1956 Summer Olympics

Multi-sport event in Melbourne, Australia July 2022 December 2019 1956 Summer Olympics 1956 Summer Olympics logo.svg 145 Emblem of the 1956 Summer Olympics Melbourne, AustraliaStockholm, Sweden 72 3,314 (2,938 men, 376 women) 151 in 17 sports (23 disciplines) 22 November 1956Equestrian Equestrian events held in Stockholm, Sweden on 11 to 17 June 1956. 8 December 1956Equestrian Philip, Duke of EdinburghFactsheet – Opening Ceremony of the Games of the Olympiad https://stillmed.olympic.org/Documents/Reference_documents_Factsheets/Opening_ceremony_of_the_Games_of_the_Olympiad.pdf live International Olympic Committee 13 September 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20160814215458/https://stillmed.olympic.org/Documents/Reference_documents_Factsheets/Opening_ceremony_of_the_Games_of_the_Olympiad.pdf 14 August 2016 22 December 2018The Duke of Edinburgh did not regain the title "Prince" until the following year. See List of titles and honours of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. IOC President Avery Brundage Ron Clarke Stockholm Olympic Stadium (Equestrian Events)Melbourne Cricket Ground (Other Events) Helsinki 1952 Rome 1960 Cortina 1956 Squaw Valley 1960 The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XVI Olympiad and officially branded as Melbourne 1956, were an international multi-sport event held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, from 22 November to 8 December 1956, with the exception of the equestrian events, which were held in Stockholm, Sweden, in June 1956. The Soviet Union won the most gold and overall medals at these Games. These Games were the first to be staged in the Southern Hemisphere and Oceania, as well as the first to be held outside Europe and North America. Melbourne is the most southerly city ever to host the Olympics. Due to the Southern Hemisphere's seasons being different from those in the Northern Hemisphere, the 1956 Games did not take place at the usual time of year, because of the need to hold the events during the warmer weather of the host's spring/summer (which corresponds to the Northern Hemisphere's autumn/winter), resulting in the only summer games ever to be held in November and December. Australia hosted the Games for a second time in 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, and will host them again in 2032 in Brisbane, Queensland. The Olympic equestrian events could not be held in Melbourne due to Australia's strict quarantine regulations,https://www.olympics.com.au/news/melbourne-1956-makes-history-as-equestrian-events-take-place-in-sweden/ Melbourne 1956 makes history as equestrian events take place in Sweden Tarbotton David 12 November 2016 Australian Olympic Committee 2 August 2021 so they were held in Stockholm five months earlier. This was the second time the Olympics were not held entirely in one country, the first being the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium, with some events taking place in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Despite uncertainties and various complications encountered during the preparations, the 1956 Games went ahead in Melbourne as planned and turned out to be a success. Started during the 1956 Games was the "Parade of Athletes" at the closing ceremonies. Nine teams boycotted the Games for various reasons.https://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/melbourne-1956 Melbourne 1956 Summer Olympics - Athletes, Medals & Results 24 April 2018 Four teams (Egypt, Iraq, Cambodia and Lebanon) boycotted in response to the Suez Crisis,1956SOG1 Cambodia and Egypt competed in the equestrian events, which took place prior to the Crisis, but boycotted the rest of the Games. in which Egypt was invaded by Israel, France and the United Kingdom. Kaufman Burton I. Kaufman Diane The A to Z of the Eisenhower Era Scarecrow Press 6 October 2009 Lanham, Maryland 176 https://books.google.com/books?id=Z6cdte1qViIC&pg=PA176 978-0810870635 Four teams (the Netherlands, Spain, Liechtenstein and Switzerland) boycotted in response to the Soviet invasion of Hungary,Kennedy Lesley August 24, 2023 July 26, 2021 6 Times the Olympics Were Boycotted https://www.history.com/news/olympic-boycotts live https://web.archive.org/web/20231130221101/https://www.history.com/news/olympic-boycotts Nov 30, 2023 HISTORY2016-11-22 Hungary Hails Veteran Athletes Who Boycotted The 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games Out Of Solidarity With Hungary https://hungarytoday.hu/hungary-hails-vetera-athletes-boycotted-1956-melbourne-olymipc-games-solidarity-hungary-12488/ Robert Velkey Hungary Today en live https://web.archive.org/web/20230509075147/https://hungarytoday.hu/hungary-hails-vetera-athletes-boycotted-1956-melbourne-olymipc-games-solidarity-hungary-12488/ May 9, 2023 1956SOG2 The Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland competed in the equestrian events, which took place prior to the Hungarian Revolution and its suppression by the Soviet Union, but boycotted the rest of the Games. and the People's Republic of China's boycott was in response to a dispute with the Republic of China over the right to represent China.The Times, "The Latest Threat to the Olympics - And its all over a name", 10 July 1976Chinese Olympics Committee website One of the most notable events of the games was a controversial water polo match between the Soviet Union and the defending champions, Hungary. The Soviet Union had recently suppressed an anti-authoritarian revolution in Hungary and violence broke out between the teams during the match, resulting in numerous injuries. When Hungary's Ervin Zádor suffered bleeding after being punched by the Soviet Union's Valentin Prokopov, spectators attempted to join the violence, but they were blocked by police. The match was cancelled, with Hungary being declared the winner because they were in the lead 4–0. Host city selection Melbourne was selected as the host city over bids from Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Montreal, Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, and San Francisco at the 43rd IOC Session in Rome, Italy on 28 April 1949. Mexico City, Montreal and Los Angeles would eventually be selected to host the 1968, 1976 and 1984 Summer Olympicshttp://www.aldaver.com/votes.html Ioc Vote History Aldaver.com 24 August 2012 25 May 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080525070757/http://www.aldaver.com/votes.html usurped respectively. + 1956 Summer Olympics bidding resultshttp://www.gamesbids.com/english/archives/past.shtml Past Olympic host city election results GamesBids 17 March 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110124022022/http://www.gamesbids.com/eng/past.html 24 January 2011 live City Country Round 1 2 3 4 Melbourne Australia 14 18 19 21 Buenos Aires Argentina 9 12 13 20 Los Angeles United States 1912 5 4 5 — Detroit 2 4 4 — Mexico City Mexico 1934 9 3 — — Chicago United States 1912 1 — — — Minneapolis 1 — — — Philadelphia 1 — — — San Francisco 0 — — — Montreal Canada 1921 0 — — — Prelude Many members of the IOC were skeptical about Melbourne as an appropriate site. Its location in the Southern Hemisphere was a major concern since the reversal of seasons would mean the Games must be held during the northern winter. The November–December schedule was thought likely to inconvenience athletes from the Northern Hemisphere, who were accustomed to resting during their winter. September 2016 Notwithstanding these concerns, the field of candidates eventually narrowed to two Southern Hemisphere cities, these being Melbourne and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Melbourne was selected, in 1949, to host the 1956 Olympics by a one-vote margin. The first sign of trouble was the revelation that Australian equine quarantine would prevent the country from hosting the equestrian events. Stockholm was selected as the alternative site, so equestrian competition began on 10 June, five and a half months before the rest of the Olympic Games were to open. The above problems of the Melbourne Games were compounded by bickering over financing among Australian politicians. Eventually, in March 1953, the State Government accepted a £2 million loan from the Commonwealth Government to build the Olympic Village, which would accommodate up to 6,000 people, in Heidelberg West. After the Olympics, the houses in the village were handed back to the Housing Commission for general public housing.https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/publications/research-papers/download/36-research-papers/13610-2016-3-olympics-hn The 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne Reeves Debra Parliament of Victoria 2 August 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210802102535/https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/publications/research-papers/download/36-research-papers/13610-2016-3-olympics-hn 2 August 2021 At one point, IOC president Avery Brundage suggested that Rome, which was to host the 1960 Games, was so far ahead of Melbourne in preparations that it might be ready as a replacement site in 1956. Constructing of the sporting venues was given priority over the athlete's village. The village was designed as a whole new suburb with semi-detached houses and flats, the first village that both sexes could cohabitate the same buildings instead of gender designated sections. As late as April 1955, Brundage, who was presiding over the Olympics for the first time, was still doubtful about Melbourne and was not satisfied by an inspection trip to the city. Construction was well under way by then, thanks to a $4.5 million federal loan to Victoria, but it was behind schedule. He still held out the possibility that Rome might have to step in. By the beginning of 1956, though, it was obvious that Melbourne would be ready for the Olympics.Wendy Lewis, Simon Balderstone and John Bowan Events That Shaped Australia 212–217 New Holland 2006 978-1-74110-492-9 Participation and boycotts thumb|350px|Countries that boycotted the 1956 Games are shaded blue Egypt, Iraq, Cambodia and Lebanon announced that they would not participate in the Olympics in response to the Suez Crisis when Egypt was invaded by Israel, the United Kingdom, and France. The Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and Liechtenstein boycotted the event in protest of the Soviet Union's crushing of the Hungarian Revolution. The People's Republic of China chose to boycott the event because Taiwan had been allowed to compete. Athletes from both East and West Germany competed together as a combined team (a display of unity that was repeated in 1960 and 1964, but was then discontinued). Although the number of countries participating (67) was almost the same as in 1952 (69), the number of athletes competing dropped sharply, from 4,925 to 3,342. (This figure does not include the 158 athletes from 29 countries who took part in the Stockholm equestrian competition.) Events Once underway, the Games progressed smoothly, and came to be known as the "Friendly Games".Lucas Cade 28 July 2016 The mixed fortunes of Melbourne's 1956 Olympic venues, 60 years on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jul/28/the-mixed-fortunes-of-melbournes-1956-olympic-venues-60-years-on The Guardian 31 October 2021 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 × 100 metre relay to overcome Great Britain's lead and claim her third gold medal, becoming known as the "Golden Girl". The veteran Shirley Strickland repeated her 1952 win in the 80 metre hurdles and was also part of the winning 4 × 100 metre relay team, bringing her career Olympic medal total to seven: three golds, a silver, and three bronze medals. Australia also triumphed in swimming. They won all of the freestyle races, men's and women's, and collected a total of eight gold, four silver and two bronze medals. Murray Rose became the first male swimmer to win two freestyle events (and a total three events) since Johnny Weissmuller in 1924, while Dawn Fraser won gold medals in the 100 metre freestyle and as the leadoff swimmer in the 4 × 100 metre relay team. The men's track and field events were dominated by the United States. They not only won 15 of the 24 events, they swept four of them and took first and second place in five others. Bobby Morrow led the way with gold medals in the 100 and 200 metre sprints and the 4 × 100 metre relay. Tom Courtney barely overtook Great Britain's Derek Johnson in the 800 metre run, then collapsed from the exertion and needed medical attention. Ireland's Ronnie Delany ran an outstanding 53.8 over the last 400 metres to win the 1,500 metre run (also Ireland's last gold medal in track events), in which favourite John Landy of Australia finished third. There was a major upset, marred briefly by controversy, in the 3,000 metre steeplechase. Little-known Chris Brasher of Great Britain finished well ahead of the field, but the judges disqualified him for interfering with Norway's Ernst Larsen, and they announced Sándor Rozsnyói of Hungary as the winner. Brasher's appeal was supported by Larsen, Rozsnyói, and fourth-place finisher Heinz Laufer of Germany. Subsequently, the decision was reversed and Brasher became the first Briton to win a gold medal in track and field since 1936. Soviet runner Vladimir Kuts won two golds by winning both the 5,000-metre and 10,000-metre events. Only two world records were set in track and field. Mildred McDaniel, the first American woman to win gold in the sport, set a high jump record of 1.76 metres feet, and Egil Danielsen of Norway overcame blustery conditions with a remarkable javelin throw of 85.71 metres feet. Throughout the Olympics, Hungarian athletes were cheered by fans from Australia and other countries. Many of them gathered in the boxing arena when thirty-year-old Laszlo Papp of Hungary won a record third gold medal by beating José Torres for the light-middleweight championship. A few days later, the crowd was with the Hungarian water polo team in its hotly contested and emotionally charged match against the Soviet Union which took place against the background of the Soviet invasion of Hungary. The game became rough and, when a Hungarian was forced to leave the pool with a bleeding wound above his eye, a riot almost broke out. The police restored order and the game was called early, with Hungary leading 4–0, and the Hungarians went on to win the gold medal. In a much publicized Olympic romance, American hammer throw champion Hal Connolly would marry Czechoslovak discus throw champion, Olga Fikotová. After moving to the United States, Olga wanted to continue representing Czechoslovakia, but the Czechoslovak Olympic Committee would not allow her to do so.The Olympians: Olga Fikotová, Czechoslovakia http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/a194b7a2-adfc-11e1-bb8e-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1xSehPdIH https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210221241/https://www.ft.com/content/a194b7a2-adfc-11e1-bb8e-00144feabdc0#axzz1xSehPdIH 10 December 2022 subscription live Financial Times Magazine 9 June 2012 Duguid, Sarah 6 February 2018 Thereafter, as Olga Connolly, she took part in every Olympics until 1972 competing for the U.S.https://web.archive.org/web/20200417182113/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mc/pat-mccormick-1.html Pat McCormick 2020-04-17 https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mc/pat-mccormick-1.html dead She was the flag bearer for the U.S. team at the 1972 Summer Olympics. The India men's national field hockey team won its sixth consecutive Olympic gold. Despite the international tensions of 1956—or perhaps because of them—a young Melburnian, John Ian Wing, came up with a new idea for the closing ceremony. Instead of marching as separate teams, behind their national flags, the athletes mingled together as they paraded into and around the arena for a final appearance before the spectators. It was the start of an Olympic tradition that has been followed ever since.Text of John Ian Wing's letter, page found 28 June 2011. Olympic torch relay thumb|Torch relay monument, Cairns The Olympic flame was relayed to Melbourne after being lit at Olympia on 2 November 1956. Greek runners took the flame from Olympia to Athens. The flame was then transferred to a miner's lamp, flown by a Qantas Super Constellation aircraft, "Southern Horizon" to Darwin, Northern Territory. A Royal Australian Air Force English Electric Canberra jet bomber transported the flame to Cairns, Queensland, where it arrived on 9 November 1956 and the mayor of Cairns, Alderman W.J. Fulton, lit the first torch with the torch design was identical to the one used for the 1948 London Games (except for the engraved city name and year). The first runner was Con Verevis, a local man of Greek parentage. The flame was relayed down the east coast of Australia using die cast aluminium torches weighing about 3 pounds (1.8 kg). The flame arrived in Melbourne on 22 November 1956, the day of the opening ceremony and The flame was lit at the Olympic stadium by Ron Clarke, who accidentally burned his arm in the process. While the Olympic flame was being carried to Sydney, an Australian veterinary student named Barry Larkin carried a fake Olympic Flame and fooled the mayor of Sydney.Turpin Adrian http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20040808/ai_n12758702 Olympics Special: The Lost Olympians (Page 1) The Independent 8 August 2004 6 April 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080413034334/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20040808/ai_n12758702 13 April 2008 usurped Olympic Arts Festival The Melbourne Olympic Arts Festival was an arts festival held in conjunction with the Olympics.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article84387040 Museum gets Games "lift" The Argus (Melbourne) Victoria, Australia 18 September 1956 13 November 2023 3 National Library of Australiahttp://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71765596 The big Games chief on way The Argus (Melbourne) Victoria, Australia 14 November 1956 13 November 2023 3 National Library of Australia Television The Olympics were first televised during the 1936 games to a domestic audience in Berlin. The 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo were broadcast internationally with the organising committee giving the television rights gratis.Olympic Broadcasting Through The Years (2008 - 1924) https://www.obs.tv/assets/OlympicBroadcastingHistoryV3.pdf Olympic Broadcasting Services 31 January 2022 While there was much interest in the games overseas, no international television or newsreel rights were awarded, as the Melbourne organising committee requested licensing payments for the broadcasting rights. However, domestic rights to the games were hastily agreed by the then three Melbourne stations, GTV9, HSV7 and ABV2, only a week before the opening ceremony.Goldblatt David The games : a global history of the Olympics 2018 978-1447298878 Chapter 9 PaperbackBayley Andrew Thursday 22 November 1956 — MELBOURNE https://televisionau.com/classic-tv-guides/tv221156 Television.AU 24 January 2022 en-AU 24 February 2014 The three Sydney stations, TCN9, ATN7 and ABN2, syndicated the Melbourne coverage. Television in Australia was new, having its beginnings in September 1956. For many Australians, their first glimpse of television were Olympic broadcasts.Wildman Kim Hogue Derry 2015 First Among Equals: Australian Prime Ministers from Barton to Turnbull Wollombi, NSW Exisle Publishing 87 978-1-77559-266-2 Around five thousand television sets were in Australia by the time of the Games, so the domestic audience largely watched the games at community halls and at Ampol petrol stations. Sports 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).IOC site for the 1956 Olympic Games In the list below, the number of events in each discipline is noted in parentheses. 17em Aquatics Diving 4 d Swimming 13 d Water polo 1 d Athletics 33 d Basketball 1 d Boxing 10 d Canoeing 9 d Cycling d Road (2) Track (4) Equestrian d Dressage (2) Eventing (2) Show jumping (2) Fencing 7 d Field hockey 1 d Association football 1 d Gymnastics 15 d Modern pentathlon 2 d Rowing 7 d Sailing 5 d Shooting 7 d Weightlifting 7 d Wrestling d Freestyle (8) Greco-Roman (8) Demonstration sports Australian football 1 d Baseball 1 d Venues thumb|right|The heritage registered former Olympic Pool (now the Holden Centre), viewed from the Yarra River Venues of the 1956 Summer Olympics Ballarat Lake Wendouree – Canoeing, Rowing Melbourne Broadmeadows – Cycling (road) Hockey Field – Field hockey Melbourne Cricket Ground – Athletics, Field hockey (final), Football (final) Oaklands Hunt Club – Modern pentathlon (riding, running) Olympic Park Stadium – Football Port Phillip Bay – Sailing Royal Australian Air Force, Laverton Air Base – Shooting (shotgun) Royal Exhibition Building – Basketball (final), Modern pentathlon (fencing), Weightlifting, Wrestling St Kilda Town Hall – Fencing Swimming/Diving Stadium (Olympic Pool) – Diving, Modern pentathlon (swimming), Swimming, Water polo Velodrome – Cycling (track) West Melbourne Stadium – Basketball, Boxing, Gymnastics Williamstown – Modern pentathlon (shooting), Shooting (pistol, rifle) Stockholm Lill-Jansskogen – Equestrian (eventing) Olympic Stadium – Equestrian (dressage, eventing, jumping) Ulriksdal – Equestrian (eventing) Participating National Olympic Committees thumb|Participating countries, those making their début are shown in blue. Teal shows countries competed in equestrian events but did not participate in Melbourne. thumb|Number of athletes per country A total of 67 nations competed in the 1956 Olympics. Eight countries made their Olympic debuts: Cambodia (only competed in the equestrian events in Stockholm), Ethiopia, Fiji, Kenya, Liberia, Malaya, North Borneo (modern-day Sabah of Malaysia), and Uganda. Athletes from East Germany and West Germany competed together as the United Team of Germany, an arrangement that would last until 1968. For the first time, the team of Republic of China effectively represented only Taiwan. Five nations competed in the equestrian events in Stockholm, but did not attend the Games in Melbourne. Cambodia, Egypt and Lebanon did not compete in Melbourne due to a boycott regarding the Suez Crisis, whilst the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland all boycotted the Melbourne Olympics in protest at the Soviet invasion of Hungary.https://www.olympic.org/melbourne-stockholm-1956 Melbourne – Stockholm 1956: (ALL FACTS) 24 April 2018 IOC 1 October 2018 Nations that returned to the games in this edition included Afghanistan and Colombia. Nations that participated in the previous games in Helsinki 1952 but were absent in Melbourne 1956 included the People's Republic of China, Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana), Guatemala, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Netherlands Antilles, Panama, and Saar. Saar joined West Germany in 1957. Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory and commonwealth of the United States. Bahamas, Bermuda, Fiji, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Kenya, Nigeria, Malaya, North Borneo, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda and British Guyana was all part of the British Empire. Participating National Olympic Committees22em AFG 1956 Summer 12 athletes ARG 1956 Summer 28 AUS 1956 Summer 294 (host) AUT 1956 Summer 29 BAH 1956 Summer 4 BEL 1956 Summer 51 BER 1956 Summer 3 BRA 1956 Summer 44 BUL 1956 Summer 43 BIR 1956 Summer 11 CAN 1956 Summer 92 CEY 1956 Summer 3 CHI 1956 Summer 33 COL 1956 Summer 26 CUB 1956 Summer 16 TCH 1956 Summer 63 DEN 1956 Summer 31 ETH 1956 Summer 12 FIJ 1956 Summer 5 FIN 1956 Summer 71 FRA 1956 Summer 137 EUA 1956 Summer 158 GBR 1956 Summer 189 GRE 1956 Summer 13 GUY 1956 Summer 4 HKG 1956 Summer 2 HUN 1956 Summer 108 ISL 1956 Summer 2 IND 1956 Summer 59 INA 1956 Summer 22 IRI 1956 Summer 17 IRL 1956 Summer 18 ISR 1956 Summer 3 ITA 1956 Summer 129 JAM 1956 Summer 6 JPN 1956 Summer 110 KEN 1956 Summer 25 LBR 1956 Summer 4 LUX 1956 Summer 11 MAL 1956 Summer 32 MEX 1956 Summer 24 NZL 1956 Summer 53 NGR 1956 Summer 10 NBO 1956 Summer 2 NOR 1956 Summer 22 PAK 1956 Summer 55 PER 1956 Summer 8 PHI 1956 Summer 39 POL 1956 Summer 64 POR 1956 Summer 11 PUR 1956 Summer 10 ROU 1956 Summer 44 SIN 1956 Summer 52 RSA 1956 Summer 50 KOR 1956 Summer 35 URS 1956 Summer 272 SWE 1956 Summer 88 ROC 1956 Summer 13 Taiwan THA 1956 Summer 38 TRI 1956 Summer 6 TUR 1956 Summer 19 UGA 1956 Summer 3 USA 1956 Summer 297 URU 1956 Summer 21 VEN 1956 Summer 19 VIE 1956 Summer 6 YUG 1956 Summer 35NOCs that participated in the equestrian events in Stockholm, but did not attend the Games in Melbourne:17em CAM 1956 Summer 2 EGY 1956 Summer 3 NED 1956 Summer 1 ESP 1956 Summer 6 SUI 1956 Summer 9 Number of athletes by National Olympic Committees IOC Letter Code Country Athletes AFG AFG 1956 Summer 12 ARG ARG 1956 Summer 28 AUS AUS 1956 Summer 294 AUT AUT 1956 Summer 29 BAH BAH 1956 Summer 4 BEL BEL 1956 Summer 54 BER BER 1956 Summer 3 BRA BRA 1956 Summer 44 BUL BUL 1956 Summer 43 BIR BIR 1956 Summer 11 CAM CAM 1956 Summer 2 CAN CAN 1956 Summer 92 CEY CEY 1956 Summer 3 CHI CHI 1956 Summer 33 COL COL 1956 Summer 26 CUB CUB 1956 Summer 16 TCH TCH 1956 Summer 63 DEN DEN 1956 Summer 31 EGY EGY 1956 Summer 3 ETH ETH 1956 Summer 12 FIJ FIJ 1956 Summer 4 FIN FIN 1956 Summer 64 FRA FRA 1956 Summer 137 EUA EUA 1956 Summer 158 GRB GBR 1956 Summer 189 GRE GRE 1956 Summer 13 GUY GUY 1956 Summer 4 HKG HKG 1956 Summer 2 HUN HUN 1956 Summer 108 ISL ISL 1956 Summer 2 IND IND 1956 Summer 59 INA INA 1956 Summer 30 IRN IRI 1956 Summer 17 IRL IRL 1956 Summer 12 ISR ISR 1956 Summer 3 ITA ITA 1956 Summer 129 JAM JAM 1956 Summer 10 JPN JPN 1956 Summer 110 KEN KEN 1956 Summer 25 LBR LBR 1956 Summer 4 LUX LUX 1956 Summer 11 MAL MAL 1956 Summer 32 MEX MEX 1956 Summer 24 NED NED 1956 Summer 1 NZL NZL 1956 Summer 53 NGR NGR 1956 Summer 10 NBO NBO 1956 Summer 2 NOR NOR 1956 Summer 22 PAK PAK 1956 Summer 55 PER PER 1956 Summer 8 PHI PHI 1956 Summer 39 POL POL 1956 Summer 64 POR POR 1956 Summer 11 PUR PUR 1956 Summer 10 ROM ROU 1956 Summer 44 SIN SIN 1956 Summer 52 ZAF RSA 1956 Summer 50 KOR KOR 1956 Summer 35 URS URS 1956 Summer 272 SPA ESP 1956 Summer 6 SWE SWE 1956 Summer 88 SUI SUI 1956 Summer 9 RCF ROC 1956 Summer Republic of China, Formosa 21 THA THA 1956 Summer 35 TRI TRI 1956 Summer 6 TUR TUR 1956 Summer 19 UGA UGA 1956 Summer 3 USA USA 1956 Summer 297 URU URU 1956 Summer 21 VEN VEN 1956 Summer 22 VNM VIE 1956 Summer 6 JUG YUG 1956 Summer 35 Total 3,325 Medal count 1956 Summer Olympics medal table List of 1956 Summer Olympics medal winners These are the top ten nations that won medals at the 1956 Games. flagIOC 1956 Summer 37 29 32 32 25 17 13 8 14 yes 9 10 7 8 8 9 8 5 6 6 13 7 6 7 11 5 3 5 4 10 5 Key #ccccff  *  darkgray Host nation (Australia). John Ian Wing of Australia was also presented with a bronze medal, not included in the above table, for suggesting the closing ceremony have athletes as one nation.https://www.npr.org/sections/tokyo-olympics-live-updates/2021/08/08/1025404479/why-olympic-athletes-dont-march-behind-their-own-flag-at-the-closing-ceremony Why the Olympic Athletes Don't March Behind Their Own Flag at the Closing Ceremony NPR 8 August 2021 Chappell Bill See also 1956 Summer Olympics 2005 Summer Deaflympics 2006 Commonwealth Games Notes References 30em External links EDA5BvvtDsM Melbourne 1956 Olympic Games - Official Olympic Film 1956 Summer Olympics soly Helsinki XVI OlympiadMelbourne/Stockholm 1956 Rome Olympics Australia Sports 1950s Category:International sports competitions in Melbourne Category:Sports competitions in Stockholm Category:Summer Olympics by year Olympics Games Olympic Games Olympic Games Category:International sports boycotts Summer Olympics Summer Olympics Category:December 1956 sports events in Australia Category:1950s in sport in Melbourne Category:1950s in Stockholm