Winter Olympic Games 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo (ITA) 26.01-05.02

Winter Olympic Games 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo (ITA) 26.01-05.02

Countries	32
Sports	6
Events	24
Men	688
Women	152
Total	820

New Disciplines

Sport

Men 15km replaced Men 18km

Discipline	date	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Cross Country
Men 15km	30.01	Hallgeir Brenden	NOR	Sixten Jernberg	SWE	Pavel Kolchin	URS
Men 30km	27.01	Veikko Hakulinen	FIN	Sixten Jernberg	SWE	Pavel Kolchin	URS
Men 50km	02.02	Sixten Jernberg	SWE	Veikko Hakulinen	FIN	Fedor Terentjev	URS
Men 4x10km Relay	04.02	Soviet Union		Finland		Sweden
Women 10km	28.01	Ljubovj Kozyreva	URS	Nadija Eroshina	URS	Sonja Edstroem	SWE
Women 3x5km Relay	01.02	Finland		Soviet Union		Sweden
Nordic Combined
Nordic Combined	31.01	Sverre Stenersen	NOR	Bengt Eriksson	SWE	Franciszek Gron-Gasienica	POL
Ski Jump
Ski Jump	05.02	Antti Hyvarinen	FIN	Aulis Kallakorpi	FIN	Harry Glass	GER
Alpine Skiing
Men Downhill	03.02	Anton Sailer	AUT	Raymond Fellay	SUI	Andreas Molterer	AUT
Men Giant Slalom	29.01	Anton Sailer	AUT	Andreas Molterer	AUT	Walter Schuster	AUT
Men Slalom	31.01	Anton Sailer	AUT	Chiharu Igaya	JPN	Stig Sollander	SWE
Women Downhill	01.02	Madeleine Berthod	SUI	Frieda D�nzer	SUI	Lucile Wheeler	CAN
Women Giant Slalom	27.01	Ossi Reichert	GER	Josefine Frandl	AUT	Dorothea Hochleitner	AUT
Women Slalom	30.01	Renie Colliard	SUI	Regina Schoepf	AUT	Evgeniya Sidorova	URS
Bobsleigh
Bobsleigh Doubles	28.01	Italy	I	Italy	II	Switzerland	I
Bobsleigh Fours	04.02	Switzerland	I	Italy	II	United States	I
Speed Skating
Men 500m	28.01	Evgenij Grishin	URS	Rafael Gratch	URS	Alv Gjestvang	NOR
Men 1500m	30.01	Evgenji Grishin	URS			Toivo Salonen	FIN
Men 1500m	30.01	Juri Mikailov	URS			Toivo Salonen	FIN
Men 5000m	29.01	Boris Schilkov	URS	Sigvard Ericsson	SWE	Oleg Gontcharenko	URS
Men 10000m	31.01	Sigvard Ericsson	SWE	Knut Johannesen	NOR	Oleg Gontcharenko	URS
Figure Skating
Figure Skating Pairs	03.02	Elisabeth Schwartz	AUT	Frances Dafoe	CAN	Marianna Nagy	HUN
Figure Skating Pairs	03.02	Kurt Oppelt	AUT	Norris Bowden	CAN	Laszlo Nagy	HUN
Figure Skating Men	01.02	Hayes Allen Jenkins	USA	Ronald Robertson	USA	David Jenkins	USA
Figure Skating Women	02.02	Tenley Emma Albright	USA	Carol Heiss	USA	Ingrid Wendl	USA
Ice Hockey
Ice Hockey	04.02	Soviet Union		United States		Canada

Medals	G	S	B	All
1. Soviet Union	7	3	6	16
2. Austria	4	3	4	11
3. Finland	3	3	1	7
4. Switzerland	3	2	1	6
5. Sweden	2	4	4	10
6. United States	2	3	2	7
7. Norway	2	1	1	4
8. Italy	1	2		3
9. Germany	1		1	2
10.Canada		1	2	3
11.Japan		1		1
12.Poland			1	1
12.Hungary			1	1
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Last updated: 22 Oct 2008