1956 Olympic Individual 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Sixten Jernberg, SWE | X-country | 1-2-1 |
| 3 | Toni Sailer, AUT | Alpine | 3-0-0 |
| 3 | Veikko Hakulinen, FIN | X-country | 1-2-0 |
| 3 | Pavel Kolchin, USSR | X-country | 1-0-2 |
| 2 | Yevgeny Grishin, USSR | Sp. Skate | 2-0-0 |
| 2 | Sigvard Ericsson, SWE | Sp. Skate | 1-1-0 |
| 2 | Fedor Terentyev, USSR | X-country | 1-0-1 |
| 2 | Renzo Alvera, ITA | Bobsled | 0-2-0 |
| 2 | Eugenio Monti, ITA | Bobsled | 0-2-0 |
| 2 | Andreas Molterer, AUT | Alpine | 0-1-1 |
| 2 | Oleg Goncharenko, USSR | Sp. Skate | 0-0-2 |
Women
| No | Sport | G-S-B | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Lyubov Kozyreva, USSR | X-country | 1-1-0 |
| 2 | Radya Eroshina, USSR | X-country | 0-2-0 |
| 2 | Sonja Edstrom, SWE | X-country | 0-0-2 |
| Top 10 Standings | 1956 Olympics | Alpine Skiing |
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