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At the 1956 Summer Olympics, 13 swimming events were contested.

MEN'S EVENTS

100 m Freestyle, Men

PosAthleteTime
Gold
Jon Henricks (AUS)
55.4
Silver
John Devitt (AUS)
55.8
Bronze
Gary Chapman (AUS)
56.7

400 m Freestyle, Men

PosAthleteTime
Gold
Murray Rose (AUS)
17:58.9
Silver
Tsuyoshi Yamanaka (JPN)
18:00.3
Bronze George Thomas Breen (USA)18:08.2

1500 m Freestyle, Men

PosAthleteTime
Gold
Murray Rose (AUS)
4:27.3
Silver
Tsuyoshi Yamanaka (JPN)
4:30.4
Bronze George Thomas Breen (USA)4:32.5
[Note: times for the 400m and 1500m appear to be reversed in this display. No source available to check for accurate times.]

100 m Backstroke, Men

PosAthleteTime
Gold
David Egmont Theile (AUS)
1:02.2
Silver
John Monckton (AUS)
1:03.2
Bronze Frank Edward McKinney Jr. (USA)1:04.5

200 m Breaststroke, Men

PosAthleteTime
Gold
Masaru Furukawa (JPN)
2:34.7
Silver
Masahiro Yoshimura (JPN)
2:36.7
Bronze
Kharis Yunichev (URS)
2:36.8

200 m Butterfly, Men

PosAthleteTime
Gold William Albert Yorzyk Jr. (USA)2:19.3
Silver
Takashi Ishimoto (JPN)
2:23.8
Bronze
György Tumpek (HUN)
2:23.9

4 x 200 m Freestyle relay, Men

PosTeamTime
Gold
Kevin O'Halloran, John Devitt, Murray Rose, Jon Henricks (AUS)
8:23.6
Silver Richard Dennis Hanley, George Thomas Breen, William Tripp Woolsey, Ford Hiroshi Konno (USA)8:31.5
Bronze
Vitali Sorokin, Vladimir Struzhanov, Gennadi Nikolaev, Boris Nikitin (URS)
8:34.7

WOMEN'S EVENTS

100 m Freestyle, Women

PosAthleteTime
Gold
Dawn Fraser (AUS)
1:02.0
Silver
Lorraine Joyce Crapp (AUS)
1:02.3
Bronze
Faith Yvonne Leech (AUS)
1:05.1

400 m Freestyle, Women

PosAthleteTime
Gold
Lorraine Joyce Crapp (AUS)
4:54.6
Silver
Dawn Fraser (AUS)
5:02.5
Bronze Sylvia Eliina Ruuska (USA)5:07.1

100 m Backstroke, Women

PosAthleteTime
Gold
Judith Brenda Grinham (GBR)
1:12.9
Silver Carin Alice Cone (USA)1:12.9
Bronze
Margaret Edwards (GBR)
1:13.1

200 m Breaststroke, Women

PosAthleteTime
Gold
Ursula Happe-Krey (EUA)
2:53.1
Silver
Éva Székely (HUN)
2:54.8
Bronze
Eva-Maria Ten Elsen (EUA)
2:55.1

100 m Butterfly, Women

PosAthleteTime
Gold Shelley Isabel Mann (USA)1:11.0
Silver Nancy Jane Ramey (USA)1:11.9
Bronze Mary Jane Sears (USA)1:14.4

4 x 100m Freestyle relay, Women

PosTeamTime
Gold
Dawn Fraser, Faith Yvonne Leech, Sandra Anne Morgan, Lorraine Joyce Crapp (AUS)
4:17.1
Silver Sylvia Eliina Ruuska, Shelley Isabel Mann, Nancy Joan Simons, Joan Ann Alderson-Rosazza (USA)4:19.2
Bronze Natalie Ann Myburgh, Susan Elizabeth Roberts, Moira Abernethy, Jeanette Evelyn Myburgh (RSA)4:25.7

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