Summer Olympics
Melbourne (AUS) 1956
WOMEN
| SPORT | DISCIPLINA | GOLD | NATION | SILVER | NATION | BRONZE | NATION |
| Athletics | 100 m. | Betty Cuthbert | AUS | Christa Stubnick | D | Marlene Mathews | AUS |
| 200 m. | Betty Cuthbert | AUS | Christa Stubnick | D | Marlene Mathews | AUS | |
| 80 hs | Shirley Strickland de la Hunty | AUS | Gisela Kohler | D | Norma Thrower | AUS | |
| High Jump | Mildred McDaniel | USA | Mariaa Pisareva | URS | Thelma Hopkins | GB | |
| Long Jump | Elzbjeta Krzesinska | PL | Willye White | USA | Nedezhda Dvalishvili | URS | |
| Shot Put | Tamara Tyshkevitch | URS | Galina Zybina | URS | Marianne Werner | D | |
| Discus | Olga Fikotova | CS | Irina Beglyakova | URS | Nina Ponomareva-Romashkova | URS | |
| Lancio del giavellotto | Incze Jaunzeme | URS | Marlene Ahrens | CHI | Nedezhda Konyayeva | URS | |
| 4 x 100 m. | Australia (S. Strickland, N. Crocker, F. Mellor, B. Cuthbert) | AUS | Great Britain | GB | USA | USA | |
| Canoeing | K1 500 m. | Yelizaveta Dementyeva | URS | Therese Zenz | D | Tove Soby | DK |
| Gymnastics | Individuale | Larisa Latynina | URS | Agnes Keleti | H | Sofiya Muratova | URS |
| team | Sovietic Union | URS | Hungary | H | Romania | R | |
| Parallel Bars asimmetriche | Agnes Keleti | H | Larisa Latynina | URS | Sofiya Muratova | URS | |
| Corpo libero | Agnes Keleti, Larisa Latynina | H, URS | Elena Leusteanu | R | |||
| Vault | Larisa Latynina | URS | Tamara Manina | URS | Ann-Sofi Colling-Pettersson, Olga Lemhenyine Tass | s, H | |
| Trave | Agnes Keleti | H | Tamara Manina | URS | Eva Bosakova-Vechtova | CS | |
| Piccolo attrezzo a squadre | Hungary | H | Sweden | S | Sovietic Union, Poland | URS, PL | |
| Swimming | 100 f.s. | Dawn Fraser | AUS | Lorraine Crapp | AUS | Faith Leech | AUS |
| 400 f.s. | Lorraine Crapp | AUS | Dawn Fraser | AUS | Sylvia Ruuska | USA | |
| 100 d. | Judith Grinham | GB | Carin Cone | USA | Margaret Edwards | GB | |
| 100 f. | Shelley Mann | USA | Nancy Ramey | USA | Mary Sears | USA | |
| 200 r. | Ursula Happe | D | Eva Szekely | H | Eva-Maria Ten-Elsen | D | |
| 4 x 100 f.s. | Australia (D. Fraser, F. Leech, S. Morgan, L. Crapp) | AUS | USA | USA | South Africa | ZA | |
| Fencing | Foil individuale | Gillian Sheen | GB | Olga Orban | R | Rende Garilhe | F |
| Diving | Trampolino | Pat McCormick | USA | Jeanne Stunyo | USA | Irene Mac Donald | CDN |
| Piattaforma | Pat McCormick | USA | Juno Strover-Irwin | USA | Paula Jean Myers | USA |