Gold

• Bobby Morrow — Athletics, Men's 100 metres
• Bobby Morrow — Athletics, Men's 200 metres
• Charles Jenkins — Athletics, Men's 400 metres
• Tom Courtney
  Tom Courtney
  Thomas William Courtney is a former American athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1956 Summer Olympics....
  
   — Athletics, Men's 800 metres
• Lee Calhoun
  Lee Calhoun
  Lee Quincy Calhoun was an American athlete, a double winner of 110 m hurdles at the Olympic Games....
  
   — Athletics, Men's 110m Hurdles
• Glenn Davis — Athletics, Men's 400m Hurdles
• Thane Baker
  Thane Baker
  Walter Thane Baker is a former American athlete and winner of the gold medal in the 4x100 m relay at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, with a new world record of 39.5 seconds. At those Olympics Baker also won a silver medal in the 100-meter and a bronze in the 200-meter...
  
  , Leamon King
  Leamon King
  Leamon King was an American athlete who jointly held the world record for the 100 metre sprint for men from 1956 to 1960....
  
  , Bobby Morrow, and Ira Murchison
  Ira Murchison
  Ira James Murchison was an American athlete, winner of the gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1956 Summer Olympics....
  
   — Athletics, Men's 4x100m Relay
• Tom Courtney
  Tom Courtney
  Thomas William Courtney is a former American athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1956 Summer Olympics....
  
  , Charles Jenkins, Lou Jones, and Jesse Mashburn
  Jesse Mashburn
  Jesse William Mashburn is a former American athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x400 m relay at the 1956 Summer Olympics....
  
   — Athletics, Men's 4x400m Relay
• Charles Dumas
  Charles Dumas
  Charles Everett Dumas was an American high jumper, the 1956 Olympic champion, and the first person to clear 7 ft....
  
   — Athletics, Men's High Jump
• Bob Richards
  Bob Richards
  The Reverend Robert Eugene Richards, known as Bob Richards , known as the "Vaulting Vicar" or the "Pole Vaulting Parson" in his competitive days, was a versatile athlete who made three Olympic teams in two events...
  
   — Athletics, Men's Pole Vault
• Greg Bell
  Greg Bell (athlete)
  Greg Bell is a former track and field athlete who won the Gold Medal in the Long Jump at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia....
  
   — Athletics, Men's Long Jump
• Parry O'Brien
  Parry O'Brien
  William Parry O'Brien, Jr. was an American shot put champion. Born in Santa Monica, California, he competed in four consecutive Summer Olympics where he won two gold medals and one silver medal . In his last Olympic competition he placed fourth. For this, he is inducted in the U.S...
  
   — Athletics, Men's Shot Put
• Harold Connolly
  Harold Vincent Connolly
  Harold Vincent "Hal" Connolly was an American athlete and hammer thrower from Somerville, Massachusetts. He won a gold medal in the hammer throw at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. During the course of his career, Connolly became the first American to throw more than 200 feet...
  
   — Athletics, Men's Hammer Throw
• Milt Campbell
  Milt Campbell
  Milton Gray Campbell is an American decathlete of the 1950s. In 1956, he became the first African American to win the gold medal in the decathlon of the Summer Olympic Games....
  
   — Athletics, Men's Decathlon
• Millie McDaniel — Athletics, Women's High Jump
• Al Oerter
  Al Oerter
  Alfred Adolf Oerter, Jr. was an American athlete, and a four-time Olympic Champion in the discus throw....
  
   — Athletics, Men's Discus Throw
• Dick Boushka, Carl Cain
  Carl Cain
  Carl Cecil Cain was an American basketball player who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics. Cain played collegiately at the University of Iowa....
  
  , Chuck Darling, Bill Evans, Gib Ford, Burdette Haldorson
  Burdette Haldorson
  Burdette Eliele "Burdie" Haldorson was an American basketball player who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics and in the 1960 Summer Olympics...
  
  , Bill Hougland
  Bill Hougland
  William "Bill" Marion Hougland was an American basketball player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics and in the 1956 Summer Olympics. He was also a member of the Kansas Jayhawks' 1952 NCAA Men's Basketball National Championship team.He was part of the American basketball team, which won the...
  
  , Bob Jeangerard, K C Jones, Bill Russell
  Bill Russell
  William Felton "Bill" Russell is a retired American professional basketball player who played center for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association...
  
  , Ron Tomsic
  Ron Tomsic
  Ronald Paul Tomsic is a former American basketball player.Tomsic, a guard, played college basketball at Stanford University from 1951–1955. He scored 1,416 points in his Stanford career, the most in school history at the time...
  
  , and Jim Walsh
  Jim Walsh (basketball)
  James Patrick Walsh was an American basketball player.A 6'4" forward from Stanford University, Walsh competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics, where he won a gold medal with the United States national basketball team...
  
   — Basketball, Men's Team Competition
• Jim Boyd — Boxing, Men's Light Heavyweight
• Pete Rademacher
  Pete Rademacher
  Thomas Peter Rademacher is a former boxer who made boxing history by being the only man to fight for the world heavyweight championship in his first professional fight.-Amateur career:...
  
   — Boxing, Men's Heavyweight
• Bob Clotworthy
  Bob Clotworthy
  Robert Lynn Clotworthy was a diver from the United States, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1952...
  
   — Diving, Men's Springboard
• Patricia McCormick — Diving, Women's Springboard
• Patricia McCormick — Diving, Women's Platform
• Jim Fifer and Duvall Hecht
  Duvall Hecht
  Duvall Hecht is an American competition rower and Olympic champion.He received a gold medal in the pair without coxswain at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne....
  
   — Rowing, Men's Coxless Pairs
• Arthur Ayrault
  Arthur Ayrault
  Arthur Delancey "Dan" Ayrault, Jr. was an American competition rower and Olympic champion.He competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, where he received a gold medal in coxed pairs, with Conn Findlay and Kurt Seiffert...
  
  , Conn Findlay
  Conn Findlay
  Conn Francis Findlay is a four-time Olympic medalist, and is one of the few to medal in two distinct sports.In college, Findlay rowed for the University of Southern California....
  
  , and Kurt Seiffert
  Kurt Seiffert
  Armin Kurt Seiffert is an American competition rower and Olympic champion.He competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, where he received a gold medal as coxswain in coxed pairs, with Conn Findlay and Arthur Ayrault....
  
   — Rowing, Men's Coxed Pairs
• William Becklean
  William Becklean
  William Becklean is an American competition rower and Olympic champion.He received a gold medal in eights with the American team at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.-References:...
  
  , Donald Beer
  Donald Beer
  Donald A. E. Beer was an American competition rower from Massachusetts, and Olympic champion.He received a gold medal in eights with the American rowing team at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. The eight rowers were Yale undergraduates.Beer was a member of the Class of 1957.-External links:*...
  
  , Thomas Charlton
  Thomas Charlton (rower)
  Thomas J. Charlton is an American competition rower and Olympic champion.He won a gold medal in eights with the American team at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne....
  
  , John Cooke
  John Cooke (rower)
  John Cooke is an American competition rower and Olympic champion.He competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, where he received a gold medal in eights with the American team.-References:...
  
  , Caldwell Esselstyn
  Caldwell Esselstyn
  Caldwell Blakeman Esselstyn Jr., M.D., is an American physician, author, and former Olympic rowing champion.-Biography:...
  
  , Charles Grimes
  Charles Grimes (rower)
  Charles Livingston Grimes was an American competition rower and Olympic champion.-Education:Grimes was prepared at Groton. He graduated from Yale University in 1957 and had an LL.B. from Harvard Law....
  
  , Robert Morey
  Robert Morey (rower)
  Robert Willis Morey, Jr. is an American competition rower and Olympic champion.He competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, where he received a gold medal in coxed eights with the American team. He graduated from Yale University in 1958 and was a member of Skull and Bones...
  
  , Rusty Wailes
  Rusty Wailes
  Richard "Rusty" Donald Wailes, a.k.a. Perfect Oarsman was an American rower....
  
  , and David Wight
  David Wight (rower)
  David Wight is an American competition rower and Olympic champion.He competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, where he received a gold medal in eights with the American team.-References:...
  
   — Rowing, Men's Eights
• William Yorzyk
  William Yorzyk
  William Albert Yorzyk is a former butterfly swimmer from the United States. At the 1956 Summer Olympics he was the first to win the gold medal in the 200 m butterfly competition....
  
   — Swimming, Men's 200m Butterfly
• Shelley Mann
  Shelley Mann
  Shelley Isabel Mann is a former butterfly swimmer from the United States. At the 1956 Summer Olympics she won the gold medal in the 100 m butterfly competition and was a member of the relay team that won the silver medal for the 100 m freestyle.Mann caught polio aged six and took up swimming to...
  
   — Swimming, Women's 100m Butterfly
• Charles Vinci
  Charles Vinci
  Charles Robert Vinci, Jr. is an American weightlifter and Olympic champion.-Olympics:He won a gold medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, and again at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome....
  
   — Weightlifting, Men's Bantamweight
• Isaac Berger
  Isaac Berger
  Isaac "Ike" Berger was an Olympic weightlifter for the United States. He holds 23 world weightlifting records, and is a 12-time United States national titleholder.-Early life:...
  
   — Weightlifting, Men's Featherweight
• Tommy Kono
  Tommy Kono
  Tamio "Tommy" Kono was a U.S. weightlifter in the 1950s and 1960s.Kono is the only lifter to have set world records in four different weightlifting classes: lightweight , middleweight , light-heavyweight , and middle-heavyweight .He won...
  
   — Weightlifting, Men's Light Heavyweight
• Paul Edward Anderson
  Paul Edward Anderson
  Paul Edward Anderson was a weightlifter, strongman, and powerlifter.- Biography :Anderson was born in Toccoa, Georgia, United States of America....
  
   — Weightlifting, Men's Heavyweight
• Lawrence Low
  Lawrence Low
  Lawrence Low is an American sailor and Olympic champion. He competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, where he received a gold medal in the star class with the boat Kathleen, together with Herbert Williams....
  
   and Bert Williams
  Bert Williams
  Egbert Austin "Bert" Williams was one of the preeminent entertainers of the Vaudeville era and one of the most popular comedians for all audiences of his time. He was by far the best-selling black recording artist before 1920...
  
   — Sailing, Men's Star

Silver

• Thane Baker
  Thane Baker
  Walter Thane Baker is a former American athlete and winner of the gold medal in the 4x100 m relay at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, with a new world record of 39.5 seconds. At those Olympics Baker also won a silver medal in the 100-meter and a bronze in the 200-meter...
  
   — Athletics, Men's 100 metres
• Andy Stanfield
  Andy Stanfield
  Andrew William Stanfield was an American sprinter and Olympic gold and silver medallist.-Biography:...
  
   — Athletics, Men's 200 metres
• Jack Davis
  Jack Davis (athlete)
  Jack Wells Davis is a former American athlete, silver medalist in the 1952 and 1956 Olympics over 110 meter high hurdles. Davis lost to Harrison Dillard in 1952 with the same time as the winner, and lost to Lee Calhoun in 1956, again with the same time as the winner...
  
   — Athletics, Men's 110m Hurdles
• Eddie Southern
  Eddie Southern
  Eddie Southern 1955 Graduate of Dallas' Sunset High School, he was an American athlete who competed mainly in the 440 yard hurdles....
  
   — Athletics, Men's 400m Hurdles
• Bob Gutowski
  Bob Gutowski
  Robert Allen "Bob" Gutowski was an American athlete who competed mainly in the Pole Vault. He competed for the United States in the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia in the Pole Vault where he won the silver medal behind Bob Richards' second consecutive gold medal, after finishing...
  
   — Athletics, Men's Pole Vault
• John Bennett
  John Bennett (athlete)
  John Dale Bennett was an American athlete who competed mainly in the Long Jump.He competed for the United States in the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia in the Long Jump where he won the silver medal....
  
   — Athletics, Men's Long Jump
• Bill Nieder
  Bill Nieder
  William Henry Nieder is an American athlete who mainly competed in the shot put. He was born in Hempstead, New York....
  
   — Athletics, Men's Shot Put
• Fortune Gordien
  Fortune Gordien
  Fortune Everett Gordien was an American athlete who competed mainly in the discus throw.Born in Spokane, Washington he competed for the United States in the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London, Great Britain in the discus throw where he won the bronze medal behind two Italians, Adolfo Consolini...
  
   — Athletics, Men's Discus Throw
• Rafer Johnson
  Rafer Johnson
  Rafer Lewis Johnson is an American former decathlete and film actor.-Biography:Johnson was born in Hillsboro, Texas, but the family moved to Kingsburg, California, when he was nine. For a while, they were the only black family in the town. A versatile athlete, he played on Kingsburg High School's...
  
   — Athletics, Men's Decathlon
• Willye White — Athletics, Women's Long Jump
• José Torres
  José Torres
  José Torres , was a Puerto Rican professional boxer. As an amateur boxer, he won a silver medal in the junior middleweight at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne. In 1965, he defeated Willie Pastrano to win the WBC and WBA light heavyweight championships...
  
   — Boxing, Men's Light Middleweight
• Don Harper — Diving, Men's Springboard
• Gary Tobian — Diving, Men's Platform
• Jeanne Stunyo
  Jeanne Stunyo
  Jeanne Georgette Stunyo is a former world-class diver who earned a silver medal on the three-meter springboard at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia....
  
   — Diving, Women's Springboard
• Juno Irwin — Diving, Women's Platform
• Bill André, Jack Daniels
  Jack Daniels (coach)
  Jack Tupper Daniels is a former professor of physical education and cross-country running coach at Brevard College, in North Carolina. He received his doctoral degree in exercise physiology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison...
  
  , and George Lambert — Modern Pentathlon, Men's Team Competition
• Pat Costello
  Pat Costello
  Bernard Patrick "Pat" Costello, Jr. is an American rower who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics and in the 1956 Summer Olympics.He was born in Detroit, Michigan and is the cousin of Paul Costello....
  
   and Jim Gardiner
  Jim Gardiner (rower)
  James "Jim" Arthur Gardiner is an American rower who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics.He was born in Detroit, Michigan.In 1956 he and his partner Pat Costello won the silver medal in the double sculls event.-External links:...
  
   — Rowing, Men's Double Sculls
• James McIntosh
  James McIntosh
  James "Jim" Stewart McIntosh is an American former rower who won the silver medal in the 1956 Summer Olympics in coxless fours.He was born in Detroit.-External links:*...
  
  , Arthur McKinlay, John McKinlay
  John McKinlay (rower)
  John Dickinson McKinlay is an American rower who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics.He was born in Detroit and is the twin brother of Art McKinlay....
  
  , and John Welchli
  John Welchli
  John Russell Welchli is an American rower. He was a member of the U.S. Olympic team at the 1956 Summer Olympics. He won a silver medal at the Melbourne Olympics for the coxless four. He also has about 32 Canadian and U.S...
  
   — Rowing, Men's Coxless Fours
• George Breen
  George Breen
  George Breen is a retired freestyle swimmer from the United States, who has won four Olympic medals in his career. Breen twice broke the world record in the 1500 m freestyle....
  
  , Richard Hanley
  Dick Hanley (swimmer)
  Richard Dennis "Dick" Hanley was an American swimmer. Hanley won a silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. Hanley attended the University of Michigan where he was a varsity swimmer....
  
  , Ford Konno
  Ford Konno
  Ford Hiroshi Konno is a former freestyle swimmer from the United States, who swam at McKinley High School and the Ohio State University....
  
  , and William Woolsey — Swimming, Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay
• Carin Cone
  Carin Cone
  Carin Alice Cone Vanderbush is an American swimmer, olympic medalist, world record holder, and gold winner from the Pan American Games. She competed at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, where she received a silver medal in 100 m backstroke, having the same time as Judy Grinham who was judged...
  
   — Swimming, Women's 100m Backstroke
• Nancy Ramey
  Nancy Ramey
  Nancy Jane Ramey was an American swimmer. She represented the United States at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, where she received a silver medal in women's 100 metre butterfly. During the Olympics, she was a student at Mercer Island High School. Ramey attended the University of Washington...
  
   — Swimming, Women's 100m Butterfly
• Shelley Mann
  Shelley Mann
  Shelley Isabel Mann is a former butterfly swimmer from the United States. At the 1956 Summer Olympics she won the gold medal in the 100 m butterfly competition and was a member of the relay team that won the silver medal for the 100 m freestyle.Mann caught polio aged six and took up swimming to...
  
  , Joan Rosazza, Sylvia Ruuska
  Sylvia Ruuska
  Sylvia Elina Ruuska is a retired medley and freestyle swimmer from the United States, who won two Olympic medals at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia when she was aged fourteen. She captured silver with the women's relay team in the 4x100 m freestyle and bronze in the individual 400...
  
  , and Nancy Simons
  Nancy Simons
  Nancy Joan Simons-Peterson is a former American swimmer. She represented the United States as an eighteen-year-old at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, where she won a silver medal in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay with Sylvia Ruuska, Shelley Mann, and Joan Alderson-Rosazza...
  
   — Swimming, Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay
• Peter George
  Peter George (weightlifter)
  Peter George is an American weightlifter and Olympic champion of Macedonian descent. He won a gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki....
  
   — Weightlifting, Men's Middleweight
• David Sheppard
  David Sheppard
  David Stuart Sheppard, Baron Sheppard of Liverpool was the high-profile Bishop of Liverpool in the Church of England who played cricket for Sussex and England in his youth...
  
   — Weightlifting, Men's Middle Heavyweight
• Daniel Hodge — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Middleweight

Bronze

• Thane Baker
  Thane Baker
  Walter Thane Baker is a former American athlete and winner of the gold medal in the 4x100 m relay at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, with a new world record of 39.5 seconds. At those Olympics Baker also won a silver medal in the 100-meter and a bronze in the 200-meter...
  
   — Athletics, Men's 200 metres
• Joel Shankle
  Joel Shankle
  Joel Shankle was an American athlete who competed mainly in the 110 meter hurdles.He competed for the United States in the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia in the 110 meter hurdles where he won the bronze medal....
  
   — Athletics, Men's 110m Hurdles
• Josh Culbreath
  Josh Culbreath
  Joshua Culbreath was an American athlete who competed mainly in the 400 meter hurdles — the national outdoor champion from 1953 to 1955; three-time winner of the event in the Penn Relays in the same years, and Olympic bronze medal winner in 1956, while he was serving in the U.S...
  
   — Athletics, Men's 400m Hurdles
• Des Koch
  Des Koch
  Des Koch was an American athlete who competed mainly in the discus throw.He competed for the United States in the discus throw at the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia. He won the bronze medal. He achieved the longest punt in the Rose Bowl 1953, it was 72 yards. His record still...
  
   — Athletics, Men's Discus Throw
• Isabelle Daniels
  Isabelle Daniels
  Isabelle Daniels is an American athlete, who mainly competed in the 100 metres....
  
  , Mae Faggs
  Mae Faggs
  Heriwentha Faggs Starr1 was an American athlete who mainly competed in the sprint events. She graduated from Bayside High School, and then went to Tennessee State University to run under Hall of Fame coach Ed Temple, one of the first U.S...
  
  , Margaret Matthews
  Margaret Matthews
  Margaret Matthews is an American athlete who mainly competed in the 100 meters.She competed for United States in the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia. Margaret Matthews native Atlantan and captain of the TSU Tigerbelles captured the bronze medal in the 4 x 100 meters with three of...
  
  , and Wilma Rudolph
  Wilma Rudolph
  Wilma Glodean Rudolph was an American athlete. Rudolph was considered the fastest woman in the world in the 1960s and competed in two Olympic Games, in 1956 and in 1960....
  
   — Athletics, Men's 4x100m Relay
• Dick Connor
  Richard Connor
  Richard Connor is a diver from the United States and Olympic bronze medalist. He represented his native country at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, where he received a bronze medal.Connor attended the University of Southern California....
  
   — Diving, Men's Platform
• Paula Myers-Pope — Diving, Women's Platform
• John Kelly
  John B. Kelly, Jr.
  John Brendan Kelly, Jr. , also known as Kell Kelly or Jack Kelly, was an accomplished oarsman, a four-time Olympian, and an Olympic medal winner. He was also the son of triple Olympic gold medal winner John B. Kelly, Sr. In 1947, Kelly was awarded the James E...
  
   — Rowing, Men's Single Sculls
• Offutt Pinion — Shooting, Men's Free Pistol
• George Breen
  George Breen
  George Breen is a retired freestyle swimmer from the United States, who has won four Olympic medals in his career. Breen twice broke the world record in the 1500 m freestyle....
  
   — Swimming, Men's 400m Freestyle
• George Breen
  George Breen
  George Breen is a retired freestyle swimmer from the United States, who has won four Olympic medals in his career. Breen twice broke the world record in the 1500 m freestyle....
  
   — Swimming, Men's 1500m Freestyle
• Frank McKinney
  Frank McKinney
  Frank McKinney was a backstroke swimmer from the United States. He was later a bank executive.The son of Frank E...
  
   — Swimming, Men's 100m Backstroke
• Sylvia Ruuska
  Sylvia Ruuska
  Sylvia Elina Ruuska is a retired medley and freestyle swimmer from the United States, who won two Olympic medals at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia when she was aged fourteen. She captured silver with the women's relay team in the 4x100 m freestyle and bronze in the individual 400...
  
   — Swimming, Women's 400m Freestyle
• Mary Sears
  Mary Sears (swimmer)
  Mary Jane Sears is a former American swimmer. She represented the United States at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, where she won a bronze medal in the 100-meter butterfly, finishing behind compatriots Shelley Mann and Nancy Ramey.-References:* , from http://www.sports-reference.com/....
  
   — Swimming, Women's 100m Butterfly
• James George — Weightlifting, Men's Light Heavyweight
• Peter Blair — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Light Heavyweight
• John Marvin
  John Marvin
  John Marvin was an American competitive sailor and Olympic medalist. He won a bronze medal in the Finn class at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.-References:...
  
   — Sailing, Men's Finn

Athletics

• Nick Costes — 2:42:20 (→ 20th place)
• John J. Kelley
  John J. Kelley
  John Joseph Kelley was the winner of the 1957 Boston Marathon and the marathon at the 1959 Pan American Games and a member of two United States Olympic Marathon teams. He was often dubbed John "The Younger" to avoid confusion with Johnny "The Elder" Kelley, the winner of the 1935 and 1945 Boston...
  
   — 2:43:40 (→ 21st place)
• Dean Thackwray — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Cycling

• Jack Disney — 5th place

• Allen Bell — 1:12.8 (→ 10th place)

• Donald Ferguson
  James Rossi — 8th place

• Allen Bell
  Art Longsjo
  Art Longsjo
  Arthur "Art" Matthew Longsjo, Jr. was an American Olympian speed skater and cyclist. He was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts and died in a car accident in Burlington, Vermont at age 26...
  
  
  David Rhoads
  Richard Cortright — 15th place

• Joseph Becker — 5:38:16 (→ 43rd place)
• David Rhoads — did not finish (→ no ranking)
• Erhard Neumann — did not finish (→ no ranking)
• George Van Meter — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Diving

• Gary Tobian
• Preliminary Round — 76.77
• Final — 152.41 (→ Silver Medal)

• Richard Connor
  Richard Connor
  Richard Connor is a diver from the United States and Olympic bronze medalist. He represented his native country at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, where he received a bronze medal.Connor attended the University of Southern California....
  
  
• Preliminary Round — 80.24
• Final — 149.79 (→ Bronze Medal)

• William Farrell
• Preliminary Round — 75.07
• Final — 139.12 (→ 6th place)

• Pat McCormick
  Pat McCormick (diver)
  Patricia Joan McCormick is a retired female diver from the United States, who won a total number of four gold medals by winning both diving events at two consecutive Summer Olympics ....
  
  
• Preliminary Round — 51.28
• Final — 84.85 (→ Gold Medal)

• Juno Stover-Irwin
  Juno Stover-Irwin
  Juno Stover-Irwin was a four-time Olympic diver for the United States. Primarily a 10-meter platform performer, Irwin was a native of Los Angeles, California; she attended Hoover High School and Glendale Community College.-Biography:As Juno Stover, she placed fifth at the 1948 Olympics in London...
  
  
• Preliminary Round — 50.81
• Final — 81.64 (→ Silver Medal)

• Paula Myers-Pope
• Preliminary Round — 52.96
• Final — 81.58 (→ Bronze Medal)

Fencing

• Albie Axelrod
• Hal Goldsmith
• Byron Krieger
  Byron Krieger
  Byron Lester Krieger was an American foil, sabre, and épée fencer. Krieger represented the United States in the Olympics in 1952 and 1956. He was officially rated as one of the nation's top 10 fencers for 15 years during his career.-College:Krieger graduated from Northwestern High School...
  
  

• Albie Axelrod, Daniel Bukantz
  Daniel Bukantz
  Daniel B. Bukantz was an American Olympic fencing competitor and referee and also a dentist.He won the national singles championship in the foil in 1949, 1952, 1953 and 1957. He competed in the foil in Olympic games four consecutive times beginning in 1948, and was part of nine national...
  
  , Hal Goldsmith, Byron Krieger
  Byron Krieger
  Byron Lester Krieger was an American foil, sabre, and épée fencer. Krieger represented the United States in the Olympics in 1952 and 1956. He was officially rated as one of the nation's top 10 fencers for 15 years during his career.-College:Krieger graduated from Northwestern High School...
  
  , Nate Lubell, Sewall Shurtz
  Sewall Shurtz
  Sewall Shurtz is an American Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual and team épée and team foil events at the 1956 Summer Olympics.-References:...
  
  

• Richard Pew
  Richard Pew
  Richard Pew is an American Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1956 Summer Olympics.-References:...
  
  
• Sewall Shurtz
  Sewall Shurtz
  Sewall Shurtz is an American Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual and team épée and team foil events at the 1956 Summer Olympics.-References:...
  
  
• Kinmont Hoitsma
  Kinmont Hoitsma
  Kinmont Hoitsma is an American Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1956 Summer Olympics.-References:...
  
  

• Sewall Shurtz
  Sewall Shurtz
  Sewall Shurtz is an American Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual and team épée and team foil events at the 1956 Summer Olympics.-References:...
  
  , Richard Pew
  Richard Pew
  Richard Pew is an American Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1956 Summer Olympics.-References:...
  
  , Ralph Goldstein
  Ralph Goldstein
  Ralph Goldstein was an American Olympic fencer. He competed in the team épée events at the 1948 and 1956 Summer Olympics.-References:...
  
  , Abram Cohen
  Abram Cohen
  Abram Cohen is an American Olympic fencer. He competed in the team épée and sabre events at the 1956 Summer Olympics.-References:...
  
  , Kinmont Hoitsma
  Kinmont Hoitsma
  Kinmont Hoitsma is an American Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1956 Summer Olympics.-References:...
  
  

• Allan Kwartler
  Allan Kwartler
  Allan S. Kwartler , born in New York City, was an American sabre and foil fencer.He was Pan-American sabre champion, 3-time Olympian, and twice a member of sabre teams that earned 4th-place in Olympic Games .-Fencing career:Kwartler began fencing at Wayne State University under Bela de Tuscan at...
  
  
• George Worth
  George Worth
  George V. Worth was an American sabre fencer.-US Championship:In 1954, Worth was the U.S. national sabre champion, and he was a 5-time medalist.-Olympics:...
  
  
• Tibor Nyilas
  Tibor Nyilas
  Tibor Nyilas was an American Olympic fencer. He won a bronze medal in the team sabre event at the 1948 Summer Olympics.-References:...
  
  

• Tibor Nyilas
  Tibor Nyilas
  Tibor Nyilas was an American Olympic fencer. He won a bronze medal in the team sabre event at the 1948 Summer Olympics.-References:...
  
  , George Worth
  George Worth
  George V. Worth was an American sabre fencer.-US Championship:In 1954, Worth was the U.S. national sabre champion, and he was a 5-time medalist.-Olympics:...
  
  , Abram Cohen
  Abram Cohen
  Abram Cohen is an American Olympic fencer. He competed in the team épée and sabre events at the 1956 Summer Olympics.-References:...
  
  , Rex Dyer
  Rex Dyer
  Rex Dyer is an American fencer. He competed in the team sabre events at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics.-References:...
  
  , Allan Kwartler
  Allan Kwartler
  Allan S. Kwartler , born in New York City, was an American sabre and foil fencer.He was Pan-American sabre champion, 3-time Olympian, and twice a member of sabre teams that earned 4th-place in Olympic Games .-Fencing career:Kwartler began fencing at Wayne State University under Bela de Tuscan at...
  
  , Norman Cohn-Armitage

• Jan York-Romary
• Maxine Mitchell
  Maxine Mitchell
  Maxine Mitchell was an American fencer. She competed in the women's individual foil event at four Olympic Games.-References:...
  
  
• Judy Goodrich
  Judy Goodrich
  Judy Goodrich is an American Olympic fencer. She competed at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics.-References:...
  
  

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• Team Roster
• John Carden
  John Carden (soccer)
  John Carden was a member of the U.S. soccer team at the 1956 Summer Olympics.Carden, a graduate of the University of Southern California, did not enter the lone U.S. game of the tournament, a 9-1 loss to Yugoslavia. At the time, he was a member of the U.S. Army assigned to Fort...
  
  
• Ronald Coder
  Ronald Coder
  Ron Coder was a U.S. soccer goalkeeper who was a member of the U.S. team at the 1956 Summer Olympics.Coder grew up in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania where he was a state champion high school track star. He entered Penn State University in 1947. Bill Jeffrey spotted Coder playing an intramural...
  
  
• Bill Conterio
  Bill Conterio
  Bill Conterio was an American soccer midfielder who was a member of the United States soccer teams at the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics...
  
  
• Rolf Decker
  Rolf Decker
  Rolf Decker is a retired German-American soccer player who played professionally with the New York Hakoah of the American Soccer League and earned four caps with the U.S. national team in between 1953 and 1956. He was a member of the U.S. Olympic soccer team at the 1956 Summer Olympics.-Club...
  
  
• Jim Dorrian
  Jim Dorrian
  Jim Dorrian was a U.S. soccer player who was a member of the U.S. soccer teams at the 1956 Summer Olympics. At the time of the tournament, he played for Danish F.C. in the National Soccer League of New York....
  
  
• Svend Engedal
  Svend Engedal
  Svend Engedal was a U.S. soccer goalkeeper. He played on the U.S. soccer team at the 1956 Summer Olympics and earned two caps with the U.S. national team in 1957....
  
  
• Harry Keough
  Harry Keough
  Harry Joseph Keough is a former American soccer defender who played on the United States national team in their 1–0 upset of England at the 1950 FIFA World Cup. He spent most of his club career in his native St. Louis, winning a national junior championship, two U.S. Open Cup and seven National...
  
  
• Bill Looby
  Bill Looby
  Bill Looby was an American soccer forward who spent his entire career in the St. Louis Leagues. He was a member of the U.S. Olympic soccer team at the 1956 Summer Olympics and earned eight caps, scoring six goals, with the United States men's national soccer team between 1954 and 1959...
  
  
• Alfonso Marina
  Alfonso Marina
  Alfonso “Al” Marina was a U.S. soccer player who spent his career in the American Soccer League, earned one cap with the U.S. national team, and was a member of the 1956 Olympic soccer team....
  
  
• Ruben Mendoza
  Ruben Mendoza
  Ruben Mendoza was an American soccer forward who was a dominant player in the St. Louis leagues during the 1950s and 1960s. He earned four caps with the U.S. national team and was a member of both the 1952 U.S. Olympic and 1956 U.S. Olympic teams.-Youth:Although he was born in St...
  
  
• Lloyd Monsen
  Lloyd Monsen
  Lloyd Monsen Lloyd Monsen Lloyd Monsen (born May 7, 1931 in Brooklyn, New York is a retired American soccer forward and baseball pitcher. Monsen spent eleven seasons in the American Soccer League as well as several years in the lower division German American Soccer League and National Soccer...
  
  
• Ed Murphy
  Ed Murphy (soccer)
  Ed Murphy was a Scottish-American soccer forward. He played professionally in the National Soccer League of Chicago and the North American Soccer League and earned seventeen caps, scoring five goals, with the U.S...
  
  
• Dick Packer
  Dick Packer (soccer)
  Dick Packer was a U.S. soccer center forwardwho was a member of the U.S. team at the 1956 Summer Olympics. He was a two time First Team All American at Penn State and played over ten seasons in the American Soccer League....
  
  
• Zenon Snylyk
  Zenon Snylyk
  Zenon Snylyk is a former Ukrainian-American soccer player. He played for numerous ethnic Ukrainian amateur and professional clubs in both the U.S. and Canada over a twenty year career. He also earned five caps with the U.S. national team between 1957 and 1963 and was a member 1956 U.S...
  
  
• Herman Wecke
  Herman Wecke
  Herman Wecke is a former U.S. soccer defender. He earned six caps with the U.S. national team between 1954 and 1957. He was a member of the U.S. Olympic soccer team at the 1956 Summer Olympics.-Club career:...
  
  
• Siegbert Wirth
  Siegbert Wirth
  Siegbert Wirth was a U.S. soccer player who was a member of the U.S. soccer team at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He played his college soccer at Syracuse University in 1950 and then again from 1952 to 1955. Following his graduation from Syracuse, he entered the U.S. military. While he was a member...
  
  
• Al Zerhusen
  Al Zerhusen
  Al Zerhusen is a former U.S. soccer midfielder who played extensively for the U.S. national team. He is a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame....