1956 Olympic Leading Medal Winners

Updated August 28, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

Number of individual medals won on the left; gold, silver and bronze breakdown to the right.

Men

No   Sport G-S-B
5 Viktor Chukarin, USSR Gymnastics 3-1-1
5 Takashi Ono, JPN Gymnastics 1-3-1
4 Valentin Muratov, USSR Gymnastics 3-1-0
4 Yuriy Titov, USSR Gymnastics 1-1-2
4 Masao Takemoto, JPN Gymnastics 0-1-3
3 Bobby Morrow, USA Track/Field 3-0-0
3 Murray Rose, AUS Swimming 3-0-0
3 Edoardo Mangiarotti, ITA Fencing 2-0-1
3 Thane Baker, USA Track/Field 1-1-1
3 Masami Kubota, JPN Gymnastics 0-2-1
3 George Breen, USA Swimming 0-1-2

Women

No   Sport G-S-B
6 Agnes Keleti, HUN Gymnastics 4-2-0
6 Larissa Latynina, USSR Gymnastics 4-1-1
4 Tamara Manina, USSR Gymnastics 1-2-1
4 Sofiya Muratova, USSR Gymnastics 1-0-3
3 Betty Cuthbert, AUS Track/Field 3-0-0
3 Lorraine Crapp, AUS Swimming 2-1-0
3 Dawn Fraser, AUS Swimming 2-1-0
3 Olga Tass, HUN Gymnastics 1-1-1

 

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