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Games: Melbourne 1956
Sport: All
Nation: All
Artistic Gymnastics
Men: All-Around

1 Viktor Chukarin URS
2 Takashi Ono JPN
3 Yury Titov URS
Men: Team
1 Viktor Chukarin; Valentin Muratov; Boris Shakhlin; Albert Azaryan; Yury Titov; Pavel Stolbov URS
2 Takashi Ono; Masao Takemoto; Akira Kono; Nobuyuki Aihara; Shinsaku Tsukawaki; Masami Kubota JPN
3 Raimo Heinonen; Onni Lappalainen; Olavi Leimuvirta; Berndt Lindfors; Martti Mansikka; Kalevi Suoniemi FIN
Men: Floor
1 Valentin Muratov URS
2 Nobuyuki Aihara JPN
2 William Thoresson SWE
2 Viktor Chukarin URS
Men: Pommel Horse
1 Boris Shakhlin URS
2 Takashi Ono JPN
3 Viktor Chukarin URS
Men: Rings
1 Albert Azaryan URS
2 Valentin Muratov URS
3 Masao Takemoto JPN
3 Masami Kubota JPN
Men: Vault
1 Helmut Bantz GER
1 Valentin Muratov URS
3 Yury Titov URS
Men: Parallel Bars
1 Viktor Chukarin URS
2 Masami Kubota JPN
3 Takashi Ono JPN
3 Masao Takemoto JPN
Men: Horizontal Bar
1 Takashi Ono JPN
2 Yury Titov URS
3 Masao Takemoto JPN
Women: All-Around
1 Larisa Latynina URS
2 Ágnes Keleti HUN
3 Sofiya Muratova URS
Women: Team
1 Tamara Manina; Larisa Latynina; Sofiya Muratova; Lidiya Kalinina; Polina Astakhova; Lyudmila Yegorova URS
2 Ágnes Keleti; Margit Korondi; Olga Tass; Aliz Kertész; Andrea Bodó; Erzsébet Gulyás HUN
3 Gheorgheta Hurmuzachi; Sonia Inovan; Elena Leuştean; Elena Mărgărit; Elena Săcălici; Emilia Vătăşoiu ROU
Women: Vault
1 Larisa Latynina URS
2 Tamara Manina URS
3 Olga Tass HUN
3 Ann-Sofi Colling SWE
Women: Uneven Bars
1 Ágnes Keleti HUN
2 Larisa Latynina URS
3 Sofiya Muratova URS
Women: Beam
1 Ágnes Keleti HUN
2 Eva Bosáková TCH
2 Tamara Manina URS
Women: Floor
1 Ágnes Keleti HUN
1 Larisa Latynina URS
3 Elena Leuştean ROU
Women: Team Portable Apparatus
1 Ágnes Keleti; Margit Korondi; Olga Tass; Aliz Kertész; Andrea Bodó; Erzsébet Gulyás HUN
2 Ann-Sofi Colling; Karin Lindberg; Eva Rönström; Evy Berggren; Doris Hedberg; Maude Karlén SWE
3 Helena Rakoczy; Natalia Kot; Dorota Jokiel; Danuta Nowak-Stachow; Barbara Ślizowska; Lidia Szczerbińska POL
3 Tamara Manina; Larisa Latynina; Sofiya Muratova; Lidiya Kalinina; Polina Astakhova; Lyudmila Yegorova URS
Athletics
Men: 100m
1 Bobby Joe Morrow USA
2 Thane Baker USA
3 Hector Hogan AUS
Men: 200m
1 Bobby Joe Morrow USA
2 Andy Stanfield USA
3 Thane Baker USA
Men: 400m
1 Charles Jenkins USA
2 Karl-Friedrich Haas GER
3 Voitto Hellsten FIN
3 Ardalion Ignatyev URS
Men: 800m
1 Thomas Courtney USA
2 Derek Johnson GBR
3 Audun Boysen NOR
Men: 1500m
1 Ron Delany IRL
2 Klaus Richtzenhain GER
3 John Landy AUS
Men: 5000m
1 Vladimir Kuts URS
2 Gordon Pirie GBR
3 Derek Ibbotson GBR
Men: 10000m
1 Vladimir Kuts URS
2 Jozsef Kovacs HUN
3 Allan Lawrence AUS
Men: Marathon
1 Alain Mimoun FRA
2 Franjo Mihalic YUG
3 Veikko Karvonen FIN
Men: 110m Hurdles
1 Lee Calhoun USA
2 Jack Davis USA
3 Joel Shankle USA
Men: 400m Hurdles
1 Glenn Davis USA
2 Eddie Southern USA
3 Josh Culbreath USA
Men: 3000m Steeplechase
1 Christopher Brasher GBR
2 Sandor Rozsnyoi HUN
3 Ernst Larsen NOR
Men: 20km Walk
1 Leonid Spirin URS
2 Antanas Mikenas URS
3 Bruno Junk URS
Men: 50km Walk
1 Norman Read NZL
2 Yevgeny Maskinskov URS
3 John Ljunggren SWE
Men: 4x100m Relay
1 Thane Baker; Leamon King; Bobby Joe Morrow; Ira Murchison USA
2 Leonid Bartenyev; Yury Konovalov; Vladimir Sukharyev; Boris Tokaryev URS
3 Heinz Futterer; Manfred "Manni" Germar; Lothar Knorzer; Leo Pohl GER
Men: 4x400m Relay
1 Thomas Courtney; Charles Jenkins; Louis Jones; Jesse Mashburn USA
2 Graham Gipson; Kevan Gosper; Leon? Gregory; David Lean AUS
3 Peter Higgins; Derek Johnson; John Salisbury; Michael Wheeler GBR
Men: High Jump
1 Charles Dumas USA
2 Charles Porter AUS
3 Igor Kashkarov URS
Men: Pole Vault
1 Bob Richards USA
2 Robert Gutowski USA
3 Georgios Roumbanis GRE
Men: Long Jump
1 Gregory Bell USA
2 John Bennett USA
3 Jorma Valkama FIN
Men: Triple Jump
1 Adhemar da Silva BRA
2 Vilhjalmur Einarsson ISL
3 Vitold Kreyer URS
Men: Shot Put
1 Parry O'Brien USA
2 William Nieder USA
3 Jiri Skobla TCH
Men: Discus Throw
1 Al Oerter USA
2 Fortune Gordien USA
3 Desmond Koch USA
Men: Hammer Throw
1 Harold Connolly USA
2 Mikhail Krivonosov URS
3 Anatoly Samotsvetov URS
Men: Javelin Throw
1 Egil Danielsen NOR
2 Janusz Sidlo POL
3 Viktor Tsybulenko URS
Men: Decathlon
1 Milton Campbell USA
2 Rafer Johnson USA
3 Vasily Kuznetsov URS
Women: 100m
1 Betty Cuthbert AUS
2 Christa Stubnick GER
3 Marlene Mathews AUS
Women: 200m
1 Betty Cuthbert AUS
2 Christa Stubnick GER
3 Marlene Mathews AUS
Women: 80m Hurdles
1 Shirley Strickland de la Hunty AUS
2 Gisela Kohler GER
3 Norma Thrower AUS
Women: 4x100m Relay
1 Norma Croker; Betty Cuthbert; Fleur Mellor; Shirley Strickland de la Hunty AUS
2 Heather Armitage; Anne Pashley; June Paul; Jean Scrivens GBR
3 Isabelle Daniels; Mae Faggs; Margaret Matthews; Wilma Rudolph USA
Women: High Jump
1 Mildred McDaniel USA
2 Thelma Hopkins GBR
2 Maria Pissareva URS
Women: Long Jump
1 Elzbieta Krzesinska POL
2 Willye White USA
3 Nadejda Dvalichvili URS
Women: Shot Put
1 Tamara Tychkevitch URS
2 Galina Zybina URS
3 Marianne Werner GER
Women: Discus Throw
1 Olga Fikotova TCH
2 Irina Begliakova URS
3 Nina Ponomariova URS
Women: Javelin Throw
1 Inessa Iaounzem URS
2 Marlene Ahrens CHI
3 Nadejda Koniaeva URS
Basketball
Mens
1 Carl Cain; Bill Hougland; K.C. Jones; Bill Russell; Jim Walsh; Billy Evans; Burdie Haldorson; Ron Tomsic; Dick Boushka; Gib Ford; Bob Jeangerard; Chuck Darling USA
2 Valdis Muiznieks; Maygonis Valdmanis; Vladimir Torban; Stasys Stonkus; Kazys Petkevicius; Arkady Bochkaryov; Janis Krumins; Mikhail Semyonov; Algirdas Lauritėnas; Yury Ozerov; Viktor Zubkov; Mikhail Studenetsky URS
3 Carlos Blixen; Ramiro Cortés; Héctor Costa; Nelson Chelle; Nelson Demarco; Héctor García; Carlos González; Sergio Matto; Oscar Moglia; Raúl Mera; Ariel Olascoaga; Milton Scarón URU
Fencing
Men: Foil, individual
1 Christian d'Oriola FRA
2 Giancarlo Bergamini ITA
3 Antonio Spallino ITA
Men: Foil, team
1 Edoardo Mangiarotti; Giancarlo Bergamini; Antonio Spallino; Luigi Carpaneda; Manlio Di Rosa; Vittorio Lucarelli ITA
2 Christian d'Oriola; Bernard Baudoux; Claude Netter; Jacques Lataste; Roger Closset; Rene Coicaud FRA
3 Jozsef Marosi; Mihaly Fulop; Jozsef Gyuricza; Lajos Somodi Sr.; Jozsef Sakovics; Endre Tilli HUN
Men: Epee, individual
1 Carlo Pavesi ITA
2 Giuseppe Delfino ITA
3 Edoardo Mangiarotti ITA
Men: Epee, team
1 Alberto Pellegrino; Giuseppe Delfino; Edoardo Mangiarotti; Carlo Pavesi; Franco Bertinetti; Giorgio Anglesio ITA
2 Bela Rerrich; Jozsef Sakovics; Barnabas Berzsenyi; Jozsef Marosi; Lajos Balthazar; Ambrus Nagy HUN
3 Armand Mouyal; Rene Queyroux; Claude Nigon; Daniel Dagallier; Yves Dreyfus FRA
Men: Sabre, individual
1 Rudolf Karpati HUN
2 Jerzy Pawlowski POL
3 Lev Kuznetsov URS
Men: Sabre, team
1 Pal Kovacs; Rudolf Karpati; Aladar Gerevich; Attila Keresztes; Jeno Hamori; Daniel Magay HUN
2 Wojciech Zablocki; Jerzy Pawlowski; Marek Kuszewski; Zygmunt Pawlas; Ryszard Zub; Andrzej Piatkowski POL
3 Yevhen Cherepovskiy; Yakov Rylsky; Lev Kuznetsov; Davyd Tyshler; Leonid Bogdanov URS
Women: Foil, individual
1 Gillian Sheen GBR
2 Olga Orban ROU
3 Renee Garilhe FRA
Rowing
Men: Single Sculls
1 Vyacheslav Ivanov URS
2 Stuart MacKenzie AUS
3 Jack Kelly Jr. USA
Men: Coxless Pair
1 Jim Fifer; Duvall Hecht USA
2 Igor Buldakov; Viktor Ivanov URS
3 Josef Kloimstein; Alfred Sageder AUT
Men: Double Sculls
1 Aleksandr Berkutov; Yury Tyukalov URS
2 Pat Costello; Jim Gardiner USA
3 Murray Riley; Merv Wood AUS
Men: Coxed Pair
1 Dan Ayrault; Conn Findlay; Kurt Seiffert USA
2 Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck; Horst Arndt; Rainer Borkowsky GER
3 Igor Yemchuk; Georgy Zhilin; Vladimir Petrov URS
Men: Coxless Four
1 Archie MacKinnon; Lorne Loomer; Walter D'Hondt; Donald Arnold CAN
2 John Welchli; John McKinlay; Art McKinlay; Jim McIntosh USA
3 Guy Guillabert; Gaston Mercier; Yves Delacour; René Guissart FRA
Men: Coxed Four
1 Alberto Winkler; Romano Sgheiz; Angelo Vanzin; Franco Trincavelli; Ivo Stefanoni ITA
2 Olle Larsson; Gösta Eriksson; Ivar Aronsson; Evert Gunnarsson; Bertil Göransson SWE
3 Kauko Hänninen; Reino Poutanen; Veli Lehtelä; Toimi Pitkänen; Matti Niemi FIN
Men: Eight
1 Tom Charlton; Dave Wight; John Cooke; Don Beer; Caldwell Esselstyn; Charles Grimes; Rusty Wailes; Jack Morey; William Becklean USA
2 Philip Kueber; Richard McClure; Robert Wilson; David Helliwell; Donald Pretty; Bill McKerlich; Douglas McDonald; Lawrence West; Carlton Ogawa CAN
3 Michael Aikman; David Boykett; Fred Benfield; Jim Howden; Garth Manton; Walter Howell; Adrian Monger; Brian Doyle; Harold Hewitt AUS
Sailing
Open / Mixed: Finn
1 Paul Elvstrøm DEN
2 Andre Nelis BEL
3 John Marvin USA
Open / Mixed: Sharpie
1 Peter Mander; John Urquhart Cropp NZL
2 Rolly Tasker; John Malcolm Scott AUS
3 Jasper Ray Blackall; Terence James Smith GBR
Open / Mixed: Star
1 Herbert Williams; Lawrence Low USA
2 Agostino Straulino; Nicolo Rode ITA
3 Durward Knowles; Sloane Farrington BAH
Open / Mixed: Dragon
1 Folke Bohlin; Bengt Palmquist; Leif Wikstrom SWE
2 Ole Berntsen; Cyril Roman Andresen; Christian von Bulow DEN
3 Graham Mann; Ronald Backus; Jonathan Janson GBR
Open / Mixed: 5.5 Metre
1 Lars Thorn; Hjalmar Karlsson; Sture Stork SWE
2 Robert Stanley Perry; Neil Cochran-Patrick; John Desmond Dillon; David George Bowker GBR
3 Alexander Sturrock Jr.; Devereaux Mytton; Douglas Raymond Buxton AUS
Swimming
Men: 100m freestyle
1 Jon Henricks AUS
2 John Devitt AUS
3 Gary Chapman AUS
Men: 400m freestyle
1 Murray Rose AUS
2 Tsuyoshi Yamanaka JPN
3 George Breen USA
Men: 1500m freestyle
1 Murray Rose AUS
2 Tsuyoshi Yamanaka JPN
3 George Breen USA
Men: 100m backstroke
1 David Theile AUS
2 John Monckton AUS
3 Frank McKinney USA
Men: 200m breaststroke
1 Yoshio Furukawa JPN
2 Masahiro Yoshimura JPN
3 Kharis Iounitchev URS
Men: 200m butterfly
1 William Yorzyk USA
2 Takashi Ishimoto JPN
3 Gyorgy Tumpek HUN
Men: 4x200m freestyle relay
1 Kevin O'Halloran; John Devitt; Murray Rose; Jon Henricks; Gary Chapman; Graham Hamilton; Murray Garretty AUS
2 Richard Hanley; George Breen; William Woolsey; Ford Konno; Perry Jecko; Richard Tenabe USA
3 Vitaliy Sorokin; Vladimir Stroujanov; Gennady Nikolayev; Boris Nikitin URS
Women: 100m freestyle
1 Dawn Fraser AUS
2 Lorraine Crapp AUS
3 Faith Leech AUS
Women: 400m freestyle
1 Lorraine Crapp AUS
2 Dawn Fraser AUS
3 Sylvia Ruuska USA
Women: 100m backstroke
1 Judith Grinham GBR
2 Carin Cone USA
3 Margaret Edwards GBR
Women: 200m breaststroke
1 Ursula Happe GER
2 Eva Szekely HUN
3 Eva-Maria ten Elsen GER
Women: 100m butterfly
1 Shelley Mann USA
2 Nancy Ramey USA
3 Mary Jane Sears USA
Women: 4x100m freestyle relay
1 Dawn Fraser; Faith Leech; Sandra Morgan; Lorraine Crapp; Margaret Gibson; Elizabeth Fraser AUS
2 Sylvia Ruuska; Shelley Mann; Nancy Simons; Joan Rosazza; Betty Brey; Kathryn Knapp; Marley Shriver USA
3 Natalie Myburgh; Susan Roberts; Moira Abernethy; Jeanette Myburgh RSA
Weightlifting
Men: Bantamweight
1 Chuck Vinci USA
2 Vladimir Stogov URS
3 Mahmoud Namdjou IRI
Men: Featherweight
1 Ike Berger USA
2 Yevgeny Minayev URS
3 Marian Zielinski POL
Men: Lightweight
1 Ihor Rybak URS
2 Ravil Khabutdinov URS
3 Kim Chang-Hui KOR
Men: Middleweight
1 Fyodor Bogdanovsky URS
2 Pete George USA
3 Ermanno Pignatti ITA
Men: Light Heavyweight
1 Tommy Kono USA
2 Vasilijs Stepanovs URS
3 Jim George USA
Men: Middle Heavyweight
1 Arkady Vorobyov URS
2 Dave Sheppard USA
3 Jean Debuf FRA
Men: Heavyweight
1 Paul Anderson USA
2 Humberto Selvetti ARG
3 Alberto Pigaiani ITA