List of 1956 Winter Olympics medal winners
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Toni_Sailer_with_3_gold_olympic_medals_at_Cortina_1956.jpg/250px-Toni_Sailer_with_3_gold_olympic_medals_at_Cortina_1956.jpg)
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,[1] 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
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Men's downhill[9] |
Toni Sailer![]() |
Raymond Fellay![]() |
Anderl Molterer![]() |
Men's giant slalom[10] |
Toni Sailer![]() |
Anderl Molterer![]() |
Walter Schuster![]() |
Men's slalom[11] |
Toni Sailer![]() |
Chiharu Igaya![]() |
Stig Sollander![]() |
Women's downhill[12] |
Madeleine Berthod![]() |
Frieda Dänzer![]() |
Lucille Wheeler![]() |
Women's giant slalom[13] |
Ossi Reichert![]() |
Putzi Frandl![]() |
Thea Hochleitner![]() |
Women's slalom[14] |
Renée Colliard![]() |
Regina Schöpf![]() |
Yevgeniya Sidorova![]() |
Bobsleigh
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Men's two-man |
![]() Italy I Lamberto Dalla Costa Giacomo Conti |
![]() Italy II Eugenio Monti Renzo Alverà |
![]() 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 |
![]() USA I Arthur Tyler William Dodge Charles Butler James Lamy |
Cross-country skiing
![A blacka nd white photo of a standing man, wearing a coat, with his hands on his hips.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Veikko_hakulinen.jpg/220px-Veikko_hakulinen.jpg)
Figure skating
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Men's[25] |
Hayes Alan Jenkins![]() |
Ronnie Robertson![]() |
David Jenkins![]() |
Ladies'[26] |
Tenley Albright![]() |
Carol Heiss![]() |
Ingrid Wendl![]() |
Pairs |
![]() Sissy Schwarz Kurt Oppelt |
![]() Frances Dafoe Norris Bowden |
![]() Marianna Nagy László Nagy |
Ice hockey
![A man, in a business suit, sitting, facing the camera.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Wendell_Anderson.jpg)
Nordic combined
![A man in a blue outfit with his competitor number "33" pinned to it skiing along a course in front of three other men.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Sverre_Stenersen.jpg/220px-Sverre_Stenersen.jpg)
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Men's individual[35] |
Sverre Stenersen![]() |
Bengt Eriksson![]() |
Franciszek Gąsienica Groń![]() |
Ski jumping
![A man, in ski suit, is in flight of a ski jump, he is leaning forwards, in the middle of his jump.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-36284-0004%2C_Oberhof%2C_Nordische_Kombination%2C_Harry_Glass.jpg/220px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-36284-0004%2C_Oberhof%2C_Nordische_Kombination%2C_Harry_Glass.jpg)
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Men's individual[36] |
Antti Hyvärinen![]() |
Aulis Kallakorpi![]() |
Harry Glaß![]() |
Speed skating
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Yevgeny_Grishin_and_Yuri_Mikhaylov_%28Cortina_1956%29.jpg/220px-Yevgeny_Grishin_and_Yuri_Mikhaylov_%28Cortina_1956%29.jpg)
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Men's 500 metres[37] |
Yevgeny Grishin![]() |
Rafayel Grach![]() |
Alv Gjestvang![]() |
Men's 1500 metres[5] |
Yevgeny Grishin![]() |
None awarded[a] | Toivo Salonen![]() |
Yuri Mikhaylov![]() | |||
Men's 5000 metres[38] |
Boris Shilkov![]() |
Sigvard Ericsson![]() |
Oleg Goncharenko![]() |
Men's 10000 metres[39] |
Sigvard Ericsson![]() |
Knut Johannesen![]() |
Oleg Goncharenko![]() |
Multiple medalists
![Sixten Jernberg, left, is being interviewed by another man, on the right, who is holding a microphone.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Sixten_Jernberg_and_Sven_Plex_Petersson_1958.jpg/220px-Sixten_Jernberg_and_Sven_Plex_Petersson_1958.jpg)
Athletes who won multiple medals during the 1956 Winter Olympics are listed below.
Athlete | Nation | Sport | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sixten Jernberg | ![]() |
Cross-country skiing | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
Toni Sailer | ![]() |
Alpine skiing | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Veikko Hakulinen | ![]() |
Cross-country skiing | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Pavel Kolchin | ![]() |
Cross-country skiing | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
Yevgeny Grishin | ![]() |
Speed skating | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Lyubov Kozyreva | ![]() |
Cross-country skiing | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Sigvard Ericsson | ![]() |
Speed skating | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Fyodor Terentyev | ![]() |
Cross-country skiing | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Renzo Alverà | ![]() |
Bobsleigh | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Eugenio Monti | ![]() |
Bobsleigh | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Radya Yeroshina | ![]() |
Cross-country skiing | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Anderl Molterer | ![]() |
Alpine skiing | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Sonja Edström | ![]() |
Cross-country skiing | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Oleg Goncharenko | ![]() |
Speed skating | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
See also
Note
- a No silver medal was awarded in this event because Grishin and Mikhaylov tied for first place with a world record time of 2:08.6.[40]
References
- General
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- Kubatko, Justin. "1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 9 August 2010.
- Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano (1956). VII Olympic Winter Games: Official Report (PDF). Cortina d'Ampezzo. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 November 2010. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
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