Swimming at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Swimming at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
Breaststroke
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
100 m		women
200 m	men
Freestyle relay
4×100 m		women
4×200 m	men

At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, 13 swimming events were contested, seven for men and six for women. There was a total of 235 participants from 33 countries competing.^[1] For the first time, the butterfly stroke was contested as a separate event. Australia dominated the medal standings with a total of 8 out of a possible 13 gold medals, eventually finishing with 14 medals overal.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia (AUS)	8	4	2	14
2	United States (USA)	2	4	5	11
3	Japan (JPN)	1	4	0	5
4	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	1	2
4	United Team of Germany (EUA)	1	0	1	2
6	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	1	2
7	Soviet Union (URS)	0	0	2	2
8	South Africa (RSA)	0	0	1	1

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Jon Henricks Australia	55.4 (WR)	John Devitt Australia	55.8	Gary Chapman Australia	56.7
400 m freestyle	Murray Rose Australia	4:27.3 (WR)	Tsuyoshi Yamanaka Japan	4:30.4	George Breen United States	4:32.5
1500 m freestyle	Murray Rose Australia	17:58.9	Tsuyoshi Yamanaka Japan	18:00.3	George Breen United States	18:08.2
100 m backstroke	David Theile Australia	1:02.2 (WR)	John Monckton Australia	1:03.2	Frank McKinney United States	1:04.5
200 m breaststroke	Masaru Furukawa Japan	2:34.7	Masahiro Yoshimura Japan	2:36.7	Kharis Yunichev Soviet Union	2:36.8
200 m butterfly	William Yorzyk United States	2:19.3	Takashi Ishimoto Japan	2:23.8	György Tumpek Hungary	2:23.9
4 × 200 metre freestyle relay	Australia (AUS) Kevin O'Halloran John Devitt Murray Rose Jon Henricks	8:23.6 (WR)	United States (USA) Dick Hanley George Breen Bill Woolsey Ford Konno	8:31.5	Soviet Union (URS) Vitaly Sorokin Vladimir Struzhanov Gennady Nikolayev Boris Nikitin	8:34.7

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Dawn Fraser Australia	1:02.0 (WR)	Lorraine Crapp Australia	1:02.3	Faith Leech Australia	1:05.1
400 m freestyle	Lorraine Crapp Australia	4:54.6 (OR)	Dawn Fraser Australia	5:02.5	Sylvia Ruuska United States	5:07.1
100 m backstroke	Judy Grinham Great Britain	1:12.9 (WR)	Carin Cone United States	1:12.9 (=WR)	Margaret Edwards Great Britain	1:13.1
200 m breaststroke	Ursula Happe United Team of Germany	2:53.1 (OR)	Éva Székely Hungary	2:54.8	Eva-Maria Elsen United Team of Germany	2:55.1
100 m butterfly	Shelley Mann United States	1:11.0 (OR)	Nancy Ramey United States	1:11.9	Mary Sears United States	1:14.4
4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	Australia (AUS) Dawn Fraser Faith Leech Sandra Morgan Lorraine Crapp	4:17.1 (WR)	United States (USA) Sylvia Ruuska Shelley Mann Nancy Simons Joan Rosazza	4:19.2	South Africa (RSA) Natalie Myburgh Susan Roberts Moira Abernethy Jeanette Myburgh	4:25.7

Participating nations

235 swimmers from 33 nations competed.^[1]

Australia (26)
Belgium (6)
Brazil (4)
Canada (8)
Colombia (3)
Cuba (2)
Czechoslovakia (2)
Denmark (2)
Finland (1)
France (16)
United Team of Germany (18)

Great Britain (18)
Hong Kong (2)
Hungary (16)
India (2)
Indonesia (3)
Israel (1)
Italy (7)
Japan (19)
Kenya (1)
Luxembourg (1)
Malaya (2)

References

1 2 "Swimming at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games". Sports Reference. Retrieved 1 October 2016.

Events at the 1956 Summer Olympics (Melbourne/Stockholm)

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