Czechoslovakia at the 1956 Summer Olympics
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| At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne/Stockholm | ||||||||||
| Competitors | 63 (51 men and 12 women) in 10 sports | |||||||||
| Flag bearer | Zdenĕk Růžička | |||||||||
| Medals Rank: 18 |
Gold 1 |
Silver 4 |
Bronze 1 |
Total 6 |
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 Bohemia (1900–1912) Czech Republic (1994–) Slovakia (1994–) |
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Czechoslovakia competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. 63 competitors, 51 men and 12 women, took part in 54 events in 10 sports.[1]
Czech athlete Olga Fikotová won a gold medal in women's discus. She also started a famous love affair with American athlete Harold Vincent Connolly here.
The team was warned that their flight back to Czechoslovakia was in a danger of a terrorists' attack. All sportsmen had to undergo a long journey by a Soviet ship Gruzia from Melbourne to Vladivostok, Soviet Union and then by Trans-Siberian Railway to Moscow and by plane to Prague, Czechoslovakia. The whole journey took 31 days. The part of the journey from Melbourne to Moscow, Czechoslovakian sportsmen had to share a ship and train with Soviet sportsmen also returning home via this route. The coexistence was not idyllic and Czechoslovakians described it later as very humiliating. The Olympic team spent Christmas Day in the Pacific and New Year's Eve in Siberia. The team experienced high temperatures during voyage across equator and later freezing weather with -50 °C in Siberia.
It is very probable that the reason for the warning was only fictional and a long journey home was only a political decision made by Czechoslovak and Soviet communists. It was never justified.[citation needed]
Contents
Medalists
Gold
- Athletics - Women's Discus throw, Olga Fikotová
Silver
- Shooting - 50 m rifle three positions, Otakar Hořínek
- Gymnastics - Women's Balance beam, Eva Bosáková
- Cycling - 1000m time trial, Ladislav Fouček
- Cycling - Tandem; Ladislav Fouček, Václav Machek
Bronze
- Athletics - Men's Shot put, Jiří Skobla
Athletics
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Men's Marathon
- Emil Zátopek — 2:29:34 (→ 6th place)
- Pavel Kantorek — 2:52:05 (→ 27th place)
Boxing
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Canoeing
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Cycling
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- Ladislav Fouček — 6th place
- Ladislav Fouček — 1:11.4 (→ Silver Medal)
- Ladislav Fouček
Václav Machek — Silver Medal
- František Jursa
Jaroslav Cihlár
Jirí Nouza
Jirí Opavský — 7th place
- František Jursa — did not finish (→ no ranking)
- Jaroslav Cihlár — did not finish (→ no ranking)
- Jirí Nouza — did not finish (→ no ranking)
- Jirí Opavský — did not finish (→ no ranking)
Gymnastics
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Modern pentathlon
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One male pentathlete represented Czechoslovakia in 1956.
- Individual
Rowing
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Shooting
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Four shooters represented Czechoslovakia in 1956.
Swimming
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Weightlifting
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References
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- Official Olympic Reports
- International Olympic Committee results database
- Czech Olympic report (in Czech)
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