CORTINA D’AMPEZZO 1956

The Games of the VII Winter Olympiad. January 26 - February 5, 1956. Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.

Alpine Skiing Bobsleigh Cross-Country Skiing Figure Skating Ice Hockey Speed Skating Medal Count

ALPINE SKIING

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Downhill

1.Toni Sailer (Austria)

Giant slalom

1.Toni Sailer (Austria)

Slalom

1.Toni Sailer (Austria)

WOMEN

Downhill

1.Madeleine Berthod (Switzerland)

Giant slalom

1.Ossi Reichert (Germany)

Slalom

3.Yevgeniya Sidorova (USSR)

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BOBSLEIGH

Two-man

1.Lamberto Dalla Costa / Giacomo Conti (Italy I)

2.Eugenio Monti / Renzo Alvera (Italy II)

Four-man

1.Switzerland I

2.Italy II (Eugenio Monti)

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CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING

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15 km

1.Hallgeir Brenden (Norway)

2.Sixten Jernberg (Sweden)

30 km

1.Veikko Hakulinen (Finland)

2.Sixten Jernberg (Sweden)

50 km

1.Sixten Jernberg (Sweden)

2.Veikko Hakulinen (Finland)

3.Fyodor Terentyev (USSR)

4 x 10 km

1.USSR (Fyodor Terentyev)

2.Finland (Veikko Hakulinen)

3.Sweden (Sixten Jernberg)

WOMEN

10 km

2.Radia Yeroshina (USSR)

3 x 5 km

2.USSR (Alevtina Kolchina, Radia Yeroshina)

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FIGURE SKATING

Ladies’ singles

1.Tenley Albright (USA)

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ICE HOCKEY

1.USSR

(Nikolai Puchkov, Vsevolod Bobrov, Aleksey Guryshev)

3.Canada (represented by Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen)

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SPEED SKATING

500 m

1.Yevgeny Grishin (USSR)

1500 m

1-2.Yevgeny Grishin (USSR)

5000 m

3.Oleg Goncharenko (USSR)

10000 m

2.Knut Johannesen (Norway)

3.Oleg Goncharenko (USSR)

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MEDAL COUNT

1.USSR (7-3-6)

2.AUSTRIA (4-3-4)

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