Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics - Men's marathon

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Athletics at the
1956 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m   men   women
200 m men women
400 m men
800 m men
1500 m men
5000 m men
10000 m men
80 m hurdles women
110 m hurdles men
400 m hurdles men
3000 m
steeplechase		 men
4×100 m relay men women
4×400 m relay men
Road events
Marathon men
20 km walk men
50 km walk men
Field events
Long jump men women
Triple jump men
High jump men women
Pole vault men
Shot put men women
Discus throw men women
Javelin throw men women
Hammer throw men
Combined events
Decathlon men

These are the official results of the Men's Marathon at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, held on Saturday December 1, 1956. There were a total number of 46 participants from 23 nations, with 13 runners not completing the race.

[edit] Final Classification

RANK ATHLETE TIME
Image:Med_1.png France Alain Mimoun (FRA) 2:25:00
Image:Med_2.png Yugoslavia Franjo Mihalić (YUG) 2:26:32
Image:Med_3.png Finland Veikko Karvonen (FIN) 2:27:47
4. South Korea Lee Chang-Hoon (KOR) 2:28:45
5. Japan Yoshiaki Kawashima (JPN) 2:29:19
6. Czechoslovakia Emil Zatopek (TCH) 2:29:34
7. Soviet Union Ivan Filin (URS) 2:30:37
8. Sweden Jvert Nyberg (SWE) 2:31:12
9. Sweden Thomas Nilsson (SWE) 2:33:33
10. Finland Eino Oksanen (FIN) 2:36:10
11. Sweden Arnold Waide (SWE) 2:36:21
12. South Korea Choi Chunk-Sik (KOR) 2:36:53
13. Finland Paavo Kotila (FIN) 2:38:59
14. South Africa Mercer Davis (RSA) 2:39:48
15. Great Britain Harry Hicks (GBR) 2:39:55
16. Japan Hideo Hamamura (JPN) 2:40:53
17. New Zealand Albert Richards (NZL) 2:41:34
18. Australia John Russell (AUS) 2:41:44
19. Germany Lothar Beckert (EUA) 2:42:10
20. United States Nick Costes (USA) 2:42:20
21. United States Johnny Kelley (USA) 2:43:40
22. Pakistan Muhamad Havlidar Aslam (PAK) 2:44:33
23. Austria Adolf Gruber (AUT) 2:46:20
24. Belgium Aurele van den Driessche (BEL) 2:47:18
25. Australia Keith Ollerenshaw (AUS) 2:48:12
26. Burma Naw Myitung (BIR) 2:49:32
27. Czechoslovakia Pavel Kantorek (TCH) 2:52:05
28. Germany Kurt Hartung (EUA) 2:52:14
29. Ethiopia Bashay Feleke (ETH) 2:53:37
30. Pakistan Abdul Rashid (PAK) 2:57:47
31. Kenya Arap Sum Kanuti (KEN) 2:58:42
32. Ethiopia Gebre Birkay (ETH) 2:58:49
33. Japan Kurao Hiroshima (JPN) 3:04:17
— Italy Giuseppe Lavelli (ITA) DNF
— South Africa Jan Barnard (RSA) DNF
— Great Britain Ron Clark (GBR) DNF
— Chile Eduardo Fontecilla (CHI) DNF
— Iran Ali Baghbanbashi (IRI) DNF
— Soviet Union Boris Grichaev (URS) DNF
— Australia Les Perry (AUS) DNF
— Chile Eduardo Silva (CHI) DNF
— Soviet Union Albert Ivanov (URS) DNF
— Germany Klaus Portadnik (EUA) DNF
— Great Britain Fred Norris (GBR) DNF
— South Korea Wha Dong-Lim (KOR) DNF
— United States Dean Thackwray (USA) DNF


[edit] References


OLYMPIC MARATHON RACES
Men's Competition

Athens 1896 | Paris 1900 | St. Louis 1904 | Athens 1906 | London 1908 | Stockholm 1912 | Antwerp 1920 | Paris 1924 | Amsterdam 1928 | Los Angeles 1932 | Berlin 1936 | London 1948 | Helsinki 1952 | Melbourne 1956 | Rome 1960 | Tokyo 1964 | Mexico City 1968 | Munich 1972 | Montreal 1976 | Moscow 1980 | Los Angeles 1984 | Seoul 1988 | Barcelona 1992 | Atlanta 1996 | Sydney 2000 | Athens 2004 |
Women's Competition

Los Angeles 1984 | Seoul 1988 | Barcelona 1992 | Atlanta 1996 | Sydney 2000 | Athens 2004 |