Soviet Union at the 1956 Summer Olympics
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| At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne/Stockholm | ||||||||||
| Competitors | 272 (233 men, 39 women) in 17 sports | |||||||||
| Flag bearer | Aleksey Medvedev | |||||||||
| Medals Rank: 1 |
Gold 37 |
Silver 29 |
Bronze 32 |
Total 98 |
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 Russian Empire (1900–1912) Estonia (1920–1936, 1992–) Latvia (1924–1936, 1992–) Lithuania (1924–1928, 1992–) Unified Team (1992) Armenia (1994–) Belarus (1994–) Georgia (1994–) Kazakhstan (1994–) Kyrgyzstan (1994–) Moldova (1994–) Russia (1994–) Ukraine (1994–) Uzbekistan (1994–) Azerbaijan (1996–) Tajikistan (1996–) Turkmenistan (1996–) |
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The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. 272 competitors, 233 men and 39 women, took part in 135 events in 17 sports.[1]
Medalists
The USSR finished first in the final medal rankings, with 37 gold and a total of 98 medals.
Gold
- Valentin Muratov — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Floor Exercise
- Larisa Latynina — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Floor Exercise
- Victor Chukarin — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Individual All-Round
- Larisa Latynina — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Individual All-Round
- Victor Chukarin — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Parallel Bars
- Boris Shakhlin — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Pommel Horse
- Albert Azaryan — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Rings
- Victor Chukarin, Valentin Muratov, Boris Shakhlin, Albert Azaryan, Yuri Titov, Pavel Stolbov — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Team Competition
- Tamara Manina, Larisa Latynina, Sofia Muratova, Lidiya Kalinina-Ivanova, Polina Astakhova, Lyudmila Egorova — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Team Competition
- Valentin Muratov — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Vault
- Larisa Latynina — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Vault
- Vladimir Kuts — Athletics, Men's 10000m
- Leonid Spirin — Athletics, Men's 20 km Walk
- Vladimir Kuts — Athletics, Men's 5000m
- Inese Jaunzeme — Athletics, Women's Javelin Throw
- Tamara Tyshkevich — Athletics, Women's Shot Put
- Vladimir Safronov — Boxing, Men's Featherweight
- Vladimir Yengibaryan — Boxing, Men's Light-Welterweight
- Gennadi Shatkov — Boxing, Men's 71–75 kg
- Pavel Kharin, Gratsian Botev — Canoeing, Men's C-2 10000m
- Elizaveta Dementyeva — Canoeing, Women's K-1 500m
- Lev Yashin, Nikolai Tishchenko, Mikhail Okonkov, Aleksei Paramonov, Anatoli Bashashkin, Igor Netto, Boris Tatushin, Anatoli Isayev, Eduard Streltsov, Valentin Kozmich Ivanov, Vladimir Ryzhkin, Boris Kuznetsov, Iosif Betsa, Sergei Salnikov, Boris Razinsky, Anatoli Maslenkin, Anatoli Ilyin and Nikita Simonyan — Football (Soccer), Men's Team Competition
- Igor Novikov, Ivan Deryugin, Aleksandr Tarasov — Modern Pentathlon, Men's Team Competition
- Aleksandr Berkutov, Yuri Tyukalov — Rowing, Men's Double Sculls
- Vyacheslav Ivanov — Rowing, Men's Single Sculls
- Vitali Romanenko — Shooting, Men's 100m Running Deer, Single/Double Shots
- Vasili Borisov — Shooting, Men's 300m Free Rifle 3 Positions
- Anatoli Bogdanov — Shooting, Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions
- Igor Rybak — Weightlifting, Men's Lightweight
- Fedor Bogdanovsky — Weightlifting, Men's Middleweight
- Arkady Vorobyov — Weightlifting, Men's Middle-Heavyweight
- Mirian Tsalkalamanidze — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Flyweight
- Anatoli Parfenov — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Super-Heavyweight
- Nikolai Soloviev — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Flyweight
- Konstantin Vyrupaev — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Bantamweight
- Givi Kartoziya — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Middleweight
- Valentin Nikolayev — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Light-Heavyweight
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
- Larisa Latynina — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Uneven Bars
- Tamara Manina — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Vault
- Antanas Mikenas — Athletics, Men's 20 km Walk
- Leonid Bartenev, Yuriy Konovalov, Vladimir Sukharev, Boris Tokarev — Athletics, Men's 4x100m Relay
- Yevgeniy Maskinskov — Athletics, Men's 50 km Walk
- Irina Beglyakova — Athletics, Women's Discus Throw
- Mikhail Krivonosov — Athletics, Men's Hammer Throw
- Mariya Pisareva — Athletics, Women's High Jump
- Galina Zybina — Athletics, Women's Shot Put
- Valdis Muizhniek, Maigonis Valdmanis, Vladimir Torban, Stasys Stonkus, Kazys Petkevičius, Arkadi Bochkarev, Jānis Krūmiņš, 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 Kulayev — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Light-Heavyweight
- Vladimir Maneev — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Welterweight
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, Larisa 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 20 km 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
Athletics
Main article: Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Men's 110m Hurdles
- 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)
Basketball
Main article: Basketball at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Boxing
Main article: Boxing at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Canoeing
Main article: Canoeing at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Cycling
Main article: Cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Boris Romanov — 7th place
- Boris Savostin — 1:12.3 (→ 5th place)
- Rostislav Vargashkin
Vladimir Leonov — 9th place
- Eduard Gusev
Rodislav Chizhikov
Viktor Ilyin
Vladimir Mitin — 8th place
- Anatoly Cherepovich
Mykola Kolumbet
Viktor Kapitonov — 63 points (→ 6th place)
- Anatoly Cherepovich — 5:23:50 (→ 15th place)
- Mykola Kolumbet — 5:23:50 (→ 16th place)
- Viktor Kapitonov — 5:30:45 (→ 32nd place)
- Viktor Vershinin — 5:34:21 (→ 35th place)
Diving
Main article: Diving at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Men's 10m Platform
- Preliminary Round — 76.56
- Final — 142.95 (→ 5th place)
- Preliminary Round — 73.02
- Final — 134.52 (→ 8th place)
- 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)
- Preliminary Round — 52.64
- Final — 73.84 (→ 9th place)
Fencing
Main article: Fencing at the 1956 Summer Olympics
20 fencers, 17 men and 3 women, represented the Soviet Union in 1956.
- Arnold Chernushevich, Valentin Chernikov, Lev Saychuk, Revaz Tsirek'idze, Juozas Ūdras, Valentin Vdovichenko
- Lev Kuznetsov
- Yevgeny Cherepovsky
- Yakov Rylsky
- Lev Kuznetsov, Yakov Rylsky, Yevgeny Cherepovsky, David Tyshler, Leonid Bogdanov
Football
Main article: Football at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Gymnastics
Main article: Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Modern Pentathlon
Main article: Modern pentathlon at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Three male pentathletes represented the Soviet Union in 1956. The Soviet pentathletes won gold in the team event.
- Individual
- Team
- Igor Novikov
- Aleksandr Tarasov
- Ivan Deriuhin
Rowing
Main article: Rowing at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Sailing
Main article: Sailing at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Shooting
Main article: Shooting at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Swimming
Main article: Swimming at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Water polo
Main article: Water polo at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Weightlifting
Main article: Weightlifting at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Wrestling
Main article: Wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics
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 |
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| 1 |  Russian SFSR | 47 | 33 | 36 | 116 |
| 2 |  Ukrainian SSR | 14 | 4 | 11 | 29 |
| 3 |  Armenian SSR | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 4 |  Georgian SSR | 2 | 0 | 6 | 8 |
| 5 |  Latvian SSR | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 6 |  Lithuanian SSR | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 |  Azerbaijan SSR | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Byelorussian SSR | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 9 |  Estonian SSR | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
References
- ↑ "Soviet Union at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2010-10-20.
External links
- Official Olympic Reports
- International Olympic Committee results database
- Boris Khavin (1979). All about Olympic Games. (in Russian) (2nd ed.). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. - for medal stats by republic
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