Nordic combined at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Nordic Combined at the VII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Trampolino Olimpico (ski jumping) Lo Stadio della neve (cross-country skiing)
Dates	29-31 January
Competitors	36 from 12 nations
Winning Score	457.95
Medalists
Sverre Stenersen   Norway   Bengt Eriksson   Sweden   Franciszek Gąsienica Groń   Poland

Nordic combined at the 1956 Winter Olympics consisted of one event, held from 29 January to 31 January. The ski jumping portion took place at Trampolino Olimpico, while the cross-country portion took place at Lo Stadio della neve. ^[1]

Standings were determined by the combined length of 3 jumps per entrant and combined style points (best 2 out of 3), awarded by a pool of 5 international judges. The cross-country course had a vertical drop of 185 m. and a max. climb of 150 m. (420 m. total climb).

Medal summary

Medal table

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway	1	0	0	1
2	Sweden	0	1	0	1
3	Poland	0	0	1	1
	Total	1	1	1	3

Franciszek Gąsienica Groń's bronze medal was the first, and as of 2010, only, medal for Poland in nordic combined.

Events

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual	Sverre Stenersen Norway (NOR)	455.00	Bengt Eriksson Sweden (SWE)	437.40	Franciszek Gąsienica Groń Poland (POL)	436.80

Individual

Athletes did three normal hill ski jumps, with the lowest score dropped. They then raced a 15 kilometre cross-country course, with the time converted to points. The athlete with the highest combined points score was awarded the gold medal.^[1]

Rank	Name	Country	Ski Jumping					Cross-country			Total
			Jump 1	Jump 2	Jump 3	Total	Rank	Time	Points	Rank
01 !	Sverre Stenersen	Norway	95.5	107.5	107.5	215.0	2	56:18	240.00	1	455.00
02 !	Bengt Eriksson	Sweden	108.0	106.0	99.5	214.0	3	1:00:36	223.40	15	437.40
03 !	Franciszek Gąsienica Groń	Poland	60.0	101.5	101.5	203.0	10	57:55	233.80	7	436.80
4	Paavo Korhonen	Finland	97.0	96.5	99.5	196.5	17	56:32	239.10	2	435.60
5	Arne Barhaugen	Norway	99.0	98.5	100.0	199.0	15	57:11	236.58	3	435.58
6	Tormod Knutsen	Norway	89.5	103.5	99.5	203.0	10	58:22	232.00	9	435.00
7	Nikolay Gusakov	Soviet Union	98.0	102.0	96.5	200.0	14	58:17	232.30	8	432.30
8	Alfredo Prucker	Italy	101.0	100.0	95.0	201.0	12	58:52	230.10	10	431.10
9	Eeti Nieminen	Finland	99.5	105.0	101.0	206.0	8	1:00:20	224.40	14	430.40
10	Leonid Fyodorov	Soviet Union	101.0	100.0	98.0	201.0	12	59:17	228.50	12	429.50
11	Sepp Schiffner	Austria	105.0	106.5	104.0	211.5	4	1:02:02	217.80	25	429.30
12	Vítězslav Lahr	Czechoslovakia	92.0	98.0	95.0	193.0	22	57:39	234.80	5	427.80
13	Yury Moshkin	Soviet Union	110.5	83.5	107.0	217.5	1	1:04:18	209.10	30	426.60
14	Kjetil Mårdalen	Norway	93.0	92.5	96.0	189.0	26	57:43	234.50	6	423.50
15	Aleksander Kowalski	Poland	99.0	104.5	106.0	210.5	5	1:03:37	211.70	29	422.20
16	Willi Egger	Austria	102.0	105.0	103.0	208.0	7	1:03:00	214.10	28	422.10
17	Leopold Kohl	Austria	97.5	101.0	95.5	198.5	16	1:01:00	221.80	21	420.30
18	Vlastimil Melich	Czechoslovakia	88.5	90.5	93.0	183.5	28	57:18	236.10	4	419.60
19	Helmut Böck	Germany	97.0	93.0	91.5	190.0	24	59:13	228.70	11	418.70
20	Enzo Perin	Italy	97.5	98.5	95.5	196.0	19	1:00:48	222.60	18	418.60
21	Heinz Hauser	Germany	93.0	101.0	94.0	195.0	20	1:00:43	222.90	17	417.90
22	Josef Nüsser	Czechoslovakia	92.5	95.5	94.0	189.5	25	59:28	227.80	13	417.30
23	Marvin Crawford	United States	96.5	97.5	99.0	196.5	17	1:02:24	216.40	26	412.90
24	Gerhard Glaß	Germany	103.0	100.5	77.0	203.5	9	1:04:17	209.10	30	412.60
25	Esko Jussila	Finland	96.5	97.5	95.0	194.0	21	1:02:38	215.50	27	409.50
26	Uno Kajak	Soviet Union	84.0	92.0	94.5	186.5	27	1:00:48	222.60	18	409.10
27	Irvin Servold	Canada	91.0	89.0	87.5	180.0	31	1:01:44	219.00	24	399.00
28	Herbert Leonhardt	Germany	79.5	89.0	88.0	177.0	32	1:01:34	219.60	23	396.60
29	Józef Daniel Krzeptowski	Poland	78.0	87.5	86.0	173.5	33	1:00:48	222.60	18	396.10
30	Theodore Farwell, Jr.	United States	88.5	83.0	85.0	173.5	33	1:01:21	220.50	22	394.00
31	Aldo Pedrana	Italy	85.0	79.5	83.0	168.0	35	1:00:36	223.40	15	391.40
32	Jan Raszka	Poland	89.0	91.5	91.0	182.5	29	1:05:15	205.40	32	387.90
33	Koichi Sato	Japan	93.0	98.0	93.5	191.5	23	1:08:21	193.40	35	384.90
34	Charles Tremblay	United States	88.0	91.0	91.0	182.0	30	1:07:40	196.00	34	378.00
35	Buck Levy	United States	72.5	80.5	81.5	162.0	36	1:05:42	203.60	33	365.60
-	Hiroshi Yoshizawa	Japan	98.0	106.5	104.0	210.5	5	DNF	DNF	-	-

Participating NOCs

Twelve nations participated in nordic combined at the Cortina Games. The Soviet Union made their Olympic nordic combined debut.^[1]

References

Sports-Reference - 1956 Olympics - Nordic Combined

Sports-Reference - 1956 Olympics - Nordic Combined - Individual

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