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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 Summer Olympics - Athletes, Medals & Results
Melbourne won the right to host the 1956 Olympic Games by...
- Melbourne 1956 Summer Olympics - Athletes, Medals & Results
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. However, in the marathon, it was Mimoun who pulled away to record a comfortable victory.
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.
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.
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.
The 1956 Summer Olympics were held in Melbourne, Australia, from 22 November to 18 December 1956.
Bobby Joe Morrow won the 100, 200, and anchored the 4x100 relay for the United States. But receiving most of the acclaim was his female counterpart, Betty Cuthbert, of the host nation, who duplicated his feat in winning three gold medals.
