Summer Olympics
Melbourne (AUS) 1956
MEN
| SPORT | DISCIPLINA | GOLD | NATION | SILVER | NATION | BRONZE | NATION |
| Athletics | 100 m. | Bobby Joe Morrow | USA | Thane Baker | USA | Hector Hogan | AUS |
| 200 m. | Bobby Joe Morrow | USA | Andrew Stanfield | USA | Thane Baker | USA | |
| 400 m. | Charles Jenkins | USA | Karl-Friederich Haas | D | Voitto Hellsten, Ardalin Ignatyev | SF, URS | |
| 800 m. | Thomas Courtney | USA | Derek Johnson | GB | Audun Boysen | N | |
| 1.500 m. | Ron Delany | IRL | Klaus Richtzenhaim | D | John Landy | AUS | |
| 5.000 m. | Vladimir Kuts | URS | Gordon Pirie | GB | Derek Ibbotson | GB | |
| 10.000 m. | Vladimir Kuts | URS | Jozsef Kovacs | H | Allan Lawrence | AUS | |
| Marathon | Alain Mimoun | F | Franjo Mihalic | YU | Veikko Karvonen | SF | |
| 110 hs | Lee Calhoun | USA | Jack Davis | USA | Joel Shankle | USA | |
| 400 hs | Glenn Davies | USA | Eddie Southern | USA | Josh Culbreath | USA | |
| 3000 siepi | Christopher Brasher | GB | Sandor Rozsnyoi | H | Ernst Larsen | N | |
| 20 km. marcia | Leonid Spirin | URS | Antanas Mikenas | URS | Bruno Junk | URS | |
| 50 km. marcia | Norman Read | NZ | Yeugeny Maskinkov | URS | John Ljunggren | S | |
| High Jump | Charles Dumas | USA | Charles Porter | AUS | Igor Kashkarov | URS | |
| Pole Vault | Robert Richards | USA | Robert Gutowski | USA | Georgios Roubanis | GR | |
| Long Jump | Gregory Bell | USA | John Bennett | USA | Jorma Valkama | SF | |
| Triple Jump | Ademar Ferreira da Silva | BR | Vilhjalmur Einarsson | ISL | Vitold Kreyer | URS | |
| Shot Put | Parry O'Brien | USA | William Nieder | USA | Jiki Skobla | CS | |
| Discus | Al Oerter | USA | Fortune Gordien | USA | Desmond Koch | USA | |
| Lancio del martello | Harold Connolly | USA | Mikhail Krivonosov | URS | Anatoly Samotsvetov | URS | |
| Lancio del giavellotto | Egil Danielsen | N | Janusz Sidlo | PL | Viktor Tsybulenko | URS | |
| Decathlon | Milton Campbell | USA | Rafer Johnson | USA | Vasily Kuznetsov | URS | |
| 4 x 100 m. | USA (I. Murchison, L. King, T. Baker, B.J. Morrow) | USA | Sovietic Union | URS | Germany | D | |
| 4 x 400 m. | USA | USA | Australia | AUS | Great Britain | GB | |
| Soccer | Sovietic Union | URS | Yugoslavie | YU | Bulgaria | BG | |
| Canoeing | C1 1.000 m. | Leon Rotman | R | Istvan Hernek | H | Gennady Bukharin | URS |
| C1 10.000 m. | Leon Rotman | R | Janos Parti | H | Gennady Bukharin | URS | |
| C2 1.000 m. | Romania | R | Sovietic Union | URS | Hungary | H | |
| C2 10.000 m. | Sovietic Union | URS | France | F | Hungary | H | |
| K1 1.000 m. | Gert Frederiksson | S | Igor Pisarev | URS | Lajos Kiss | H | |
| K1 10.000 m. | Gert Frederiksson | S | Ferenc Hataczky | H | Michael Scheuer | D | |
| K2 1.000 m. | Germany | D | Sovietic Union | URS | Austria | A | |
| K2 10.000 m. | Hungary | H | Germany | D | Australia | AUS | |
| Rowing | Single Sculls | Vyaceslav Ivanov | URS | Stuart Mac Kenzie | AUS | John Kelly jr | USA |
| 2 di coppia | Sovietic Union | URS | USA | USA | Australia | AUS | |
| Coxed Pairs | USA | USA | Germany | D | Sovietic Union | URS | |
| 2 senza | USA | USA | Sovietic Union | URS | Austria | A | |
| Coxed Fours | Italy (A. Winkler, R. Sgheiz, A. Vanzin, F. Trincavelli, I. Stefanoni) | I | Sweden | S | Finland | SF | |
| 4 senza | Canada | CDN | USA | USA | France | F | |
| 8 | USA | USA | Canada | CDN | Australia | AUS | |
| Cycling | Km. da fermo | Leandro Faggin | I | Ladislav Foucek | CS | Alfred Swift | ZA |
| Velocità | Michel Rousseau | F | Guglielmo Pesenti | I | Rochard Ploog | AUS | |
| Inseguimento a squadre | Italy (L. Faggin, V. Gasparella, A. Domenicali, F. Gandini) | I | France | F | Great Britain | GB | |
| Road race | Ercole Baldini | I | Arnaud Geyre | F | Alan Jackson | GB | |
| team | France | F | Great Britain | GB | Germany | D | |
| Tandem | Australia | AUS | Czechoslovaquie | CS | Italy | I | |
| Equestrian | Completo individuale | Petrus Kastenman | S | August Lutke Westheus | D | Francis Weldon | GB |
| Completo a squadre | Great Britain | GB | Germany | D | Canada | CDN | |
| Dressage individuale | Henry Saint Cyr | S | Lis Hartel | DK | Liselott Linsenhoff | D | |
| Dressage a squadre | Sweden | S | Germany | D | Switzerland | CH | |
| Show Jumping | Hans Gunther Winkler | D | Raimondo D'Inzeo | I | Piero D'Inzeo | I | |
| Ostacoli a squadre | Germany | D | Italy | I | Great Britain | GB | |
| Gymnastics | Individuale | Viktor Chukarin | URS | Takashi Ono | J | Yury Titov | URS |
| team | Sovietic Union | URS | Japan | J | Finland | SF | |
| Parallel Bars | Viktor Chukarin | URS | Masami Kubota | J | Takashi Ono, Masao Takemoto | J, J | |
| Corpo libero | Valentin Muratov | URS | Nobuyuki Aihara, Viktor Chukarin, William Thoresson | J, URS, S | |||
| Vault | Helmut Bantz | D | Valentin Muratov | URS | Yury Titov | URS | |
| Pommel Horse | Boris Shakhlin | URS | Takashi Ono | J | Viktor Chukarin | URS | |
| Horizontal Bar | Takashi Ono | J | Yury Titov | URS | Masamik Kubota, Masao Takemoto | J, J | |
| Rings | Albert Azaryan | URS | Valentin Muratov | URS | Masamik Kubota, Masao Takemoto | J, J | |
| Hockey | India | IND | Pakistan | PK | Germany | D | |
| Greco Roman Wrestling | 52 kg. | Nikolay Solovyov | URS | Ignazio Fabra | I | Dursun Ali Egribas | TR |
| 57 kg. | Konstantin Vyrupayev | URS | Edvin Vesterby | S | Franciscu Horvat | R | |
| 61 kg. | Rauno Makinen | SF | Imre Polyak | H | Roman Dzeneladze | URS | |
| 67 kg. | Kyosti Lehtonen | SF | Riza Dogan | TR | Gyula Toth | H | |
| 73 kg. | Mithat Bayrak | TR | Valdimit Maneyev | URS | Per Berlin | S | |
| 79 kg. | Givi Kartoziya | URS | Dimitar Dobrev | BG | Rune Jansson | S | |
| 87 kg. | Valentin Nikolayev | URS | Petko Sirakov | BG | Karl-Erik Nilsson | S | |
| oltre 87 kg. | Anatoly Parfenov | URS | Wilfried Dietrich | D | Adelmo Bulgarelli | I | |
| Freestyle Wrestling | 52 kg. | Mirian Tsalkalamanidze | URS | Mohammad Ali Khojastepour | IR | Huseyn Akbas | TR |
| 57 kg. | Mustafa Dagistanli | TR | Mehdi Yaghoubi | IR | Mikhail Shakhov | URS | |
| 63 kg. | Shozo Sasahara | J | Joseph Mewis | B | Erkki Pentilla | SF | |
| 67 kg. | Emamali Habibi | IRN | Shigeru Kasahara | J | Alimberg Bestayev | URS | |
| 73 kg. | Mitsuo Ikeda | J | Ibrahim Zengin | TR | Vakhtang Balavadze | URS | |
| 79 kg. | Nikola Stanchev | BG | Daniel Hodge | USA | Georgy Skhirtladze | URS | |
| 87 kg. | Gholam Reza Takhti | IRN | Boris Kulayev | URS | Peter Blair | USA | |
| oltre 87 kg. | Hamit Kaplan | TR | Yuscin Makhmedov-Alichev | BG | Taisto Kangasniemi | SF | |
| Swimming | 100 f.s. | John Henricks | AUS | John Devitt | AUS | Gary Chapman | AUS |
| 400 f.s. | Murray Rose | AUS | Tsuyoshi Yamanaka | J | George Breen | USA | |
| 1.500 f.s. | Murray Rose | AUS | Tsuyoshi Yamanaka | J | George Breen | USA | |
| 100 d. | David Theile | AUS | John Monckton | AUS | Frank McKinney | USA | |
| 200 f. | William Yorzyk | USA | Takashi Ishimoto | J | Gyorgy Tumpek | H | |
| 200 r. | Masaru Furukawa | J | Masahiro Yoshimura | J | Kharis Yunichev | URS | |
| 4 x 200 f.s. | Australia (K. O'Halloran, J. Devitt, M. Rose, J. Henricks) | AUS | USA | USA | Sovietic Union | URS | |
| Basketball | USA | USA | Sovietic Union | URS | Uruguay | U | |
| Waterpolo | Hungary | H | Yugoslavie | YU | Sovietic Union | URS | |
| Pentathlon | Individuale | Lars Hall | S | Olavi Mannonen | SF | Waino Korhonen | SF |
| team | Sovietic Union | URS | USA | USA | Finland | SF | |
| Boxing | 51 kg. | Terence Spinks | USA | Mircea Dobrescu | R | John Caldwell, Renè Libeer | IRL, F |
| 54 kg. | Wolfgang Behrendt | D | Song Sun-Chun | KRS | Frederick Gilroy, Claudio Barrientos | IRL, CHI | |
| 57 kg. | Vladimirr Safronov | URS | Thomas Nicholls | GB | Henryk Niedzwiedzki, Pentti Hamalainen | PL, SF | |
| 60 kg. | Richard McTaggart | USA | Harry Kurschat | D | Anthony Byrne, Anatoly Lagetko | IRL, URS | |
| 64 kg. | Vladimir Yengibarayan | URS | Franco Nenci | I | Henry Loubscher, Constantin Dumitrescu | ZA, R | |
| 67 kg. | Nicolae Linca | R | Frederick Tiedt | IRL | Kevin Hogart, Nicholas Gargano | AUS, GB | |
| 71 kg. | Lazlo Papp | H | Josè Torres | USA | John Mc Cormack, Zbigniew Pietrzykowski | GB, PL | |
| 75 kg. | Gennady Shatkov | URS | Ramon Tapia | CHI | Gilbert Chapron, Victor Zalazar | F, RA | |
| 81 kg. | James Boyd | USA | Gheorghe Negrea | R | Romualdas Murauskas, Carlos Lucas | URS, CHI | |
| oltre 81 kg. | Pete Rademacher | USA | Lev Mukhin | URS | Daniel Bekker, Giacomo Bozzano | ZA, I | |
| Fencing | Foil individuale | Christian d'Oriola | F | Giancarlo Bergamini | I | Antonio Spallino | I |
| Foil squadre | Italy (E. Mangiarotti, M. Di Rosa, G. Bergamini, A. Spallino, L. Carpaneda, V. Lucarelli) | I | France | F | Hungary | H | |
| Sabre | Rudolf Karpati | H | Jerzy Pawlowski | PL | Lev Kuznetsov | URS | |
| Sciabola squadre | Hungary | H | Poland | PL | Sovietic Union | URS | |
| Épée individuale | Carlo Pavesi | I | Giuseppe Delfino | I | Edoardo Mangiarotti | I | |
| Épée squadre | Italy (E. Mangiarotti, C. Pavesi, G. Delfino, F. Bertinetti, G. Anglesio) | I | Hungary | H | France | F | |
| Weightlifting | 56 kg. | Charles Vinci | USA | Vladimir Stogov | URS | Mahmoud Namjou | IR |
| 60 kg. | Isaac Berger | USA | Yeugeny Minayev | URS | Marian Zielinski | PL | |
| 67,5 kg. | Igor Rybak, Ravel Khabutdinov | URS, URS | Kim Chang-Hi | KRS | |||
| 75 kg. | Fyodor Bogdanovsky | URS | Peter George, Ermanno Pignatti | USA, I | |||
| 83 kg. | Tommy Kono | USA | Vassili Stepanov | URS | James George | USA | |
| 90 kg. | Arkady Vorobyev | URS | David Sheppard | USA | Jean Debuf | F | |
| oltre 90 kg. | Paul Anderson | USA | Humberto Salvetti | RA | Alberto Pigaiani | I | |
| Shooting | Free Revolver | Stefan Petrescu | R | Yeugeny Cherkasov | URS | Gheorghe Lichiardopol | R |
| Free Pistol | Pentti Linnosvuo | SF | Makhmud Umarov | URS | Offutt Pinion | USA | |
| Carabina 3 posizioni | Anatoly Bogdanov | URS | Otakar Horinek | CS | Johan Sundberg | S | |
| Carabina a terra | Gerald Oulette | CDN | Vasily Borisov | URS | Gilmour Boa | CDN | |
| Carabina libera | Vasily Borisov | URS | Allan Erdman | URS | Vilho Ylonen | SF | |
| Cervo corrente | Vitaly Romanenko | URS | Olof Skoldberg | S | Vladimir Sevyugin | URS | |
| Piattello fossa | Galliano Rossini | I | Adam Smelczywski | PL | Alessandro Ciceri | I | |
| Diving | Trampolino | Robert Clotworthy | USA | Donald Harper | USA | Joaquin Capilla Perez | MEX |
| Piattaforma | Joaquin Capilla Perez | MEX | Gary Tobian | USA | Richard Connor | USA | |
| Yachting | Finn | Paul Elvstrom | DK | Andrè Nelis | B | John Marvin | USA |
| 5,5 | Sweden | S | Great Britain | GB | Australia | AUS | |
| Star | USA | USA | Italy | I | Bahamas | BAH | |
| Sharpie 12 m. | New Zealand | NZ | Australia | AUS | Great Britain | GB | |
| Dragoni | Sweden | S | Denmark | DK | Great Britain | GB |