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India competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. 59 competitors, 58 men and 1 woman, took part in 32 events in 8 sports. Their solitary medal, a gold, came in men's field hockey. [1][2][3]
The Tikal brothers Steve Tikal (for Australia) and František Tikal (for Czechoslovakia) faced each other in an ice hockey match at the 1960 Winter Olympics to become the first brothers competing head to head.
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 ...
India competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. 59 competitors, 58 men and 1 woman, took part in 32 events in 8 sports. Their solitary medal, a gold, came in men's field hockey. [1] [2] [3]
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.
The scheduled first round match of Yugoslavia vs. United States was moved into the second round, or quarter-finals. The other first round matches scheduled were as follows: Bulgaria vs. Egypt, Hungary vs. India, Indonesia vs. South Vietnam, and China vs. Turkey.
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.
