Rowing at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Venue	Lake Wendouree
Dates	23–27 November 1956
Competitors	242 from 25 nations
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Rowing at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Single sculls	men
Double sculls	men
Coxless pair	men
Coxed pair	men
Coxless four	men
Coxed four	men
Eight	men
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Rowing at the 1956 Summer Olympics featured seven events, for men only. The competitions were held from 23 to 27 November on Lake Wendouree, Ballarat, Australia.^[1]

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
single sculls details	Vyacheslav Ivanov (URS)	Stuart Mackenzie (AUS)	John B. Kelly Jr. (USA)
double sculls details	Aleksandr Berkutov and Yuriy Tyukalov (URS)	Pat Costello and Jim Gardiner (USA)	Murray Riley and Mervyn Wood (AUS)
coxless pairs details	James Fifer and Duvall Hecht (USA)	Igor Buldakov and Viktor Ivanov (URS)	Josef Kloimstein and Alfred Sageder (AUT)
coxed pair details	United States (USA) Arthur Ayrault Conn Findlay Kurt Seiffert	United Team of Germany (EUA) Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck Horst Arndt Rainer Borkowsky	Soviet Union (URS) Ihor Yemchuk Heorhiy Zhylin Vladimir Petrov
coxless fours details	Canada (CAN) Archibald MacKinnon Lorne Loomer Walter D'Hondt Donald Arnold	United States (USA) John Welchli John McKinlay Art McKinlay James McIntosh	France (FRA) René Guissart Yves Delacour Gaston Mercier Guy Guillabert
coxed fours details	Italy (ITA) Alberto Winkler Romano Sgheiz Angelo Vanzin Franco Trincavelli Ivo Stefanoni	Sweden (SWE) Olle Larsson Gösta Eriksson Ivar Aronsson Evert Gunnarsson Bertil Göransson	Finland (FIN) Kauko Hänninen Reino Poutanen Veli Lehtelä Toimi Pitkänen Matti Niemi
eights details	United States (USA) Thomas Charlton David Wight John Cooke Donald Beer Caldwell Esselstyn Charles Grimes Rusty Wailes Robert Morey William Becklean	Canada (CAN) Philip Kueber Richard McClure Robert Wilson David Helliwell Wayne Pretty Bill McKerlich Douglas McDonald Lawrence West Carlton Ogawa	Australia (AUS) Michael Aikman David Boykett Fred Benfield Jim Howden Garth Manton Walter Howell Adrian Monger Brian Doyle Harold Hewitt

A total of 242 rowers from 25 nations competed at the Melbourne Games:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	3	2	1	6
2	Soviet Union (URS)	2	1	1	4
3	Canada (CAN)	1	1	0	2
4	Italy (ITA)	1	0	0	1
5	Australia (AUS)	0	1	2	3
6	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
	United Team of Germany (EUA)	0	1	0	1
8	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		7	7	7	21

• International Olympic Committee medal database