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Official list of medal winners and results by sport at the Melbourne 1956 Olympic Games. Celebrate medal-winning moments by the world's top athletes.
- Melbourne 1956 Athletics shot put men Results - Olympics.com
Find out who took home gold, silver and bronze in 1956....
- Melbourne 1956 Athletics shot put men Results - Olympics.com
Betty Cuthbert, an 18-year-old from Sydney, won the 100 and 200 metre sprint races and ran an exceptional final leg in the 4 x 100 metre relay to overcome Great Britain's lead and claim her third gold medal, becoming known as the "Golden Girl".
Find out who took home gold, silver and bronze in 1956. Official results of the athletics shot put men event at the Melbourne Summer Olympics.
Melbourne won the right to host the 1956 Olympic Games by one vote over Buenos Aires. Great Rivalry French long-distance runner Alain Mimoun had tasted Olympic defeat on the track three times at the hands of Czech Emil Zátopek.
The all-time medal table for all Olympic Games from 1896 to 2024, including Summer Olympic Games, Winter Olympic Games, and a combined total of both, is tabulated below. These Olympic medal counts do not include the 1906 Intercalated Games which are no longer recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as official Games.
The programme of the 2024 Summer Olympics featured 329 events in 32 sports, including the 28 "core" Olympic sports contested in 2016 and 2020, [1] and four optional sports that were proposed by the Paris Organising Committee: breaking made its Olympic debut as an optional sport, while skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing returned from 2020.
28 lip 2021 · The 2056 Olympics will look like a bombed out Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There will be nothing but ruins and rubble left of this earth -- nothing worth competing over by then.
