Swedish medalists at the Melbourne 1956 Olympics

Swedish medalists at the Melbourne 1956 Olympics

Facts Medals Athletes Sports


Event	Medalists


Gold medalists

Canoe & Kayak

K1 1000 m M	SWE	Gert Fredriksson

K1 10000 m M	SWE	Gert Fredriksson


Modern Pentathlon

Individual M	SWE	Lars Hall


Equestrian

Dressage individual	SWE	Henri Saint Cyr

Dressage team	SWE	Gehnäll Persson
		Henri Saint Cyr
		Gustaf-Adolf Boltenstern Jr.

Eventing individual	SWE	Petrus Kastenman


Sailing

5,5 m	SWE	Hjalmar Karlsson
		Lars Thörn
		Sture Stork

Dragon	SWE	Folke Bohlin
		Bengt Palmquist
		Leif Wikström


Silver medalists

Wrestling

Greco-Roman bantamweight M	SWE	Edvin Vesterby


Gymnastics

Floor M	SWE	William Thoresson

Team exercise W	SWE	Maude Karlen
		Evy Berggren
		Karin Lindberg
		Doris Hedberg
		Eva Rönström
		Ann-Sofi Colling-Pettersson


Rowing

Four with coxswain M	SWE	Sven Ever Gunnarsson
		Gösta Eriksson
		Bertil Göransson
		Ivar Aronsson
		Olof Larsson


Shooting

Moving target M	SWE	Per Olof Sköldberg


Bronze medalists

Athletics

50 km walk M	SWE	John Ljunggren


Wrestling

Greco-Roman welterweight M	SWE	Per Berlin

Greco-Roman middleweight M	SWE	Karl-Axel Jansson

Greco-Roman light-heavyweight M	SWE	Karl-Erik Nilsson


Gymnastics

Vault W	SWE	Ann-Sofi Colling-Pettersson


Shooting

Rifle three positions M	SWE	Nils Johan Sundberg

This information about Sweden at the olympic summer games in Melbourne 1956 is based on the official olympic reports and Olympian Database