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Sporting event delegation
The Soviet Union 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne , Australia. 272 competitors, 233 men and 39 women, took part in 135 events in 17 sports.[1]
Medalists [ edit ]
The USSR finished first in the final medal rankings, with 37 gold and 98 total medals.
Valentin Muratov — Artistic gymnastics, men's floor exercise
Larisa Latynina — Artistic gymnastics, women's floor exercise
Viktor 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 10000 m
Leonid Spirin — Athletics, men's 20 km walk
Vladimir Kuts — Athletics, men's 5000 m
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 10000 m
Elizaveta Dementyeva — Canoeing, women's K-1 500 m
Lev Yashin , Nikolai Tishchenko , Mikhail Okonkov , Aleksei Paramonov , Anatoli Bashashkin , Igor Netto , Boris Tatushin , Anatoli Isayev , Eduard Streltsov , Valentin 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 , Yuriy Tyukalov — Rowing, men's double sculls
Vyacheslav Ivanov — Rowing, men's single sculls
Vitali Romanenko — Shooting, men's 100 m running deer, single/double shots
Vasily Borisov — Shooting, men's 300 m free rifle 3 positions
Anatoli Bogdanov — Shooting, men's 50 m 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
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 4 × 100 m 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 1000 m
Igor Pissarev — Canoeing, men's K-1 1000 m
Mikhail Kaaleste , Anatoli Demitkov — Canoeing, men's K-2 1000 m
Igor Buldakov , Viktor Ivanov — Rowing, men's coxless pair
Yevgeni Cherkasov — Shooting, men's 25 m rapid fire pistol
Allan Erdman — Shooting, men's 300 m free rifle 3 positions
Makhmud Umarov — Shooting, men's 50 m pistol
Vasily Borisov — Shooting, men's 50 m 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
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 400 m
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 10000 m
Gennady Bukharin — Canoeing, men's C-1 1000 m
Lev Kuznetsov — Fencing, men's sabre individual
Yakov Rylsky , David Tyshler , Lev Kuznetsov , Yevgeni Cherepovsky , Leonid Bogdanov — Fencing, men's sabre team
Igor Emchuk , Heorhiy Zhylin , Vladimir Petrov — Rowing, men's pair-oared shell with coxswain
Vladimir Sevryugin — Shooting, men's 100 m running deer, single/double shots
Kharis Yunichev — Swimming, men's 200 m breaststroke
Vitali Sorokin , Vladimir Struzhanov , Gennadi Nikolaev , Boris Nikitin — Swimming, men's 4 × 200 m 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 [ edit ]
Men's 110 m hurdles
Heat — 14.4s
Semifinals — 14.5s
Final — 14.6s (→ 6th place)
Heat — 14.5s (→ did not advance)
Men's marathon
Basketball [ edit ]
Canoeing [ edit ]
Cycling [ edit ]
Sprint
Time trial
Tandem
Team pursuit
Team road race
Individual road race
Men's 10 m 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 3 m platform
Preliminary Round — 62.12
Final — 98.15 (→ 11th place)
Women's 10 m platform
Preliminary Round — 52.19
Final — 76.95 (→ 9th place)
Preliminary Round — 49.22
Final — 76.40 (→ 9th place)
Preliminary Round — 52.64
Final — 73.84 (→ 9th place)
Fencing [ edit ]
20 fencers, 17 men and 3 women, represented the Soviet Union in 1956.
Men's foil
Men's team foil
Men's épée
Men's team épée
Men's sabre
Men's team sabre
Women's foil
Gymnastics [ edit ]
Modern pentathlon [ edit ]
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
The Soviet Union had 25 male rowers participate in seven rowing events in 1956.[2]
Men's single sculls – 1st place (
Men's double sculls – 1st place (
Men's coxless pair – 2nd place (
Men's coxed pair – 3rd place (
Men's coxless four
Men's coxed four
Men's eight
Sailing [ edit ]
Shooting [ edit ]
Eleven shooters represented the Soviet Union in 1956.
25 m pistol
50 m pistol
300 m rifle, three positions
50 m rifle, three positions
50 m rifle, prone
100 m running deer
Trap
Swimming [ edit ]
Water polo [ edit ]
Weightlifting [ edit ]
Wrestling [ edit ]
Medals by republic [ edit ]
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.
References [ edit ]
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Georgia (1994–)
Kazakhstan (1994–)
Kyrgyzstan (1994–)
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Azerbaijan (1996–)
Tajikistan (1996–)
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