Olympian Database
American athletes at the Melbourne 1956 Olympics* |
 
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 Athletics | |||||
| 100 m M |  | USA | Ira Murchison | ||
| Walter Thane Baker | |||||
| Bobby Morrow | |||||
| 200 m M | | USA | Bobby Morrow | ||
| Andrew Stanfield | |||||
| Walter Thane Baker | |||||
| 400 m M | | USA | Lou Jones | ||
| Charles Jenkins | |||||
| James Lea | |||||
| 800 m M | | USA | Arnie Sowell | ||
| Tom Courtney | |||||
| Lonnie Spurrier | |||||
| 1500 m M | | USA | Jerome Walters | ||
| Donald Bowden | |||||
| Ted Wheeler | |||||
| 5000 m M | | USA | Curtis Stone | ||
| William Dellinger | |||||
| 10000 m M | | USA | Richard Hart | ||
| Max Truex | |||||
| Gordon McKenzie | |||||
| Marathon M | | USA | Nicholas Costes | ||
| Dean Thackwray | |||||
| John Kelley | |||||
| 110 m hurdles M | | USA | Jack Davis | ||
| Lee Calhoun | |||||
| Joel Shankle | |||||
| 400 m hurdles M | | USA | Glenn Davis | ||
| Josh Culbreath | |||||
| Eddie Southern | |||||
| 3000 m steeplechase M | | USA | Charles Jones | ||
| Philip Coleman | |||||
| Horace Ashenfelter | |||||
| 4x100 m M | | USA | Ira Murchison | ||
| Walter Thane Baker | |||||
| Leamon King | |||||
| Bobby Morrow | |||||
| 4x400 m M | | USA | Tom Courtney | ||
| Lou Jones | |||||
| Jesse Mashburn | |||||
| Charles Jenkins | |||||
| 20 km walk M | | USA | James Hewson | ||
| Bruce MacDonald | |||||
| Helmut Laskau | |||||
| 50 km walk M | | USA | Leo Sjogren | ||
| Elliott Denman | |||||
| Adolf Weinacher | |||||
| High jump M | | USA | Charles Dumas | ||
| Vernon Wilson | |||||
| Phil Reavis | |||||
| Pole vault M | | USA | George Mattos | ||
| Bob Gutowski | |||||
| Robert Richards | |||||
| Long jump M | | USA | Gregory Bell | ||
| John Bennett | |||||
| Triple jump M | | USA | George Shaw | ||
| William Sharpe | |||||
| Ira Davis | |||||
| Shot put M | | USA | Bill Nieder | ||
| Parry O'Brien | |||||
| Kenneth Bantum | |||||
| Discus throw M | | USA | Al Oerter | ||
| Desmond Koch | |||||
| Fortune Gordien | |||||
| Hammer throw M | | USA | Harold Connolly | ||
| Albert Hall | |||||
| Javelin throw M | | USA | Benjamin Garcia | ||
| Philip Conley | |||||
| Cyrus Young | |||||
| Decathlon M | | USA | Rafer Johnson | ||
| Milton Campbell | |||||
| Robert Richards | |||||
| 100 m W | | USA | Isabelle Daniels | ||
| Mae Faggs | |||||
| Lucinda Williams | |||||
| 200 m W | | USA | Mae Faggs | ||
| Meredith Ellis | |||||
| Wilma Rudolph | |||||
| 80 m hurdles W | | USA | Barbara Mueller | ||
| Irene Rose Robertson | |||||
| Constance Darnowski | |||||
| 4x100 m W | | USA | Wilma Rudolph | ||
| Mae Faggs | |||||
| Isabelle Daniels | |||||
| Margaret Matthews | |||||
| High jump W | | USA | Ann Flynn | ||
| Mildred McDaniel | |||||
| Long jump W | | USA | Willye White | ||
| Margaret Matthews | |||||
| Shot put W | | USA | Lois Testa | ||
| Earlene Brown | |||||
| Paula Deubel | |||||
| Discus throw W | | USA | Marjorie Larney | ||
| Earlene Brown | |||||
| Pamela Kurrell | |||||
| Javelin throw W | | USA | Amelia Wershoven | ||
| Marjorie Larney | |||||
| Karen Anderson | |||||
 Basketball | |||||
| Basketball M | | USA | Burdette Haldorson | ||
| Ronald Tomsic | |||||
| William Hougland | |||||
| James Walsh | |||||
| William Evans | |||||
| Charles Darling | |||||
| Gilbert Ford | |||||
| Robert Jeangerard | |||||
| Bill Russell | |||||
| Carl Cain | |||||
| K.C. Jones | |||||
| Richard Boushka | |||||
 Boxing | |||||
| Flyweight M | | USA | Ray Perez | ||
| Lightweight M | | USA | Louis Molina | ||
| Light-welterweight M | | USA | Joseph Shaw | ||
| Welterweight M | | USA | Pearce Allen Lane | ||
| Light-middleweight M | | USA | Jose Torres | ||
| Middleweight M | | USA | Roger Rouse | ||
| Light-heavyweight M | | USA | James Boyd | ||
| Heavyweight M | | USA | Peter Rademacher | ||
_pictogram.svg){kind=small} Canoe & Kayak | |||||
| K1 1000 m M | | USA | David Merwin | ||
| K2 1000 m M | | USA | John Pagkos | ||
| Russell Dermond | |||||
| K1 10000 m M | | USA | Robert O'Brien | ||
| K2 10000 m M | | USA | Ken Wilson | ||
| Edward Houston | |||||
| C1 1000 m M | | USA | William Schuette | ||
| C2 1000 m M | | USA | Richard Moran | ||
| George Byers | |||||
| C1 10000 m M | | USA | Frank Havens | ||
| C2 10000 m M | | USA | Frank Krick | ||
| John Haas | |||||
_pictogram.svg){kind=small} Cycling | |||||
| Road race team M | | USA | Butch Neumann | ||
| David Rhoads | |||||
| Joseph Becker | |||||
| 1000 m time trial M | | USA | Allen Bell | ||
| Sprint M | | USA | Jack Disney | ||
| Tandem M | | USA | Donald Ferguson | ||
| James Rossi | |||||
 Diving | |||||
| Springboard M | | USA | Donald Harper | ||
| Robert Clothworthy | |||||
| Glen Whitten | |||||
| Springboard W | | USA | Barbara Gilders | ||
| Jeanne Stunyo | |||||
| Patricia McCormick | |||||
| Platform M | | USA | William Farrell | ||
| Richard Connor | |||||
| Gary Tobian | |||||
| Platform W | | USA | Juno Irwin | ||
| Patricia McCormick | |||||
| Paula Jean Myers | |||||
 Equestrian | |||||
| Dressage individual | | USA | Elaine Watt | ||
| Robert Borg | |||||
| Jumping team | | USA | Frank Chapot | ||
| Hugh Wiley | |||||
| William Steinkraus | |||||
 Fencing | |||||
| Foil individual W | | USA | Maxine Mitchell | ||
| Judy Goodrich | |||||
| Janice Lee Romary | |||||
| Foil individual M | | USA | Byron Krieger | ||
| Harold Goldsmith | |||||
| Albert Axelrod | |||||
| Foil team M | | USA | Albert Axelrod | ||
| Sewall Schurtz | |||||
| Nathaniel Lubell | |||||
| Harold Goldsmith | |||||
| Daniel Bukantz | |||||
| Byron Krieger | |||||
| Epee individual M | | USA | Richard Pew | ||
| Kinmont Hoitsma | |||||
| Skip Shurtz | |||||
| Sabre individual M | | USA | George Worth | ||
| Allan Kwartler | |||||
| Tibor Nyilas | |||||
_pictogram.svg){kind=small} Gymnastics | |||||
| Individual all-round W | | USA | Sandra Ruddick | ||
| Muriel Grossfeld | |||||
| Judith Howe | |||||
| Doris Fuchs | |||||
| Joyce Racek | |||||
| Jackie Klein | |||||
| Individual all-round M | | USA | John Beckner | ||
| Team W | | USA | Judith Howe | ||
| Muriel Davis | |||||
| Joyce Racek | |||||
| Doris Fuchs | |||||
| Jaquelyn Klein | |||||
| Sandra Ruddick | |||||
| Team M | | USA | William Tom | ||
| Charles Simms | |||||
| Abraham Grossfeld | |||||
| Richard Beckner | |||||
| Jose Armando Vega | |||||
| John Beckner | |||||
| Vault M | | USA | John Beckner | ||
| Horizontal bar M | | USA | John Beckner | ||
| Team exercise W | | USA | Sandra Ruddick | ||
| Joyce Racek | |||||
| Doris Fuchs | |||||
| Muriel Davis | |||||
| Jaquelyn Klein | |||||
| Judith Howe | |||||
 Modern Pentathlon | |||||
| Individual M | | USA | George Lambert | ||
| Jack Daniels | |||||
| William Andre | |||||
| Team M | | USA | Jack Daniels | ||
| William Andre | |||||
| George Lambert | |||||
 Rowing | |||||
| Single sculls M | | USA | John Kelly Jr. | ||
| Double sculls M | | USA | Patrick Costello | ||
| James Gardiner | |||||
| Pair without coxswain M | | USA | Duvall Hecht | ||
| James Fifer | |||||
| Pair with coxswain M | | USA | Arthur Ayralt | ||
| Conn Findlay | |||||
| Kurt Seiffert | |||||
| Four without coxswain M | | USA | Arthur McKinlay | ||
| John McKinlay | |||||
| James McIntosh | |||||
| John Weichli | |||||
| Eight with coxswain M | | USA | Richard Wailes | ||
| Charles Grimes | |||||
| Caldwell Esselstyn | |||||
| Thomas Charlton | |||||
| Robert Morey | |||||
| William Becklean | |||||
| David Weight | |||||
| John Cooke | |||||
| Donald Beer | |||||
 Sailing | |||||
| 5,5 m | | USA | Ferdinand Schoettle | ||
| Robert Stinson | |||||
| John Bryant | |||||
| Victor Sheronas | |||||
| Dragon | | USA | Carlos Echeverria | ||
| Gene Walet | |||||
| Daniel Killeen | |||||
| Star | | USA | Herbert Williams | ||
| Lawrence Low | |||||
| Finn M | | USA | John Marvin | ||
| Sharpie | | USA | Stanley Renehan | ||
| Eric Olsen | |||||
 Shooting | |||||
| Rifle three positions M | | USA | Arthur Jackson | ||
| Verle Wright | |||||
| Rifle prone M | | USA | Arthur Jackson | ||
| Verle Wright | |||||
| Free rifle M | | USA | James Smith | ||
| Herbert Voelcker | |||||
| Free pistol M | | USA | Joe Benner | ||
| Offutt Pinion | |||||
| Rapid fire pistol M | | USA | John Beaumont | ||
| John Forman | |||||
 Swimming | |||||
| 100 m freestyle W | | USA | Nancy Simons | ||
| Shelley Mann | |||||
| Joan Rosazza | |||||
| 100 m freestyle M | | USA | William Woolsey | ||
| Richard Hanley | |||||
| Reid Patterson | |||||
| 400 m freestyle W | | USA | Susan Gray | ||
| Marley Shriver | |||||
| Sylvia Ruuska | |||||
| 400 m freestyle M | | USA | George Breen | ||
| William Woolsey | |||||
| George Onekea | |||||
| 1500 m freestyle M | | USA | George Breen | ||
| David Radcliff | |||||
| George Onekea | |||||
| 100 m backstroke W | | USA | Maureen Murphy | ||
| Mary Anne Marchino | |||||
| Carin Cone | |||||
| 100 m backstroke M | | USA | Yoshinobu Oyakawa | ||
| Albert Wiggins | |||||
| Frank McKinney | |||||
| 200 m breaststroke W | | USA | Mary Sears | ||
| 200 m breaststroke M | | USA | Robert Hughes | ||
| 100 m butterfly W | | USA | Mary Sears | ||
| Shelley Mann | |||||
| Nancy Ramey | |||||
| 200 m butterfly M | | USA | William Yorzyk | ||
| Jack Nelson | |||||
| 4x100 m freestyle W | | USA | Marley Shriver | ||
| Shelley Mann | |||||
| Betty Brey | |||||
| Nancy Simons | |||||
| Kathryn Knapp | |||||
| Joan Rosazza | |||||
| Sylvia Ruuska | |||||
| 4x200 m freestyle M | | USA | George Breen | ||
| Ford Konno | |||||
| Perry Jecko | |||||
| Richard Tanabe | |||||
| William Woolsey | |||||
| Richard Hanley | |||||
 Water Polo | |||||
| Water polo M | | USA | Robert Horn | ||
| William Ross | |||||
| Kenneth Hahn | |||||
| Samuel Kooistra | |||||
| Robert Frojen | |||||
| Wallace Wolf | |||||
| Robert Hughes | |||||
| William Kooistra | |||||
| Ronald Severa | |||||
| James Gaughran | |||||
 Weightlifting | |||||
| Bantamweight M | | USA | Charles Vinci | ||
| Featherweight M | | USA | Isaac Berger | ||
| Middleweight M | | USA | Peter George | ||
| Light-heavyweight M | | USA | Tommy Kono | ||
| James George | |||||
| Middle-heavyweight M | | USA | David Sheppard | ||
| Heavyweight M | | USA | Paul Anderson | ||
 Wrestling | |||||
| Freestyle flyweight M | | USA | Richard Delgado | ||
| Freestyle bantamweight M | | USA | Lee Allen | ||
| Freestyle featherweight M | | USA | Myron Roderick | ||
| Freestyle lightweight M | | USA | Jay Thomas Evans | ||
| Freestyle middleweight M | | USA | Daniel Hodge | ||
| Freestyle light-heavyweight M | | USA | Peter Blair | ||
| Freestyle heavyweight M | | USA | William Kerslake | ||
| Greco-Roman flyweight M | | USA | John Richard Wilson | ||
| Greco-Roman bantamweight M | | USA | Kent Townley | ||
| Greco-Roman featherweight M | | USA | Alan Rice | ||
| Greco-Roman lightweight M | | USA | Jay Thomas Evans | ||
| Greco-Roman welterweight M | | USA | James Holt | ||
| Greco-Roman middleweight M | | USA | James Peckham | ||
| Greco-Roman light-heavyweight M | | USA | Dale Thomas | ||
| Greco-Roman heavyweight M | | USA | Dale Lewis | ||
| * The list of American athletes in the 1956 Olympic Games is not yet complete | |||||
| This information about American athletes in the Olympic Summer Games in Melbourne 1956 is based on the official olympic reports and Olympian Database | |||||
