1956 Summer Olympics / Participant (Yugoslavia)

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Yugoslavia participated in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, with a delegation of 35 athletes, 32 men and three women, in 16 competitions in eight sports.

It was Yugoslavia's eighth participation in the Summer Olympic Games .

The youngest athlete was the football player Dragoslav Šekularac at 18 years and 359 days , and the oldest athlete was the marathon runner Franjo Mihalić (36 years and 268 days).

Flag bearer

The water polo player Zdravko Kovačić carried the flag of Yugoslavia during the opening ceremony in the Olympic Stadium .

Medals

With three silver medals won the Yugoslav team finished 26th in the medals table .

silver

Surname	sport	competition
Sava Antić , Ibrahim Biogradlić , Dobroslav Krstic , Mladen Koščak , Luka Liposinović , Muhamed Mujić , Zlatko Papec , Petar Radenkovic , Nikola Radović , Ivan Santec , Dragoslav Šekularac , Ljubisa Spajić , Todor Veselinović , Blagoja Vidinic and coach Milovan Ciric	Soccer	Men's
Franjo Mihalic	athletics	marathon
Juraj Amšel , Ivo Cipci , Tomislav Franjković , Vladimir Ivković , Zdravko Ježić , Zdravko Kovačić , Lovro Radonić , Ivo Štakula , Boško Vuksanović and Marjan Žužej	Water polo	Men's

Participants by sport

Soccer

Men

• Results

  Round of 16: entered the quarter-finals without a fight

  Quarterfinals: 9-1 win over the United States of America

  Goals: Muhamed Mujić (3x), Todor Veselinović (3x), Sava Antić (2x), Zlatko Papec

  Semi-finals: 4-1 win over India

  Goals: Zlatko Papec (2x), Todor Veselinović, Muhammad Salaam (own goal)

  Final: 0-1 defeat against the Soviet Union

  Rank two

• Squad

  Sava Antić

  brahim Biogradlić

  Dobroslav Krstić

  Mladen Koščak

  Luka Liposinović

  Muhamed Mujić

  Zlatko Papec

  Petar Radenković

  Nikola Radović

  Ivan Santec

  Dragoslav Šekularac

  Ljubiša Spajić

  Todor Veselinović

  Blagoja Vidinić

  Milovan Ciric , trainer

athletics

Ladies

• Nada Kotlušek
  • Discus throw

  Qualifying round: 42.45 meters, twelfth place, qualified for the final

  Try one: 40.73 meters

  Trial two: 42.45 meters

  Try three: skipped

  Final: 42.16 meters, twelfth place

  Try one: 41.79 meters

  Trial two: 38.89 meters

  Trial three: 42.16 meters

• • Shot put

  Qualifying round: 13.92 meters, sixth place, qualified for the final

  Try one: 13.92 meters

  Trial two: left out

  Try three: skipped

  Final: 14.56 meters, eighth place

  Try one: 14.52 meters

  Trial two: 14.56 meters

  Trial three: 14.27 meters

• Milena Usenik
  • Shot put

  Qualifying round: 13.96 meters, fifth place, qualified for the final

  Try one: 13.96 meters

  Trial two: left out

  Try three: skipped

  Final: 14.49 meters, ninth place

  Try one: 12.97 meters

  Trial two: 14.35 meters

  Trial three: 14.49 meters

Men's

• Stanko Lorger
  • 110 meter hurdles

  Round one: qualified for the semifinals in run two (second place), 14.6 seconds (hand-stopped), 14.75 seconds (automatically stopped)

  Semi-finals: qualified for the final in run one (third place), 14.6 seconds (hand-stopped), 14.73 seconds (automatically stopped)

  Final: 14.5 seconds (hand-stopped), 14.68 seconds (automatically stopped), fifth place

• Franjo Mihalic
  • marathon

  Final: 2:26:32 hours, second place

• Veliša Mugoša
  • 5,000 meter run

  Round one: qualified for the final in run one (second place), 14: 25.6 minutes (hand-stopped), 14: 25.71 minutes (automatically stopped)

  Final: race not finished (DNF)

• Krešo Račić
  • Hammer throwing

  Qualifying round: 59.06 meters, second place, qualified for the final

  1st attempt: 59.06 meters

  2nd attempt: skipped

  3rd attempt: skipped

  Final: 60.36 meters, sixth place

  1st attempt: 57.99 meters

  2nd attempt: 60.36 meters

  3rd attempt: invalid

  4th attempt: invalid

  5th attempt: 58.07 meters

  6th attempt: 55.09 meters

• Dako Radosevic
  • Discus throw

  Qualifying round: 47.93 meters, tenth place, qualified for the final

  Try one: 47.93 meters

  Trial two: left out

  Try three: skipped

  Final: 51.69 meters, eighth place

  Try one: 50.99 meters

  Trial two: 51.26 meters

  Trial three: 51.69 meters

Cycling

Gentlemen
Street

• Veselin Petrovic
  • Road Race (187.73 km)

  Final: 5:26:58 hours, rank 26

Wrestling

Gentlemen
Greco-Roman

• Branislav Simić
  • medium weight

  eliminated after round one with three minus points

  1st round: Shoulders defeat against Dimitar Dobrew from Bulgaria , three minus points

• Borivoje Vukov
  • Flyweight

  eliminated after round three with five minus points

  1st round: defeat against István Baranya from Hungary on points (0: 3), three minus points

  2nd round: Victory against Bengt Johansson from Sweden on points (3-0), four minus points

  3rd round: points victory against Maurice Mewis from Belgium , five minus points

rowing

Men's

• Perica Vlašić
  • One

  1st lap: qualified for the semifinals in run two (first place), 7: 31.3 minutes

  Semi-finals: eliminated in run two (third place), 9: 32.2 minutes

shoot

Men's

• Zlatko Mašek
  • Small caliber three-position fight

  Final: 1,144 points, 20th place

  Kneeling: 377 points, rank 28

  Round one: 93 points

  Round two: 93 points

  Round three: 94 points

  Round four: 97 points

  Prone: 394 points, 20th place

  Round one: 98 points

  Round two: 99 points

  Round three: 99 points

  Round four: 98 points

  Standing: 373 points, eleventh place

  Round one: 92 points

  Round two: 94 points

  Round three: 95 points

  Round four: 92 points

• • Small caliber lying

  Final: 595 points, 16th place

  Round one: 99 points, 18th place

  Round two: 100 points, rank 14

  Round three: 99 points, 20th place

  Round four: 97 points, 41st place

  Round five: 100 points, first place

  Round six: 100 points, first place

swim

Ladies

• Vinka Jeričević
  • 200 meters chest

  Round one: qualified for the final in run two (second place), 2: 56.0 minutes

  Final: 2: 55.8 minutes, fourth place

Water polo

Men's

• Results

  Preliminary round: Group A, six points, 15-5 goals, first place, qualified for the final round

  3-2 victory against the Soviet Union

  9-1 win against Australia

  3-2 win against Romania

  Final round: seven points, 13-8 goals, second place

  5-1 win over the United States of America

  2: 2 draw against Germany

  2-1 win against Italy

  1: 2 defeat against Hungary

  Gates:

• Squad

  Juraj Amšel

  Ivo Cipci

  Tomislav Franjković

  Vladimir Ivkovic

  Zdravko Ježić

  Hrvoje Kačić

  Zdravko Kovačić

  Lovro Radonić

  Ivo Štakula

  Boško Vuksanović

  Marjan Žužej

Web links

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