The Sports Almanac



1956 Winter Olympics
Cortina, Italy

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

SOVIET UNION - 16 Medals
AUSTRIA - 11 Medals
SWEDEN - 10 Medals

Bobsled Ice Hockey Figure Skating
Speed Skating Alpine Skiing Cross Country Skiing
Nordic Combined Ski Jumping


1956 Cortina Overall Medal Standings
RANK
 COUNTRY
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
 TOTAL
1
 Soviet Union 7
 3
 6
 16
2
 Austria 4
 3
 4
 11
3
 Sweden 2
 4
 4
 10
4
 Finland 3
 3
 1
 7
5
 United States 2
 3
 2
 7
6
 Switzerland 3
 2
 1
 6
7
 Norway 2
 1
 1
 4
8
 Italy
 1
 2
 0
 3
9
 Canada
 0
 1
 2
 3
10
 United Team of Germany 1
 0
 1
 2
11
 Hungary
 0
 0
 1
 1
12
 Japan
 0
 1
 0
 1
13
 Poland
 0
 0
 1
 1

1956 Cortina Boblsed
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Two-Man
 Italy
 Italy
 Switzerland
Four-Man
 Switzerland
 Italy
 United States

1956 Cortina Ice Hockey
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's
 Soviet Union
 United States
 Canada

1956 Cortina Figure Skating
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's Singles Hayes Alan Jenkins - United States
 Ronnie Robertson - United States
 David Jenkins - United States
Women's Singles Tenley Albright - United States
 Carol Heiss - United States
 Ingrid Wendl - Austria
Pairs Sissy Schwarz, Kurt Oppelt - Austria
 Frances Dafoe, Norris Bowden - Canada
 Marianna Nagy, László Nagy - Hungary

1956 Cortina Speed Skating
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
500 Meters Yevgeny Grishin - Soviet Union
 Rafayel Grach - Soviet Union
 Alv Gjestvang - Norway
1500 Meters Yevgeny Grishin - Soviet Union
Yuri Mikhaylov - Soviet Union
 None Awarded
 Toivo Salonen - Finland
5000 Meters
 Boris Shilkov - Soviet Union
 Sigvard Ericsson - Sweden
 Oleg Goncharenko - Soviet Union
10000 Meters
 Sigvard Ericsson - Sweden Knut Johannsen - Norway
 Oleg Goncharenko - Soviet Union

1956 Cortina Alpine Skiing
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's Downhill
 Toni Sailer - Austria
 Raymond Fellay - Switzerland
 Anderl Molterer - Austria
Women's Downhill Madeleine Berthod - Switzerland
 Freida Dänzer - Switzerland
 Lucille Wheeler - Canada
Men's Slalom Toni Sailer - Austria Chiharu Igaya - Japan
 Stig Sollander - Sweden
Women's Slalom Renée Colliard - Switzerland
 Regina Schöpf - Austria
 Yevgeniya Sidorova - Soviet Union
Men's Giant Slalom Toni Sailer - Austria Anderl Molterer - Austria Walter Schuster - Austria
Women's Giant Slalom
 Ossi Reichert - United Team of Germany
 Putzi Frandl - Austria
 Thea Hochleitner - Austria

1956 Cortina Cross Country Skiing
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Women's 10KM Lyubov Kozyreva - Soviet Union
 Radia Yeroshina - Soviet Union
 Sonja Edström - Sweden
Men's 15KM Hallgeir Brenden - Norway
 Sixten Jerberg - Sweden
 Pavel Kolchin - Soviet Union
Men's 30KM Veikko Hakulinen - Finland
 Sixten Jerberg - Sweden Pavel Kolchin - Soviet Union
Men's 50KM Sixten Jerberg - Sweden Veikko Hakulinen - Finland Fyodor Terentyev - Soviet Union
Men's Relay Soviet Union
 Finland
 Sweden
Women's Relay Finland
 Soviet Union
 Sweden

1956 Cortina Nordic Combined
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Individual
 Sverre Stenersen - Norway
 Bengt Eriksson - Sweden
 Franciszek Gąsienica Groń - Poland

1956 Cortina Ski Jumping
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Normal Hill
 Antti Hyvärinen - Finland
 Aulis Kallakorpi - Finland
 Harry Glaß - United Team of Germany