The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne , Australia. 272 competitors, 233 men and 39 women, took part in 135 events in 17 sports.[1] Dutch-led boycott , Soviet athletes under the Olympic flag instead of the national flag.
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The USSR finished first in the final medal rankings, with 37 gold and 98 total medals.
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Valentin Muratov — Artistic gymnastics, men's floor exerciseLarisa Latynina — Artistic gymnastics, women's floor exerciseViktor Chukarin — Artistic gymnastics, men's individual all-roundLarisa Latynina — Artistic gymnastics, women's individual all-roundVictor Chukarin — Artistic gymnastics, men's parallel barsBoris Shakhlin — Artistic gymnastics, men's pommel horseAlbert Azaryan — Artistic gymnastics, men's ringsVictor Chukarin , Valentin Muratov , Boris Shakhlin , Albert Azaryan , Yuri Titov , Pavel Stolbov — Artistic gymnastics, men's team competitionTamara Manina , Larisa Latynina , Sofia Muratova , Lidiya Kalinina-Ivanova , Polina Astakhova , Lyudmila Egorova — Artistic gymnastics, women's team competitionValentin Muratov — Artistic gymnastics, men's vaultLarisa Latynina — Artistic gymnastics, women's vaultVladimir Kuts — Athletics, men's 10000 mLeonid Spirin — Athletics, men's 20 km walkVladimir Kuts — Athletics, men's 5000 mInese Jaunzeme — Athletics, women's javelin throwTamara Tyshkevich — Athletics, women's shot putVladimir Safronov — Boxing, men's featherweightVladimir Yengibaryan — Boxing, men's light-welterweightGennadi Shatkov — Boxing, men's 71–75 kgPavel Kharin , Gratsian Botev — Canoeing, men's C-2 10000 mElizaveta Dementyeva — Canoeing, women's K-1 500 mLev Yashin , Nikolai Tishchenko , Mikhail Okonkov , Aleksei Paramonov , Anatoli Bashashkin , Igor Netto , Boris Tatushin , Anatoli Isayev , Eduard Streltsov , Valentin Ivanov , Vladimir Ryzhkin , Boris Kuznetsov , Iosif Betsa , Sergei Salnikov , Boris Razinsky , Anatoli Maslenkin , Anatoli Ilyin and Nikita Simonyan — Football (soccer), men's team competitionIgor Novikov , Ivan Deryugin , Aleksandr Tarasov — Modern pentathlon, men's team competitionAleksandr Berkutov , Yuriy Tyukalov — Rowing, men's double scullsVyacheslav Ivanov — Rowing, men's single scullsVitali Romanenko — Shooting, men's 100 m running deer, single/double shotsVasily Borisov — Shooting, men's 300 m free rifle 3 positionsAnatoli Bogdanov — Shooting, men's 50 m rifle 3 positionsIgor Rybak — Weightlifting, men's lightweightFedor Bogdanovsky — Weightlifting, men's middleweightArkady Vorobyov — Weightlifting, men's middle-heavyweightMirian Tsalkalamanidze — Wrestling, men's freestyle flyweightAnatoli Parfenov — Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman super-heavyweightNikolai Soloviev — Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman flyweightKonstantin Vyrupaev — Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman bantamweightGivi Kartoziya — Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman middleweightValentin Nikolayev — Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman light-heavyweightSilver
Tamara Manina — Artistic gymnastics, women's balance beamVictor Chukarin — Artistic gymnastics, men's floor exerciseYuri Titov — Artistic gymnastics, men's horizontal barValentin Muratov — Artistic gymnastics, men's ringsLarisa Latynina — Artistic gymnastics, women's uneven barsTamara Manina — Artistic gymnastics, women's vaultAntanas Mikenas — Athletics, men's 20 km walkLeonid Bartenev , Yuriy Konovalov , Vladimir Sukharev , Boris Tokarev — Athletics, men's 4 × 100 m relayYevgeniy Maskinskov — Athletics, men's 50 km walkIrina Beglyakova — Athletics, women's discus throwMikhail Krivonosov — Athletics, men's hammer throwMariya Pisareva — Athletics, women's high jumpGalina Zybina — Athletics, women's shot putValdis Muizhniek , Maigonis Valdmanis , Vladimir Torban , Stasys Stonkus , Kazys Petkevičius , Arkadi Bochkarev , Jānis Krūmiņš , Mikhail Semyonov , Algirdas Lauritenas , Yuri Ozerov , Viktor Zubkov , Mikhail Studenetsky — Basketball, men's team competitionLev Mukhin — Boxing, men's heavyweightPavel Kharin , Gratsian Botev — Canoeing, men's C-2 1000 mIgor Pissarev — Canoeing, men's K-1 1000 mMikhail Kaaleste , Anatoli Demitkov — Canoeing, men's K-2 1000 mIgor Buldakov , Viktor Ivanov — Rowing, men's coxless pairYevgeni Cherkasov — Shooting, men's 25 m rapid fire pistolAllan Erdman — Shooting, men's 300 m free rifle 3 positionsMakhmud Umarov — Shooting, men's 50 m pistolVasily Borisov — Shooting, men's 50 m rifle proneVladimir Stogov — Weightlifting, men's bantamweightYevgeni Minaev — Weightlifting, men's featherweightRavil Khabutdinov — Weightlifting, men's lightweightVasili Stepanov — Weightlifting, men's light-heavyweightBoris Kulayev — Wrestling, men's freestyle light-heavyweightVladimir Maneev — Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman welterweightBronze
Yuri Titov — Artistic gymnastics, men's individual all-roundSofia Muratova — Artistic gymnastics, women's individual all-roundVictor Chukarin — Artistic gymnastics, men's pommel horseTamara Manina , Larisa Latynina , Sofia Muratova , Lidiya Kalinina-Ivanova , Polina Astakhova , Lyudmila Egorova — Artistic gymnastics, women's team, portable apparatusSofia Muratova — Artistic gymnastics, women's uneven barsYuri Titov — Artistic gymnastics, men's vaultBruno Junk — Athletics, men's 20 km walkArdalion Ignatyev — Athletics, men's 400 mVasili Kuznetsov — Athletics, men's decathlonNina Romashkova — Athletics, women's discus throwAnatoli Samotsvetov — Athletics, men's hammer throwIgor Kashkarov — Athletics, men's high jumpViktor Tsybulenko — Athletics, men's javelin throwNadezhda Konyaeva — Athletics, women's javelin throwNadezhda Khnykina-Dvalishvili — Athletics, women's long jumpVitold Kreer — Athletics, men's triple jumpAnatoli Lagetko — Boxing, men's lightweightRomualdas Murauskas — Boxing, men's light-heavyweightGennady Bukharin — Canoeing, men's C-1 10000 mGennady Bukharin — Canoeing, men's C-1 1000 mLev Kuznetsov — Fencing, men's sabre individualYakov Rylsky , David Tyshler , Lev Kuznetsov , Yevgeni Cherepovsky , Leonid Bogdanov — Fencing, men's sabre teamIgor Emchuk , Heorhiy Zhylin , Vladimir Petrov — Rowing, men's pair-oared shell with coxswainVladimir Sevryugin — Shooting, men's 100 m running deer, single/double shotsKharis Yunichev — Swimming, men's 200 m breaststrokeVitali Sorokin , Vladimir Struzhanov , Gennadi Nikolaev , Boris Nikitin — Swimming, men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relayBoris Goikhman , Valentin Prokopov , Yuri Shlyapin , Vyacheslav Kurennoi , Pyotr Breus , Pyotr Mshvenieradze , Boris Markarov , Mikhail Ryzhak , Viktor Ageev and Nodar Gvakhariya — Water polo, men's team competitionMikhail Shakhov — Wrestling, men's freestyle bantamweightAlimbeg Bestaev — Wrestling, men's freestyle lightweightVakhtang Balavadze — Wrestling, men's freestyle welterweightGeorgi Skhirtladze — Wrestling, men's freestyle middleweightRoman Dzeneladze — Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman featherweight
Men's 110 m hurdles
Heat — 14.4s
Semifinals — 14.5s
Final — 14.6s (→ 6th place) Heat — 14.5s (→ did not advance) Men's marathon
Men's 10 m platform
Preliminary Round — 76.56
Final — 142.95 (→ 5th place) Preliminary Round — 73.02
Final — 134.52 (→ 8th place) Preliminary Round — 68.92 (→ did not advance, 13th place) Women's 3 m platform
Preliminary Round — 62.12
Final — 98.15 (→ 11th place) Women's 10 m platform
Preliminary Round — 52.19
Final — 76.95 (→ 9th place) Preliminary Round — 49.22
Final — 76.40 (→ 9th place) Preliminary Round — 52.64
Final — 73.84 (→ 9th place)
Three male pentathletes represented the Soviet Union in 1956. The Soviet pentathletes won gold in the team event.
Individual Team Igor Novikov
Aleksandr Tarasov
Ivan Deriuhin
In the following table for team events number of team representatives, who received medals are counted, not "one medal for all the team", as usual. Because there were people from different republics in one team.
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Russian Empire (1900–1912)
Estonia (1920–1936, 1992–)
Latvia (1924–1936, 1992–)
Lithuania (1924–1928, 1992–)
Unified Team (1992)
Armenia (1994–)
Belarus (1994–)
Georgia (1994–)
Kazakhstan (1994–)
Kyrgyzstan (1994–)
Moldova (1994–)
Ukraine (1994–)
Uzbekistan (1994–)
Azerbaijan (1996–)
Tajikistan (1996–)
Turkmenistan (1996–)
ROC (2020–2022)
Individual Neutral Athletes (2024)
gold medal)
silver medal)
bronze medal)
Russian SFSR
Ukrainian SSR
Armenian SSR
Georgian SSR
Latvian SSR
Lithuanian SSR
Azerbaijan SSR
Byelorussian SSR
Estonian SSR
