Modern pentathlon at the 1956 Summer Olympics

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At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, two events in modern pentathlon were contested.

[edit] Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual	Lars Hall Sweden (SWE)	Olavi Mannonen Finland (FIN)	Väinö Korhonen Finland (FIN)
Team	Soviet Union (URS) Igor Novikov Ivan Deryugin Aleksandr Tarasov	United States (USA) William Andre Jack Daniels George Lambert	Finland (FIN) Olavi Mannonen Väinö Korhonen Berndt Katter

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	1	0	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	0	1
3	Finland (FIN)	0	1	2	3
4	United States (USA)	0	1	0	1

[edit] Reference

• Olympic Medal Winners. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved on 2006-12-05.

Events at the 1956 Summer Olympics (Melbourne/Stockholm)
Athletics • Australian football (demonstration) • Baseball (demonstration) • Basketball • Boxing • Canoeing • Cycling • Diving • Equestrian • Fencing • Football • Gymnastics • Hockey • Modern pentathlon • Rowing • Sailing • Shooting • Swimming • Water polo • Weightlifting • Wrestling

Modern pentathlon at the Summer Olympics
1912 • 1920 • 1924 • 1928 • 1932 • 1936 • 1948 • 1952 • 1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1996 • 2000 • 2004 • 2008 See also: List of Olympic medalists in modern pentathlon