Summer Olympics : Swimming in 1956

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 MEDAL COUNTS:

    
COUNTRY
TOTAL
 GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE


United StatesUnited States
11
2
4
5



United Team of GermanyUnited Team of Germany
2
1
0
1



Great BritainGreat Britain
2
1
0
1



HungaryHungary
2
0
1
1



JapanJapan
5
1
4
0



South AfricaSouth Africa
1
0
0
1



Soviet UnionSoviet Union
2
0
0
2



AustraliaAustralia
14
8
4
2






 MEDAL WINNERS:

                                  GOLD                          SILVER                           BRONZE                        
Men's 100 m Freestyle             John Henricks   AUS    55.4 | John Devitt        AUS    55.8 | Gary Chapman    AUS    56.7
Men's 400 m Freestyle             Murray Rose     AUS  4:27.3 | Tsuyoshi Yamanaka  JPN  4:30.4 | George Breen    USA  4:32.5
Men's 1,500 m Freestyle           Murray Rose     AUS 17:58.9 | Tsuyoshi Yamanaka  JPN 18:00.3 | George Breen    USA 18:08.2
Men's 100 m Backstroke            David Theile    AUS  1:02.2 | John Monckton      AUS  1:03.2 | Frank McKinney  USA  1:04.5
Men's 200 m Breastroke            Masaru Furukawa JPN  2:34.7 | Masahiro Yoshimura JPN  2:36.7 | Kharis Yunichev URS  2:36.8
Men's 200 m Butterfly             William Yorzik  USA  2:19.3 | Takashi Ishimoto   JPN  2:23.8 | Gyorgy Tumpek   HUN  2:23.9
Men's 4 x 200 m Freestyle Relay   Australia       AUS  8:23.6 | United States      USA  8:31.5 | Soviet Union    URS  8:34.7
Women's 100 m Freestyle           Dawn Fraser     AUS  1:02.0 | Lorraine Crapp     AUS  1:02.3 | Faith Leech     AUS  1:05.1
Women's 400 m Freestyle           Lorraine Crapp  AUS  4:54.6 | Dawn Fraser        AUS  5:02.5 | Sylvia Ruuska   USA  5:07.1
Women's 100 m Backstroke          Judith Grinham  GBR  1:12.9 | Carin Cone         USA  1:12.9 | Magaret Edwards GBR  1:13.1
Women's 200 m Breastroke          Ursula Happe    EUA  2:53.1 | Eva Szekely        HUN  2:54.8 | Eva-Maria Elsen EUA  2:55.1
Women's 100 m Butterfly           Shelley Mann    USA  1:11.0 | Nancy Ramey        USA  1:11.9 | Mary Sears      USA  1:14.4
Women's 4 x 100 m Freestyle Relay Australia       AUS  4:17.1 | United States      USA  4:19.2 | South Africa    RSA  4:25.7