1956 Winter Olympics medal table

List of medals won by Olympic delegations at the VII Olympic Winter Games July 2024 1956 Winter Olympics medals Toni Sailer 1956.jpg Toni Sailer of Austria won the most gold medals at the 1956 Winter Olympics, winning all three gold medals in men's alpine skiing A man skiing Cortina d'Ampezzo, ITA 1956 Winter Most total medals URS 1956 Winter 16 Most gold medals URS 1956 Winter 7 Medalling NOCs 13 1952 Olympics medal tables 1960 thumb|upright=1.5|alt=Map displaying countries that won medals during 1956 Winter Olympics|World map showing the medal achievements of each country during the 1956 Winter Olympics Legend: #FFC500 represents countries that won at least one gold medal. silver represents countries that won at least one silver medal but no gold medals. #CC9966 represents countries that won at least one bronze medal but no gold or silver medals. #D40000 represents countries that did not win any medals. #ECECEC represents entities that did not participate in the 1956 Winter Olympics. The 1956 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VII Olympic Winter Games, was an international multi-sport event held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, from 26 January to 5 February 1956. A total of 821 athletes representing 32 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated. The games featured 24 events in 4 sports across 8 disciplines.https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/Olympic-Games/Factsheets/The-Olympic-Winter-Games.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20221130171949/https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/Olympic-Games/Factsheets/The-Olympic-Winter-Games.pdf 30 November 2022 14 October 2021 2 Factsheet: The Winter Olympic Games International Olympic Committee 22 July 2024 livehttps://www.olympics.com/en/olympic-games/cortina-d-ampezzo-1956 https://web.archive.org/web/20240726203236/https://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/cortina-d-ampezzo-1956 26 July 2024 29 July 2024 Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 Winter Olympics – Athletes, Medals & Results International Olympic Committee live Overall, athletes from 13 nations received at least one medal, and 9 of them won at least one gold medal.https://www.olympedia.org/editions/35 https://web.archive.org/web/20240715232550/https://www.olympedia.org/editions/35/ 15 July 2024 23 July 2024 1956 Winter Olympics Overview Olympedia live At their first Winter Olympics, athletes from the Soviet Union won the most gold medals, with 7, and the most overall medals, with 16. Athletes from Austria came second in the medal table with 4 gold medals and 11 medals overall, while athletes from Finland came third with 3 gold medals and 7 medals overall.https://www.cbc.ca/sports/2.722/1956-cortina-d-ampezzo-italy-1.864041 https://web.archive.org/web/20220809045338/https://www.cbc.ca/sports/2.722/1956-cortina-d-ampezzo-italy-1.864041 9 August 2022 1 December 2009 CBC Sports 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy live Teams from Polandhttps://olimpijski.pl/olimpijczycy/franciszek-gasienica-gron/ https://web.archive.org/web/20240722153631/https://olimpijski.pl/olimpijczycy/franciszek-gasienica-gron/ 22 July 2024 Franciszek Gasienica-Groń (1931–2014) Polish Olympic Committee 24 June 2020 22 July 2024 live and Japan won their nations' first Winter Olympic medals.https://www.proquest.com/docview/1994039076 https://web.archive.org/web/20240722170014/https://www.proquest.com/docview/1994039076 22 July 2024 Record medal haul in reach for Japan The Japan News 1994039076 6 February 2018 22 July 2024 Alpine skier Toni Sailer of Austria won the most gold medals for an individual at the Games. He won the three gold medals available in the men's alpine skiing events and became the first person to do so.https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-toni-sailer26-2009aug26-story.html https://web.archive.org/web/20230827235920/https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-toni-sailer26-2009aug26-story.html 27 August 2023 26 August 2009 23 July 2024 Toni Sailer dies at 73; Austrian skier won all 3 Alpine golds at '56 Olympics Los Angeles Times Cross-country skier Sixten Jernberg of Sweden won the most overall medals for an individual at the Games, winning four medals with one gold, two silvers, and one bronze.https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/87535 https://web.archive.org/web/20240429071026/https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/87535 29 April 2024 Sixten Jernberg Biographical information Olympedia 29 July 2024 live Medal table The medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC conventional sorting in its published medal tables. The table uses the Olympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals.Townsend Mark US finds its own way to top the medal table at Tokyo Olympics https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/aug/07/us-finds-its-own-way-to-top-the-medal-table-at-tokyo-olympics The Observer The Guardian 10 July 2024 7 August 2021 17 July 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240717122912/https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/aug/07/us-finds-its-own-way-to-top-the-medal-table-at-tokyo-olympics live How does the Olympic medal table work? https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-sports/athletics/how-olympic-medal-table-work-8647081 Daily Mirror 18 August 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20240710191151/https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-sports/athletics/how-olympic-medal-table-work-8647081 10 July 2024 live Flanagan Aaron 10 July 2024 en In speed skating, two gold medals (and no silver) were awarded to Yevgeny Grishin and Yuri Mikhaylov for a first-place tie in the men's 1500 metres event.https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/02/what-happens-when-olympians-tie-medal/357987/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230601191601/https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/02/what-happens-when-olympians-tie-medal/357987/ 1 June 2023 12 February 2014 23 July 2024 What Happens When Olympians Tie for a Medal? Ohlheiser Abby The Atlantic limited live 1956 Winter Olympics medal tableCortina d'Ampezzo 1956 Olympic Medal Table – Gold, Silver & Bronze https://www.olympics.com/en/olympic-games/cortina-d-ampezzo-1956/medals https://web.archive.org/web/20240703201500/https://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/cortina-d-ampezzo-1956/medals 3 July 2024 International Olympic Committee 22 July 2024 ITA flagIOC 1956 Winter A unified team comprising East Germany and West Germany competed from the 1956 Winter Olympics to the 1964 Winter Olympics. This decision was made because of the splitting of Germany after World War II and a condition that the National Olympic Committee of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) would be recognized if both nations agreed to compete under the same team.https://www.olympedia.org/countries/GER https://web.archive.org/web/20240429041245/https://www.olympedia.org/countries/GER Germany Overview 29 April 2024 22 July 2024 Olympedia https://www.jstor.org/stable/40542796 'The Continuation of Politics by Other Means': Britain, the Two Germanys and the Olympic Games, 1949–1972 Hughes R. Gerald Owens Rachel 18 4 443 Contemporary European History November 2009 10.1017/S0960777309990099 40542796 22 July 2024 subscription 7 3 6 4 3 4 3 3 1 3 2 1 2 4 4 2 3 2 2 1 1 1 2 0 yes 1 0 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 Notes References Medal table 1956