Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Athletics
at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Host stadium (shown in 2017)
Dates23 November – 1 December
No. of events33
Competitors720 from 61 nations
← 1952
1960 →
Athletics at the
1956 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmen
800 mmen
1500 mmen
5000 mmen
10,000 mmen
80 m hurdleswomen
110 m hurdlesmen
400 m hurdlesmen
3000 m
steeplechase		men
4 × 100 m relaymenwomen
4 × 400 m relaymen
Road events
Marathonmen
20 km walkmen
50 km walkmen
Field events
Long jumpmenwomen
Triple jumpmen
High jumpmenwomen
Pole vaultmen
Shot putmenwomen
Discus throwmenwomen
Javelin throwmenwomen
Hammer throwmen
Combined events
Decathlonmen

At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, 33 athletics events were contested, 24 for men and 9 for women. There were a total number of 720 participating athletes from 61 countries.

Medal summary

Men

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
details 		Bobby Morrow
 United States		 10.5 Thane Baker
 United States		 10.5 Hector Hogan
 Australia		 10.6
200 metres
details 		Bobby Morrow
 United States		 20.6
(OR) 		Andy Stanfield
 United States		 20.7 Thane Baker
 United States		 20.9
400 metres
details 		Charles Jenkins
 United States		 46.7 Karl-Friedrich Haas
 United Team of Germany		 46.8 Voitto Hellsten
 Finland		 47.0
Ardalion Ignatyev
 Soviet Union		 47.0
800 metres
details 		Tom Courtney
 United States		 1:47.7
(OR) 		Derek Johnson
 Great Britain		 1:47.8 Audun Boysen
 Norway		 1:48.1
1500 metres
details 		Ron Delany
 Ireland		 3:41.2
(OR) 		Klaus Richtzenhain
 United Team of Germany		 3:42.0 John Landy
 Australia		 3:42.0
5000 metres
details 		Vladimir Kuts
 Soviet Union		 13:39.6
(OR) 		Gordon Pirie
 Great Britain		 13:50.6 Derek Ibbotson
 Great Britain		 13:54.4
10,000 metres
details 		Vladimir Kuts
 Soviet Union		 28:45.6
(OR) 		József Kovács
 Hungary		 28:52.4 Al Lawrence
 Australia		 28:53.6
110 metres hurdles
details 		Lee Calhoun
 United States		 13.5
(OR) 		Jack Davis
 United States		 13.5
(OR) 		Joel Shankle
 United States		 14.1
400 metres hurdles
details 		Glenn Davis
 United States		 50.1
(=OR) 		Eddie Southern
 United States		 50.8 Josh Culbreath
 United States		 51.6
3000 metres steeplechase
details 		Chris Brasher
 Great Britain		 8:41.2
(OR) 		Sándor Rozsnyói
 Hungary		 8:43.6 Ernst Larsen
 Norway		 8:44.0
4 × 100 metres relay
details 		 United States (USA)
Ira Murchison
Leamon King
Thane Baker
Bobby Morrow		 39.5
(WR) 		 Soviet Union (URS)
Leonid Bartenyev
Boris Tokarev
Yuriy Konovalov
Vladimir Sukharev		 39.8  United Team of Germany (EUA)
Lothar Knörzer
Leonhard Pohl
Heinz Fütterer
Manfred Germar		 40.3
4 × 400 metres relay
details 		 United States (USA)
Lou Jones
Jesse Mashburn
Charles Jenkins
Tom Courtney		 3:04.8  Australia (AUS)
Leon Gregory
David Lean
Graham Gipson
Kevan Gosper		 3:06.2  Great Britain (GBR)
John Salisbury
Michael Wheeler
Peter Higgins
Derek Johnson		 3:07.2
Marathon
details 		Alain Mimoun
 France		 2:25:00 Franjo Mihalić
 Yugoslavia		 2:26:32 Veikko Karvonen
 Finland		 2:27:47
20 kilometres walk
details 		Leonid Spirin
 Soviet Union		 1:31:27.4
(OR) 		Antanas Mikėnas
 Soviet Union		 1:32:03.0 Bruno Junk
 Soviet Union		 1:32:12.0
50 kilometres walk
details 		Norman Read
 New Zealand		 4:30:42.8 Yevgeny Maskinskov
 Soviet Union		 4:32:57.0 John Ljunggren
 Sweden		 4:35:02.0
High jump
details 		Charles Dumas
 United States		 2.12 m
(OR) 		Chilla Porter
 Australia		 2.10 m Igor Kashkarov
 Soviet Union		 2.08 m
Pole vault
details 		Bob Richards
 United States		 4.56 m
(OR) 		Bob Gutowski
 United States		 4.53 m Georgios Roubanis
 Greece		 4.50 m
Long jump
details 		Greg Bell
 United States		 7.83 m
(OR) 		John Bennett
 United States		 7.68 m Jorma Valkama
 Finland		 7.48 m
Triple jump
details 		Adhemar da Silva
 Brazil		 16.35 m
(OR) 		Vilhjálmur Einarsson
 Iceland		 16.26 m Vitold Kreyer
 Soviet Union		 16.02 m
Shot put
details 		Parry O'Brien
 United States		 18.57 m
(OR) 		Bill Nieder
 United States		 18.18 m Jiří Skobla
 Czechoslovakia		 17.65 m
Discus throw
details 		Al Oerter
 United States		 56.36 m
(OR) 		Fortune Gordien
 United States		 54.81 m Des Koch
 United States		 54.40 m
Hammer throw
details 		Hal Connolly
 United States		 63.19 m
(OR) 		Mikhail Krivonosov
 Soviet Union		 63.03 m Anatoliy Samotsvetov
 Soviet Union		 62.56 m
Javelin throw
details 		Egil Danielsen
 Norway		 85.71 m
(WR) 		Janusz Sidło
 Poland		 79.98 m Viktor Tsybulenko
 Soviet Union		 79.50 m
Decathlon
details 		Milt Campbell
 United States		 7937
(OR) 		Rafer Johnson
 United States		 7587 Vasili Kuznetsov
 Soviet Union		 7465

Women

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
details 		Betty Cuthbert
 Australia		 11.5 Christa Stubnick
 United Team of Germany		 11.7 Marlene Mathews
 Australia		 11.7
200 metres
details 		Betty Cuthbert
 Australia		 23.4
(=OR) 		Christa Stubnick
 United Team of Germany		 23.7 Marlene Mathews
 Australia		 23.8
80 metres hurdles
details 		Shirley Strickland de la Hunty
 Australia		 10.7
(OR) 		Gisela Köhler
 United Team of Germany		 10.9 Norma Thrower
 Australia		 11.0
4 × 100 metres relay
details 		 Australia (AUS)
Shirley Strickland de la Hunty
Norma Croker
Fleur Mellor
Betty Cuthbert		 44.5
(WR) 		 Great Britain (GBR)
Anne Pashley
Jean Scrivens
June Paul
Heather Armitage		 44.7  United States (USA)
Mae Faggs
Margaret Matthews
Wilma Rudolph
Isabelle Daniels		 44.9
High jump
details 		Mildred McDaniel
 United States		 1.76 m
(WR) 		Thelma Hopkins
 Great Britain
Mariya Pisareva
 Soviet Union		 1.67 m none awarded
Long jump
details 		Elżbieta Krzesińska
 Poland		 6.35 m
(=WR) 		Willye White
 United States		 6.09 m Nadezhda Dvalishvili
 Soviet Union		 6.07 m
Shot put
details 		Tamara Tyshkevich
 Soviet Union		 16.59 m
(OR) 		Galina Zybina
 Soviet Union		 16.53 m Marianne Werner
 United Team of Germany		 15.61 m
Discus throw
details 		Olga Fikotová
 Czechoslovakia		 53.69 m
(OR) 		Irina Beglyakova
 Soviet Union		 52.54 m Nina Ponomaryova
 Soviet Union		 52.02 m
Javelin throw
details 		Inese Jaunzeme
 Soviet Union		 53.86 m
(OR) 		Marlene Ahrens
 Chile		 50.38 m Nadezhda Konyayeva
 Soviet Union		 50.28 m

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States1610531
2 Soviet Union571022
3 Australia42612
4 Great Britain1427
5 Poland1102
6 Norway1023
7 Czechoslovakia1012
8 Brazil1001
 France1001
 Ireland1001
 New Zealand1001
12 United Team of Germany0527
13 Hungary0202
14 Chile0101
 Iceland0101
 Yugoslavia0101
17 Finland0033
18 Greece0011
 Sweden0011
Totals (19 entries)333433100

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