List of 1956 Winter Olympics medal winners

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A woman does a spiral on skates in a stadium.
Tenley Albright, the American gold medalist in the ladies' singles event in figure skating

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

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See also: Alpine skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's downhill[9]
details		 Toni Sailer
 Austria		 Raymond Fellay
 Switzerland		 Anderl Molterer
 Austria
Men's giant slalom[10]
details		 Toni Sailer
 Austria		 Anderl Molterer
 Austria		 Walter Schuster
 Austria
Men's slalom[11]
details		 Toni Sailer
 Austria		 Chiharu Igaya
 Japan		 Stig Sollander
 Sweden
Women's downhill[12]
details		 Madeleine Berthod
 Switzerland		 Frieda Dänzer
 Switzerland		 Lucille Wheeler
23x15px Canada
Women's giant slalom[13]
details		 Ossi Reichert
 United Team of Germany		 Putzi Frandl
 Austria		 Thea Hochleitner
 Austria
Women's slalom[14]
details		 Renée Colliard
 Switzerland		 Regina Schöpf
 Austria		 Yevgeniya Sidorova
 Soviet Union

Bobsleigh

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See also: Bobsleigh at the 1956 Winter Olympics
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's two-man
details		  Italy (ITA)[15]
Italy I
Lamberto Dalla Costa
Giacomo Conti		  Italy (ITA)[15]
Italy II
Eugenio Monti
Renzo Alverà		  Switzerland (SUI)[16]
Switzerland I
Max Angst
Harry Warburton
Men's four-man
details		  Switzerland (SUI)[16]
Switzerland I
Franz Kapus
Gottfried Diener
Robert Alt
Heinrich Angst		  Italy (ITA)[15]
Italy II
Eugenio Monti
Ulrico Girardi
Renzo Alverà
Renato Mocellini		  United States (USA)[17]
USA I
Arthur Tyler
William Dodge
Charles Butler
James Lamy

Cross-country skiing

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Veikko Hakulinen won one gold and two silver medals in the 1956 Winter Olympics.

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See also: Cross-country skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's 15 km[18]
details		 Hallgeir Brenden
 Norway		 Sixten Jernberg
 Sweden		 Pavel Kolchin
 Soviet Union
Men's 30 km[19]
details		 Veikko Hakulinen
 Finland		 Sixten Jernberg
 Sweden		 Pavel Kolchin
 Soviet Union
Men's 50 km[20]
details		 Sixten Jernberg
 Sweden		 Veikko Hakulinen
 Finland		 Fyodor Terentyev
 Soviet Union
Men's 4×10 km
details		  Soviet Union (URS)[21]
Fyodor Terentyev
Pavel Kolchin
Nikolay Anikin
Vladimir Kuzin		  Finland (FIN)[22]
August Kiuru
Jorma Kortelainen
Arvo Viitanen
Veikko Hakulinen		  Sweden (SWE)[23]
Lennart Larsson
Gunnar Samuelsson
Per-Erik Larsson
Sixten Jernberg
Women's 10 km[24]
details		 Lyubov Kozyreva
 Soviet Union		 Radya Yeroshina
 Soviet Union		 Sonja Edström
 Sweden
Women's 3×5 km
details		  Finland (FIN)[22]
Sirkka Polkunen
Mirja Hietamies
Siiri Rantanen		  Soviet Union (URS)[21]
Lyubov Kozyreva
Alevtina Kolchina
Radya Yeroshina		  Sweden (SWE)[23]
Irma Johansson
Anna-Lisa Eriksson
Sonja Edström

Figure skating

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See also: Figure skating at the 1956 Winter Olympics
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's[25]
details		 Hayes Alan Jenkins
 United States		 Ronnie Robertson
 United States		 David Jenkins
 United States
Ladies'[26]
details		 Tenley Albright
 United States		 Carol Heiss
 United States		 Ingrid Wendl
 Austria
Pairs
details		  Austria (AUT)[27]
Sissy Schwarz
Kurt Oppelt		 22x20px Canada (CAN)[28]
Frances Dafoe
Norris Bowden		  Hungary (HUN)[29]
Marianna Nagy
László Nagy

Ice hockey

A man, in a business suit, sitting, facing the camera.
Wendell Anderson, silver medalist for the United States in ice hockey, would be elected Governor of Minnesota in 1971.[30]

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See also: Ice hockey at the 1956 Winter Olympics
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's team
details		  Soviet Union (URS)[31]
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		  United States (USA)[32]
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 Pettroske
Kenneth Purpur
Don Rigazio
Richard Rodenheiser
Ed Sampson		 22x20px Canada (CAN)[33]
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

A man in a blue outfit with his competitor number "33" pinned to it skiing along a course in front of three other men.
Sverre Stenersen, the 1952 bronze medalist in Nordic combined, won gold in Cortina d'Ampezzo.[34]

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See also: Nordic combined at the 1956 Winter Olympics
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's individual[35]
details		 Sverre Stenersen
 Norway		 Bengt Eriksson
 Sweden		 Franciszek Gąsienica Groń
 Poland

Ski jumping

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Ski jumping bronze medalist Harry Glaß of the Unified Team of Germany, pictured here in Oberhof, East Germany shortly after the 1956 Olympics

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See also: Ski jumping at the 1956 Winter Olympics
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's individual[36]
details		 Antti Hyvärinen
 Finland		 Aulis Kallakorpi
 Finland		 Harry Glaß
 United Team of Germany

Speed skating

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See also: Speed skating at the 1956 Winter Olympics
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's 500 metres[37]
details		 Yevgeny Grishin
 Soviet Union		 Rafayel Grach
 Soviet Union		 Alv Gjestvang
 Norway
Men's 1500 metres[5]
details		 Yevgeny Grishin
 Soviet Union		 None awarded[a] Toivo Salonen
 Finland
Yuri Mikhaylov
 Soviet Union
Men's 5000 metres[38]
details		 Boris Shilkov
 Soviet Union		 Sigvard Ericsson
 Sweden		 Oleg Goncharenko
 Soviet Union
Men's 10000 metres[39]
details		 Sigvard Ericsson
 Sweden		 Knut Johannesen
 Norway		 Oleg Goncharenko
 Soviet Union

Multiple medalists

File:Sixten Jernberg and Sven Plex Petersson 1958.jpg
Sixten Jernberg (left), who represented Sweden in cross-country skiing, won four medals including a gold medal in the 50 km race.

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

Athlete Nation Sport Gold Silver Bronze Total
Sixten Jernberg  Sweden (SWE) Cross-country skiing 1 2 1 4
Toni Sailer  Austria (AUT) Alpine skiing 3 0 0 3
Veikko Hakulinen  Finland (FIN) Cross-country skiing 1 2 0 3
Pavel Kolchin  Soviet Union (URS) Cross-country skiing 1 0 2 3
Yevgeny Grishin  Soviet Union (URS) Speed skating 2 0 0 2
Lyubov Kozyreva  Soviet Union (URS) Cross-country skiing 1 1 0 2
Sigvard Ericsson  Sweden (SWE) Speed skating 1 1 0 2
Fyodor Terentyev  Soviet Union (URS) Cross-country skiing 1 0 1 2
Renzo Alverà  Italy (ITA) Bobsleigh 0 2 0 2
Eugenio Monti  Italy (ITA) Bobsleigh 0 2 0 2
Radya Yeroshina  Soviet Union (URS) Cross-country skiing 0 2 0 2
Anderl Molterer  Austria (AUT) Alpine skiing 0 1 1 2
Sonja Edström  Sweden (SWE) Cross-country skiing 0 0 2 2
Oleg Goncharenko  Soviet Union (URS) 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]

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