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Official list of medal winners and results by sport at the Melbourne 1956 Olympic Games.
Relive the moments that went down in history at the 1956 summer Olympics in Melbourne. Access official videos, results, galleries, sport and athletes. ... Events 151. Results Highlights. Originals 57:43. Exclusive. Melbourne 1956 Official Film | Olympic Games 1956 ...
The 1956 Summer Olympics featured 17 different sports encompassing 23 disciplines, and medals were awarded in 151 events (145 events in Melbourne and 6 equestrian events in Stockholm). [22] In the list below, the number of events in each discipline is noted in parentheses.
At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, 33 athletics events were contested, 24 for men and 9 for women. There were a total number of 720 participating athletes from 61 countries.
This is the full table of the medal table of the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia and Stockholm, Sweden (equestrian events). These rankings sort by the number of gold medals earned by a country. The number of silvers is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze.
Official Athletics results from the Melbourne 1956 Olympics. Full list of gold, silver and bronze medallists as well as photos and videos of medal-winning moments.
Between June and the Melbourne Olympics, the world was thrown into turmoil. On 29 October, Israel invaded Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. Then on 4 November 1956, 200,000 Soviet troops invaded Budapest, Hungary, to quell political uprisings in that country. Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq withdrew in protest of Israel’s action.
