Melbourne - Australia - OG 1956 - Detailed day schedule : 1st December

Times shown in bold are those of the competition venue and if they do, those in brackets are adjusted to your local time.

Sport	Time	Events
	Not set	Flatwater Men's K-1 1000m kayak single 1 Gert Fredriksson (SWE) 4:12.8 2 Igor Pissarev (URS) 4:15.3 3 Lajos Kiss (HUN) 4:16.2 Flatwater Men's K-2 1000m kayak double 1 Germany (GER) 3:49.6 2 Soviet Union (URS) 3:51.4 3 Austria (AUT) 3:55.8 Flatwater Men's C-1 1000m canoe single 1 Leon Rotman (ROM) 5:05.3 2 István Hernek (HUN) 5:06.2 3 Gennadiy Bukharin (URS) 5:12.7 Flatwater Men's C-2 1000m canoe double 1 Romania (ROM) 4:47.4 2 Soviet Union (URS) 4:48.6 3 Hungary (HUN) 4:54.3 Flatwater Women's K-1 500m kayak single 1 Yelisaveta Dementyeva (URS) 2:18.9 2 Therese Zenz (GER) 2:19.6 3 Tove Søby (DEN) 2:22.3
	Not set	Amateur Boxing Men's Flyweight -51 kg 1 Terry Spinks (GBR) 2 Mircea Dobrescu (ROM) 3 Johnny Caldwell (IRL) 3 Rene Libeer (FRA) Amateur Boxing Men's Bantamweight -54 kg 1 Wolfgang Behrendt (DDR) 2 Song Sun-Cheon (KOR) 3 Freddie Gilroy (IRL) 3 Claudio Barrientos (CHI) Amateur Boxing Men's Featherweight -57 kg 1 Vladimir Safronov (URS) 2 Thomas Nicholls (GBR) 3 Henryk Niedwiedzki (POL) 3 Pentti Hämäläinen (FIN) Amateur Boxing Men's Lightweight -60 kg 1 Dick Mctaggart (ENG) 2 Harry Kurschat (FDR) 3 Tony Byrne (IRL) 3 Anatoly Lagetko (URS) Amateur Boxing Men's Light Welterweight -63,5 kg 1 Vladimir Yengibaryan (URS) 2 Franco Nenci (ITA) 3 Henry Loubscher (RSA) 3 Constantin Dumitrescu (ROM) Amateur Boxing Men's Welterweight -67 kg 1 Nicolae Linca (ROM) 2 Fred Tiedt (IRL) 3 Kevin Hogarth (AUS) 3 Nicky Gargano (ENG) Amateur Boxing Men's Light Middleweight -71 kg 1 Laszlo Papp (HUN) 2 Jose Torres (USA) 3 Zbigniew Pietrzykowski (POL) 3 John Mccormack (GBR) Amateur Boxing Men's Middleweight -75 kg 1 Gennady Shatkov (URS) 2 Ramon Tapia (CHI) 3 Victor Zalazar (ARG) 3 Gilbert Chapron (FRA) Amateur Boxing Men's Light Heavyweight -81 kg 1 Jim Boyd (USA) 2 Gheorghe Negrea (ROM) 3 Romualdas Murauskas (URS) 3 Carlos Lucas (CHI) Amateur Boxing Men's Heavyweight +81 kg 1 Pete Rademacher (USA) 2 Lev Mukhin (URS) 3 Daan Bekker (RSA) 3 Mino Bozzano (ITA)
	Not set	Athletics Men's 1500 m 1 Ron Delany (IRL) 3:41.2 2 Klaus Richtzenhain (GER) 3:42.0 3 John Landy (AUS) 3:42.0 Athletics Men's Marathon 1 Alain Mimoun (FRA) 2:25:00 2 Franjo Mihalic (YUG) 2:26:32 3 Veikko Karvonen (FIN) 2:27:47 Athletics Women's High jump 1 Mildred McDaniel (USA) 1.76 2 Thelma Hopkins (GBR) 1.67 2 Mariya Pisareva (URS) 1.67 Athletics Men's 4x100 m relay 1 United States (USA) 39.5 2 Soviet Union (URS) 39.8 3 Germany (GER) 40.3 Athletics Men's 4x400 m relay 1 United States (USA) 3:04.8 2 Australia (AUS) 3:06.2 3 Great Britain (GBR) 3:07.2 Athletics Women's 4x100 m relay 1 Australia (AUS) 44.5 2 Great Britain (GBR) 44.7 3 United States (USA) 44.9
	Not set	Basketball Classification Round Taiwan 87 - 70 Australia Basketball Classification Round Singapore 92 - 79 Republic of Korea Basketball Classification Round Bulgaria 64 - 52 Brazil Basketball Classification Round Philippines 75 - 68 Chile Basketball Classification Round Canada 75 - 60 Japan Basketball Final United States 89 - 55 Soviet Union Basketball Third Place Match Uruguay 71 - 62 France
	Not set	Field hockey Men's Olympic Games - Group B Great Britain 1 - 0 Australia
	Not set	Football - Soccer Second Round India 4 - 2 Australia Football - Soccer Second Round U.R.S.S. 4 - 0 Indonesia
	Not set	Shooting sports Men's Trap 1 Galliano Rossini (ITA) 195 2 Adam Smelczynski (POL) 190 3 Alessandro Ciceri (ITA) 188 Shooting sports Men's 300m free rifle 3 positions 1 Vasily Borisov (URS) 1,138 2 Allan Erdman (URS) 1,137 3 Vilho Ylönen (FIN) 1,128
	Not set	Swimming Women's 100 m freestyle 1 Dawn Fraser (AUS) 1:02.0 2 Lorraine Crapp (AUS) 1:02.3 3 Faith Leech (AUS) 1:05.1 Swimming Men's 200 m butterfly 1 William Yorzyk (USA) 2:19.3 2 Takashi Ishimoto (JPN) 2:23.8 3 György Tumpek (HUN) 2:23.9 Swimming Men's 400 m freestyle - Heat 1 Murray Rose (AUS) 4:31.70 Q 2 Tsuyoshi Yamanaka (JPN) 4:31.80 Q 3 Gary Winram (AUS) 4:34.50 Q Swimming Men's 4x200 m freestyle - Heat 1 Japan (JPN) 8:37.9 Q 2 United States (USA) 8:38.3 Q 3 Great Britain (GBR) 8:39.1 Q
	Not set	Water Polo Men's Olympic Games - Final round - Places 1-6 Yugoslavia 5 - 1 United States Water Polo Men's Olympic Games - Final round - Places 1-6 U.S.S.R. 3 - 2 Italy