1956 Summer Olympics medal table

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1956 Summer Olympics medals
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Ágnes Keleti of Hungary was the most successful competitor at the games, winning four gold medals and two silver medals in women's gymnastics.
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Most gold medalsFlag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union  (37)
Most total medalsFlag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union  (98)
Medalling NOCs38
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The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, [1] and officially branded as Melbourne 1956, were an international multi-sport event held from 22 November to 8 December in Melbourne, Australia, with the equestrian events being held from 10 to 17 June 1956 in Stockholm, Sweden, [2] due to Australian quarantine regulations that required a six-month pre-shipment quarantine on horses. [3] Medals awarded in these cities bore different designs. [4] A total of 3,314 athletes [a] representing 72 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated, which was a record for the most NOCs at a single Olympics at the time. [5] This figure included first-time entrants Cambodia, [6] Ethiopia, [7] Fiji, [8] Kenya, [9] Liberia, [10] Malaya, [11] North Borneo, [12] and Uganda. [13] The games featured 151 events [b] in 17 sports across 23 disciplines. [14] [15] [16]

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The 1956 Summer Games were the first to be held in the Southern Hemisphere and Oceania, and the first games to hold events in two different countries, continents, and seasons. [17] Multiple boycotts were enacted by nine teams against the games, though five of them competed in the equestrian events. [c] Egypt, Iraq, and Lebanon boycotted the games in response to the Suez Crisis. [19] Cambodia, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland boycotted the games in response to the Hungarian Uprising, when the Soviet Union invaded the country. [20] [21] China continued its boycott of the games, which began in 1952 and lasted until 1980, over the participation of Taiwan. [22] [23]

Athletes representing 38 NOCs received at least one medal, and 25 NOCs won at least one gold medal. The Soviet Union won the most gold medals and the most overall medals, with 37 and 98 respectively. [24] Iran [25] and Bulgaria won their first Olympic gold medals. [26] The Bahamas, [27] Iceland, [28] and Pakistan won their first Olympic medals. [29]

Gymnast Ágnes Keleti of Hungary was the most successful competitor of the games, winning four gold medals and two silver medals for a total of six medals. Gymnast Larisa Latynina of the Soviet Union tied with Keleti for the most gold and overall medals for a competitor at the games, winning six medals with four gold medals, one silver medal, and one bronze medal. [30]

Medal table

Wrestler Emam-Ali Habibi, the first-ever Olympic gold medalist for Iran. Imam-Ali Habibi.png
Wrestler Emam-Ali Habibi, the first-ever Olympic gold medalist for Iran.
Triple jumper Adhemar da Silva of Brazil holding the gold medal he won at the games. Adhemar da Silva 1956b.jpg
Triple jumper Adhemar da Silva of Brazil holding the gold medal he won at the games.

The medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC conventional sorting in its published medal tables. The table uses the Olympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won. The number of silver medals is considered next, followed by the number of bronze medals. [32] [33] Two bronze medals were awarded in each boxing event to the losing semi-finalists, instead of the competitors fighting in a third place tiebreaker. [34]

In the gymnastics events, there were eight ties for medals. Two gold medals and no silver medal were awarded in the men's vault and women's floor exercise due to a first-place tie in both events. No bronze medals were awarded in the men's floor exercise and women's balance beam due to a second-place tie in both events, with the former being a three-way tie and all second-place athletes awarded a silver medal. Two bronze medals were awarded in the men's parallel bars, men's rings, women's team portable apparatus, and women's vault due to third-place ties in these events. [35] In athletics, two silver medals and no bronze medals were awarded in the women's high jump due to a second-place tie. Two bronze medals were awarded in the men's 400 metres due to a third-place tie. [36]

  *   Host nation (Australia)

1956 Summer Olympics medal table [24] [37] [d]
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 37293298
2US flag 48 stars.svg  United States 32251774
3Flag of Australia.svg  Australia*1381435
4Flag of Hungary (1946-1949, 1956-1957).svg  Hungary 910726
5Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 88925
6Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 85619
7Flag of Germany.svg  United Team of Germany [e] 613726
8Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 671124
9Flag of Romania (1952-1965).svg  Romania 53513
10Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 410519
11Flag of France.svg  France 44614
12Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 3227
13Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 311115
14State Flag of Iran (1933-1964).svg  Iran 2215
15Flag of Canada (1921-1957).svg  Canada 2136
16Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 2002
17Flag of Poland (1928-1980).svg  Poland 1449
18Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg  Czechoslovakia 1416
19Flag of Bulgaria (1948-1967).svg  Bulgaria 1315
20Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 1214
21Flag of Ireland (3-2).svg  Ireland 1135
22Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 1023
23Flag of Mexico (1934-1968).svg  Mexico 1012
24Flag of Brazil (1889-1960).svg  Brazil 1001
Flag of India.svg  India 1001
26Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg  Yugoslavia 0303
27Flag of Chile.svg  Chile 0224
28Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 0202
29Flag of Argentina (1861-2010).svg  Argentina 0112
Flag of South Korea (1949-1984).svg  South Korea 0112
31Flag of Iceland.svg  Iceland 0101
Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan 0101
33Flag of South Africa (1928-1982).svg  South Africa 0044
34Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 0022
35Flag of the Bahamas (1953-1964).svg  Bahamas 0011
Flag of Greece (1828-1978).svg  Greece 0011
Civil Ensign of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland 0011
Flag of Uruguay.svg  Uruguay 0011
Totals (38 entries)153153163469

Notes

  1. ↑ A total of 3,155 athletes participated in Melbourne and 159 athletes in Stockholm.
  2. ↑ There were 145 events held in Melbourne and 6 events in Stockholm.
  3. ↑ Cambodia, Egypt, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland [18]
  4. ↑ An additional bronze medal, not included in the table, was presented to John Ian Wing, an Australian resident, for advocating that the closing ceremony have athletes walk freely rather than marching under their own flag. [38]
  5. ↑ A unified team comprising East Germany and West Germany competed from the 1956 Winter Olympics to the 1964 Winter Olympics. This decision was made because of the splitting of Germany after World War II and a condition that the National Olympic Committee of the GDR (East Germany) would be recognized if both nations agreed to compete under the same team. [39] [40]

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