Soviet Union at the 1956 Summer Olympics

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Soviet Union at the Olympic Games

Flag of the Soviet Union
IOC code   URS
At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne/Stockholm
Competitors 283 (244 men, 39 women)[1] in 16 sports
Flag bearer Aleksey Medvedev
Medals
Rank: 1		 Gold
37		 Silver
29		 Bronze
32		 Total
98
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The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia.

Contents

[edit] Medals

The USSR finished first in the final medal rankings, with 37 gold and 98 total medals.

[edit] Gold

[edit] Silver

  • Tamara Manina — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Balance Beam
  • Victor Chukarin — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Floor Exercise
  • Yuri Titov — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Horizontal Bar
  • Valentin Muratov — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Rings
  • Larissa Latynina — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Uneven Bars
  • Tamara Manina — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Vault
  • Antanas Mikenas — Athletics, Men's 20km Walk
  • Leonid Bartenev, Yuri Konovalov, Vladimir Sukharev, Boris Tokarev — Athletics, Men's 4x100m Relay
  • Yevgeni Maskinskov — Athletics, Men's 50km Walk
  • Irina Beglyakova — Athletics, Women's Discus Throw
  • Mikhail Krivonosov — Athletics, Men's Hammer Throw
  • Maria Pisareva — Athletics, Women's High Jump
  • Galina Zybina — Athletics, Women's Shot Put
  • Valdis Muizhniek, Maigonis Valdmanis, Vladimir Torban, Stasis Stonkus, Kasis Petkyavichus, Arkadi Bochkarev, Yanis Krumins, Mikhail Semyonov, Algirdas Lauritenas, Yuri Ozerov, Viktor Zubkov, Mikhail Studenetsky — Basketball, Men's Team Competition
  • Lev Mukhin — Boxing, Men's Heavyweight
  • Pavel Kharin, Gratsian Botev — Canoeing, Men's C-2 1000m
  • Igor Pissarev — Canoeing, Men's K-1 1000m
  • Mikhail Kaaleste, Anatoli Demitkov — Canoeing, Men's K-2 1000m
  • Igor Buldakov, Viktor Ivanov — Rowing, Men's Coxless Pair
  • Yevgeni Cherkasov — Shooting, Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol
  • Allan Erdman — Shooting, Men's 300m Free Rifle 3 Positions
  • Makhmud Umarov — Shooting, Men's 50m Pistol
  • Vasili Borisov — Shooting, Men's 50m Rifle Prone
  • Vladimir Stogov — Weightlifting, Men's Bantamweight
  • Yevgeni Minaev — Weightlifting, Men's Featherweight
  • Ravil Khabutdinov — Weightlifting, Men's Lightweight
  • Vasili Stepanov — Weightlifting, Men's Light-Heavyweight
  • Boris Kulaev — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Light-Heavyweight
  • Vladimir Maneev — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Welterweight

[edit] Bronze

  • Yuri Titov — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Individual All-Round
  • Sofia Muratova — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Individual All-Round
  • Victor Chukarin — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Pommel Horse
  • Tamara Manina, Larissa Latynina, Sofia Muratova, Lidiya Kalinina-Ivanova, Polina Astakhova, Lyudmila Egorova — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Team, Portable Apparatus
  • Sofia Muratova — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Uneven Bars
  • Yuri Titov — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Vault
  • Bruno Junk — Athletics, Men's 20km Walk
  • Ardalion Ignatyev — Athletics, Men's 400m
  • Vasili Kuznetsov — Athletics, Men's Decathlon
  • Nina Romashkova — Athletics, Women's Discus Throw
  • Anatoli Samotsvetov — Athletics, Men's Hammer Throw
  • Igor Kashkarov — Athletics, Men's High Jump
  • Viktor Tsybulenko — Athletics, Men's Javelin Throw
  • Nadezhda Konyaeva — Athletics, Women's Javelin Throw
  • Nadezhda Khnykina-Dvalishvili — Athletics, Women's Long Jump
  • Vitold Kreer — Athletics, Men's Triple Jump
  • Anatoli Lagetko — Boxing, Men's Lightweight
  • Romualdas Murauskas — Boxing, Men's Light-Heavyweight
  • Gennady Bukharin — Canoeing, Men's C-1 10000m
  • Gennady Bukharin — Canoeing, Men's C-1 1000m
  • Lev Kuznetsov — Fencing, Men's Sabre Individual
  • Yakov Rylsky, David Tyshler, Lev Kuznetsov, Yevgeni Cherepovsky, Leonid Bogdanov — Fencing, Men's Sabre Team
  • Igor Emchuk, Georgi Zhilin, Vladimir Petrov — Rowing, Men's Pair-Oared Shell With Coxswain
  • Vladimir Sevryugin — Shooting, Men's 100m Running Deer, Single/Double Shots
  • Kharis Yunichev — Swimming, Men's 200m Breaststroke
  • Vitali Sorokin, Vladimir Struzhanov, Gennadi Nikolaev, Boris Nikitin — Swimming, Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay
  • Boris Goikhman, Valentin Prokopov, Yuri Shlyapin, Vyacheslav Kurennoi, Pyotr Breus, Pyotr Mshvenieradze, Boris Markarov, Mikhail Ryzhak, Viktor Ageev and Nodar Gvakhariya — Water polo, men's team competition
  • Mikhail Shakhov — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Bantamweight
  • Alimbeg Bestaev — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Lightweight
  • Vakhtang Balavadze — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Welterweight
  • Georgi Skhirtladze — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Middleweight
  • Roman Dzeneladze — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Featherweight

[edit] Results by event

[edit] Athletics

Men's 110m Hurdles

  • Boris Stolyarov
  • Heat — 14.4s
  • Semifinals — 14.5s
  • Final — 14.6s (→ 6th place)
  • Heat — 14.5s (→ did not advance)

Men's Marathon

  • Ivan Filine — 2:30:37 (→ 7th place)
  • Boris Grichaev — did not finish (→ no ranking)
  • Albert Ivanov — did not finish (→ no ranking)

[edit] Cycling

Men's 1.000m Scratch Sprint

  • Boris Romanov — 7th place

Men's 1.000m Time Trial

  • Boris Savostin — 1:12.3 (→ 5th place)

Men's 2.000m Tandem

  • Rostislav Vargashkin
    Vladimir Leonov — 9th place

Men's 4.000m Team Pursuit

  • Eduard Gussev
    Rotislav Shidzhikov
    Viktor Ilyin
    Vladimir Mytin — 8th place

Men's Team Time Trial

  • Anatoly Cherepovich
    Mykola Kolumbet
    Viktor Kapitonov — 63 points (→ 6th place)

Men's Individual Road Race

  • Anatoly Cherepovich — 5:23:50 (→ 15th place)
  • Mykola Kolumbet — 5:23:50 (→ 16th place)
  • Viktor Kapitonov — 5:30:45 (→ 32nd place)
  • Viktor Verkhinin — 5:34:21 (→ 35th place)

[edit] Diving

Men's 10m Platform

  • Roman Brener
  • Preliminary Round — 76.56
  • Final — 142.95 (→ 5th place)
  • Mikhail Chachba
  • Preliminary Round — 73.02
  • Final — 134.52 (→ 8th place)
  • Gennady Galkin
  • Preliminary Round — 68.92 (→ did not advance, 13th place)

Women's 10m Platform

  • Tatyana Karakashyants-Vereina
  • Preliminary Round — 52.19
  • Final — 76.95 (→ 9th place)
  • Lyubov Shigalova
  • Preliminary Round — 49.22
  • Final — 76.40 (→ 9th place)
  • Raisa Gorokhovskaya
  • Preliminary Round — 52.64
  • Final — 73.84 (→ 9th place)

[edit] Medals by republic

In the following table for team events number of team representatives, who received medals are counted, not "one medal for all the team", as usual. Because there were people from different republics in one team.

 Rank  Republic Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Flag of the Russian SFSR Russian SFSR 47 33 36 116
2 Flag of the Ukrainian SSR Ukrainian SSR 14 4 11 29
3 Flag of the Armenian SSR Armenian SSR 4 0 0 4
4 Flag of the Georgian SSR Georgian SSR 2 0 6 8
5 Flag of the Latvian SSR Latvian SSR 1 4 0 5
6 Flag of the Lithuanian SSR Lithuanian SSR 0 3 1 4
7 Flag of the Azerbaijan SSR Azerbaijan SSR 0 1 0 1
Flag of the Byelorussian SSR Byelorussian SSR 0 1 0 1
9 Flag of the Estonian SSR Estonian SSR 0 0 1 1

[edit] References

  1. ^ "The USSR and Olympism" (PDF) (October 1974). Olympic Review (84): 530–557. International Olympic Committee. 


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