1956 Women's Olympic Swimming Medalists
Updated September 27, 2017 |
Infoplease Staff
| Event | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 100m Free | Dawn Fraser, AUS | 1:02.0 | WR |
| Lorraine Crapp, AUS | 1:02.3 | ||
| Faith Leech, AUS | 1:05.1 | ||
| 400m Free | Lorraine Crapp, AUS | 4:54.6 | OR |
| Dawn Fraser, AUS | 5:02.5 | ||
| Sylvia Ruuska, USA | 5:07.1 | ||
| 100m Back | Judy Grinham, GBR | 1:12.9 | OR |
| Carin Cone, USA | 1:12.9 | ||
| Magaret Edwards, GBR | 1:13.1 | ||
| 200m Brst | Ursula Happe, GER | 2:53.1 | OR |
| Eva Ezékely, HUN | 2:54.8 | ||
| Eva-Maria ten Elsen, GER | 2:55.1 | ||
| 100m Fly | Shelly Mann, USA | 1:11.0 | OR |
| Nancy Ramey, USA | 1:11.9 | ||
| Mary Sears, USA | 1:14.4 | ||
| 4x100m Free | AUS (Dawn Fraser, Faith Leech, Sandra Morgan, Lorraine Crapp) |
4:17.1 | WR |
| United States | 4:19.2 | ||
| South Africa | 4:25.7 |
| Diving | Points | |
|---|---|---|
| Platform | Pat McCormick, USA | 84.85 |
| Juno Irwin, USA | 81.64 | |
| Paula Jean Myers, USA | 81.58 | |
| Spring | Pat McCormick, USA | 142.36 |
| Jeanne Stunyo, USA | 125.89 | |
| Irene Mac Donald, CAN | 121.40 |
| Men | Swimming |
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