1956 Summer Olympics / Participant (Iceland)

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Iceland took part in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, with a delegation of two athletes in two competitions in one sport.

It was Iceland's seventh participation in the Summer Olympics since 1912 .

The youngest athlete was the athlete Hilmar Þorbjörnsson at 22 years and 32 days , the oldest athlete was the athlete Vilhjálmur Einarsson (22 years and 176 days).

Flag bearer

The triple jumper Vilhjálmur Einarsson carried the flag of Iceland during the opening ceremony in the Olympic Stadium .

Medals

With a silver medal won the Icelandic team was ranked 31 in the medal count .

silver

Surname	sport	competition
Vilhjálmur Einarsson	athletics	Triple jump

Participants by sport

athletics

• Vilhjálmur Einarsson
  • Triple jump

  Qualifying round: 15.16 meters, ninth place, qualified for the final

  1st attempt: 15.16 meters

  2nd attempt: skipped

  3rd attempt: skipped

  Final: 16.26 meters, second place

  1st attempt: invalid

  2nd attempt: 16.26 meters

  3rd attempt: 15.81 meters

  4th attempt: invalid

  5th attempt: 16.61 meters

  6th attempt: skipped

• Hilmar Þorbjörnsson
  • 100 meter run

  1st lap: eliminated in run one (third place), 10.9 seconds (hand-stopped), 11.12 seconds (automatically stopped)

Web links

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