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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.
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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.
Prior to 1956, the athletes in the Opening and Closing Ceremonies marched in alphabetical order by National Olympic Committees. However, in Melbourne, following a suggestion by a young Chinese apprentice carpenter living in Australia named John Ian Wing, the athletes entered the stadium together during the Closing Ceremony as a symbol of global ...
Official medal table of the Summer Olympic Games in Melbourne. Find an alphabetical list of medals and celebrate the achievements of 1956's finest athletes.
The veteran Shirley Strickland repeated her 1952 win in the 80 metre hurdles and was also part of the winning 4 x 100 metre relay team, bringing her career Olympic medal total to seven: three golds, a silver, and three bronze medals.
Five of the seven Britons went home with medals and the nation claimed their first gold medals for over 30 years. Britain’s lightweight champion Dick McTaggart had a spectacular games and was awarded the Val Barker Trophy as the outstanding boxer of the Games.
