Cross-country skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics

At the 1956 Winter Olympics six cross country skiing events (four for men and two for women) were contested after men's 30 km and women's 3 x 5 km relay were added. The competitions were held from Friday, January 27 to Sunday, February 4, 1956.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
15 km details	Hallgeir Brenden Norway (NOR)	Sixten Jernberg Sweden (SWE)	Pavel Kolchin Soviet Union (URS)
30 km details	Veikko Hakulinen Finland (FIN)	Sixten Jernberg Sweden (SWE)	Pavel Kolchin Soviet Union (URS)
50 km details	Sixten Jernberg Sweden (SWE)	Veikko Hakulinen Finland (FIN)	Fyodor Terentyev Soviet Union (URS)
4×10 km details	Soviet Union (URS) Fyodor Terentyev Pavel Kolchin Nikolay Anikin Vladimir Kuzin	Finland (FIN) August Kiuru Jorma Kortelainen Arvo Viitanen Veikko Hakulinen	Sweden (SWE) Lennart Larsson Gunnar Samuelsson Per-Erik Larsson Sixten Jernberg

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
10 km details	Lyubov Kozyreva Soviet Union (URS)	Radia Yeroshina Soviet Union (URS)	Sonja Edström Sweden (SWE)
3×5 km details	Finland (FIN) Sirkka Polkunen Mirja Hietamies Siiri Rantanen	Soviet Union (URS) Lyubov Kozyreva Alevtina Kolchina Radya Yeroshina	Sweden (SWE) Irma Johansson Anna-Lisa Eriksson Sonja Edström

Participating nations

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	2	2	3	7
2	Finland (FIN)	2	2	0	4
3	Sweden (SWE)	1	2	3	6
4	Norway (NOR)	1	0	0	1
Total		6	6	6	18

References

• International Olympic Committee results database