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1956 Track & Field medal counts
Total Gold Silver Bronze
United States 31 16 10 5
Soviet Union 22 5 7 10
Australia 12 4 2 6
United Kingdom (Great Britain) 7 1 3 3
Germany 7 0 5 2
Norway 3 1 0 2
Finland 3 0 0 3
Poland 2 1 1 0
Czechoslovakia 2 1 0 1
Hungary 2 0 2 0
Brazil 1 1 0 0
France 1 1 0 0
Ireland 1 1 0 0
New Zealand 1 1 0 0
Chile 1 0 1 0
Iceland 1 0 1 0
Yugoslavia 1 0 1 0
Greece 1 0 0 1
Sweden 1 0 0 1
Medal winners:
Event Gold Silver Bronze
1956 Men's 100 m Robert Morrow USA Thane Baker USA Hector Hogan AUS
1956 Men's 200 m Robert Morrow USA Andrew Stanfield USA Thane Baker USA
1956 Men's 400 m Charles Jenkins USA Karl-Friedrich Haas GER Voitto Hellsten FIN
Ardalion Ignatiev URS
1956 Men's 800 m Tom Courtney USA Derek Johnson GBR Andun Boysen NOR
1956 Men's 1,500 m Ronald Delany IRL Klaus Richtzenhain GER John Landy AUS
1956 Men's 5,000 m Vladimir Kuts URS Gordon Pirie GBR Derek Ibbotson GBR
1956 Men's 10,000 m Vladimir Kuts URS Jozsef Kovacs HUN Allan Lawrence AUS
1956 Men's Marathon Alain Mimoun FRA Franjo Mihalic YUG Veikko Karvonen FIN
1956 Men's 110 m Hurdles Lee Calhoun USA Jack Davis USA Joel Shankle USA
1956 Men's 400 m Hurdles Glenn Davis USA Eddie Southern USA Joshua Culbreath USA
1956 Men's 3,000 m Steeplechase Chris Brasher GBR Sandor Rozsnyoi HUN Ernst Larsen NOR
1956 Men's 4 x 100 m Relay United States USA Soviet Union URS Germany GER
1956 Men's 4 x 400 m Relay United States USA Australia AUS Great Britain GBR
1956 Men's 20 km Walk Leonid Spirin URS Antonas Mikenas URS Bruno Yunk URS
1956 Men's 50 km Walk Norman Read NZL Yevgeni Maskinskov URS John Lundgren SWE
1956 Men's High Jump Charles Dumas USA Charles Porter AUS Igor Kashkarov URS
1956 Men's Pole Vault Bob Richards USA Bob Gutowski USA Georgios Roubanis GRE
1956 Men's Long Jump Greg Bell USA John Bennett USA Jorma Valkama FIN
1956 Men's Triple Jump Adhemar Ferreira da Silva BRA Vilhjalmur Einarsson ISL Vitold Kreyer URS
1956 Men's Shot Put Parry O'Brien USA Bill Nieder USA Jiri Skobla TCH
1956 Men's Discus Al Oerter USA Fortune Gordien USA Desmond Koch USA
1956 Men's Hammer Throw Harold Connolly USA Michail Krivonosov URS Anatoli Samotsvetov URS
1956 Men's Javelin Egil Danielsen NOR Janusz Sidlo POL Viktor Tsibulenko URS
1956 Men's Decathlon Milton Campbell USA Rafer Johnson USA Vassily Kusnetsov URS
1956 Women's 100 m Betty Cuthbert AUS Christa Stubnick GER Marlene Matthews AUS
1956 Women's 200 m Betty Cuthbert AUS Christa Stubnick GER Marlene Matthews AUS
1956 Women's 80 m Hurdles Shirley de la Hunty-Strickland AUS Gisela Kohler GER Norma Thrower AUS
1956 Women's 4 x 100 m Relay Australia AUS Great Britain GBR United States USA
1956 Women's High Jump Mildred McDaniel USA Maria Pisaryeva URS Thelma Hopkins GBR
1956 Women's Long Jump Elzbieta Krzesinska POL Willye White USA Nadyezda Dvalishvili URS
1956 Women's Shot Put Tamara Tyshkevich URS Galina Zybina URS Marianne Werner GER
1956 Women's Discus Olga Fikotova TCH Irina Beglyakova URS Nina Ponomaryeva URS
1956 Women's Javelin Inese Jaunzeme URS Marlene Ahrens CHI Nadyezda Konyayeva URS
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