1956 Summer Olympics / Participant (Luxembourg)

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Luxembourg took part in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, with a delegation of eleven athletes, ten men and one woman, in five sports.

It was Luxembourg's ninth participation in the Summer Olympic Games since 1900 .

Participants by sport

fencing

• Émile Gretsch

  Epee, singles: semi-finals

  Epee, team: 1st round

• Jean-Fernand Leischen

  Epee, singles: 1st round

  Epee, team: 1st round

• Edouard Schmit

  Epee, singles: semi-finals

  Epee, team: 1st round

• Roger Theisen

  Epee, team: 1st round

  Saber, singles: 1st round

athletics

• Josy Barthel

  1,500 meters: heats

• Frédéric Hammer

  200 meters: heats

  Long jump: 26th place in qualification

• Gérard Rasquin

  400 meters: heats

  800 meters: gradients

Cycling

• Gaston Dumont

  Road race: DNF

swim

• René Kohn

  200 meters chest: heats

do gymnastics

• Josy Stoffel

  Individual all-around: 30th place

  Bars: 46th place

  Floor: 29th place

  Horse jump: 23rd place

  Horizontal bar: 29th place

  Rings: 37th place

  Pommel horse: 12th place

• Annette Krier

  Women, individual all-around: 59th place

  Women, floor: 39th place

  Women, horse jump: 60th place

  Women, balance beam: 59th place

  Women, uneven bars: 55th place

Web links

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