1956 Summer Olympics / Participant (Guyana)

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British Guyana , today's Guyana , took part in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, with a delegation of four athletes, three men and one woman, in six competitions in two sports.

It was Guyana's third participation in the Summer Olympics .

Participants by sport

Weightlifting

Men's

• Winston McArthur
  • medium weight

  Final: 352.5 kg, eleventh place

  Military press: 100.0 kg, twelfth place

  Tear: 112.5 kg, sixth place

  Push: 140.0 kg, eleventh place

• Henry Swain
  • Bantamweight

  Final: 272.5 kg, 13th place

  Military press: 80.0 kg, twelfth place

  Tear: 82.5 kg, twelfth place

  Push: 110.0 kg, 13th place

athletics

Ladies

• Claudette Masdammer
  • 100 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in run six (fifth place), 12.7 seconds (hand-stopped), 12.87 seconds (automatically stopped)

  • 200 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in run four (fourth place), 25.4 seconds (hand-stopped), 25.73 seconds (automatically stopped)

Men's

• Oliver Hunter
  • 100 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in run ten (fifth place), 11.1 seconds (hand-stopped), 11.22 seconds (automatically stopped)

  • 200 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in run four (fourth place), 22.4 seconds (hand-stopped), 22.54 seconds (automatically stopped)

Web links

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