Swimming at the 1956 Olympics | |||||
Events |
Olympic Champions |
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100 m freestyle W | AUS | Dawn Fraser | |||
100 m freestyle M | AUS | Jon Henricks | |||
400 m freestyle W | AUS | Lorraine Crapp | |||
400 m freestyle M | AUS | Murray Rose | |||
1500 m freestyle M | AUS | Murray Rose | |||
4x100 m freestyle W | AUS | Dawn Fraser | |||
Margaret Gibson | |||||
Sandra Morgan | |||||
Faith Leech | |||||
Lorraine Crapp | |||||
4x200 m freestyle M | AUS | Gary Chapman | |||
Graham Hamilton | |||||
John Devitt | |||||
Murray Garretty | |||||
Jon Henricks | |||||
Kevin O'Halloran | |||||
Murray Rose | |||||
100 m backstroke W | GBR | Judith Grinham | |||
100 m backstroke M | AUS | David Theile | |||
200 m breaststroke W | GER | Ursula Happe | |||
200 m breaststroke M | JPN | Masaru Furukawa | |||
100 m butterfly W | USA | Shelley Mann | |||
200 m butterfly M | USA | William Yorzyk | |||
These facts about olympic Swimming and the Melbourne 1956 Swimming events are based on the official olympic reports and the Olympian Database | |||||