Melbourne - Australia - OG 1956 - Detailed day schedule : 4th 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	Diving Women's 3m springboard 1 Pat Mccormick (USA) 142.36 2 Jeanne Stunyo (USA) 125.89 3 Irene MacDonald (CAN) 121.40
	Not set	Field hockey Men's Olympic Games - Classification Round 5-8 Australia 1 - 0 New Zealand Field hockey Men's Olympic Games - Classification Round 5-8 Belgium 5 - 0 Singapore
	Not set	Shooting sports Men's 50m rifle 3 positions 1 Anatoly Bogdanov (URS) 1,172 2 Otakar Horinek (CZE) 1,172 3 John Sundberg (SWE) 1,167 Shooting sports Men's 100m running deer, single/double shots 1 Vitaliy Romanenko (URS) 441 2 Olof Sköldberg (SWE) 432 3 Vladimir Sevryugin (URS) 429
	Not set	Swimming Men's 400 m freestyle 1 Murray Rose (AUS) 4:27.3 2 Tsuyoshi Yamanaka (JPN) 4:30.4 3 George Breen (USA) 4:32.5 Swimming Men's 100 m backstroke - Heat 1 John Monckton (AUS) 1:03.40 Q 2 Robert Christophe (FRA) 1:04.20 Q 3 David Theile (AUS) 1:04.30 Q Swimming Women's 4x100 m freestyle - Heat 1 Australia (AUS) 4:25.0 Q 2 South Africa (RSA) 4:26.8 Q 3 United States (USA) 4:27.3 Q
	Not set	Water Polo Men's Olympic Games - Final round - Places 1-6 Italy 3 - 2 United States Water Polo Men's Olympic Games - Final round - Places 1-6 Yugoslavia 2 - 2 Germany Water Polo Men's Olympic Games - Final round - Places 7-10 Australia 3 - 2 Singapore Water Polo Men's Olympic Games - Final round - Places 7-10 Great Britain 5 - 2 Australia
	07h30	Football - Soccer Semi-Finals Yugoslavia 4 - 1 India