Melbourne 1956
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MELBOURNE 1956 The Games of the XVI Summer Olympiad. November 22 - December 8, 1956. Melbourne, Australia. 1 ATHLETICS MEN 100 m 1.Bobby Morrow (USA) 2 200 m 1.Bobby Morrow (USA) 4 x 100 m: 1.USA (Bobby Morrow) 4 x 100 m: 2.USSR (Yuriy Konovalov) 400 m: 1.Charlie Jenkins (USA) 4 x 400 m: 1.USA (Tom Courtney, Charlie Jenkins) 3 800 m 1.Tom Courtney (USA) 4 1500 m 1.Ron Delany (Ireland) 5 5000 m 1.Vladimir Kuts (USSR) 10000 m 1.Vladimir Kuts (USSR) 6 110 m hurdles 1.Lee Calhoun (USA) 400 m hurdles 1.Glenn Davis (USA) 7 3000 m steeplechase 1.Chris Brasher (Great Britain) 4 x 100 m 1.USA 8 4 x 400 m 1.USA Pole vault 1.Bob Richards (USA) 9 Marathon 1.Alain Mimoun (France) 10 20 km walk 1.Leonid Spirin (USSR) 11 50 km walk 1.Norman Read (New Zealand) 12 13.Ronald Crawford (Australia) DNF.Don Thompson (Great Britain) 13 High jump 1.Charles Dumas (USA) 14 Triple jump 1.Adhemar da Silva (Brazil) 2.Vilhjalmur Einarsson (Iceland) 15 Shot put 1.Parry O’Brien (USA) 3.Jiri Skobla (Czechoslovakia) 16 Discus throw 1.Al Oerter (USA) 17 Javelin throw 1.Egil Danielsen (Norway) 18 Decathlon 1.Milt Campbell (USA) 19 2.Rafer Johnson (USA) 20 WOMEN 100 m 1.Betty Cuthbert (Australia) 21 200 m 1.Betty Cuthbert (Australia) 4 x 100 m: 1.Australia (Betty Cuthbert) 4 x 100 m: 3.USA (Wilma Rudolph) 22 80 m hurdles 1.Shirley Strickland de la Hunty (Australia) 2.Gisela Kohler (Germany) 4 x 100 m: 1.Australia (Shirley Strickland de la Hunty) 23 Long jump 1.Elzbieta Krzesinska (Poland) High jump 1.Mildred McDaniel (USA) 24 Javelin throw 1.Inese Jaunzeme (USSR) 25 Discus throw 1.Olga Fikotova (Czechoslovakia) 3.Nina Ponomaryova (USSR) 26 BASKETBALL 1.USA 2.USSR (Janis Krumins) 3.Uruguay (Oscar Moglia) 27 BOXING 51 kg 1.Terence Spinks (Great Britain) 54 kg 1.Wolfgang Behrendt (Germany) 28 57 kg 3-4.Pentti Hamalainen (Finland) 63.5 kg 1.Vladimir Yengibaryan (USSR) 29 67 kg 1.Nicolae Linca (Romania) 30 71 kg 1.Laszlo Papp (Hungary) 31 75 kg 1.Gennadi Shatkov (USSR) 32 CANOEING MEN C-1 1000 m: 1.Leon Rotman (Romania) C-1 10000 m: 1.Leon Rotman (Romania) C-2 1000 m 1.Alexe Dumitru / Simion Ismailciuc (Romania) 33 C-1 10000 m: 2.Janos Parti (Hungary) K-1 1000 m: 1.Gert Fredriksson (Sweden) K-1 10000 m: 1.Gert Fredriksson (Sweden) 34 K-2 10000 m 1.Janos Uranyi / Laszlo Fabian (Hungary) 35 CYCLING ROAD Individual road race 1.Ercole Baldini (Italy) Team road race 3.Germany (Gustav-Adolf Schur) 36 TRACK Team pursuit 3.Great Britain (Tom Simpson) Sprint 1.Michel Rousseau (France) 37 Tandem: 2.Ladislav Foucek / Vaclav Machek (Czechoslovakia) Time trial: 2.Ladislav Foucek (Czechoslovakia) 38 DIVING MEN 10 m platform 1.Joaquin Capilla (Mexico) 2.Gary Tobian (USA) 3 m springboard: 3.Joaquin Capilla (Mexico) 39 WOMEN 3 m springboard 1.Pat McCormick (USA) 10 m platform: 1.Pat McCormick (USA) 40 EQUESTRIAN The equestrian competitions were held on June 11-17, 1956 in Stockholm, Sweden. Individual dressage 1.Henri Saint Cyr (Sweden) Team dressage: 1.Sweden (Henri Saint Cyr) 41 Individual dressage : 2.Lis Hartel (Denmark) Individual dressage: 3.Liselott Linsenhoff (Germany) Team dressage: 2.Germany (Liselott Linsenhoff) Team dressage: 3.Switzerland (Henri Chammartin) 42 Individual eventing 1.Petrus Kastenman (Sweden) 43 Individual jumping 1.Hans Gunter Winkler (Germany) 44 Team jumping 1.Germany (Hans Gunther Winkler, Fritz Thiedemann, Alfons Lutke-Westhues) Hans Gunter Winkler (Germany) 45 Individual jumping: 2.Raimondo D’Inzeo (Italy), 3.Piero D’Inzeo (Italy) Team jumping: 2.Italy (Raimondo D’Inzeo, Piero D’Inzeo) 46 FENCING MEN Individual epee 1.Carlo Pavesi (Italy) Team epee: 1.Italy (Carlo Pavesi) 47 Team epee: 1.Italy (Guiseppe Delfino, Edoardo Mangiarotti) Individual epee: 2.Giuseppe Delfino (Italy), 3.Edoardo Mangiarotti (Italy) Team foil: 1.Italy (Edoardo Mangiarotti) Individual foil 1.Christian d’Oriola (France) Team foil: 2.France (Christian d’Oriola) 48 Individual sabre: 1.Rudolf Karpati (Hungary) Team sabre: 1.Hungary (Attila Keresztes, Aladar Gerevich, Rudolf Karpati, Jeno Hamori, Pal Kovacs, Daniel Magay) 49 Individual sabre: 2.Jerzy Pawlowski (Poland) Team sabre: 2.Poland (Jerzy Pawlowski) WOMEN Individual foil 1.Gillian Sheen (Great Britain) 50 FIELD HOCKEY 1.India (Balbir Singh Dosanjh, Gurdev Singh Kullar, Leslie Claudius) 51 FOOTBALL Round of 16 USSR - Germany 2:1 (Nikolai Tishchenko (USSR)) Final USSR - Yugoslavia 1:0 (Lev Yashin (USSR)) 1.USSR 52 Lev Yashin (USSR) Igor Netto (USSR) Anatoli Ilyin (USSR) Valentin Ivanov (USSR) Sergei Salnikov (USSR) 53 Eduard Streltsov (USSR) Nikita Simonyan (USSR) 54 Boris Tatushin (USSR) Alexei Paramonov (USSR) Gavrill Kachalin (USSR, head coach) 2.Yugoslavia 3.Bulgaria (Ivan Kolev, Kiril Rakarov, Stefan Bozhkov, Manol Manolov, Dimitar Milanov) 9-11.Germany 55 GYMNASTICS MEN Team all-around Horizontal bar 1.USSR (Valentin Muratov) 1.Takashi Ono (Japan) Floor exercise: 1.Valentin Muratov (USSR) Team all-around: 2.Japan (Takashi Ono) Rings: 2.Valentin Muratov (USSR) Individual all-around: 2.Takashi Ono (Japan) Vault: 1-2.Valentin Muratov (USSR) Parallel bars: 3-4.Takashi Ono (Japan) Pommel horse: 2.Takashi Ono (Japan) Rings: 1.Albert Azaryan (USSR) Team all-around: 1.USSR (Albert Azaryan) 56 Parallel bars 1.Viktor Chukarin (USSR) Team all-around: 1.USSR (Viktor Chukarin) Individual all-around: 1.Viktor Chukarin (USSR) Floor exercise: 2-4.Viktor Chukarin (USSR) Pommel horse: 3.Viktor Chukarin (USSR) Team all-around: 1.USSR (Boris Shakhlin, Pavel Stolbov, Yuri Titov) Individual all-around: 3.Yuri Titov (USSR) Horizontal bar: 2.Yuri Titov (USSR) Pommel horse: 1.Boris Shakhlin (USSR) Vault: 3.Yuri Titov (USSR) 57 WOMEN Team all-around 1.USSR (Polina Astakhova) Team portable apparatus: 3-4.USSR (Polina Astakhova) Vault 1.Larisa Latynina (USSR) 58 Individual all-around 1.Larisa Latynina (USSR) Team portable apparatus: 3-4.USSR (Larisa Latynina) Floor exercise: 1-2.Larisa Latynina (USSR) Uneven bars: 2.Larisa Latynina (USSR) 59 Balance beam 1.Agnes Keleti (Hungary) 60 2-3.Eva Bosakova (Czechoslovakia) Team all-around: 2.Hungary (Agnes Keleti) Team portable apparatus: 1.Hungary (Agnes Keleti) Individual all-around: 2.Agnes Keleti (Hungary) Floor exercise: 1-2.Agnes Keleti (Hungary) Uneven bars: 1.Agnes Keleti (Hungary) 61 Team all-around: 1.USSR (Tamara Manina, Sofia Muratova) Team portable apparatus: 3-4.USSR (Tamara Manina, Sofia Muratova) Individual all-around: 3.Sofia Muratova (USSR) Balance beam: 2-3.Tamara Manina (USSR) Uneven bars: 3.Sofia Muratova (USSR) Vault: 2.Tamara Manina (USSR) Team portable apparatus: 1.Hungary (Margit Korondi) Team all-around: 2.Hungary (Margit Korondi) 62 MODERN PENTATHLON Individual 1.Lars Hall (Sweden) Team 1.USSR (Igor Novikov) 63 ROWING Single sculls 1.Vyacheslav Ivanov (USSR) Coxless fours 3.France (Gaston Mercier) 64 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) 65 SAILING Finn 1.Paul Elvstrom (Denmark) Dragon: 1.Slaghoken II (Sweden) 5.5 Metre: 1.Rush V (Sweden) 66 SHOOTING 25 m rapid fire pistol 1.Stefan Petrescu (Romania) 67 50 m rifle three positions 2.Otakar Horinek (Czechoslovakia) 68 50 m rifle prone 1.Gerald Ouelette (Canada) Trap 1.Galliano Rossini (Italy) 69 SWIMMING MEN 400 m freestyle 1.Murray Rose (Australia) 1500 m freestyle 1.Murray Rose (Australia) 4 x 200 m freestyle: 1.Australia (Murray Rose) 70 100 m backstroke 3.Frank McKinney (USA) 200 m breaststroke 1.Masaru Furukawa (Japan) 71 4 x 200 m freestyle 1.Australia 72 WOMEN 100 m freestyle 1.Dawn Fraser (Australia) 400 m freestyle: 2.Dawn Fraser (Australia) 4 x 100 m freestyle: 1.Australia (Dawn Fraser) 73 200 m breaststroke 1.Ursula Happe (Germany) 2.Eva Szekely (Hungary) 74 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) 75 WEIGHTLIFTING 82.5 kg 1.Tommy Kono (USA) 76 90 kg 1.Arkady Vorobyev (USSR) 77 90+ kg 1.Paul Anderson (USA) 78 WRESTLING GRECO-ROMAN 73 kg 1.Mithat Bayrak (Turkey) 79 kg 1.Givi Kartozia (USSR) 79 FREESTYLE 52 kg 1.Mirian Tsalkamanidze (USSR) 62 kg 1.Shozo Sasahara (Japan) 80 79 kg 1.Nikola Stanchev (Bulgaria) 87 kg Round Three Gholamreza Takhti (Iran) def. Mitsuhiro Ohira (Japan) 1.Gholamreza Takhti (Iran) 7-9.Mitsuhiro Ohira (Japan) 81 87+ kg 1.Hamit Kaplan (Turkey) GRECO-ROMAN, 87+ kg: 2.Wilfried Dietrich (Germany) 82 MEDAL COUNT 1.USSR (37-29-32) 2.USA (32-25-17) 3.AUSTRALIA (13-8-14) 83 17.POLAND (1-4-4) (not sure why the card says 1-3-4) 84 18.CZECHOSLOVAKIA (1-4-1) Previous Olympiad Next Olympiad (CORTINA D'AMPEZZO 1956) (SQUAW VALLEY 1960) Previous Summer Olympiad Next Summer Olympiad (HELSINKI 1952) (ROME 1960) Back to the Main Page (OLYMPIC HISTORY ON STAMPS) 85 .