1956 Summer Olympics / Participant (Poland)

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Poland took part in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne with a delegation of 64 athletes (49 men and 15 women) in 48 competitions in nine sports.

The Polish athletes won one gold, four silver and four bronze medals. The only Olympic champion was Elżbieta Krzesińska in the long jump. Jerzy Pawłowski was the only Polish athlete to win more than one medal in saber fencing with two silver medals. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the athlete Tadeusz Rut .

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Henryk Kukier
• Zenon Stefaniuk
• Henryk Niedźwiedzki

  Bronze featherweight

• Zygmunt Milewski
• Leszek Drogosz
• Tadeusz Walasek
• Zbigniew Pietrzykowski

  Bronze light middleweight

• Zbigniew Piórkowski
• Andrzej Wojciechowski

fencing

Men

• Jerzy Pawłowski

  Silver saber

  Silver saber crew

• Wojciech Zablocki

  Silver saber crew

• Marek Kuszewski

  Silver saber crew

• Ryszard Zub

  Silver saber crew

• Andrzej Piątkowski

  Silver saber crew

• Zygmunt Pawlas

  Silver saber crew

Weightlifting

• Marian Zieliński

  Bronze featherweight

• Jan Czepułkowski
• Krzysztof Beck
• Jan Bochenek
• Czesław Białas

canoe

Men

• Ryszard Skwarski
• Stefan Kapłaniak
• Jerzy Górski

Women

• Daniela Walkowiak

athletics

Men

• Jerzy Chromik
• Janusz Jarzembowski
• Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak
• Edward Szmidt
• Kazimierz Zimny
• Zenon Baranowski
• Marian Foik
• Henryk Grabowski
• Zbigniew Janiszewski
• Jan Kopyto
• Kazimierz Kropidłowski
• Ryszard Malcherczyk
• Alfons Niklas
• Tadeusz Ruth
• Janusz Sidło

  Silver javelin throw

• Zenon Ważny

Women

• Halina Richter-Górecka
• Maria Kusion-Bibro
• Barbara Lerczak
• Genowefa Minicka
• Urszula Figwer
• Elżbieta Krzesińska

  Gold long jump

• Anna Wojtaszek

rowing

• Teodor Kocerka
• Zbigniew black
• Henryk Jagodziński
• Bertold Mainka
• Kazimierz Błasiński
• Szczepan Grajczyk
• Zbigniew Paradowski
• Marian Nietupski

shoot

• Adam Smelczyński

  Silver trap

• Zygmunt Kiszkurno

swim

Women

• Elżbieta Gellner

do gymnastics

Women

• Dorota Horzonek-Jokiel

  Bronze group gymnastics

• Natalia Kot

  Bronze group gymnastics

• Danuta Nowak-Stachow

  Bronze group gymnastics

• Helena Rakoczy

  Bronze group gymnastics

• Lidia Szczerbińska

  Bronze group gymnastics

• Barbara Wilk-Ślizowska

  Bronze group gymnastics

Web links

Commons : Poland at the 1956 Olympic Games  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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