Australian athletes at the Melbourne 1956 Olympics* |
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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 | |||||
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 | |||
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 | |||||
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 | |||||
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 | |||||
Eventing team | AUS | Wyatt Thompson | |||
Brian Crago | |||||
Ernest Barker | |||||
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 | |||||
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 | |||||
Individual M | AUS | Sven Coomer | |||
Neville Sayers | |||||
George Nicoll | |||||
Team M | AUS | Sven Coomer | |||
George Nicoll | |||||
Neville Sayers | |||||
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 | |||||
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 | |||||
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 | |||||
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 | |||||
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 | |||||
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 | |||||