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Sports > Olympics > Summer Olympics Through The Years > 1956 Olympics > Track & Field

Women

Event  Time  
 100m Betty Cuthbert, AUS 11.5  
 Christa Stubnick, GER11.7 
 Marlene Matthews, AUS11.7 
 200m Betty Cuthbert, AUS 23.4 =OR
 Christa Stubnick, GER23.7 
 Marlene Matthews, AUS23.8 
 80m H Shirley Strickland, AUS 10.7 OR
 Gisela Köhler, GER10.9 
 Norma Thrower, AUS11.0 
4x100m AUS (Shirley Strickland, Norma Croker,
Fleur Mellor, Betty Cuthbert) 		44.5 WR
 Great Britain44.7 
 United States44.9 
Event  Mark  
High Jump Mildred McDaniel, USA 5- 91/4 WR
 Maria Pisaryeva, USSR5-51/2 
 Thelma Hopkins, GBR5-51/2 
Long Jump Elzbieta Krzesinska, POL 20-10 =WR
 Willye White, USA19-113/4 
 Nadyezda Dvalishvili, USSR19-103/4 
Shot Put Tamara Tyshkevich, USSR 54- 5 OR
 Galina Zybina, USSR54-23/4 
 Marianne Werner, GER51-21/2 
Discus Olga Fikotová, CZE 176- 1 OR
 Irina Beglyakova, USSR172-41/2 
 Nina Ponomaryeva, USSR170-8 
Javelin Inese Jaunzeme, USSR 176- 8  
 Marlene Ahrens, CHI165-3 
 Nadyezda Konyayeva, USSR164-111/2 

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