Soviet Union at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Soviet Union at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Infobox Olympics Soviet Union
games=1956 Summer
competitors=283 (244 men, 39 women) [cite journal |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/1974/ore84/ore84k.pdf |title=The USSR and Olympism |journal=Olympic Review |publisher=International Olympic Committee |issue=84 |pages=530–557 |year=1974 |month=October |format=PDF |accessdate=2008-03-28]
flagbearer=Aleksey Medvedev
sports=16
gold=37
silver=29
bronze=32
total=98
rank=1

The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia.

Medalists

The USSR finished first in the final medal rankings, with 37 gold and 98 total medals.

Gold

*Valentin Muratov — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Floor Exercise
*Larissa Latynina — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Floor Exercise
*Victor Chukarin — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Individual All-Round
*Larissa 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, Larissa Latynina, Sofia Muratova, Lidiya Kalinina-Ivanova, Polina Astakhova, Lyudmila Egorova — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Team Competition
*Valentin Muratov — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Vault
*Larissa Latynina — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Vault
*Vladimir Kuts — Athletics, Men's 10000m
*Leonid Spirin — Athletics, Men's 20km 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 Engibaryan — Boxing, Men's Light-Welterweight
*Gennadi Shatkov — Boxing, Men's 71-75kg
*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
*Larissa Latynina — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Uneven Bars
*Tamara Manina — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Vault
*Antanas Mikenas — Athletics, Men's 20km Walk
*Leonid Bartenev, Yuri Konovalov, Vladimir Sukharev, Boris Tokarev — Athletics, Men's 4x100m Relay
*Yevgeni Maskinskov — Athletics, Men's 50km Walk
*Irina Beglyakova — Athletics, Women's Discus Throw
*Mikhail Krivonosov — Athletics, Men's Hammer Throw
*Maria Pisareva — Athletics, Women's High Jump
*Galina Zybina — Athletics, Women's Shot Put
*Valdis Muizhniek, Maigonis Valdmanis, Vladimir Torban, Stasis Stonkus, Kasis Petkyavichus, Arkadi Bochkarev, Yanis Krumins, 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 Kulaev — 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, Larissa 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 20km 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

Results by event


=Athletics=

Men's 110m Hurdles
*Boris Stolyarov:* Heat — 14.4s:* Semifinals — 14.5s:* Final — 14.6s (→ 6th place)

*Anatoly Mikhailov:* 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)


=Cycling=

Men's 1.000m Scratch Sprint
*Boris Romanov — 7th place

Men's 1.000m Time Trial
*Boris Savostin — 1:12.3 (→ 5th place)

Men's 2.000m Tandem
*Rostislav Vargashkin
Vladimir Leonov — 9th place

Men's 4.000m Team Pursuit
*Eduard Gussev
Rotislav Shidzhikov
Viktor Ilyin
Vladimir Mytin — 8th place

Men's Team Time Trial
*Anatoly Cherepovich
Mykola Kolumbet
Viktor Kapitonov — 63 points (→ 6th place)

Men's Individual Road Race
*Anatoly Cherepovich — 5:23:50 (→ 15th place)
*Mykola Kolumbet — 5:23:50 (→ 16th place)
*Viktor Kapitonov — 5:30:45 (→ 32nd place)
*Viktor Verkhinin — 5:34:21 (→ 35th place)


=Diving=

Men's 10m Platform
*Roman Brener :* Preliminary Round — 76.56:* Final — 142.95 (→ 5th place)

*Mikhail Chachba :* Preliminary Round — 73.02:* Final — 134.52 (→ 8th place)

*Gennady Galkin :* 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)

*Raisa Gorokhovskaya :* Preliminary Round — 52.64 :* Final — 73.84 (→ 9th place)

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.

References

* [http://www.aafla.org/5va/reports_frmst.htm Official Olympic Reports]
* [http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp International Olympic Committee results database]
*cite book|title=All about Olympic Games.|author=Boris Khavin|publisher=Fizkultura i sport|edition = 2nd ed.|year=1979|location=Moscow|language=Russian - for medal stats by republic


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