List of 1956 Summer Olympics medal winners

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

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

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
400 metres details	Charles Jenkins United States	46.7	Karl-Friedrich Haas United Team of Germany	46.8	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 Ira Murchison Leamon King Thane Baker Bobby Morrow	39.5 (WR)	Soviet Union Leonid Bartenyev Boris Tokarev Yuriy Konovalov Vladimir Sukharev	39.8	United Team of Germany Lothar Knörzer Leonhard Pohl Heinz Fütterer Manfred Germar	40.3
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States Lou Jones Jesse Mashburn Charles Jenkins Tom Courtney	3:04.8	Australia Leon Gregory David Lean Graham Gipson Kevan Gosper	3:06.2	Great Britain 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

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 Shirley Strickland de la Hunty Norma Croker Fleur Mellor Betty Cuthbert	44.5 (WR)	Great Britain Anne Pashley Jean Scrivens June Paul Heather Armitage	44.7	United States 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

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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	3	1	2	6
2	Great Britain	2	1	2	5
3	United States	2	1	0	3
4	Romania	1	2	1	4
5	United Team of Germany	1	1	0	2
6	Hungary	1	0	0	1
7	Ireland	0	1	3	4
8	Chile	0	1	2	3
9	Italy	0	1	1	2
10	South Korea	0	1	0	1
11	France	0	0	2	2
	Poland	0	0	2	2
	South Africa	0	0	2	2
14	Argentina	0	0	1	1
	Australia*	0	0	1	1
	Finland	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		10	10	20	40

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

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

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual road race details	Ercole Baldini Italy	Arnaud Geyre France	Alan Jackson Great Britain
Team road race details	France Arnaud Geyre Maurice Moucheraud Michel Vermeulin	Great Britain Arthur Brittain William Holmes Alan Jackson	United Team of Germany Reinhold Pommer Gustav-Adolf Schur Horst Tüller

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Pursuit team details	Italy Valentino Gasparella Antonio Domenicali Leandro Faggin Franco Gandini Virginio Pizzali	France Michel Vermeulin René Bianchi Jean Graczyk Jean-Claude Lecante	Great Britain 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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	3	4	2	9
2	Mexico	1	0	1	2
3	Canada	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		4	4	4	12

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

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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Sweden*	3	0	0	3
2	United Team of Germany	2	3	1	6
3	Great Britain	1	0	2	3
4	Italy	0	2	1	3
5	Denmark	0	1	0	1
6	Canada	0	0	1	1
6	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		6	6	6	18

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 Henri Saint Cyr and Juli Gehnäll Persson and Knaust Gustaf Adolf Boltenstern Jr. and Krest	United Team of Germany Liselott Linsenhoff and Adular Hannelore Weygand and Perkunos Anneliese Küppers and Afrika	Switzerland 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 Francis Weldon and Kilbarry Arthur Rook and Wild Venture Bertie Hill and Countryman III	United Team of Germany August Lütke-Westhues and Trux von Kamax Otto Rothe and Sissi Klaus Wagner and Prinzeß	Canada 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 Hans Günter Winkler and Halla Fritz Thiedemann and Meteor Alfons Lütke-Westhues and Ala	Italy Raimondo D'Inzeo and Merano Piero D'Inzeo and Uruguay Salvatore Oppes and Pagoro	Great Britain Wilfred White and Nizefela Pat Smythe and Flanagan Peter Robeson and Scorchin

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual épée details	Carlo Pavesi Italy	Giuseppe Delfino Italy	Edoardo Mangiarotti Italy
Team épée details	Italy Giuseppe Delfino Franco Bertinetti Alberto Pellegrino Giorgio Anglesio Carlo Pavesi Edoardo Mangiarotti	Hungary Bela Rerrich Ambrus Nagy Barnabas Berzsenyi Jozsef Marosi Jozsef Sakovics Lajos Balthazár	France 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 Vittorio Lucarelli Luigi Arturo Carpaneda Manlio Di Rosa Giancarlo Bergamini Antonio Spallino Edoardo Mangiarotti	France Bernard Baudoux Rene Coicaud Claude Netter Roger Closset Christian d'Oriola Jacques Lataste	Hungary 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 Attila Keresztes Aladár Gerevich Rudolf Kárpáti Jenö Hamori Pál Kovács Daniel Magay	Poland Zygmunt Pawlas Jerzy Pawłowski Wojciech Zabłocki Andrzej Ryszard Piątkowski Marian Zygmunt Kuszewski Ryszard Zub	Soviet Union Yakov Rylsky David Tyshler Lev Kuznetsov Yevgeni Cherepovsky Leonid Bogdanov

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

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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	11	6	6	23
2	Hungary	4	2	1	7
3	Japan	1	5	5	11
4	United Team of Germany	1	0	0	1
5	Sweden	0	2	1	3
6	Czechoslovakia	0	1	0	1
7	Romania	0	0	2	2
8	Finland	0	0	1	1
8	Poland	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		17	16	17	50

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 Albert Azaryan Viktor Chukarin Valentin Muratov Boris Shakhlin Pavel Stolbov Yuri Titov	Japan Nobuyuki Aihara Akira Kono Masami Kubota Takashi Ono Masao Takemoto Shinsaku Tsukawaki	Finland 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
Parallel bars details	Viktor Chukarin Soviet Union	Masumi Kubota 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
Rings details	Albert Azaryan Soviet Union	Valentin Muratov Soviet Union	Masumi Kubota Japan
Vault details	Helmut Bantz United Team of Germany	none awarded (as there was a tie for gold)	Yuri Titov Soviet Union
Vault details	Valentin Muratov Soviet Union	none awarded (as there was a tie for gold)	Yuri Titov Soviet Union

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 Polina Astakhova Lyudmila Yegorova Lidia Kalinina Larisa Latynina Tamara Manina Sofia Muratova	Hungary Andrea Molnár-Bodó Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles Ágnes Keleti Alice Kertész Margit Korondi Olga Lemhényi-Tass	Romania 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)
Balance beam details	Ágnes Keleti Hungary	Tamara Manina Soviet Union	none awarded (as there was a tie for silver)
Floor exercise details	Ágnes Keleti Hungary	none awarded (as there was a tie for gold)	Elena Leușteanu Romania
Floor exercise details	Larisa Latynina Soviet Union	none awarded (as there was a tie for gold)	Elena Leușteanu Romania
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
Vault details	Larisa Latynina Soviet Union	Tamara Manina Soviet Union	Ann-Sofi Pettersson Sweden
Team, portable apparatus details	Hungary Andrea Molnár-Bodó Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles Ágnes Keleti Alice Kertész Margit Korondi Olga Lemhényi-Tass	Sweden Karin Lindberg Ann-Sofi Pettersson Eva Rönström Evy Berggren Doris Hedberg Maud Karlén	Soviet Union Polina Astakhova Lyudmila Yegorova Lidia Kalinina Larisa Latynina Tamara Manina Sofia Muratova
Team, portable apparatus details			Poland Helena Rakoczy Natalia Kot-Wala Danuta Stachow Dorota Horzonek-Jokiel Barbara Ślizowska Lidia Szczerbińska

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual details	Lars Hall Sweden	Olavi Mannonen Finland	Väinö Korhonen Finland
Team details	Soviet Union Igor Novikov Ivan Deryugin Aleksandr Tarasov	United States William Andre Jack Daniels George Lambert	Finland Olavi Mannonen Väinö Korhonen Berndt Katter

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 Thomas Charlton David Wight John Cooke Donald Beer Caldwell Esselstyn Charles Grimes Rusty Wailes Robert Morey William Becklean	Canada Philip Kueber Richard McClure Robert Wilson David Helliwell Wayne Pretty Bill McKerlich Douglas McDonald Lawrence West Carlton Ogawa	Australia Michael Aikman David Boykett Fred Benfield Jim Howden Garth Manton Walter Howell Adrian Monger Brian Doyle Harold Hewitt

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

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

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 Kevin O'Halloran John Devitt Murray Rose Jon Henricks	8:23.6 (WR)	United States Dick Hanley George Breen Bill Woolsey Ford Konno	8:31.5	Soviet Union Vitaly Sorokin Vladimir Struzhanov Gennady Nikolayev Boris Nikitin	8:34.7

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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 Dawn Fraser Faith Leech Sandra Morgan Lorraine Crapp	4:17.1 (WR)	United States Sylvia Ruuska Shelley Mann Nancy Simons Joan Rosazza	4:19.2	South Africa Natalie Myburgh Susan Roberts Moira Abernethy Jeanette Myburgh	4:25.7

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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	6	2	5	13
2	Turkey	3	2	2	7
3	Iran	2	2	0	4
4	Japan	2	1	0	3
5	Finland	2	0	2	4
6	Bulgaria	1	3	0	4
7	Sweden	0	1	3	4
8	Hungary	0	1	1	2
	Italy	0	1	1	2
	United States	0	1	1	2
11	Belgium	0	1	0	1
11	United Team of Germany	0	1	0	1
13	Romania	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		16	16	16	48

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

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

v t e Events at the 1956 Summer Olympics (Melbourne, Australia/Stockholm, Sweden)
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