1956 Summer Olympics / Sailing

Sailing at the 1956 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Melbourne
Competition venue	Port Phillip
Nations	28
Athletes	154 (154 )
date	November 26th to December 5th, 1956
decisions	5
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At the XVI. At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne , five sailing competitions were held.

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
01	Sweden	2	-	-	2
02	Denmark	1	1	-	2
03	United States	1	-	1	2
04th	New Zealand	1	-	-	1
05	Great Britain	-	1	2	3
06th	Australia	-	1	1	2
07th	Belgium	-	1	-	1
07th	Italy	-	1	-	1
09	Bahamas	-	-	1	1

Medalist

discipline	gold	silver	bronze
Finn dinghy	Paul Elvstrøm	André Nelis	John Marvin
Dragons	Sweden Folke Bohlin Bengt Palmquist Leif Wikström	Denmark Cyril Andresen Ole Berntsen Christian von Bülow	Great Britain Ronald Backus Jonathan Janson Graham Mann
5.5 mR class	Sweden Hjalmar Karlsson Lars Thörn Sture Stork	Great Britain David Bowker Neil Cochran-Patrick John Dillon Robert Perry	Australia Douglas Buxton Devereaux Mytton Jock Sturrock
Sharpie	New Zealand Jack Cropp Peter Mander	Australia John Scott Rolly Tasker	Great Britain Jasper Blackall Terence Smith
star	United States Lawrence Low Herbert Williams	Italy Nicolò Rode Agostino Straulino	Bahamas Sloane Farrington Durward Knowles

Results

Finn dinghy

space	country	athlete	Points
1	THE	Paul Elvstrøm	7509
2	BEL	André Nelis	6254
3	United States	John Marvin	5953
4th	EUA	Jürgen Vogler	4199
5	SWE	Rickard Sarby	3990
6th	RSA	Eric Bougers	3912
7th	ITA	Adelchi Pelaschier	3409
8th	BAH	Kenneth Albury	3182

star

space	country	Athletes	Points
1	United States	Lawrence Low Herbert Williams	5876
2	ITA	Nicolò Rode Agostino Straulino	5649
3	BAH	Sloane Farrington Durward Knowles	5223
4th	POR	Duarte Manuel Bello José Silva	3825
5	FRA	Philippe Chancerel Michel Parent	3126
6th	CUB	Carlos de Cárdenas Culmell Jorge de Cárdenas	2714
7th	GBR	Bruce Banks Stanley Potter	2387
8th	URS	Timir Pinegin Fyodor Shutkov	1778

Sharpie

space	country	Athletes	Points
1	NZL	Jack Cropp Peter Mander	6086
2	OUT	John Scott Rolly Tasker	6086
3	GBR	Jasper Blackall Terence Smith	4859
4th	ITA	Mario Capio Emilio Massino	3928
5	RSA	John Sully Alfred Evans	2917
6th	EUA	Rolf Mulka Ingo von Bredow	2840
7th	URS	Boris Ilyin Alexander Chumakov	2479
8th	FRA	Roger Tiriau Claude Flahault	2058

Dragons

space	country	Athletes	Points
1	SWE	Folke Bohlin Bengt Palmquist Leif Wikström	5723
2	THE	Cyril Andresen Ole Berntsen Christian von Bülow	5723
3	GBR	Ronald Backus Jonathan Janson Graham Mann	4547
4th	ARG	Jorge Salas Chavez Arnoldo Pekelharing Boris Belada	4225
5	OUT	Graham Drane Brian Carolan James Carolane	3769
6th	ITA	Sergio Sorrentino Piero Gorgatto Annibale Pelaschiar	3404
7th	NOR	Thor Thorvaldsen Carl Svæ Bjørn Gulbrandsen	3253
8th	CAN	David Howard Cliff Howard Donald Tytler	3186

5.5 mR class

space	country	Athletes	Points
1	SWE	Hjalmar Karlsson Lars Thörn Sture Stork	5527
2	GBR	David Bowker Neil Cochran-Patrick John Dillon Robert Perry	4050
3	OUT	Douglas Buxton Devereaux Mytton Jock Sturrock	4022
4th	United States	Ferdinand Schoettle Victor Sheronas John Bryant Robert Stinson	3971
5	NOR	Peder Lunde senior Odd Harsheim Halfdan Ditlev-Simonsen	3807
6th	FRA	Albert Cadot Jean-Jacques Herbulot Dominique Perroud	1779
7th	ITA	Massimo Oberti Antonio Carattino Carlo Spirito Antonio Cosentino	1677
8th	URS	Konstantin Alexandrow Konstantin Melgunow Lev Alexejew	1598

Web links

• Sailing at the 1956 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )