List of 1956 Summer Olympics medal winners

The 1956 Summer Olympics were held in Melbourne, Australia, from 22 November to 18 December 1956.

Athletics

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
18	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
400 metres	Charles Jenkins United States	46.7	Karl-Friedrich Haas United Team of Germany	46.8	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

Medal table

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

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
Flyweight (−51 kg)	Terence Spinks Great Britain	Mircea Dobrescu Romania	René Libeer France
Bantamweight (−54 kg)	Wolfgang Behrendt United Team of Germany	Song Soon-Chun South Korea	Claudio Barrientos Chile
Bantamweight (−54 kg)	Wolfgang Behrendt United Team of Germany	Song Soon-Chun South Korea	Frederick Gilroy Ireland
Featherweight (−57 kg)	Vladimir Safronov Soviet Union	Thomas Nicholls Great Britain	Henryk Niedźwiedzki Poland
Featherweight (−57 kg)	Vladimir Safronov Soviet Union	Thomas Nicholls Great Britain	Pentti Hämäläinen Finland
Lightweight (−60 kg)	Richard McTaggart Great Britain	Harry Kurschat United Team of Germany	Anatoly Lagetko Soviet Union
Lightweight (−60 kg)	Richard McTaggart Great Britain	Harry Kurschat United Team of Germany	Anthony Byrne Ireland
Light welterweight (−63.5 kg)	Vladimir Yengibaryan Soviet Union	Franco Nenci Italy	Constantin Dumitrescu Romania
Light welterweight (−63.5 kg)	Vladimir Yengibaryan Soviet Union	Franco Nenci Italy	Henry Loubscher South Africa
Welterweight (−67 kg)	Nicolae Linca Romania	Fred Tiedt Ireland	Kevin Hogarth Australia
Welterweight (−67 kg)	Nicolae Linca Romania	Fred Tiedt Ireland	Nicholas Gargano Great Britain
Light middleweight (−71 kg)	László Papp Hungary	José Torres United States	John McCormack Great Britain
Light middleweight (−71 kg)	László Papp Hungary	José Torres United States	Zbigniew Pietrzykowski Poland
Middleweight (−75 kg)	Gennadi Schatkov Soviet Union	Ramón Tapia Chile	Gilbert Chapron France
Middleweight (−75 kg)	Gennadi Schatkov Soviet Union	Ramón Tapia Chile	Victor Zalazar Argentina
Light heavyweight (−81 kg)	James Boyd United States	Gheorghe Negrea Romania	Carlos Lucas Chile
Light heavyweight (−81 kg)	James Boyd United States	Gheorghe Negrea Romania	Romualdas Murauskas Soviet Union
Heavyweight (+81 kg)	Pete Rademacher United States	Lev Mukhin Soviet Union	Daniel Bekker South Africa
Heavyweight (+81 kg)	Pete Rademacher United States	Lev Mukhin Soviet Union	Giacomo Bozzano Italy

Canoeing

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

Medal table

* Host nation (Australia)

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

Medal table

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

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
6	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	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

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

Medal table

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

Medal table

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

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
8	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
Parallel bars	Viktor Chukarin Soviet Union	Masumi Kubota 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
Rings	Albert Azaryan Soviet Union	Valentin Muratov Soviet Union	Masumi Kubota Japan
Vault	Helmut Bantz United Team of Germany	none awarded (as there was a tie for gold)	Yuri Titov Soviet Union
Vault	Valentin Muratov Soviet Union	none awarded (as there was a tie for gold)	Yuri Titov 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)
Balance beam	Ágnes Keleti Hungary	Tamara Manina Soviet Union	none awarded (as there was a tie for silver)
Floor exercise	Ágnes Keleti Hungary	none awarded (as there was a tie for gold)	Elena Leușteanu Romania
Floor exercise	Larisa Latynina Soviet Union	none awarded (as there was a tie for gold)	Elena Leușteanu Romania
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
Vault	Larisa Latynina Soviet Union	Tamara Manina Soviet Union	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
Team, portable apparatus			Poland (POL) Helena Rakoczy Natalia Kot-Wala Danuta Stachow Dorota Horzonek-Jokiel Barbara Ślizowska Lidia Szczerbińska

Modern pentathlon

Medal table

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

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
6	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

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
7	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

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
7	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

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
4	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

Medal table

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

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

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
11	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

References

^ 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.

[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.

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