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List of 1956 Winter Olympics medal winners

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]

Toni Sailer, the Austrian gold medalist in three disciplines Alpine skiing

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
  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.
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 		  Canada (CAN)[28]
Frances Dafoe
Norris Bowden 		  Hungary (HUN)[29]
Marianna Nagy
László Nagy

Ice hockey

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Wendell Anderson, silver medalist for the United States in ice hockey, would be elected Governor of Minnesota in 1971.[30]
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 Petroske
Kenneth Purpur
Don Rigazio
Richard Rodenheiser
Ed Sampson 		  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

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Sverre Stenersen, the 1952 bronze medalist in Nordic combined, won gold in Cortina d'Ampezzo.[34]
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
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
 
Yevgeny Grishin and Yuri Mikhaylov tied for first place in the 1,500 metres speed skating with a world record.
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

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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

Note

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  • 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]

See also

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References

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