1956 Summer Olympics medal count
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This is the full table of the medal count of the 1956 Summer Olympics. These rankings sort by the number of gold medals earned by a country. The number of silvers is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically. This follows the system used by the IOC, IAAF and BBC.
7 countries boycotted these Olympics (see 1956 Summer Olympics for details)
(Host country is highlighted, greatest number of medals in each category is in bold.)
| 1956 Summer Olympics medal count |
| ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pos | Country | 
| 
| 
| Total |
| 1 |
USSR | 37 | 29 | 32 | 98 |
| 2 |
United States | 32 | 25 | 17 | 74 |
| 3 |
Australia | 13 | 8 | 14 | 35 |
| 4 |
Hungary | 9 | 10 | 7 | 26 |
| 5 |
Italy | 8 | 8 | 9 | 25 |
| 6 |
Sweden | 8 | 5 | 6 | 19 |
| 7 |
United Team of Germany | 6 | 13 | 7 | 26 |
| 8 |
Great Britain | 6 | 7 | 11 | 24 |
| 9 |  Romania
| 5 | 3 | 5 | 13 |
| 10 |
Japan | 4 | 10 | 5 | 19 |
| 11 |
France | 4 | 4 | 6 | 14 |
| 12 |
Turkey | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 13 |
Finland | 3 | 1 | 11 | 15 |
| 14 |
Iran | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 15 |
Canada | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 16 |
New Zealand | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 17 |
Poland | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 |
| 18 |
Czechoslovakia | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| 19 |  Bulgaria
| 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 20 |
Denmark | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 21 |
Ireland | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 22 |
Norway | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 23 |  Mexico
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 24 |
Brazil | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
India | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 26 |
Yugoslavia | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 27 |
Chile | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 28 |
Belgium | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 29 |  Argentina
| 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
South Korea | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 31 |
Iceland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Pakistan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 33 |  South Africa
| 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 34 |
Austria | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 35 |
Bahamas | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Greece | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Switzerland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Uruguay | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 153 | 153 | 163 | 469 | ||
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