Australia at the
1956 Winter Olympics
IOC codeAUS
NOCAustralian Olympic Committee
Websitewww.olympics.com.au
in Cortina d'Ampezzo
Competitors8 in 3 sports
Medals
Gold
0
Silver
0
Bronze
0
Total
0
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)

Australia sent a delegation to compete at the 1956 Winter Olympics from the 26 January to 5 February 1956 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. This was the nation's third appearance at the Winter Olympic Games with their last appearance being in 1952.

Australia delegation consisted of eight competitors in three sports. Australia competed in alpine skiing, figure skating and speed skating. Australia best result from the 1960 Games was a seventh-place finish from Colin Hickey in the men's 500 metres and men's 1500 metres speed skating. This performance also was Australia's best result until the 1976 Winter Olympics, where Colin Coates came sixth in men's 10000 metres speed skating.

Background

The Australian Olympic Committee was formed on 1 January 1895 with the nation making their debut at the first Olympics in Athens with Teddy Flack being the first representative of the nation.[1][2] This was the nation's third appearance at an Winter Olympics. It was also the 15th overall Olympics that Australia had sent a delegation in.[3] The 1956 Winter Olympics was held at Cortina d'Ampezzo in Italy and took place from the 26 January to 6 February: a total of 821 athletes competed from 32 nations.[4] The Australian delegation consist of eight athletes, five in the alpine skiing, two in the figure skating and one in the speedskating.[5]

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics

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Men
Athlete Event Run 1 Run 2 Final/Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Diff Rank
Bill Day Downhill — 4:02.0 +1:09.8 35
Giant slalom — 3:56.9 +56.8 61
Slalom Did not finish
Tony Aslangul Giant slalom — 4:09.0 +1:08.9 69
Slalom Did not finish
Frank Prihoda Giant slalom — 4:31.2 +1:39.0 80
Slalom 2:54.3 60 2:43.2 51 5:37.5 +2:22.8 54
James Walker Giant slalom — 5:21.0 +2:20.9 84
Women
Athlete Event Race 1 Race 2 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Christine Davy Downhill 2:01.6 39
Christine Davy Giant slalom 2:17.3 37
Christine Davy Slalom 1:26.1 32 1:21.5 29 2:47.6 33

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1956 Winter Olympics

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Athlete(s) Event CF FS TO Points Rank
Allan Ganter Men's 13 13 114 1191.72 13
Charles Keeble 16 14 137 1115.39 16

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1956 Winter Olympics

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Athlete Event Final
Time Rank
Colin Hickey 500 m 41.9 7
1500 m 2:11.8 7
5000 m 8:10.0 14
10000 m 17:45.6 27

See also

References

  1. ^ "Australia". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  2. ^ "Australia at the 1896 Summer Olympics". Olympedia. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  3. ^ "Australia". Olympedia. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
  4. ^ "Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
  5. ^ "Australia at the 1956 Winter Olympics". Olympedia. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
  6. ^ a b c "VII Giochi Olimpici Invernali - Rapporto ufficiale" (PDF). COMITATO OLIMPICO NAZIONALE ITALIANO. LA84 Foundation. 1956. Retrieved November 11, 2013.

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Nations at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
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