1956 Summer Olympics / Participant (Burma)

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Burma took part in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, with a delegation of eleven male athletes in eleven competitions in four sports.

It was Burma's third participation in the Summer Olympic Games .

The youngest athlete was the boxer Yaishwe Best (17 years and 141 days), the oldest athlete was the sailor Gyi Khin Pe (40 years and 141 days).

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Yaishwe Best
  • Flyweight

  Ninth place

  Round one: BYE

  Round two: KO lost to Johnny Caldwell from Ireland in the third round

• Thein Myint
  • Bantamweight

  Ninth place

  Round one: BYE

  Round two: loss to Éder Jofre from Brazil on points

• Terrence Oung
  • Light welterweight

  Rank 17

  Round one: loss to Constantin Dumitrescu from Romania on points

• Yaichit Wang
  • Featherweight

  Ninth place

  Round one: BYE

  Round two: Losing to Shinichiro Suzuki of Japan on points

Weightlifting

• Aw Chu Kee
  • Bantamweight

  Final: 275.0 kg, eleventh place

  Military press: 85.0 kg, ninth place

  Snatch: 80.0 kg, 13th place

  Push: 110.0 kg, 13th place

• Do Maung Kywe
  • Featherweight

  Final: 297.5 kg, 14th place

  Military press: 90.0 kg, rank 14

  Tear: 92.5 kg, eleventh place

  Push: 115.0 kg, 13th place

• Nile Tun Maung
  • lightweight

  Final: 352.5 kg, eighth place

  Military press: 110.0 kg, fifth place

  Snatch: 105.0 kg, seventh place

  Push: 137.5 kg, sixth place

athletics

• Myitung Naw
  • 10,000 meter run

  Final: competition not finished (DNF)

  • marathon

  Final: 2:49:32 hours, rank 26

sailing

Sharpie

• Results

  Final: 275 points, 13th place

  Race one: race not finished (DNF)

  Race two: 101 points, 4:01:52 hours, 13th place

  Race three: 174 points, 4:08:27 hours, eleventh place

  Race four: race not finished (DNF)

  Race five: race not finished (DNF)

• team

  Gyi Khin Pe

  Chow Park Wing

singles

• Lwin U Maung Maung
  • Finn dinghy

  Final: 1,007 points, 19th place

  Race one: 172 points, 3:39:43 hours, 17th place

  Race two: 147 points, 3:45:03 hours, 18th place

  Race three: 172 points, 3:53:23 hours, 17th place

  Race four: 172 points, 3:24:00 hours, 17th place

  Race five: 172 points, 3:45:10 hours, 17th place

  Race six: 172 points, 3:35:32 hours, 17th place

  Race seven: 147 points, 3:30:30 hours, 18th place

Web links

• Burmese Olympic team from 1956 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original ).