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 | Sandra Morgan | ||
Lorraine Crapp | |||||
Margaret Gibson | |||||
Faith Leech | |||||
Dawn Fraser | |||||
4x200 m freestyle M | ![]() | AUS | Murray Garretty | ||
Murray Rose | |||||
John Devitt | |||||
Graham Hamilton | |||||
Kevin O'Halloran | |||||
Gary Chapman | |||||
Jon Henricks | |||||
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 | |||||