Melbourne - Australia - OG 1956 - Detailed day schedule : 28th November

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	Athletics Men's 5000 m 1 Volodymyr Kuts (URS) 13:39.6 2 Gordon Pirie (GBR) 13:50.6 3 Derek Ibbotson (GBR) 13:54.4 Athletics Men's 20 km walk 1 Leonid Spirin (URS) 1:31:27.4 2 Antanas Mikenas (URS) 1:32:03.0 3 Bruno Junk (URS) 1:32:12.0 Athletics Men's Shot put 1 Parry O'brien (USA) 18.57 2 Bill Nieder (USA) 18.18 3 Jirí Skobla (CZE) 17.65 Athletics Women's Javelin throw 1 Inese Jaunzeme (URS) 53.86 2 Marlene Ahrens (CHI) 50.38 3 Nadezhda Konyayeva (URS) 50.28 Athletics Women's 80 m Hurdles 1 Shirley Strickland-De La Hunty (AUS) 10.7 2 Gisela Köhler (GER) 10.9 3 Norma Thrower (AUS) 11.0
	Not set	Basketball Men's Olympic Games - Quarterfinal Group A France 65 - 58 Philippines Basketball Men's Olympic Games - Quarterfinal Group A Uruguay 79 - 70 Philippines Basketball Men's Olympic Games - Quarterfinal Group B United States 85 - 55 Soviet Union Basketball Men's Olympic Games - Quarterfinal Group B Soviet Union 87 - 68 Brazil Basketball Men's Olympic Games - Quarterfinal Group C Singapore 62 - 50 Thailand Basketball Men's Olympic Games - Quarterfinal Group C Taiwan 86 - 73 Australia Basketball Men's Olympic Games - Quarterfinal Group D Japan 83 - 67 Republic of Korea
	Not set	Fencing Men's Epee teams 1 Italy (ITA) 128 2 Hungary (HUN) 104 3 France (FRA) 80
	Not set	Field hockey Men's Olympic Games - Group A India 16 - 0 United States Field hockey Men's Olympic Games - Group A Singapore 5 - 0 Afghanistan Field hockey Men's Olympic Games - Group B Malaysia 1 - 1 Kenya
	Not set	Football - Soccer Second Round Yugoslavia 9 - 1 United States
	Not set	Freestyle wrestling Men's 52.0 kg 1 Mirian Zalkalamanidze (URS) 2 Mohammad-ali Khojastepoor (IRI) 3 Hueseyin Akbas (TÜR) Freestyle wrestling Men's 57.0 kg 1 Mustafa Dagistanli (TÜR) 2 Mohamed Mehdi Yaghoubi (IRI) 3 Michail Shakhov (URS) Freestyle wrestling Men's 62.0 kg 1 Shozo Sasahara (JPN) 2 Joseph Mewis (BEL) 3 Erkki Eino Antero Penttilae (FIN) Freestyle wrestling Men's 67.0 kg 1 Emam Goudarzi Habibi (IRI) 2 Shigeru Kasahara (JPN) 3 Alimbeg Bestaev (URS) Freestyle wrestling Men's 73.0 kg 1 Mitsuo Ikeda (JPN) 2 Ibrahim Zengin (TÜR) 3 Vachtang Balavadze (URS) Freestyle wrestling Men's 79.0 kg 1 Nikola Stantchev (BUL) 2 Daniel Allen Hodge (USA) 3 Georgi Shirtladze (URS) Freestyle wrestling Men's 87.0 kg 1 Gholamreza Takhti (IRI) 2 Boris Kulaev (URS) 3 Peter Steele Blair (USA) Freestyle wrestling Men's + 87.0 kg 1 Hamit Kaplan (TÜR) 2 Jussein Mehmedov (BUL) 3 Taisto Ilmari Kangasniemi (FIN)
	Not set	Modern Pentathlon Men's Individual 1 Lars Hall (SWE) 4,833.0 2 Ole Mannonen (FIN) 4,774.5 3 Wäinö Korhonen (FIN) 4,750.0 Modern Pentathlon Men's Team 1 U.S.S.R. (URS) 13690.5 2 United States (USA) 13482.0 3 Finland (FIN) 13185.5
	Not set	Water Polo Men's Olympic Games - Group A Yugoslavia 3 - 2 U.S.S.R. Water Polo Men's Olympic Games - Group A Romania 4 - 2 Australia Water Polo Men's Olympic Games - Group B United States 5 - 3 Great Britain Water Polo Men's Olympic Games - Group C Germany 5 - 1 Singapore