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 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

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

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) 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

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 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

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres details	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 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

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

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 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

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

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. ^[1]

Medalists

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

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 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

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual foil details	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 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

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

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 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

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 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

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 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

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 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

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 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

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

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 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

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 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

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

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.

External links

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