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

 

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