Nordic skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics

At the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, eight Nordic skiing events were contested – six cross-country skiing events, one ski jumping event, and one Nordic combined event.

Nordic skiing discipline	Men's events	Women's events
Cross-country skiing	• 15 km	• 10 km
	• 30 km
	• 50 km
	• 4 × 10 km relay	• 3 × 5 km relay
Ski jumping	• Large hill (70m)	none
Nordic combined	• Individual	none

Medal summary

Men's events

Cross-country skiing

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
15 km details	Hallgeir Brenden[1]  Norway	Sixten Jernberg  Sweden	Pavel Kolchin  Soviet Union
30 km details	Veikko Hakulinen[2]  Finland	Sixten Jernberg  Sweden	Pavel Kolchin  Soviet Union
50 km details	Sixten Jernberg[3]  Sweden	Veikko Hakulinen  Finland	Fyodor Terentyev  Soviet Union
4 × 10 km relay details	Soviet Union (URS)[4] Fyodor Terentyev Pavel Kolchin Nikolay Anikin Vladimir Kuzin	Finland (FIN) August Kiuru Jorma Kortelainen Arvo Viitanen Veikko Hakulinen	Sweden (SWE) Lennart Larsson Gunnar Samuelsson Per-Erik Larsson Sixten Jernberg

Ski jumping

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Normal hill details	Antti Hyvärinen[5]  Finland	Aulis Kallakorpi  Finland	Harry Glaß  United Team of Germany

Nordic combined

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual details	Sverre Stenersen[6]  Norway	Bengt Eriksson  Sweden	Franciszek Gąsienica Gron  Poland

Women's events

Cross-country skiing

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
10 km details	Lyubov Kozyreva[7]  Soviet Union	Radia Yeroshina  Soviet Union	Sonja Edström  Sweden
3 × 5 km relay details	Finland (FIN)[4] Sirkka Polkunen Mirja Hietamies Siiri Rantanen	Soviet Union (URS) Lyubov Kozyreva Alevtina Kolchina Radya Yeroshina	Sweden (SWE) Irma Johansson Anna-Lisa Eriksson Sonja Edström