List of 1956 Winter Olympics medal winners explained

The 1956 Winter Olympics, officially known by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the VII Olympic Winter Games, were a winter 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 in these Games in 24 events across 8 disciplines.[1] The Olympic program was similar to four years prior, with two new cross-country events added to the competition. Both men and women competed at these Games, though women only contested events in alpine skiing, figure skating, and cross-country skiing. The Soviet Union attempted to secure the inclusion of a women's speed skating event, but this was rejected by the IOC at its 49th session in Athens in 1954.[2] Women would compete in speed skating four years later at the 1960 Squaw Valley Olympics.[3]

A total of 131 athletes won medals in Cortina d'Ampezzo.[4] In their Winter Olympic debut, athletes from the Soviet Union won sixteen medals, seven of which were gold. Both medal totals were the most of any NOC at the Games. Two of these seven medals were earned in a single event, the 1500 meters speed skating competition, when two Soviet skaters tied for first place in a world record time.[5] Athletes from Austria and Sweden won the second and third most medals, with 11 and 10 respectively. Of the 32 NOCs that competed in Cortina d'Ampezzo, 13 won at least one medal. Host nation Italy won three medals, all in bobsleigh.[6]

Cross-country skier Sixten Jernberg of Sweden won four medals, and Austrian Toni Sailer won three gold medals in alpine skiing, both of which were the most of any athlete in Cortina d'Ampezzo. Tenley Albright improved on her silver medal from four years prior in Oslo to win the gold medal in ladies figure skating.[7] The Soviet Union won six medals—exactly half of the medals awarded—in speed skating, with two each being won by Yevgeny Grishin and Oleg Goncharenko. Grishin would repeat his performance with golds in the same two events four years later in Squaw Valley.[8]

Alpine skiing

See also: Alpine skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics.

Bobsleigh

See also: Bobsleigh at the 1956 Winter Olympics.

Men's two-man
[15]
Italy I
Lamberto Dalla Costa
Giacomo Conti
Italy II
Eugenio Monti
Renzo Alverà		[16]
Switzerland I
Max Angst
Harry Warburton
Men's four-man

Switzerland I
Franz Kapus
Gottfried Diener
Robert Alt
Heinrich Angst
Italy II
Eugenio Monti
Ulrico Girardi
Renzo Alverà
Renato Mocellini		[17]
USA I
Arthur Tyler
William Dodge
Charles Butler
James Lamy

Cross-country skiing

See also: Cross-country skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics.

Men's 15 km[18]
Men's 30 km[19]
Men's 50 km[20]
Men's 4×10 km
[21]
Fyodor Terentyev
Pavel Kolchin
Nikolay Anikin
Vladimir Kuzin		[22]
August Kiuru
Jorma Kortelainen
Arvo Viitanen
Veikko Hakulinen		[23]
Lennart Larsson
Gunnar Samuelsson
Per-Erik Larsson
Sixten Jernberg
Women's 10 km[24]
Women's 3×5 km

Sirkka Polkunen
Mirja Hietamies
Siiri Rantanen
Lyubov Kozyreva
Alevtina Kolchina
Radya Yeroshina
Irma Johansson
Anna-Lisa Eriksson
Sonja Edström

Figure skating

See also: Figure skating at the 1956 Winter Olympics.

Ice hockey

See also: Ice hockey at the 1956 Winter Olympics.

Men's team
[30]
Yevgeny Babich
Vsevolod Bobrov
Alexei Guryshev
Nikolay Khlystov
Valentin Kuzin
Yuri Krylov
Alfred Kuchevsky
Grigory Mkrtychan
Viktor Nikiforov
Yuri Pantyukhov
Nikolaï Puchkov
Viktor Shuvalov
Genrikh Sidorenkov
Nikolai Sologubov
Ivan Tregubov
Dmitry Ukolov
Aleksandr Uvarov		[31]
Wendell Anderson
Wellington Burtnett
Eugene Campbell
Gordon Christian
Bill Cleary
Richard Dougherty
Willard Ikola
John Matchefts
John Mayasich
Daniel McKinnon
Richard Meredith
Weldon Olson
John Petroske
Kenneth Purpur
Don Rigazio
Richard Rodenheiser
Ed Sampson		[32]
Denis Brodeur
Charles Brooker
William Colvin
Alfred Horne
Art Hurst
Byrle Klinck
Paul Knox
Ken Laufman
Howard Lee
James Logan
Floyd Martin
Jack McKenzie
Donald Rope
George Scholes
Gerry Theberge
Robert White
Keith Woodall

Nordic combined

See also: Nordic combined at the 1956 Winter Olympics.

Men's individual[33]

Ski jumping

See also: Ski jumping at the 1956 Winter Olympics.

Men's individual[34]

Multiple medalists

Athletes who won multiple medals during the 1956 Winter Olympics are listed below.

AthleteNationSportGoldSilverBronzeTotal
Cross-country skiing1214
Alpine skiing3003
Cross-country skiing1203
Cross-country skiing103
Speed skating2002
Cross-country skiing1102
Speed skating1102
Cross-country skiing1012
Bobsleigh0202
Bobsleigh0202
Cross-country skiing0202
Alpine skiing0112
Cross-country skiing0022
Speed skating0022

Note

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 Winter Olympics . International Olympic Committee . 2 September 2010 . live . https://archive.today/20100212021029/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/Olympic-Games/All-Past-Olympic-Games/Winter/Cortina-dAmpezzo-1956/ . 12 February 2010 .
  2. Book: Historical Dictionary of the Modern Olympic Movement. Findling. John E.. Pelle. Kimberly D.. Greenwood Publishing Group. Westport, USA. 1996. registration. 1956 winter olympics.. 0-313-28477-6. 259.
  3. Speed Skating at the 1960 Squaw Valley Winter Games. 1 October 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100206045616/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1960/SSK/. 6 February 2010.
  4. 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games. 9 August 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100921012743/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1956/. 21 September 2010.
  5. Speed Skating at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games: Men's 1,500 metres. 1 October 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20091015092710/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1956/SSK/mens-1500-metres.html. 15 October 2009.
  6. Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano: pp. 632–635, 689.
  7. Tenley Albright Biography and Olympic Results. 1 October 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110420163849/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/al/tenley-albright-1.html. 20 April 2011.
  8. Yevgeny Grishin Biography and Olympic Results. 1 October 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110823202931/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gr/yevgeny-grishin-2.html. 23 August 2011.
  9. Alpine Skiing at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games: Men's Downhill. 30 December 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20101210034343/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1956/ASK/mens-downhill.html. 10 December 2010.
  10. Alpine Skiing at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games: Men's Giant Slalom. 30 December 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20101210034434/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1956/ASK/mens-giant-slalom.html. 10 December 2010.
  11. Alpine Skiing at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games: Men's Slalom. 30 December 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110411031834/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1956/ASK/mens-slalom.html. 11 April 2011.
  12. Alpine Skiing at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games: Women's Downhill. 30 December 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110825035104/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1956/ASK/womens-downhill.html. 25 August 2011.
  13. Alpine Skiing at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games: Women's Giant Slalom. 30 December 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110129070619/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1956/ASK/womens-giant-slalom.html. 29 January 2011.
  14. Alpine Skiing at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games: Women's Slalom. 30 December 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110107103608/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1956/ASK/womens-slalom.html. 7 January 2011.
  15. Italy Bobsleigh at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games. 29 December 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20121104114821/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/ITA/winter/1956/BOB/. 4 November 2012.
  16. Switzerland Bobsleigh at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games. 29 December 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20121104114836/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/SUI/winter/1956/BOB/. 4 November 2012.
  17. United States Bobsleigh at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games. 29 December 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110918192926/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/USA/winter/1956/BOB/. 18 September 2011.
  18. Cross Country Skiing at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games: Men's 15 kilometres. 30 December 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110812095404/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1956/CCS/mens-15-kilometres.html. 12 August 2011.
  19. Cross Country Skiing at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games: Men's 30 kilometres. 30 December 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110812095337/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1956/CCS/mens-30-kilometres.html. 12 August 2011.
  20. Cross Country Skiing at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games: Men's 50 kilometres. 30 December 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110812095609/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1956/CCS/mens-50-kilometres.html. 12 August 2011.
  21. Soviet Union Cross Country Skiing at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games. 30 December 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120702105011/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/URS/winter/1956/CCS/. 2 July 2012.
  22. Finland Cross Country Skiing at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games. 30 December 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110812095544/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/FIN/winter/1956/CCS/. 12 August 2011.
  23. Sweden Cross Country Skiing at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games. 30 December 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110917154950/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/SWE/winter/1956/CCS/. 17 September 2011.
  24. Cross Country Skiing at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games: Women's 10 kilometres. 30 December 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110120195644/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1956/CCS/womens-10-kilometres.html. 20 January 2011.
  25. Figure Skating at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games: Men's Singles. 30 December 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20101025012537/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1956/FSK/mens-singles.html. 25 October 2010.
  26. Figure Skating at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games: Women's Singles. 30 December 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110919085137/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1956/FSK/womens-singles.html. 19 September 2011.
  27. Austria Figure Skating at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games. 30 December 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110421062501/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/AUT/winter/1956/FSK/. 21 April 2011.
  28. Canada Figure Skating at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games. 30 December 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110421064045/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/CAN/winter/1956/FSK/. 21 April 2011.
  29. Hungary Figure Skating at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games. 30 December 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110421063338/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/HUN/winter/1956/FSK/. 21 April 2011.
  30. Soviet Union Ice Hockey at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games. 29 December 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20101020105624/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/URS/winter/1956/ICH/. 20 October 2010.
  31. United States Ice Hockey at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games. 29 December 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20101020042548/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/USA/winter/1956/ICH/. 20 October 2010.
  32. Canada Ice Hockey at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games. 29 December 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20101020105848/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/CAN/winter/1956/ICH/. 20 October 2010.
  33. Nordic Combined at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games: Men's Individual. 29 December 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20171001032008/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1956/NCO/mens-individual.html . 1 October 2017.
  34. Ski Jumping at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games: Men's Normal Hill, Individual. 29 December 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110107104031/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1956/SKJ/mens-normal-hill-individual.html. 7 January 2011.
  35. Speed Skating at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games: Men's 500 metres. 29 December 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20091015092724/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1956/SSK/mens-500-metres.html. 15 October 2009.
  36. Speed Skating at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games: Men's 5,000 metres. 29 December 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120126140243/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1956/SSK/mens-5000-metres.html. 26 January 2012.
  37. Speed Skating at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games: Men's 10,000 metres. 29 December 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120131095759/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1956/SSK/mens-10000-metres.html. 31 January 2012.
  38. Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano, p. 650.

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