- Egypt at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Infobox Olympics Egypt
games=1956 Summer
competitors=3
sports=1Egypt boycotted the1956 Summer Olympics inMelbourne ,Australia because of the British and French involvement in theSuez Crisis . However, the equestrian events for the 1956 Games were held inStockholm ,Sweden five months earlier (because of Australian quarantine regulations), and three Egyptian riders competed.References
* cite book
title=The Official Report of the Organizing Committee for the Equestrian Games of the XVIth Olympiad
publisher=Swedish Equestrian Federation
url=http://www.aafla.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1956/or1956eq.pdf |format=PDF |accessdate=2006-11-10
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