Australian athletes at the Melbourne 1956 Olympics* |
 
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Athletes |
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 Athletics | |||||
| 100 m M | | AUS | Hector Hogan | ||
| Gavin Carragher | |||||
| Raymond Charles Land | |||||
| 200 m M | | AUS | Graham Gipson | ||
| Douglas Winston | |||||
| Hector Hogan | |||||
| 400 m M | | AUS | John Goodman | ||
| Graham Gipson | |||||
| Kevan Gosper | |||||
| 800 m M | | AUS | Donald McMillan | ||
| Bill Butchart | |||||
| Jim Bailey | |||||
| 1500 m M | | AUS | John Landy | ||
| Mervyn Lincoln | |||||
| 5000 m M | | AUS | Allan Lawrence | ||
| Albert Thomas | |||||
| 10000 m M | | AUS | David Stephens | ||
| David Power | |||||
| Allan Lawrence | |||||
| Marathon M | | AUS | John Russell | ||
| Keith Ollerenshaw | |||||
| Leslie Perry | |||||
| 110 m hurdles M | | AUS | James Robert Joyce | ||
| Kenneth Doubleday | |||||
| John Chittick | |||||
| 400 m hurdles M | | AUS | Ross Parker | ||
| Geoffrey Goodacre | |||||
| David Lean | |||||
| 3000 m steeplechase M | | AUS | Graham Thomas | ||
| Ronald Blackney | |||||
| Neil Robbins | |||||
| 4x100 m M | | AUS | Edward McGlynn | ||
| Raymond Charles Land | |||||
| Gavin Carragher | |||||
| Hector Hogan | |||||
| 4x400 m M | | AUS | Graham Gipson | ||
| Leon Gregory | |||||
| Kevan Gosper | |||||
| David Lean | |||||
| 20 km walk M | | AUS | Donald Keane | ||
| Ronald Crawford | |||||
| Edward Allsopp | |||||
| 50 km walk M | | AUS | Ronald Crawford | ||
| Raymond Smith | |||||
| Edward Allsopp | |||||
| High jump M | | AUS | Charles Porter | ||
| John Vernon | |||||
| Colin Ridgeway | |||||
| Pole vault M | | AUS | Peter Denton | ||
| Bruce Peever | |||||
| Long jump M | | AUS | Ian Bruce | ||
| Michael Moroney | |||||
| Hugh Jack | |||||
| Triple jump M | | AUS | Maurice Rich | ||
| Ronald Gray | |||||
| Brian Oliver | |||||
| Shot put M | | AUS | Robert Hanlin | ||
| Berry Donath | |||||
| Discus throw M | | AUS | Vesmonis Balodis | ||
| Hammer throw M | | AUS | Neville Gadsden | ||
| Charles Morris | |||||
| Martin Crowe | |||||
| Javelin throw M | | AUS | James Achurch | ||
| Robert Grant | |||||
| Decathlon M | | AUS | Ian Bruce | ||
| Patrick Leane | |||||
| John Cann | |||||
| 100 m W | | AUS | Elizabeth Cuthbert | ||
| Marlene Matthews | |||||
| Shirley Strickland | |||||
| 200 m W | | AUS | Marlene Matthews | ||
| Elizabeth Cuthbert | |||||
| Norma Croker | |||||
| 80 m hurdles W | | AUS | Norma Thrower | ||
| Gloria Cooke | |||||
| Shirley Strickland | |||||
| 4x100 m W | | AUS | Norma Croker | ||
| Shirley Strickland | |||||
| Fleur Mellor | |||||
| Elizabeth Cuthbert | |||||
| High jump W | | AUS | Janice Cooper | ||
| Carole Bernoth | |||||
| Michelle Mason | |||||
| Long jump W | | AUS | Margaret Johnson | ||
| Erica Willis | |||||
| Nancy Borwick | |||||
| Shot put W | | AUS | Valerie Lawrence | ||
| Mary Breen | |||||
| Margaret Wioodlock | |||||
| Discus throw W | | AUS | Lois Jackman | ||
| Valerie Lawrence | |||||
| Shirley Cotton | |||||
| Javelin throw W | | AUS | June Heath | ||
| Heather Innes | |||||
| Maureen Wright | |||||
 Boxing | |||||
| Flyweight M | | AUS | Warner Batchelor | ||
| Bantamweight M | | AUS | Robert Bath | ||
| Featherweight M | | AUS | Noel Hazard | ||
| Lightweight M | | AUS | William Griffiths | ||
| Light-welterweight M | | AUS | Max Carlos | ||
| Welterweight M | | AUS | Kevin Hogarth | ||
| Light-middleweight M | | AUS | Peter Read | ||
| Middleweight M | | AUS | Howard Richter | ||
| Light-heavyweight M | | AUS | Anthony Madigan | ||
_pictogram.svg){kind=small} Canoe & Kayak | |||||
| K1 500 m W | | AUS | Edith Cochrane | ||
| K1 1000 m M | | AUS | Barry Stuart | ||
| K2 1000 m M | | AUS | Dennis Green | ||
| Walter Brown | |||||
| K1 10000 m M | | AUS | Maxwell Blandwin | ||
| K2 10000 m M | | AUS | Dennis Green | ||
| Walter Brown | |||||
| C1 1000 m M | | AUS | Bryan Harper | ||
| C2 1000 m M | | AUS | Thomas Ohman | ||
| William Jones | |||||
| C1 10000 m M | | AUS | Bryan Harper | ||
| C2 10000 m M | | AUS | William Jones | ||
| Thomas Ohman | |||||
_pictogram.svg){kind=small} Cycling | |||||
| Road race team M | | AUS | Jim Nestor | ||
| Jim Nevin | |||||
| John O'Sullivan | |||||
| 1000 m time trial M | | AUS | Warren Scarfe | ||
| Sprint M | | AUS | Richard Ploog | ||
| Tandem M | | AUS | Anthony Marchant | ||
| Ian Browne | |||||
 Diving | |||||
| Springboard M | | AUS | Arthur Winther | ||
| Joseph McCann | |||||
| Ronald Faulds | |||||
| Springboard W | | AUS | Barbara MacAulay | ||
| Patricia Howard | |||||
| Rosalyn Barton | |||||
| Platform M | | AUS | William Tully | ||
| Francis Murphy | |||||
| Barry Holmes | |||||
| Platform W | | AUS | Rosalyn Barton | ||
| Barbara MacAulay | |||||
| Adele Price | |||||
 Equestrian | |||||
| Eventing team | | AUS | Wyatt Thompson | ||
| Brian Crago | |||||
| Ernest Barker | |||||
 Fencing | |||||
| Foil individual W | | AUS | Denise O'Brien | ||
| Joy Hardon | |||||
| Lois Joseph | |||||
| Foil individual M | | AUS | Brian McCowage | ||
| David McKenzie | |||||
| Michael Sichel | |||||
| Foil team M | | AUS | Brian McCowage | ||
| Rod Steel | |||||
| David McKenzie | |||||
| Michael Sichel | |||||
| Ray Buckingham | |||||
| Tom Cross | |||||
| Epee individual M | | AUS | Richard Stone | ||
| Ivan Lund | |||||
| Laurence Harding-Snith | |||||
| Sabre individual M | | AUS | Leslie Fadgyas | ||
| Graham McKenzie | |||||
| Sandor Szoke | |||||
_pictogram.svg){kind=small} Gymnastics | |||||
| Individual all-round W | | AUS | Ing Fraser | ||
| Wendy Nicholls | |||||
| Barbara Cunningham | |||||
| Team M | | AUS | David Gourlay | ||
| Bruce Sharp | |||||
| Brian Blackburn | |||||
| Alexander Punton | |||||
| John Lees | |||||
| Graham Bond | |||||
 Modern Pentathlon | |||||
| Individual M | | AUS | Sven Coomer | ||
| Neville Sayers | |||||
| George Nicoll | |||||
| Team M | | AUS | Sven Coomer | ||
| George Nicoll | |||||
| Neville Sayers | |||||
 Rowing | |||||
| Single sculls M | | AUS | Stuart McKenzie | ||
| Double sculls M | | AUS | Murray Riley | ||
| Mervyn Wood | |||||
| Pair without coxswain M | | AUS | Maurice Grace | ||
| Peter Adrian Raper | |||||
| Four with coxswain M | | AUS | Ian Allen | ||
| Gordon Cowey | |||||
| Reginald Libbis | |||||
| John Jenkinson | |||||
| Kevin McMahon | |||||
| Eight with coxswain M | | AUS | James Howden | ||
| Adrian Monger | |||||
| Bryan Doyle | |||||
| Garth Manton | |||||
| Harold Hewitt | |||||
| Michael Aikman | |||||
| David Boykett | |||||
| Angus Benfield | |||||
| Walter Howell | |||||
 Sailing | |||||
| 5,5 m | | AUS | Alexander Sturrock | ||
| Douglas Buxton | |||||
| Devereaux Mytton | |||||
| Dragon | | AUS | Graham Drane | ||
| James Carolane | |||||
| Brian Carolane | |||||
| Star | | AUS | John Downey | ||
| Robert French | |||||
| Finn M | | AUS | Colin Ryrie | ||
| Sharpie | | AUS | Roland Tasker | ||
| John Scott | |||||
 Shooting | |||||
| Rifle three positions M | | AUS | Norman Rule | ||
| Don Tolhurst | |||||
| Rifle prone M | | AUS | Don Tolhurst | ||
| Norman Rule | |||||
| Free rifle M | | AUS | Ian Wrigley | ||
| Norman Goff | |||||
| Moving target M | | AUS | Noel Hall | ||
| Colin Anderson | |||||
| Free pistol M | | AUS | Rodney Johnson | ||
| Leonard Tolhurst | |||||
| Rapid fire pistol M | | AUS | Peter Papps | ||
| Johnnie Maitland | |||||
| Trap M | | AUS | John Bryant | ||
| Clement Mudford | |||||
 Swimming | |||||
| 100 m freestyle W | | AUS | Faith Leech | ||
| Dawn Fraser | |||||
| Lorraine Crapp | |||||
| 100 m freestyle M | | AUS | Gary Chapman | ||
| John Devitt | |||||
| Jon Henricks | |||||
| 400 m freestyle W | | AUS | Dawn Fraser | ||
| Sandra Morgan | |||||
| Lorraine Crapp | |||||
| 400 m freestyle M | | AUS | Kevin O'Halloran | ||
| Murray Rose | |||||
| Garry Winram | |||||
| 1500 m freestyle M | | AUS | Murray Garretty | ||
| Garry Winram | |||||
| Murray Rose | |||||
| 100 m backstroke W | | AUS | Gerganyia Beckitt | ||
| Patricia Huntingford | |||||
| Pamela Singleton | |||||
| 100 m backstroke M | | AUS | John Hayres | ||
| John Monckton | |||||
| David Theile | |||||
| 200 m breaststroke W | | AUS | Barbara Evans | ||
| 200 m breaststroke M | | AUS | Terry Gathercole | ||
| 100 m butterfly W | | AUS | Maureen Giles | ||
| Beverly Bainbridge | |||||
| 200 m butterfly M | | AUS | John Marshall | ||
| Brian Wilkinson | |||||
| 4x100 m freestyle W | | AUS | Elizabeth Fraser | ||
| Faith Leech | |||||
| Sandra Morgan | |||||
| Margaret Gibson | |||||
| Dawn Fraser | |||||
| Lorraine Crapp | |||||
| 4x200 m freestyle M | | AUS | Kevin O'Halloran | ||
| Jon Henricks | |||||
| Gary Chapman | |||||
| Murray Garretty | |||||
| Graham Hamilton | |||||
| John Devitt | |||||
| Murray Rose | |||||
 Weightlifting | |||||
| Bantamweight M | | AUS | Charles Henderson | ||
| Featherweight M | | AUS | Keith Caple | ||
| Lightweight M | | AUS | Verne Barberis | ||
| Middleweight M | | AUS | Frederick Baugh | ||
| Light-heavyweight M | | AUS | John Powell | ||
| Middle-heavyweight M | | AUS | Leonard Treganowan | ||
| Manoel Santos | |||||
 Wrestling | |||||
| Freestyle flyweight M | | AUS | Frederick Flannery | ||
| Freestyle bantamweight M | | AUS | Geoffrey Jameson | ||
| Freestyle featherweight M | | AUS | Richard John Elliott | ||
| Freestyle light-heavyweight M | | AUS | Kevin Coote | ||
| Freestyle heavyweight M | | AUS | Ray Mitchell | ||
| Greco-Roman flyweight M | | AUS | Malte Hakansson | ||
| Greco-Roman bantamweight M | | AUS | Ronald Joseph Sweeney | ||
| Greco-Roman featherweight M | | AUS | Norman Ickeringill | ||
| Greco-Roman welterweight M | | AUS | Frederick Murphy | ||
| Greco-Roman middleweight M | | AUS | William Paterson | ||
| Greco-Roman light-heavyweight M | | AUS | Victor Macha | ||
| Greco-Roman heavyweight M | | AUS | Joseph Zammit | ||
| * The list of Australian athletes in the 1956 Olympic Games is not yet complete | |||||
| This information about Australian athletes in the Olympic Summer Games in Melbourne 1956 is based on the official olympic reports and Olympian Database | |||||
