Toni Sailer, the Austrian gold medalist in three disciplines Alpine skiing The1956 Winter Olympics , officially known by theInternational Olympic Committee (IOC) as theVII Olympic Winter Games , were a wintermulti-sport event held inCortina d'Ampezzo , Italy, from 26 January to 5 February 1956. A total of 821 athletes representing 32National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated in these Games in 24 events across 8disciplines .[ 1] four years prior , with two newcross-country events added to the competition. Both men and women competed at these Games, though women only contested events in alpine skiing, figure skating, and cross-country skiing. TheSoviet Union attempted to secure the inclusion of a women's speed skating event, but this was rejected by the IOC at its49th session in Athens in 1954.[ 2] 1960 Squaw Valley Olympics .[ 3]
A total of 131 athletes won medals in Cortina d'Ampezzo.[ 4] [ 1] Soviet Union won sixteen medals, seven of which were gold. Both medal totals were the most of any NOC at the Games. Two of these seven medals were earned in a single event, the1500 meters speed skating competition, when two Soviet skaters tied for first place in a world record time.[ 5] Austria andSweden won the second and third most medals, with 11 and 10 respectively. Of the 32 NOCs that competed in Cortina d'Ampezzo, 13 won at least one medal. Host nationItaly won three medals, all in bobsleigh.[ 6]
Cross-country skierSixten Jernberg of Sweden won four medals, and AustrianToni Sailer won three gold medals in alpine skiing, both of which were the most of any athlete in Cortina d'Ampezzo.Tenley Albright improved on her silver medal from four years prior in Oslo to win the gold medal inladies figure skating .[ 7] Yevgeny Grishin andOleg Goncharenko . Grishin would repeat his performance with golds in the same two events four years later in Squaw Valley.[ 8]
Cross-country skiing [ edit ] Veikko Hakulinen won one gold and two silver medals in the 1956 Winter Olympics.
Wendell Anderson , silver medalist for the United States in ice hockey, would be electedGovernor of Minnesota in 1971.[ 30] Sverre Stenersen , the 1952 bronze medalist inNordic combined , won gold in Cortina d'Ampezzo.[ 34]
Ski jumping bronze medalistHarry Glaß of theUnified Team of Germany , pictured here inOberhof, East Germany shortly after the 1956 Olympics
Yevgeny Grishin andYuri Mikhaylov tied for first place in the 1,500 metres speed skating with a world record.Sixten Jernberg (left) , who representedSweden incross-country skiing , won four medals including a gold medal in the50 km race.Athletes who won multiple medals during the 1956 Winter Olympics are listed below.
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