Rowing at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Rowing at the 1956 Summer Olympics featured 7 events, for men only. The competitions were held from November 23, 1956 to November 27, 1956 on Lake Wendouree, Ballarat, Australia.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
single sculls	Vyacheslav Ivanov (URS)	Stuart MacKenzie (AUS)	John B. Kelly, Jr. (USA)
double sculls	Aleksandr Berkutov and Yury Tyukalov (URS)	Pat Costello and James Gardiner (USA)	Murray Riley and Mervyn Wood (AUS)
coxless pairs	James Fifer and Duvall Hecht (USA)	Igor Buldakov and Viktor Ivanov (URS)	Josef Kloimstein and Alfred Sageder (AUT)
coxed pairs	United States (USA) Arthur Ayrault Conn Findlay Kurt Seiffert	Germany (EUA) Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck Horst Arndt Rainer Borkowsky	Soviet Union (URS) Ihor Yemchuk Heorhiy Zhylin Vladimir Petrov
coxless fours	Canada (CAN) Archibald McKinnon Lorne Loomer Walter D'Hondt Donald Arnold	United States (USA) John Welchli John McKinlay Art McKinlay James McIntosh	France (FRA) René Guissart Yves Delacour Gaston Mercier Guy Guillabert
coxed fours	Italy (ITA) Albert Winkler Romano Sgheiz Angelo Vanzin Franco Trincavelli Ivo Stefanoni	Sweden (SWE) Olle Larsson Gösta Eriksson Ivar Aronsson Evert Gunnarsson Bertil Göransson	Finland (FIN) Kauko Hänninen Reino Poutanen Veli Lehtelä Toimi Pitkänen Matti Niemi
eights	United States (USA) Thomas Charlton David Wight John Cooke Donald Beer Caldwell Esselstyn Charles Grimes Rusty Wailes Robert Morey William Becklean	Canada (CAN) Philip Kueber Richard McClure Robert Wilson David Helliwell Donald Pretty Bill McKerlich Douglas McDonald Lawrence West Carlton Ogawa	Australia (AUS) Michael Aikman David Boykett Fred Benfield Jim Howden Garth Manton Walter Howell Adrian Monger Brian Doyle Harold Hewitt

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	3	2	1	6
2	Soviet Union (URS)	2	1	1	4
3	Canada (CAN)	1	1	0	2
4	Italy (ITA)	1	0	0	1
5	Australia (AUS)	0	1	2	3
6	Germany (EUA)	0	1	0	1
6	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
8	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1

Total		7	7	7	21

References

International Olympic Committee medal database

Events at the 1956 Summer Olympics (Melbourne/Stockholm)

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Rowing at the Summer Olympics

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