Cross-country skiing at the VII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Lo Stadio della neve
Dates	27 January – 4 February
No. of events	6
Competitors	150 from 20 nations
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Cross-country skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics
10 km		women
15 km	men
30 km	men
50 km	men
Relay	men	women
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At the 1956 Winter Olympics six cross-country skiing events – four for men and two for women – were contested after men's 30 km and women's 3 × 5 km relay were added. The competitions were held from Friday, 27 January, to Sunday, 4 February 1956.^[1]

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	2	2	3	7
2	Finland (FIN)	2	2	0	4
3	Sweden (SWE)	1	2	3	6
4	Norway (NOR)	1	0	0	1
Totals (4 entries)		6	6	6	18

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
15 km details	Hallgeir Brenden  Norway	Sixten Jernberg  Sweden	Pavel Kolchin  Soviet Union
30 km details	Veikko Hakulinen  Finland	Sixten Jernberg  Sweden	Pavel Kolchin  Soviet Union
50 km details	Sixten Jernberg  Sweden	Veikko Hakulinen  Finland	Fyodor Terentyev  Soviet Union
4 × 10 km relay details	Soviet Union (URS) Fyodor Terentyev Pavel Kolchin Nikolay Anikin Vladimir Kuzin	Finland (FIN) August Kiuru Jorma Kortelainen Arvo Viitanen Veikko Hakulinen	Sweden (SWE) Lennart Larsson Gunnar Samuelsson Per-Erik Larsson Sixten Jernberg

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
10 km details	Lyubov Kozyreva  Soviet Union	Radia Yeroshina  Soviet Union	Sonja Edström  Sweden
3 × 5 km relay details	Finland (FIN) Sirkka Polkunen Mirja Hietamies Siiri Rantanen	Soviet Union (URS) Lyubov Kozyreva Alevtina Kolchina Radya Yeroshina	Sweden (SWE) Irma Johansson Anna-Lisa Eriksson Sonja Edström

Participating nations