1956 Summer Olympics / Participant (Canada)

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Canada took part in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne with a delegation of 92 athletes (77 men and 15 women) in 81 competitions in 14 sports. In sport shooting with the small caliber, the nation was able to occupy two of three positions on the podium: Gerald Ouellette became Olympic champion, Gilmour Boa came third. Canada also won two medals in rowing: the four without a helmsman won gold, the eighth silver behind the USA. The art jumper Irene MacDonald also wonthe bronze medal. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the wrestler Robert Steckle .

In addition, Canada also took part in the Olympic Equestrian Games, which were held in Stockholm five months earlier . Four (male) riders entered the race, three of which won the bronze medal in eventing.

Participants by sport

basketball

Men

• 9th place

• Ron Bissett
• Doug Brinham
• Mel Brown
• Bob Burtwell
• Ed Lucht
• Don Macintosh
• John McLeod
• Coulter Osborne
• Bob pimple
• Ron Stuart
• George Stulac
• Ed Wild

Boxing

Men

• Ed Beattie
• Gerald Collins
• Ralph Hosack
• Walter Kozak
• Leslie Mason
• Jimmy Montgomery

fencing

Men

• Roland Asselin

Weightlifting

Men

• Dave Baillie
• Adrien Gilbert
• Jules Sylvain

canoe

Men

• George Bossy
• Bill Collins
• Tom Hodgson
• Leslie Melia
• Bert Oldershaw
• Lloyd Rice
• Robert Smith
• Bill Stevenson
• Donald Stringer

athletics

Men Doug Clement Murray Cockburn Joe Foreman Dick Harding Doug Kyle Stan Levenson Ken Money Alex Oakley Jack Parrington Laird Sloan Terry Tobacco

Women Margaret George Eleanor Haslam Dorothy Kozak Jackie MacDonald Diane Matheson Maureen Rever Alice Whitty

Cycling

Men

• Jimmy Davies
• Fred Markus
• Pat Murphy

horse riding

• Jim Elder

  Bronze Eventing Team

• Brian Herbinson

  Bronze Eventing Team

• Leonard Lafond
• John Rumble

  Bronze Eventing Team

Wrestling

Men

• Bruno Ochman
• Robert Steckle

rowing

Men

• • Foursome without a helmsman

  gold

• Donald Arnold
• Walter D'Hondt
• Lorne Loomer
• Archibald MacKinnon

• • Eighth

  silver

• David Helliwell
• Philip Kueber
• Richard McClure
• Douglas McDonald
• William McKerlich
• Carlton Ogawa
• Donald Pretty
• Lawrence West
• Robert Wilson

shoot

• Gilmour Boa

  Bronze small bore, lying 50 m

• Earl Caldwell
• Frank Opsal
• Gerald Ouellette

  Gold small caliber lying 50 m

• James Zavitz

swim

Men George Park William Slater

Women Sara Barber Lenora Fisher Virginia Grant Gladys Priestley Helen Stewart Beth Whittall

sailing

• Archibald Cameron
• Clifford Howard
• Dave Howard
• Bruce Kirby
• George Parsons
• Eugene Pennell
• Bill Thomas
• Don Tytler

do gymnastics

Men Ed Gagnier

Women Ernestine Russell-Carter

Diving

Men Bill Patrick

Women Irene MacDonald Bronze jumping

Web links

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