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Olympic Games - Results Men 1956
Australia - Melbourne - 23 November 1956 - 1 December 1956
Men's 10000 m - 23 November 1956
| 1 |  Volodymyr Kuts (URS) | 28:45.6 |
| 2 |  József Kovács (HUN) | 28:52.4 |
| 3 | Allan Lawrence (AUS) | 28:53.6 |
| 4 |  Zdzislaw Kryszkowiak (POL) | 29:05.0 |
| 5 |  Ken Norris (GBR) | 29:21.6 |
| 6 | Ivan Chernyavskiy (URS) | 29:31.6 |
| 7 | David Power (AUS) | 29:49.2 |
| 8 | Gordon Pirie (GBR) | 29:49.6 |
| 9 |  Herbert Schade (FDR) | 30:00.6 |
| 10 | Frank Sando (GBR) | 30:05.0 |
| 11 |  Pavel Kantorek (CZE) | 30:06.0 |
| 12 |  Alain Mimoun (FRA) | 30:18.0 |
| 13 |  Walter Konrad (GER) | 30:30.0 |
| 14 |  Frans Herman (BEL) | |
| 15 |  Thyge Thøgersen (DEN) | |
| 16 | Pyotr Bolotnikov (URS) | |
| 17 | Klaus Porbadnik (GER) | |
| 18 |  Gordon McKenzie (USA) | 30:34.4 |
| 19 |  Rune Ahlund (SWE) | 30:57.0 |
| 20 | David John Stephens (AUS) | |
| 21 | Dick Hart (USA) | 31:06.8 |
| 22 |  Ilmari Taipale (FIN) | 31:10.6 |
| 23 |  Doug Kyle (CAN) | 31:21.0 |
Men's High jump - 23 November 1956
| 1 | Charlie Dumas (USA) | 2.12 |
| 2 | Charles Porter (AUS) | 2.10 |
| 3 | Igor Kashkarov (URS) | 2.08 |
| 4 | Stig Pettersson (SWE) | 2.06 |
| 5 | Ken Money (CAN) | 2.03 |
| 6 | Volodymyr Sitkin (URS) | 2.00 |
| 7 | Phil Reavis (USA) | 2.00 |
| 7 | Colin Ridgeway (AUS) | 2.00 |
| 9 |  Julius Chigbolu (NGR) | 2.00 |
| 10 | Vern Wilson (USA) | 2.00 |
| 11 | Maurice Fournier (FRA) | 1.96 |
| 12 |  Patrick Etolu (UGA) | 1.96 |
| 12 |  Yukio Ishikawa (JPN) | 1.96 |
| 14 |  Ajit Singh (IND) | 1.96 |
| 15 |  Ernie Haisley (JAM) | 1.96 |
| 16 | Peter Wells (GBR) | 1.96 |
| 17 |  Ciriaco Baronda (PHI) | 1.92 |
| 18 |  Joseph Leresae (KEN) | 1.92 |
| 19 | Vincent Gabriel (NGR) | 1.92 |
| 20 |  Yang C. K. (TPE) | 1.86 |
| 21 |  José Telles Da Conceição (BRA) | 1.86 |
| 21 |  Nagalingam Ethirveerasingam (SRI) | 1.86 |
Men's 100 m - 24 November 1956
| 1 | Bobby Morrow (USA) | 10.5 |
| 2 | Thane Baker (USA) | 10.5 |
| 3 | Hector Hogan (AUS) | 10.6 |
| 4 | Ira Murchison (USA) | 10.6 |
| 5 | Manfred Germar (FDR) | 10.7 |
| 6 |  Michael Agostini (TRI) | 10.7 |
Men's 400 m Hurdles - 24 November 1956
| 1 | Glenn Davis (USA) | 50.1 |
| 2 | Eddie Southern (USA) | 50.8 |
| 3 | Joshua Culbreath (USA) | 51.6 |
| 4 | Yuriy Lituyev (URS) | 51.7 |
| 5 | David Lean (AUS) | 51.8 |
| 6 |  Gert Potgieter (RSA) | 56.0 |
Men's Long jump - 24 November 1956
| 1 | Greg Bell (USA) | 7.83 |
| 2 | John Bennett (USA) | 7.68 |
| 3 | Jorma Valkama (FIN) | 7.48 |
| 4 | Dmytro Bondarenko (URS) | 7.44 |
| 5 | Karim Olowu (NGR) | 7.36 |
| 6 | Kazimierz Kropidlowski (POL) | 7.30 |
| 7 | Neville Price (RSA) | 7.28 |
| 8 | Oleg Fedoseyev (URS) | 7.27 |
| 9 | Roy Cruttenden (GBR) | 7.15 |
| 10 | Henryk Grabowski (POL) | 7.15 |
| 11 | Ken Wilmshurst (GBR) | 7.14 |
| 12 |  Fermín Donazar (URU) | 6.57 |
Men's Hammer throw - 24 November 1956
| 1 | Harold Connolly (USA) | 63.19 |
| 2 | Mikhail Krivonosov (URS) | 63.03 |
| 3 | Anatoliy Samotsvetov (URS) | 62.56 |
| 4 | Al Hall (USA) | 61.96 |
| 5 | József Csermák (HUN) | 60.70 |
| 6 |  Kreso Racic (YUG) | 60.36 |
| 7 | Dmytro Yegorov (URS) | 60.22 |
| 8 |  Sverre Strandli (NOR) | 59.21 |
| 9 | Peter Allday (GBR) | 58.00 |
| 10 | Alfons Niklas (POL) | 57.70 |
| 11 |  Muhammad Iqbal (PAK) | 56.97 |
| 12 | Don Anthony (GBR) | 56.72 |
| 13 | Guy Husson (FRA) | 55.02 |
| 14 | Tadeusz Rut (POL) | 53.43 |
Men's 50km Walk - 24 November 1956
| 1 |  Norman Read (NZL) | 4:30:42.8 |
| 2 | Yevgeny Maskinskov (URS) | 4:32:57.0 |
| 3 | John Ljunggren (SWE) | 4:35:02.0 |
| 4 |  Abdon Pamich (ITA) | 4:39:00.0 |
| 5 | Antal Róka (HUN) | 4:50:09.0 |
| 6 | Ray Smith (AUS) | 4:56:08.0 |
| 7 | Adolf Weinacker (USA) | 5:00:16.0 |
| 8 | Albert Johnson (GBR) | 5:02:19.0 |
| 9 | Eric Hall (GBR) | 5:03:59.0 |
| 10 |  Ion Barbu (ROM) | 5:08:33.6 |
| 11 | Elliott Denman (USA) | 5:12:14.0 |
| 12 | Leo Sjogren (USA) | 5:12:34.0 |
| 13 | Ronald Crawford (AUS) | 5:22:36.0 |
Men's 800 m - 26 November 1956
| 1 | Tom Courtney (USA) | 1:47.7 |
| 2 | Derek Johnson (GBR) | 1:47.8 |
| 3 | Audun Boysen (NOR) | 1:48.1 |
| 4 | Arnie Sowell (USA) | 1:48.3 |
| 5 | Mike Farrell (GBR) | 1:49.2 |
| 6 | Lon Spurrier (USA) | 1:49.3 |
| 7 | Emile Leva (BEL) | 1:51.8 |
| 8 | Bill Butchart (AUS) | 1:52.5 |
Men's 110 m Hurdles - 26 November 1956
| 1 | Lee Calhoun (USA) | 13.5 |
| 2 | Jack Davis (USA) | 13.5 |
| 3 | Joel Shankle (USA) | 14.1 |
| 4 | Martin Lauer (FDR) | 14.5 |
| 5 | Stanko Lorger (YUG) | 14.5 |
| 6 | Boris Stolyarov (URS) | 14.6 |
Men's Pole vault - 26 November 1956
| 1 | Bob Richards (USA) | 4.56 |
| 2 | Bob Gutowski (USA) | 4.53 |
| 3 |  Georgios Roubanis (GRE) | 4.50 |
| 4 | George Mattos (USA) | 4.35 |
| 5 | Ragnar Lundberg (SWE) | 4.25 |
| 6 | Zenon Wazny (POL) | 4.25 |
| 7 | Eeles Landström (FIN) | 4.25 |
| 8 |  Manfred Preußger (DDR) | 4.25 |
| 9 | Giulio Chiesa (ITA) | 4.15 |
| 9 | Vladimir Bulatov (URS) | 4.15 |
| 11 | Anatoly Petrov (URS) | 4.15 |
| 12 | Zbigniew Janiszewski (POL) | 4.15 |
| 13 | Vitaliy Chernobay (URS) | 4.00 |
Men's Javelin throw - 26 November 1956
| 1 | Egil Danielsen (NOR) | 85.71 |
| 2 | Janusz Sidlo (POL) | 79.98 |
| 3 | Viktor Tsybulenko (URS) | 79.50 |
| 4 | Herbert Koschel (FDR) | 74.68 |
| 5 | Jan Kopyto (POL) | 74.28 |
| 6 | Giovanni Lievore (ITA) | 72.88 |
| 7 | Michel Macquet (FRA) | 71.84 |
| 8 | Aleksandr Gorshkov (URS) | 70.32 |
| 9 | Heiner Will (FDR) | 69.86 |
| 10 | Phil Conley (USA) | 69.74 |
| 11 | Cy Young (USA) | 68.64 |
| 12 | Vladimir Kuznetsov (URS) | 67.14 |
| 13 | Sándor Krasznai (HUN) | 66.33 |
| 14 | Muhammad Nawaz (PAK) | 62.55 |
Men's 200 m - 27 November 1956
| 1 | Bobby Morrow (USA) | 20.6 |
| 2 | Andy Stanfield (USA) | 20.7 |
| 3 | Thane Baker (USA) | 20.9 |
| 4 | Michael Agostini (TRI) | 21.1 |
| 5 | Boris Tokaryev (URS) | 21.2 |
| 6 | José Telles Da Conceição (BRA) | 21.3 |
Men's Triple jump - 27 November 1956
| 1 | Adhemar Ferreira Da Silva (BRA) | 16.35 |
| 2 |  Vilhjálmur Einarsson (ISL) | 16.02 |
| 3 | Vitold Kreyer (URS) | 15.88 |
| 4 | Bill Sharpe (USA) | 15.80 |
| 5 | Martin Rehák (CZE) | 15.73 |
| 6 | Leonid Shcherbakov (URS) | 15.64 |
| 7 | Koji Sakurai (JPN) | 15.54 |
| 8 | Teruji Kogake (JPN) | 15.40 |
| 9 | Ken Wilmshurst (GBR) | 15.33 |
| 10 | Ryszard Malcherczyk (POL) | 15.25 |
| 11 | Ira Davis (USA) | 15.21 |
| 12 | George Shaw (USA) | 15.20 |
| 13 | Hiroshi Shibata (JPN) | 15.15 |
| 14 | Kari Rahkamo (FIN) | 15.03 |
| 15 | Mohinder Singh (IND) | 14.87 |
| 16 | Eric Battista (FRA) | 14.72 |
| 17 | Paul Engo (NGR) | 14.65 |
| 18 | Tapio Lehto (FIN) | 15.88 |
| 19 | Hannu Rantala (FIN) | 15.83 |
| 20 | Lawrence Ogwang (UGA) | 15.75 |
| 21 |  Choi Yeong-Gi (KOR) | 15.73 |
Men's Discus throw - 27 November 1956
| 1 | Al Oerter (USA) | 56.36 |
| 2 | Fortune Gordien (USA) | 54.81 |
| 3 | Des Koch (USA) | 54.40 |
| 4 | Mark Pharaoh (GBR) | 54.27 |
| 5 | Oto Grigalka (URS) | 52.37 |
| 6 | Adolfo Consolini (ITA) | 52.21 |
| 7 | Ferenc Klics (HUN) | 51.82 |
| 8 | Dako Radosevic (YUG) | 51.69 |
| 9 | Boris Matveyev (URS) | 51.38 |
| 10 | Gerry Carr (GBR) | 50.72 |
| 11 |  Günther Kruse (ARG) | 49.89 |
| 12 | Kim Bukhantsov (URS) | 48.58 |
| 13 | Fanie Du Plessis (RSA) | 48.49 |
| 14 | Erik Uddebom (SWE) | 48.28 |
| 15 |  Mesulame Rakuro (FID) | 47.24 |
| 16 |  Hernán Haddad (CHI) | 46.00 |
Men's 5000 m - 28 November 1956
| 1 | Volodymyr Kuts (URS) | 13:39.6 |
| 2 | Gordon Pirie (GBR) | 13:50.6 |
| 3 | Derek Ibbotson (GBR) | 13:54.4 |
| 4 | Miklos Szabó (HUN) | 14:03.4 |
| 5 | Albie Thomas (AUS) | 14:04.6 |
| 6 | László Tabori (HUN) | 14:09.8 |
| 7 | Nyandika Maiyoro (KEN) | 14:19.0 |
| 8 | Thyge Thøgersen (DEN) | 14:21.0 |
| 9 | Pyotr Bolotnikov (URS) | 14:22.4 |
| 10 | Ivan Chernyavskiy (URS) | 14:22.4 |
| 11 | Chris Chataway (GBR) | 14:28.8 |
| 12 | Herbert Schade (FDR) | 14:31.8 |
Men's Shot put - 28 November 1956
| 1 | Parry O'brien (USA) | 18.57 |
| 2 | Bill Nieder (USA) | 18.18 |
| 3 | Jirí Skobla (CZE) | 17.65 |
| 4 | Ken Bantum (USA) | 17.48 |
| 5 | Boris Belyayev (URS) | 16.96 |
| 6 | Erik Uddebom (SWE) | 16.65 |
| 7 | Karl-heinz Wegmann (GER) | 16.63 |
| 8 | Georgios Tsakanikas (GRE) | 16.56 |
| 9 | Barry Donath (AUS) | 16.52 |
| 10 | Silvano Meconi (ITA) | 16.28 |
| 11 | Peter Hanlin (AUS) | 16.08 |
| 12 | Barclay Palmer (GBR) | 15.81 |
| 13 | Vladimir Loshchilov (URS) | 15.62 |
| 14 | Raymond Thomas (FRA) | 15.31 |
Men's 20 km walk - 28 November 1956
| 1 | Leonid Spirin (URS) | 1:31:27.4 |
| 2 | Antanas Mikenas (URS) | 1:32:03.0 |
| 3 | Bruno Junk (URS) | 1:32:12.0 |
| 4 | John Ljunggren (SWE) | 1:32:24.0 |
| 5 | Stan Vickers (GBR) | 1:32:34.2 |
| 6 | Don Keane (AUS) | 1:33:52.0 |
| 7 | George Coleman (GBR) | 1:34:01.8 |
| 8 | Roland Hardy (GBR) | 1:34:40.4 |
| 9 | Pino Dordoni (ITA) | 1:35:00.4 |
| 10 | Ted Allsopp (AUS) | 1:35:43.0 |
| 11 | Abdon Pamich (ITA) | 1:36:03.6 |
| 12 | Henry Laskau (USA) | 1:38:46.8 |
| 13 | Ronald Crawford (AUS) | 1:39:35.0 |
| 14 | Dumitru Paraschivescu (ROM) | 1:39:57.4 |
| 15 | Ion Barbu (ROM) | 1:41:37.8 |
| 16 | Bruce Macdonald (USA) | 1:43:25.6 |
| 17 | James Hewson (USA) | 1:46:24.8 |
Men's 400 m - 29 November 1956
| 1 | Charles Jenkins (USA) | 46.7 |
| 2 | Karl-friedrich Haas (FDR) | 46.8 |
| 3 | Voitto Hellsten (FIN) | 47.0 |
| 3 | Ardalion Ignatyev (URS) | 47.0 |
| 5 | Louis Jones (USA) | 48.1 |
| 6 | Mal Spence (RSA) | 48.3 |
Men's 3000 m Steeplechase - 29 November 1956
| 1 | Chris Brasher (GBR) | 8:41.2 |
| 2 | Sándor Rozsnyói (HUN) | 8:43.6 |
| 3 | Ernst Larsen (NOR) | 8:44.0 |
| 4 | Heinz Laufer (FDR) | 8:44.4 |
| 5 | Semyon Rzhishchin (URS) | 8:44.6 |
| 6 | John Disley (GBR) | 8:44.6 |
| 7 | Neil Robbins (AUS) | 8:50.0 |
| 8 | Eric Shirley (GBR) | 8:57.0 |
| 9 | Deacon Jones (USA) | 9:13.0 |
Men's Decathlon - 30 November 1956
| 1 | Milt Campbell (USA) | 7937 |
| 2 | Rafer Johnson (USA) | 7587 |
| 3 | Vasily Kuznetsov (URS) | 7465 |
| 4 | Uno Palu (URS) | 6930 |
| 5 | Martin Lauer (FDR) | 6853 |
| 6 | Walter Meier (DDR) | 6773 |
| 7 | Torbjörn Lassenius (FIN) | 6565 |
| 8 | Yang C. K. (TPE) | 6521 |
| 9 | Pat Leane (AUS) | 6427 |
| 10 | John Cann (AUS) | 6278 |
| 11 | Ian Bruce (AUS) | 6025 |
| 12 |  Nadjmeddin Farabi (IRI) | 5103 |
Men's 1500 m - 1 December 1956
| 1 |  Ron Delany (IRL) | 3:41.2 |
| 2 | Klaus Richtzenhain (GER) | 3:42.0 |
| 3 | John Landy (AUS) | 3:42.0 |
| 4 | László Tabori (HUN) | 3:42.4 |
| 5 | Brian Hewson (GBR) | 3:42.6 |
| 6 | Stanislav Jungwirth (CZE) | 3:42.6 |
| 7 | Neville Scott (NZL) | 3:42.8 |
| 8 | Ian Boyd (GBR) | 3:43,0 |
| 9 | Ken Wood (GBR) | 3:44,3 |
| 10 | Gunnar Nielsen (DEN) | 3:45,0 |
| 11 | Murray Halberg (NZL) | 3:45,2 |
| 12 | Merv Lincoln (AUS) | 3:51,9 |
Men's 4x100 m relay - 1 December 1956
| 1 | United States (Bobby Morrow, Thane Baker, Leamon King, Ira Murchison) | 39.5 |
| 2 | Soviet Union (Yuriy Konovalov, Leonid Bartenyev, Vladimir Sukharyev, Boris Tokaryev) | 39.8 |
| 3 | Germany (Manfred Germar, Heinz Fütterer, Leo Pohl, Lothar Knörzer) | 40.3 |
| 4 | Italy (Vincenzo Lombardo, Luigi Gnocchi, Giovanni Ghiselli, Franco Galbiati) | 40.3 |
| 5 | Great Britain (David Segal, Brian Shenton, Roy Sandstrom, Ken Box) | 40.6 |
| 6 | Poland (Marian Foik, Janusz Jarzembowski, Edward Schmidt, Zenon Baranowski) | 40.6 |
Men's 4x400 m relay - 1 December 1956
| 1 | United States (Charles Jenkins, Louis Jones, Jesse Mashburn, Tom Courtney) | 3:04.8 |
| 2 | Australia (Graham Gipson, Leon Gregory, David Lean, Kevan Gosper) | 3:06.2 |
| 3 | Great Britain (Francis Higgins, Michael Wheeler, John Salisbury, Derek Johnson) | 3:07.2 |
| 5 | Germany (Jurgen Kühl, Walter Oberste, Manfred Pörschke, Karl-friedrich Haas) | 3:08.2 |
Men's Marathon - 1 December 1956
| 1 | Alain Mimoun (FRA) | 2:25:00 |
| 2 | Franjo Mihalic (YUG) | 2:26:32 |
| 3 | Veikko Karvonen (FIN) | 2:27:47 |
| 4 | Lee Chang-Hun (KOR) | 2:28:45 |
| 5 | Yoshiaki Kawashima (JPN) | 2:29:19 |
| 6 | Emil Zátopek (CZE) | 2:29:34 |
| 7 | Ivan Filin (URS) | 2:30:37 |
| 8 | Evert Nyberg (SWE) | 2:31:12 |
| 9 | Thomas Nilsson (SWE) | 2:33:33 |
| 10 | Eino Oksanen (FIN) | 2:36:10 |
| 11 | Arnold Vaide (SWE) | 2:36:21 |
| 12 | Choi Chung-Sik (KOR) | 2:36:53 |
| 13 | Paavo Kotila (FIN) | 2:38:59 |
| 14 | Mercer Davies (RSA) | 2:39:48 |
| 15 | Harry Hicks (GBR) | 2:39:55 |
| 16 | Hideo Hamamura (JPN) | 2:40:53 |
| 17 | Albert Richards (NZL) | 2:41:34 |
| 18 | John Russell (AUS) | 2:41:44 |
| 19 | Lothar Beckert (DDR) | 2:42:10 |
| 20 | Nick Costes (USA) | 2:42:20 |
| 21 | Johnny Kelley (USA) | 2:43:40 |
| 22 | Muhammad Havildar Aslam (PAK) | 2:44:33 |
| 23 |  Dolfi Gruber (AUT) | 2:46:20 |
| 24 | Aurele Vandendriessche (BEL) | 2:47:18 |
| 25 | Keith Ollerenshaw (AUS) | 2:48:12 |
| 26 |  Myitung Naw (MYA) | 2:49:32 |
| 27 | Pavel Kantorek (CZE) | 2:52:05 |
| 28 | Kurt Hartung (GER) | 2:52:14 |
| 29 |  Bashay Feleke (ETH) | 2:53:37 |
| 30 | Abdul Rashid (PAK) | 2:57:47 |
| 31 | Kanuti Sum (KEN) | 2:58:42 |
| 32 | Gebre Birkay (ETH) | 2:58:49 |
| 33 | Kurao Hiroshima (JPN) | 3:04:17 |