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Olympic Games - Results Men 1956

AustraliaAustralia - Melbourne - 29 November 1956 - 7 December 1956


Men's 100 m freestyle - 30 November 1956


1AUSJon Henricks (AUS)55.4
2AUSJohn Devitt (AUS)55.8
3AUSGary Chapman (AUS)56.7
4USAReid Patterson (USA)57.2
5USARichard Hanley (USA)57.6
6USAWilliam Woolsey (USA)57.6
7JPNAtsushi Tani (JPN)58.0
8FRAAldo Eminente (FRA)58.1

Men's 200 m butterfly - 1 December 1956


1USAWilliam Yorzyk (USA)2:19.3
2JPNTakashi Ishimoto (JPN)2:23.8
3HUNGyörgy Tumpek (HUN)2:23.9
4USAJack Nelson (USA)2:26.6
5AUSJohn Marshall (AUS)2:27.2
6MEXEulalio Rio Aleman (MEX)2:27.3
7AUSBrian Wilkinson (AUS)2:29.7
8ROMAlexandra Popescu (ROM)2:31.0

Men's 4x200 m freestyle - 3 December 1956


1AUS Australia (Kevin O'Halloran, John Devitt, Murray Rose, Jon Henricks)8:23.6
2USA United States (Richard Hanley, George Breen, William Woolsey, Ford Konno)8:31.5
3URS Soviet Union (Vitaliy Sorokin, Vladimir Struchanov, Gennadiy Nikolayev, Boris Nikitin)8:34.7
4JPN Japan (Manabu Koga, Atsushi Tani, Koji Nonoshita, Tsuyoshi Yamanaka)8:36.6
5GER Germany (Hans Kühler, Hans-joachim Reich, Hans Zierold, Horst Sleeker)8:43.4
6GBR Great Britain (Kenneth Williams, Ronald Roberts, Neil Mckechnie, John Wardrop)8:45.2
7ITA Italy II (Federico Dennerlein, Paolo Galletti, Guido Elmi, Anthony Romani)8:46.2
8RSA South Africa (William Stewart, Anthony Briscoe, Dennis Ford, Peter Duncan)8:49.5

Men's 400 m freestyle - 4 December 1956


1AUSMurray Rose (AUS)4:27.3
2JPNTsuyoshi Yamanaka (JPN)4:30.4
3USAGeorge Breen (USA)4:32.5
4AUSKevin O'Halloran (AUS)4:32.9
5GERHans Zierold (GER)4:34.6
6AUSGarry Winram (AUS)4:34.9
7JPNKoji Nonoshita (JPN)4:38.2
8ITAAngelo Romani (ITA)4:41.7

Men's 100 m backstroke - 6 December 1956


1AUSDavid Theile (AUS)1:02.2
2AUSJohn Monckton (AUS)1:03.2
3USAFrank Mckinney (USA)1:04.5
4FRARobert Christophe (FRA)1:04.9
5AUSJohn Hayres (AUS)1:05.0
6GBRGraham Sykes (GBR)1:05.6
7USAAlbert Wiggins (USA)1:05.8
8USAYoshinobu Oyakawa (USA)1:06.9

Men's 200 m breaststroke - 6 December 1956


1JPNMasaru Furukawa (JPN)2:34.7
2JPNMasahiro Yoshimura (JPN)2:36.7
3URSKharis Yunichev (URS)2:36.8
4AUSTerry Gathercole (AUS)2:38.7
5URSIgor Zasyeda (URS)2:39.0
6DENKnud Gleie (DEN)2:40.0
7CUBManuel Sanguily (CUB)2:42.0

Men's 1500 m freestyle - 7 December 1956


1AUSMurray Rose (AUS)17:58.9
2JPNTsuyoshi Yamanaka (JPN)18:00.3
3USAGeorge Breen (USA)18:08.2
4AUSMurray Garretty (AUS)18:26.5
5CANWilliam Slater (CAN)18:38.1
6FRAJean Boiteux (FRA)18:38.3
6JPNYukiyoshi Aoki (JPN)18:38.3
8AUSGarry Winram (AUS)19:06.2

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