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Men
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1956
Track
Field
High Jump
1
Charles Dumas
USA
2.149
2
Igor Kashkarov
URS
2.10
2
Charles Porter
AUS
2.10
4
Bengt Nilsson
SWE
2.09
5
Donald Stewart
USA
2.089
6
Ernest Shelton
USA
2.083
7
Walter Mangham
USA
2.076
8
Vernon Wilson
USA
2.07
8
Philip Reavis
USA
2.07
8
Vladimir Polyakov
URS
2.07
Pole Vault
1
Robert Richards
USA
4.70
1
Robert Gutowski
USA
4.70
3
Donald Bragg
USA
4.66
4
Ron Morris
USA
4.57
5
George Mattos
USA
4.53
6
Eeles Landström
FIN
4.51
7
Georgios Roubanis
GRE
4.50
8
Earl Poucher
USA
4.49
9
Jerry Welbourn
USA
4.48
9
Fred Barnes
USA
4.48
Long Jump
1
Gregory Bell
USA
8.09
2
Henk Visser
NED
7.98
3
Ernest Shelby
USA
7.95
4
John Bennett
USA
7.83
5
Jorma Valkama
FIN
7.77
6
Rafer Johnson
USA
7.76
6
Oleg Fedoseyev
URS
7.76
8
George Brown
USA
7.75
9
Igor Ter-Ovanesyan
URS
7.74
10
Oscar Bean
USA
7.73
Triple Jump
1
Teruji Kogake
JPN
16.48
2
Leonid Shcherbakov
URS
16.46
3
Adhemar Ferreira da Silva
BRA
16.35
4
Vilhjalmur Einarsson
ISL
16.26
5
Vitold Kreyer
URS
16.02
6
Yevgeniy Chen
URS
15.95
7
Oleg Ryakhovskiy
URS
15.93
8
Viktor Kobelyev
URS
15.92
9
Hiroshi Shibata
JPN
15.88
9
William Sharpe
USA
15.88
Shot Put
1
Parry O'Brien
USA
19.25
2
William Nieder
USA
18.38
3
Kenneth Bentum
USA
18.30
4
Jiri Skobla
TCH
17.76
5
Vartan Ovsepyan
URS
17.67
6
Charles Butt
USA
17.60
7
Don Vick
USA
17.50
8
Boris Balyayev
URS
17.44
9
Stan Lampert
USA
17.41
10
David Owen
USA
17.38
Discus Throw
1
Fortune Gordien
USA
57.21
2
Adolfo Consolini
ITA
56.85
3
Karel Merta
TCH
56.68
4
Parry O'Brien
USA
56.46
5
Alfred Oerter
USA
56.36
6
Kim Bukhantsev
URS
55.48
7
Jack Ellis
USA
55.25
8
Desmond Koch
USA
55.08
9
Ron Drummond
USA
55.02
10
Otto Grigalka
URS
54.85
Hammer Throw
1
Harold Connolly
USA
68.54
2
Mikhail Krivonosov
URS
67.32
3
Clifford Blair
USA
65.95
4
Anatoliy Samotsvetov
URS
65.03
5
Stanislav Nyenashev
URS
63.98
6
Tadeusz Rut
POL
63.57
6
Dimitriy Yegorov
URS
63.57
8
Sverre Strandli
NOR
62.96
9
Yuriy Nikulin
URS
62.85
10
Kresimir Racic
YUG
62.80
Javelin Throw
1
Egil Danielsen
NOR
85.71
2
Janusz Sidlo
POL
83.66
3
Soini Nikkinen
FIN
83.56
4
Franklin Held
USA
82.29
5
Jan Kopyto
POL
81.12
6
Heiner Will
FRG
80.22
7
Viktor Tsybulenko
URS
79.89
8
Cyrus Young
USA
79.15
9
Michel Macquet
FRA
79.01
10
Vladimir Kuznetsov
URS
78.75
Decathlon
1
Milton Campbell
USA
7937
2
Rafer Johnson
USA
7755
3
Vasiliy Kuznetsov
URS
7733
4
Yuriy Kutenko
URS
7393
5
Martin Lauer
FRG
7201
6
Robert Mathias
USA
7194
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Walter Meier
GDR
7173
8
Uno Palu
URS
7167
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Robert Richards
USA
7054
10
Torbjorn Lassenius
FIN
6991