MELBOURNE 1956

The Games of the XVI Summer Olympiad. November 22 - December 8, 1956. Melbourne, Australia.

Athletics Basketball Boxing Canoeing Cycling Diving Equestrian Fencing Field Hockey Football Gymnastics Modern Pentathlon Rowing Sailing Shooting Swimming Water Polo Weightlifting Wrestling Medal Count

ATHLETICS

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100 m

1.Bobby Morrow (USA)

200 m

1.Bobby Morrow (USA)

400 m: 1.Charlie Jenkins (USA)

800 m: 1.Tom Courtney (USA)

4 x 400 m: 1.USA (Tom Courtney, Charlie Jenkins)

1500 m

1.Ron Delany (Ireland)

5000 m

1.Vladimir Kuts (USSR)

10000 m

1.Vladimir Kuts (USSR)

3000 m steeplechase

1.Chris Brasher (Great Britain)

4 x 100 m

1.USA (Bobby Morrow)

2.USSR (Yuriy Konovalov)

Marathon

1.Alain Mimoun (France)

20 km walk

1.Leonid Spirin (USSR)

50 km walk

1.Norman Read (New Zealand)

Triple jump

1.Adhemar da Silva (Brazil)

2.Vilhjalmur Einarsson (Iceland)

Pole vault

1.Bob Richards (USA)

Shot put

1.Parry O’Brien (USA)

Discus throw

1.Al Oerter (USA)

Javelin throw

1.Egil Danielsen (Norway)

Decathlon

1.Milt Campbell (USA)

2.Rafer Johnson (USA)

WOMEN

100 m

1.Betty Cuthbert (Australia)

200 m

1.Betty Cuthbert (Australia)

80 m hurdles

1.Shirley Strickland de la Hunty (Australia)

4 x 100 m

1.Australia (Betty Cuthbert, Shirley Strickland de la Hunty)

3.USA (Wilma Rudolph)

Long jump

1.Elzbieta Krzesinska (Poland)

High jump

1.Mildred McDaniel (USA)

Discus throw

1.Olga Fikotova (Czechoslovakia)

3.Nina Ponomaryova (USSR)

Javelin throw

1.Inese Jaunzeme (USSR)

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BASKETBALL

1.USA

2.USSR (Janis Krumins)

3.Uruguay (Oscar Moglia)

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BOXING

51 kg

1.Terence Spinks (Great Britain)

54 kg

1.Wolfgang Behrendt (Germany)

57 kg

3-4.Pentti Hamalainen (Finland)

63.5 kg

1.Vladimir Yengibaryan (USSR)

67 kg

1.Nicolae Linca (Romania)

71 kg

1.Laszlo Papp (Hungary)

75 kg

1.Gennadi Shatkov (USSR)

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CANOEING

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C-1 1000 m: 1.Leon Rotman (Romania)

C-1 10000 m: 1.Leon Rotman (Romania)

2.Janos Parti (Hungary)

C-2 1000 m

1.Alexe Dumitru / Simion Ismailciuc (Romania)

K-1 1000 m: 1.Gert Fredriksson (Sweden)

K-1 10000 m: 1.Gert Fredriksson (Sweden)

K-2 10000 m

1.Janos Uranyi / Laszlo Fabian (Hungary)

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CYCLING

ROAD

Individual road race

1.Ercole Baldini (Italy)

Team road race

3.Germany (Gustav-Adolf Schur)

TRACK

Team pursuit

3.Great Britain (Tom Simpson)

Sprint

1.Michel Rousseau (France)

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DIVING

MEN

3 m springboard

3.Joaquin Capilla (Mexico)

10 m platform

1.Joaquin Capilla (Mexico)

2.Gary Tobian (USA)

WOMEN

3 m springboard

1.Pat McCormick (USA)

10 m platform

1.Pat McCormick (USA)

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EQUESTRIAN

The equestrian competitions were held on June 11-17, 1956 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Individual dressage

1.Henri Saint Cyr (Sweden)

2.Lis Hartel (Denmark)

3.Liselott Linsenhoff (Germany)

Team dressage

1.Sweden (Henri Saint Cyr)

2.Germany (Liselott Linsenhoff)

3.Switzerland (Henri Chammartin)

Individual eventing

1.Petrus Kastenman (Sweden)

Individual jumping

1.Hans Gunter Winkler (Germany)

2.Raimondo D’Inzeo (Italy)

3.Piero D’Inzeo (Italy)

Team jumping

1.Germany (Hans Gunter Winkler)

2.Italy (Raimondo D’Inzeo, Piero D’Inzeo)

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FENCING

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Individual epee

1.Carlo Pavesi (Italy)

2.Giuseppe Delfino (Italy)

3.Edoardo Mangiarotti (Italy)

Team epee

1.Italy (Giuseppe Delfino, Carlo Pavesi, Edoardo Mangiarotti)

Individual foil

1.Christian d’Oriola (France)

Team foil

1.Italy (Edoardo Mangiarotti)

2.France (Christian d’Oriola)

Individual sabre: 1.Rudolf Karpati (Hungary)

Team sabre: 1.Hungary (Attila Keresztes, Aladar Gerevich, Rudolf Karpati, Jeno Hamori, Pal Kovacs, Daniel Magay)

WOMEN

Individual foil

1.Gillian Sheen (Great Britain)

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FIELD HOCKEY

1.India (Balbir Singh Dosanjh, Gurdev Singh Kullar)

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FOOTBALL

Round of 16

USSR - Germany 2:1 (Nikolai Tishchenko (USSR))

Final

USSR - Yugoslavia 1:0 (Lev Yashin (USSR))

1.USSR (Lev Yashin, Nikolai Tishchenko, Igor Netto, Aleksei Paramonov, Anatoli Ilyin, Valentin Ivanov, Sergei Salnikov, Nikita Simonyan, Eduard Streltsov, Boris Tatushin)

Lev Yashin (USSR)

Igor Netto (USSR)

Anatoli Ilyin (USSR)

Valentin Ivanov (USSR)

Sergei Salnikov (USSR)

Nikita Simonyan (USSR)

Eduard Streltsov (USSR)

Gavrill Kachalin (USSR, head coach)

2.Yugoslavia

3.Bulgaria (Kiril Rakarov, Manol Manolov, Stefan Bozhkov, Dimitar Milanov, Ivan Kolev)

9-11.Germany

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GYMNASTICS

MEN

Team all-around

1.USSR (Albert Azaryan, Viktor Chukarin, Valentin Muratov, Boris Shakhlin, Pavel Stolbov, Yuri Titov)

2.Japan (Takashi Ono)

Individual all-around

1.Viktor Chukarin (USSR)

2.Takashi Ono (Japan)

3.Yuri Titov (USSR)

Floor exercise

1.Valentin Muratov (USSR)

2-4.Viktor Chukarin (USSR)

Horizontal bar

1.Takashi Ono (Japan)

2.Yuri Titov (USSR)

Parallel bars

1.Viktor Chukarin (USSR)

3-4.Takashi Ono (Japan)

Pommel horse

1.Boris Shakhlin (USSR)

2.Takashi Ono (Japan)

3.Viktor Chukarin (USSR)

Rings

1.Albert Azaryan (USSR)

2.Valentin Muratov (USSR)

Vault

1-2.Valentin Muratov (USSR)

3.Yuri Titov (USSR)

WOMEN

Team all-around

1.USSR (Polina Astakhova, Larisa Latynina, Tamara Manina, Sofia Muratova)

2.Hungary (Agnes Keleti, Margit Korondi)

Team portable apparatus

1.Hungary (Agnes Keleti, Margit Korondi)

3-4.USSR (Polina Astakhova, Larisa Latynina, Tamara Manina, Sofia Muratova)

Individual all-around

1.Larisa Latynina (USSR)

2.Agnes Keleti (Hungary)

3.Sofia Muratova (USSR)

Balance beam

1.Agnes Keleti (Hungary)

2-3.Tamara Manina (USSR)

Floor exercise

1-2.Agnes Keleti (Hungary), Larisa Latynina (USSR)

Uneven bars

1.Agnes Keleti (Hungary)

2.Larisa Latynina (USSR)

3.Sofia Muratova (USSR)

Vault

1.Larisa Latynina (USSR)

2.Tamara Manina (USSR)

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MODERN PENTATHLON

Individual

1.Lars Hall (Sweden)

Team

1.USSR (Igor Novikov)

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ROWING

Single sculls

1.Vyacheslav Ivanov (USSR)

Coxless fours

3.France (Gaston Mercier)

Coxed fours

1.Italy (Alberto Winkler, Romano Sgheiz, Angelo Vanzin, Ivo Stefanoni)

Coxed eights

1.USA (Thomas Charlton, David Wight, John Cooke, Donald Beer, Caldwell Esselstyn, Charles Grimes, Rusty Wailes, Robert Morey, William Becklean)

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SAILING

Finn

1.Paul Elvstrom (Denmark)

Dragon: 1.Slaghoken II (Sweden)

5.5 Metre: 1.Rush V (Sweden)

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SHOOTING

25 m rapid fire pistol

1.Stefan Petrescu (Romania)

50 m rifle, prone

1.Gerald Ouelette (Canada)

Trap

1.Galliano Rossini (Italy)

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SWIMMING

MEN

400 m freestyle

1.Murray Rose (Australia)

1500 m freestyle

1.Murray Rose (Australia)

200 m breaststroke

1.Masaru Furukawa (Japan)

4 x 200 m freestyle

1.Australia (Murray Rose)

WOMEN

100 m freestyle

1.Dawn Fraser (Australia)

400 m freestyle

2.Dawn Fraser (Australia)

200 m breaststroke

1.Ursula Happe (Germany)

2.Eva Szekely (Hungary)

4 x 100 m freestyle

1.Australia (Dawn Fraser)

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WATER POLO

1.Hungary (Otto Boros, Laszlo Jeney, Antal Bolvari, Dezso Gyarmati, Istvan Hevesi, Tivadar Kanisza, Gyorgy Karpati, Kalman Markovits, Mihaly Mayer, Istvan Szivos, Ervin Zador)

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WEIGHTLIFTING

82.5 kg