkarov  Soviet Union	2.08 m
Pole vault	Bob Richards  United States	4.56 m (OR)	Bob Gutowski  United States	4.53 m	Georgios Roubanis  Greece	4.50 m
Long jump	Greg Bell  United States	7.83 m (OR)	John Bennett  United States	7.68 m	Jorma Valkama  Finland	7.48 m
Triple jump	Adhemar Ferreira da Silva  Brazil	16.35 m (OR)	Vilhjálmur Einarsson  Iceland	16.26 m	Vitold Kreyer  Soviet Union	16.02 m
Shot put	Parry O'Brien  United States	18.57 m (OR)	Bill Nieder  United States	18.18 m	Jiří Skobla  Czechoslovakia	17.65 m
Discus throw	Al Oerter  United States	56.36 m (OR)	Fortune Gordien  United States	54.81 m	Des Koch  United States	54.40 m
Hammer throw	Hal Connolly  United States	63.19 m (OR)	Mikhail Krivonosov  Soviet Union	63.03 m	Anatoliy Samotsvetov  Soviet Union	62.56 m
Javelin throw	Egil Danielsen  Norway	85.71 m (WR)	Janusz Sidło  Poland	79.98 m	Viktor Tsybulenko  Soviet Union	79.50 m
Decathlon	Milt Campbell  United States	7937 (OR)	Rafer Johnson  United States	7587	Vasili Kuznetsov  Soviet Union	7465

Women's events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Betty Cuthbert  Australia	11.5	Christa Stubnick  United Team of Germany	11.7	Marlene Mathews  Australia	11.7
200 metres	Betty Cuthbert  Australia	23.4 (=OR)	Christa Stubnick  United Team of Germany	23.7	Marlene Mathews  Australia	23.8
80 metres hurdles	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	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	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	Elżbieta Krzesińska  Poland	6.35 m (=WR)	Willye White  United States	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	United States	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	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

See also: Boxing at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Australia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	3	1	2	6
2	Great Britain (GBR)	2	1	2	5
3	United States (USA)	2	1	0	3
4	Romania (ROU)	1	2	1	4
5	United Team of Germany (EUA)	1	1	0	2
6	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	0	1
7	Ireland (IRL)	0	1	3	4
8	Chile (CHI)	0	1	2	3
9	Italy (ITA)	0	1	1	2
10	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	0	1
11	France (FRA)	0	0	2	2
	Poland (POL)	0	0	2	2
	South Africa (RSA)	0	0	2	2
14	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	1	1
	Australia (AUS)*	0	0	1	1
	Finland (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  Romania	John Caldwell  Ireland
			René Libeer  France
Bantamweight (−54 kg)	Wolfgang Behrendt  United Team of Germany	Song Soon-Chun  South Korea	Claudio Barrientos  Chile
			Frederick Gilroy  Ireland
Featherweight (−57 kg)	Vladimir Safronov  Soviet Union	Thomas Nicholls  Great Britain	Henryk Niedźwiedzki  Poland
			Pentti Hämäläinen  Finland
Lightweight (−60 kg)	Richard McTaggart  Great Britain	Harry Kurschat  United Team of Germany	Anatoly Lagetko  Soviet Union
			Anthony Byrne  Ireland
Light welterweight (−63.5 kg)	Vladimir Yengibaryan  Soviet Union	Franco Nenci  Italy	Constantin Dumitrescu  Romania
			Henry Loubscher  South Africa
Welterweight (−67 kg)	Nicolae Linca  Romania	Fred Tiedt  Ireland	Kevin Hogarth  Australia
			Nicholas Gargano  Great Britain
Light middleweight (−71 kg)	László Papp  Hungary	José Torres  United States	John McCormack  Great Britain
			Zbigniew Pietrzykowski  Poland
Middleweight (−75 kg)	Gennadi Schatkov  Soviet Union	Ramón Tapia  Chile	Gilbert Chapron  France
			Victor Zalazar  Argentina
Light heavyweight (−81 kg)	James Boyd  United States	Gheorghe Negrea  Romania	Carlos Lucas  Chile
			Romualdas Murauskas  Soviet Union
Heavyweight (+81 kg)	Pete Rademacher  United States	Lev Mukhin  Soviet Union	Daniel Bekker  South Africa
			Giacomo Bozzano  Italy

Canoeing

See also: Canoeing at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Australia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Romania (ROU)	3	0	0	3
2	Soviet Union (URS)	2	3	2	7
3	Sweden (SWE)	2	0	0	2
4	Hungary (HUN)	1	3	3	7
5	United Team of Germany (EUA)	1	2	1	4
6	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
7	Australia (AUS)*	0	0	1	1
	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Denmark (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  Romania	István Hernek  Hungary	Gennady Bukharin  Soviet Union
C-1 10000 metres	Leon Rotman  Romania	János Parti  Hungary	Gennady Bukharin  Soviet Union
C-2 1000 metres	Romania Alexe Dumitru Simion Ismailciuc	Soviet Union Pavel Kharin Gratsian Botev	Hungary Károly Wieland Ferenc Mohácsi
C-2 10000 metres	Soviet Union Pavel Kharin Gratsian Botev	France Georges Dransart Marcel Renaud	Hungary Imre Farkas József Hunics
K-1 1000 metres	Gert Fredriksson  Sweden	Igor Pissarov  Soviet Union	Lajos Kiss  Hungary
K-1 10000 metres	Gert Fredriksson  Sweden	Ferenc Hatlaczky  Hungary	Michel Scheuer  United Team of Germany
K-2 1000 metres	United Team of Germany Michel Scheuer Meinrad Miltenberger	Soviet Union Mikhail Kaaleste Anatoli Demitkov	Austria Maximilian Raub Herbert Wiedermann
K-2 10000 metres	Hungary János Urányi László Fábián	United Team of Germany Fritz Briel Theodor Kleine	Australia 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  Denmark

Cycling

See also: Cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Australia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy	3	1	1	5
2	France	2	2	0	4
3	Australia*	1	0	1	2
4	Czechoslovakia	0	2	0	2
5	Great Britain	0	1	2	3
6	South Africa	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  Italy	Arnaud Geyre  France	Alan Jackson  Great Britain
Team road race	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

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Pursuit team	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	Michel Rousseau  France	Guglielmo Pesenti  Italy	Dick Ploog  Australia
Tandem	Australia Ian Browne Tony Marchant	Czechoslovakia Ladislav Fouček Václav Machek	Italy Giuseppe Ogna Cesare Pinarello
Time trial	Leandro Faggin  Italy	Ladislav Fouček  Czechoslovakia	Alfred Swift  South Africa

Diving

See also: Diving at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	3	4	2	9
2	Mexico (MEX)	1	0	1	2
3	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		4	4	4	12

Men's events

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

Women's events

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

Equestrian events

See also: Equestrian events at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Sweden)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Sweden (SWE)*	3	0	0	3
2	United Team of Germany (EUA)	2	3	1	6
3	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	2	3
4	Italy (ITA)	0	2	1	3
5	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
6	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland (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	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	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	Canada (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	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

See also: Fencing at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy (ITA)	3	2	2	7
2	Hungary (HUN)	2	1	1	4
3	France (FRA)	1	1	2	4
4	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	0	1
5	Poland (POL)	0	2	0	2
6	Romania (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  Italy	Giuseppe Delfino  Italy	Edoardo Mangiarotti  Italy
Team épée	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	Christian d'Oriola  France	Giancarlo Bergamini  Italy	Antonio Spallino  Italy
Team foil	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	Rudolf Kárpáti  Hungary	Jerzy Pawłowski  Poland	Lev Kuznetsov  Soviet Union
Team sabre	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

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

Field hockey

See also: Field hockey at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	India	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	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

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	Bulgaria	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	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

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	Hungary (HUN)	4	2	1	7
3	Japan (JPN)	1	5	5	11
4	United Team of Germany (EUA)	1	0	0	1
5	Sweden (SWE)	0	2	1	3
6	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	1	0	1
7	Romania (ROU)	0	0	2	2
8	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (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	Finland (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  Sweden
		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  Hungary	Sofia Muratova  Soviet Union
Team all-around	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	Ágnes Keleti  Hungary	Eva Bosáková  Czechoslovakia	none awarded (as there was a tie for silver)
		Tamara Manina  Soviet Union
Floor exercise	Ágnes Keleti  Hungary	none awarded (as there was a tie for gold)	Elena Leușteanu  Romania
	Larisa Latynina  Soviet Union
Uneven bars	Ágnes Keleti  Hungary	Larisa Latynina  Soviet Union	Sofia Muratova  Soviet Union
Vault	Larisa Latynina  Soviet Union	Tamara Manina  Soviet Union	Olga Lemhényi-Tass  Hungary
			Ann-Sofi Pettersson  Sweden
Team, portable apparatus	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

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
	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	0	1
3	Finland (FIN)	0	1	2	3
4	United States (USA)	0	1	0	1
Totals (4 entries)		2	2	2	6

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual	Lars Hall  Sweden	Olavi Mannonen  Finland	Väinö Korhonen  Finland
Team	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

See also: Rowing at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Australia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	3	2	1	6
2	Soviet Union (URS)	2	1	1	4
3	Canada (CAN)	1	1	0	2
4	Italy (ITA)	1	0	0	1
5	Australia (AUS)*	0	1	2	3
6	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
	United Team of Germany (EUA)	0	1	0	1
8	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	France (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  Australia	John B. Kelly Jr.  United States
Double sculls	Soviet Union Aleksandr Berkutov Yuriy Tyukalov	United States Pat Costello Jim Gardiner	Australia Murray Riley Mervyn Wood
Coxless pair	United States James Fifer Duvall Hecht	Soviet Union Igor Buldakov Viktor Ivanov	Austria Josef Kloimstein Alfred Sageder
Coxed pair	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	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	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	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

See also: Sailing at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Australia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Sweden (SWE)	2	0	0	2
2	Denmark (DEN)	1	1	0	2
3	United States (USA)	1	0	1	2
4	New Zealand (NZL)	1	0	0	1
5	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	2	3
6	Australia (AUS)*	0	1	1	2
7	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	0	1
	Italy (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  Denmark	André Nelis  Belgium	John Marvin  United States
Star	United States Herbert Williams Lawrence Low	Italy Agostino Straulino Nicolò Rode	Bahamas Durward Knowles Sloane Farrington
12 m2 sharpie	New Zealand Peter Mander Jack Cropp	Australia Rolland Tasker John Scott	Great Britain Jasper Blackall Terence Smith
Dragon	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	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

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	Canada (CAN)	1	0	1	2
	Finland (FIN)	1	0	1	2
	Italy (ITA)	1	0	1	2
	Romania (ROU)	1	0	1	2
6	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	1	2
7	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	1	0	1
	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
9	United States (USA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		7	7	7	21

Medalists

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

Swimming

See also: Swimming at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Australia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia (AUS)*	8	4	2	14
2	United States (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	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	1	2
7	Soviet Union (URS)	0	0	2	2
8	South Africa (RSA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		13	13	13	39

Men's events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Jon Henricks  Australia	55.4 (WR)	John Devitt  Australia	55.8	Gary Chapman  Australia	56.7
400 m freestyle	Murray Rose  Australia	4:27.3 (WR)	Tsuyoshi Yamanaka  Japan	4:30.4	George Breen  United States	4:32.5
1500 m freestyle	Murray Rose  Australia	17:58.9	Tsuyoshi Yamanaka  Japan	18:00.3	George Breen  United States	18:08.2
100 m backstroke	David Theile  Australia	1:02.2 (WR)	John Monckton  Australia	1:03.2	Frank McKinney  United States	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  United States	2:19.3	Takashi Ishimoto  Japan	2:23.8	György Tumpek  Hungary	2:23.9
4 × 200 m freestyle relay	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

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Dawn Fraser  Australia	1:02.0 (WR)	Lorraine Crapp  Australia	1:02.3	Faith Leech  Australia	1:05.1
400 m freestyle	Lorraine Crapp  Australia	4:54.6 (OR)	Dawn Fraser  Australia	5:02.5	Sylvia Ruuska  United States	5:07.1
100 m backstroke	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	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	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	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

See also: Water polo at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Hungary	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	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

See also: Weightlifting at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	4	2	1	7
2	Soviet Union (URS)	3	4	0	7
3	Argentina (ARG)	0	1	0	1
4	Italy (ITA)	0	0	2	2
5	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Iran (IRI)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		7	7	7	21

Medalists

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

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	Turkey (TUR)	3	2	2	7
3	Iran (IRI)	2	2	0	4
4	Japan (JPN)	2	1	0	3
5	Finland (FIN)	2	0	2	4
6	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	3	0	4
7	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	3	4
8	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	1	2
	Italy (ITA)	0	1	1	2
	United States (USA)	0	1	1	2
11	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	0	1
	United Team of Germany (EUA)	0	1	0	1
13	Romania (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  Turkey
Bantamweight	Mustafa Dağıstanlı  Turkey	Mehdi Yaghoubi  Iran	Mikhail Shakhov  Soviet Union
Featherweight	Shozo Sasahara  Japan	Joseph Mewis  Belgium	Erkki Penttilä  Finland
Lightweight	Emam-Ali Habibi  Iran	Shigeru Kasahara  Japan	Alimbeg Bestayev  Soviet Union
Welterweight	Mitsuo Ikeda  Japan	Ibrahim Zengin  Turkey	Vakhtang Balavadze  Soviet Union
Middleweight	Nikola Stanchev  Bulgaria	Danny Hodge  United States	Georgi Skhirtladze  Soviet Union
Light heavyweight	Gholamreza Takhti  Iran	Boris Kulayev  Soviet Union	Peter Blair  United States
Heavyweight	Hamit Kaplan  Turkey	Hussein Mehmedov  Bulgaria	Taisto Kangasniemi  Finland

Greco-Roman

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

External links

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