1956 Summer Olympics / Swimming
At the XVI. At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne , 13 swimming competitions were held, seven for men and six for women.
Men
100 m freestyle
space | country | athlete | time |
---|---|---|---|
1 | OUT | John Henricks | 55.4 s |
2 | OUT | John Devitt | 55.8 s |
3 | OUT | Gary Chapman | 56.7 s |
11th place went to the then 26-year-old Italian Carlo Pedersoli, who a few years later started an extremely successful career as a film actor and became known to a wide audience under his stage name Bud Spencer .
400 m freestyle
space | country | athlete | time |
---|---|---|---|
1 | OUT | Murray Rose | 4: 27.3 min |
2 | JPN | Tsuyoshi Yamanaka | 4: 30.4 min |
3 | United States | George Breen | 4: 32.5 min |
1500 m freestyle
space | country | athlete | time |
---|---|---|---|
1 | OUT | Murray Rose | 17: 58.9 min |
2 | JPN | Tsuyoshi Yamanaka | 18: 00.3 min |
3 | United States | George Breen | 18: 08.2 min |
After world record holder Murray Rose had set a new Olympic record in the first run with 18: 04.1 min, George Breen undercut this performance in the third and penultimate run, while at the same time setting the Australian 's world record by 6.6 s to 17: 52.9 min improved.
100 m back
space | country | athlete | time |
---|---|---|---|
1 | OUT | David Theile | 1: 02.2 min |
2 | OUT | John Monckton | 1: 03.2 min |
3 | United States | Frank McKinney | 1: 04.5 min |
200 m chest
space | country | athlete | time |
---|---|---|---|
1 | JPN | Masaru Furukawa | 2: 34.7 min |
2 | JPN | Masahiro Yoshimura | 2: 36.7 min |
3 | URS | Charis Junichev | 2: 36.8 min |
200 m butterfly
space | country | athlete | time |
---|---|---|---|
1 | United States | William Yorzyk | 2: 19.3 min |
2 | JPN | Takashi Ishimoto | 2: 23.8 min |
3 | HUN | György Tumpek | 2: 23.9 min |
The 200 m butterfly was part of the program of the Olympic swimming competitions for the first time in 1956.
4 × 200 m freestyle
space | country | Athletes | time |
---|---|---|---|
1 | OUT |
Kevin O'Halloran John Devitt Murray Rose John Henricks |
8: 23.6 min |
2 | United States |
Richard Hanley George Breen William Woolsey Ford Konno |
8: 31.5 min |
3 | URS |
Vitali Sorokin Vladimir Struschanow Gennadi Nikolajew Boris Nikitin |
8: 34.7 min |
Women
100 m freestyle
space | country | Athlete | time |
---|---|---|---|
1 | OUT | Dawn Fraser | 1: 02.0 min |
2 | OUT | Lorraine Crapp | 1: 02.3 min |
3 | OUT | Faith Leech | 1: 05.1 min |
400 m freestyle
space | country | Athlete | time |
---|---|---|---|
1 | OUT | Lorraine Crapp | 4: 54.6 min |
2 | OUT | Dawn Fraser | 5: 02.5 min |
3 | United States | Sylvia Ruuska | 5: 07.1 min |
100 m back
space | country | Athlete | time |
---|---|---|---|
1 | GBR | Judy Grinham | 1: 12.9 min |
2 | United States | Carin Cone | 1: 12.9 min |
3 | GBR | Margaret Edwards | 1: 13.1 min |
The Briton Judy Grinham set a new world record and Olympic record over 100 m back for women with 1: 12.9 minutes.
200 m chest
space | country | Athlete | time |
---|---|---|---|
1 | EUA | Ursula Happe | 2: 53.1 min |
2 | HUN | Éva Székely | 2: 54.8 min |
3 | EUA | Eva-Maria ten Elsen | 2: 55.1 min |
100 m butterfly
space | country | Athlete | time |
---|---|---|---|
1 | United States | Shelley man | 1: 11.0 min |
2 | United States | Nancy Ramey | 1.11.9 min |
3 | United States | Mary Sears | 1: 14.4 min |
The 100 m butterfly was part of the program of the Olympic swimming competitions for the first time in 1956.
4 × 100 m freestyle
space | country | Athletes | time |
---|---|---|---|
1 | OUT |
Dawn Fraser Faith Leech Sandra Morgan Lorraine Crapp |
4: 17.1 min |
2 | United States |
Sylvia Ruuska Shelley husband Nancy Simons Joan Alderson-Rosazza |
4: 19.2 min |
3 | RSA |
Natalie Myburgh Susan Roberts Moira Abernethy Jeanette Myburgh |
4: 25.7 min |
Medal table
rank | country | gold | silver | bronze | total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Australia | 8th | 4th | 2 | 14th |
2 | United States | 2 | 4th | 5 | 11 |
3 | Japan | 1 | 4th | 0 | 5 |
4th | United Kingdom | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
4th | Germany | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
6th | Hungary | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
7th | Soviet Union | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
8th | South African Union | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |