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Olympic Games - Results Women 1956
Australia - Melbourne - 23 November 1956 - 1 December 1956
Women's Discus throw - 23 November 1956
| 1 |  Olga Fikotová-Connolly (USA) | 53.69 |
| 2 |  Irina Beglyakova (URS) | 52.54 |
| 3 | Nina Romashkova-Ponomaryova (URS) | 52.02 |
| 4 | Earlene Brown (USA) | 51.35 |
| 5 | Albina Yelkina (URS) | 48.20 |
| 6 |  Isabel Avellán (ARG) | 46.73 |
| 7 |  Jirina Nemcová (CZE) | 45.84 |
| 8 | Stepanka Mertová (CZE) | 45.78 |
| 9 |  Lia Manoliu (ROM) | 43.90 |
| 10 |  Marianne Werner (FDR) | 43.34 |
| 11 |  Paola Paternoster (ITA) | 42.83 |
| 12 |  Nada Kotlusek (YUG) | 42.16 |
| 13 | Lois Jackman (AUS) | 40.84 |
Women's 100 m - 26 November 1956
| 1 | Betty Cuthbert (AUS) | 11.5 |
| 2 |  Christa Stubnick (DDR) | 11.7 |
| 3 | Marlene Matthews (AUS) | 11.7 |
| 4 | Isabelle Daniels (USA) | 11.8 |
| 5 | Giuseppina Leone (ITA) | 11.9 |
| 6 |  Heather Armitage (GBR) | 12.0 |
Women's Long jump - 27 November 1956
| 1 |  Elzbieta Krzesinska-Dunska (POL) | 6.35 |
| 2 | Willye White (USA) | 6.09 |
| 3 | Nadezhda Khnykina-Dvalishvili (URS) | 6.07 |
| 4 | Erika Fisch (FDR) | 5.88 |
| 5 |  Marthe Lambert (FRA) | 5.85 |
| 6 | Valentina Shaprunova (URS) | 5.85 |
| 7 |  Beverly Weigel (NZL) | 5.82 |
| 8 | Nancy Borwick (AUS) | 5.79 |
| 9 | Maria Kusion-Bibro (POL) | 5.66 |
| 10 | Helga Hoffmann (FDR) | 5.64 |
| 11 |  Olga Gyarmati (HUN) | 6.20 |
| 12 | Genowefa Minicka (POL) | 6.00 |
Women's Javelin throw - 28 November 1956
| 1 | Inese Jaunzeme (URS) | 53.86 |
| 2 |  Marlene Ahrens (CHI) | 50.38 |
| 3 | Nadezhda Konyayeva (URS) | 50.28 |
| 4 | Dana Ingrová-Zátopková (CZE) | 49.83 |
| 5 |  Ingrid Almqvist (SWE) | 49.74 |
| 6 | Urszula Figwer (POL) | 48.16 |
| 7 | Erzsébet Vígh (HUN) | 48.07 |
| 8 | Karen Anderson-Oldham (USA) | 48.00 |
| 9 | Anna Wojtaszek-Pazera (POL) | 46.92 |
| 10 |  Erika Raue (GER) | 45.87 |
| 11 | Marjorie Larney (USA) | 45.27 |
| 12 |  Yoriko Shida (JPN) | 44.96 |
| 13 | Almut Brömmel (FDR) | 44.67 |
| 14 | Amelia Wershoven (USA) | 44.29 |
Women's 80 m Hurdles - 28 November 1956
| 1 | Shirley Strickland-De La Hunty (AUS) | 10.7 |
| 2 | Gisela Köhler (GER) | 10.9 |
| 3 | Norma Thrower (AUS) | 11.0 |
| 4 | Galina Bystrova (URS) | 11.0 |
| 5 | Mariya Golubnichaya (URS) | 11.3 |
| 6 | Gloria Cooke (AUS) | 11.4 |
Women's 200 m - 30 November 1956
| 1 | Betty Cuthbert (AUS) | 23.4 |
| 2 | Christa Stubnick (DDR) | 23.7 |
| 3 | Marlene Matthews (AUS) | 23.8 |
| 4 | Norma Croker (AUS) | 24.0 |
| 5 | June Paul-Foulds (GBR) | 24.3 |
| 6 | Gisela Köhler (GER) | 24.3 |
Women's Shot put - 30 November 1956
| 1 | Tamara Tyshkevich (URS) | 16.59 |
| 2 | Galina Zybina (URS) | 16.53 |
| 3 | Marianne Werner (FDR) | 15.61 |
| 4 | Zinaida Doynikova (URS) | 15.54 |
| 5 | Valerie Sloper-Young (NZL) | 15.34 |
| 6 | Earlene Brown (USA) | 15.12 |
| 7 |  Regina Branner (AUT) | 14.60 |
| 8 | Nada Kotlusek (YUG) | 14.56 |
| 9 | Milena Usenik (YUG) | 14.49 |
| 10 |  Jackie Macdonald (CAN) | 14.31 |
| 11 | Johanna Hübner-Lüttge (GER) | 13.88 |
| 12 | Anne-Chatrine Lafrenz (GER) | 13.72 |
| 13 | Valerie Lawrence (AUS) | 13.12 |
| 14 | Lois Testa (USA) | 13.06 |
| 15 | Suzanne Farmer-Allday (GBR) | 12.71 |
Women's High jump - 1 December 1956
| 1 | Mildred McDaniel (USA) | 1.76 |
| 2 | Mariya Pisareva (URS) | 1.67 |
| 2 | Thelma Hopkins (GBR) | 1.67 |
| 4 | Gunhild Larking (SWE) | 1.67 |
| 5 | Iolanda Balas (ROM) | 1.67 |
| 6 | Michele Mason-Brown (AUS) | 1.67 |
| 7 | Jessie Donaghy (NZL) | 1.67 |
| 8 | Jirina Nemcová (CZE) | 1.64 |
| 8 |  Hermina Geyser (RSA) | 1.64 |
| 10 | Olga Modrachová (CZE) | 1.64 |
| 11 | Valentina Ballod (URS) | 1.60 |
| 12 | Reinelde Knapp (AUT) | 1.60 |
| 12 | Dorothy Odam-Tyler (GBR) | 1.60 |
| 14 | Carol Bernoth (AUS) | 1.60 |
| 15 | Janice Cooper (AUS) | 1.55 |
| 16 | Alice Whitty (CAN) | 1.55 |
| 16 | Audrey Bennett (GBR) | 1.55 |
| 18 | Inge Kilian (FDR) | 1.55 |
Women's 4x100 m relay - 1 December 1956
| 1 | Australia (Shirley Strickland-De La Hunty, Norma Croker, Fleur Mellor, Betty Cuthbert) | 44.5 |
| 2 | Great Britain (Anne Pashley, Jean Scrivens, June Paul-Foulds, Heather Armitage) | 44.7 |
| 3 | United States (Mae Faggs, Margaret Matthews, Wilma Rudolph, Isabelle Daniels) | 44.9 |
| 4 | Soviet Union (Vera Krepkina, Galina Reschikova, Maria Itkina, Irina Botchkaryova) | 45.6 |
| 5 | Italy (Maria Musso, Letizia Bertoni, Maria Greppi, Giuseppina Leone) | 45.7 |
| 6 | Germany (Maria Sander, Christa Stubnick, Gisela Köhler, Barbara Mayer) | 47.2 |