Melbourne - Australia - OG 1956 - Detailed day schedule : 5th 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	Artistic Gymnastics Women's Individual all-round 1 Larissa Latynina (URS) 2 Ágnes Keleti (HUN) 74.933 3 Sofiya Muratova (URS) 74.633 Artistic Gymnastics Women's Floor exercises 1 Ágnes Keleti (HUN) 18.733 1 Larissa Latynina (URS) 18.733 3 Elena Leusteanu (ROM) 18.700 Artistic Gymnastics Women's Uneven bars 1 Ágnes Keleti (HUN) 18.966 2 Larissa Latynina (URS) 18.833 3 Sofiya Muratova (URS) 18.800 Artistic Gymnastics Women's Balance beam 1 Ágnes Keleti (HUN) 18.800 2 Eva Bosáková-Vechtová (CZE) 18.633 2 Tamara Manina (URS) 18.633 Artistic Gymnastics Women's Vault 1 Larissa Latynina (URS) 18.833 2 Tamara Manina (URS) 18.800 3 Ann-Sofi Colling-Pettersson (SWE) 18.733 3 Olga Tass (HUN) 18.733
	Not set	Fencing Men's Sabre 1 Rudolf Kárpáti (HUN) 64 2 Jerzy Pawlowski (POL) 52 3 Lev Kuznetsov (URS) 40
	Not set	Field hockey Men's Olympic Games - Group de Classification 9-12 Malaysia 3 - 0 United States Field hockey Men's Olympic Games - Group de Classification 9-12 Kenya 9 - 0 Afghanistan
	Not set	Sailing Finn 1 Paul Elvstrøm (DEN) 7509 2 André Nelis (BEL) 6254 3 John Marvin (USA) 5953 Sailing 5.5 meters class 1 Sweden (SWE) 5527 2 Great Britain (GBR) 4050 3 Australia (AUS) 4022 Sailing Sharpie 12m2 1 New Zealand (NZL) 6086 2 Australia (AUS) 6086 3 Great Britain (GBR) 4859 Sailing Dragon 1 Sweden (SWE) 5723 2 Denmark (DEN) 5723 3 Great Britain (GBR) 4547 Sailing Two-person keelboat open (Star) 1 United States (USA) 5876 2 Italy (ITA) 5649 3 Bahamas (BAH) 5223
	Not set	Shooting sports Men's 25m rapid fire pistol 1 Stefan Petrescu (ROM) 2 Yevgeny Cherkasov (URS) 3 Gheorghe Lichiardopol (ROM) Shooting sports Men's 50m rifle prone 1 Gerry Ouellette (CAN) 600 2 Vasily Borisov (URS) 599 3 Gil Boa (CAN) 598
	Not set	Swimming Women's 100 m backstroke 1 Judy Grinham (GBR) 1:12.9 2 Carin Cone (USA) 1:12.9 3 Margaret Edwards (GBR) 1:13.1 Swimming Women's 100 m butterfly 1 Shelley Mann (USA) 1:11.0 2 Nancy Ramey (USA) 1:11.9 3 Mary Sears (USA) 1:14.4 Swimming Men's 100 m backstroke - Semi-Final 1 John Monckton (AUS) 1:04.10 Q 2 Robert Christophe (FRA) 1:04.60 Q 3 David Theile (AUS) 1:04.80 Q Swimming Women's 400 m freestyle - Heat 1 Lorraine Crapp (AUS) 5:00.20 Q 2 Dawn Fraser (AUS) 5:02.50 Q 3 Marley Shriver (USA) 5:07.60 Q Swimming Women's 100 m butterfly - Heat 1 Shelley Mann (USA) 1:11.20 Q 2 Nancy Ramey (USA) 1:13.40 Q 3 Beverley Ann Bainbridge (AUS) 1:14.40 Q Swimming Men's 1500 m freestyle - Heat 1 George Breen (USA) 17:52.90 Q 2 Murray Rose (AUS) 18:04.10 Q 3 Tsuyoshi Yamanaka (JPN) 18:04.30 Q
	Not set	Water Polo Men's Olympic Games - Final round - Places 1-6 Hungary 4 - 0 Germany Water Polo Men's Olympic Games - Final round - Places 1-6 U.S.S.R. 3 - 1 United States Water Polo Men's Olympic Games - Final round - Places 7-10 Romania 4 - 2 Australia Water Polo Men's Olympic Games - Final round - Places 7-10 Great Britain 5 - 2 Romania
	07h30	Football - Soccer Semi-Finals U.R.S.S. 2 - 1 Bulgaria