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| Men's modern pentathlon at the Games of the XVI Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Dates | 23–28 November 1956 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 40 from 16 nations | ||||||||||||
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| Modern pentathlon at the 1956 Summer Olympics | |
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| Individual | men |
| Team | men |
At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, two events in modern pentathlon were contested. [1]
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| 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 |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 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 | |
A total of 40 athletes from 16 nations competed at the Melbourne Games: [1]
Argentina (1)
Australia (3)
Brazil (3)
Chile (3)
Czechoslovakia (1) Finland (3)
France (1)
Great Britain (3)
Hungary (3)
Italy (1)
Mexico (3)
Romania (3)
South Africa (3) Soviet Union (3) Sweden (3) United States (3)
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