North Borneo competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. It was the only Olympic appearance by the former British protectorate, which...
5 KB (192 words) - 23:25, 27 September 2024
in the 1956 and 1960 Games. The present day state of Sabah sent an independent team to the 1956 Games as North Borneo, and Singapore also competed at the...
20 KB (614 words) - 23:26, 27 September 2024
The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XVI Olympiad and officially branded as Melbourne 1956, were an international multi-sport event held...
40 KB (3,206 words) - 17:13, 24 October 2024
The Philippines competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. 39 competitors, 35 men and 4 women, took part in 30 events in 7 sports. A...
5 KB (407 words) - 13:22, 17 July 2023
2024. "India at the 1956 Summer Olympics". Olympedia. Retrieved 1 June 2024. "India at the 1960 Summer Olympics". Olympedia. Archived from the original on...
117 KB (5,458 words) - 12:39, 16 November 2024
India competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. 59 competitors, 58 men and 1 woman, took part in 32 events in 8 sports. Their solitary...
13 KB (292 words) - 13:16, 25 September 2024
exception of 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis. The Netherlands boycotted the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne as a protest against the Soviet invasion...
180 KB (738 words) - 01:38, 6 October 2024
Canada competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia and Stockholm, Sweden (equestrian events). 92 competitors, 77 men and 15 women, took...
6 KB (341 words) - 14:28, 23 September 2024
Ethiopia competed in the Olympic Games for the first time at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. Twelve competitors, all men, took part in...
3 KB (267 words) - 12:00, 24 September 2024
competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. 55 competitors, all men, took part in 43 events in 8 sports. They won their first medal at this...
12 KB (1,227 words) - 11:09, 23 November 2024
sending athletes to every Summer Olympics between 1956 and 1972. Since the reunification of Vietnam in 1976, they have competed as the Socialist Republic of...
10 KB (244 words) - 09:34, 12 November 2024
Romania competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia and Stockholm, Sweden (equestrian events). 44 competitors, 33 men and 11 women, took...
7 KB (253 words) - 15:36, 6 October 2024
Eritrea made its debut at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney where it sent three athletes to compete in track and field events. At the 2004 Games in Athens...
6 KB (140 words) - 14:48, 17 October 2024
first participated at the Olympic Games in 1956, and has sent athletes to compete in Summer Olympic Games since then, except for the 1976, 1984 and 1988...
24 KB (144 words) - 14:44, 17 October 2024
Australia was the host nation for the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. However, due to Australian quarantine restrictions the equestrian events...
69 KB (774 words) - 15:10, 2 November 2024
country of the southern hemisphere to host the Olympics, after Australia in 1956 and 2000. As the hosts of the 2016 Summer Olympics, Brazil had the second...
347 KB (698 words) - 03:34, 22 November 2024
Athletics has been contested at every Summer Olympics since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics. The athletics program traces...
147 KB (814 words) - 03:37, 24 November 2024
Sium Diau (category Athletes (track and field) at the 1956 Summer Olympics)
1935) represented North Borneo in the triple jump at the 1956 Summer Olympics, he finished 28th. Sports-Reference Profile Sium Bin Diau at Olympedia v t e...
859 bytes (32 words) - 01:28, 11 August 2024
Games of the Olympiads, making its debut appearance at the 1928 Summer Olympics. They have never appeared in the Olympic Winter Games. The country has...
8 KB (130 words) - 21:31, 11 October 2024
France competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia and Stockholm, Sweden (equestrian events). 137 competitors, 119 men and 18 women,...
9 KB (539 words) - 15:13, 24 September 2024
Olympics, since its official debut in 1956 under the name 'Malaya', except for the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow due to the United States-led boycott. Malaysia...
32 KB (1,514 words) - 08:24, 5 November 2024
The men's triple jump was an event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. The event was also known at the time as the hop, step and jump...
17 KB (577 words) - 20:29, 9 August 2024
Iran competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia; 17 athletes competed. Emam-Ali Habibi and Gholamreza Takhti won the nation's first gold...
13 KB (209 words) - 00:08, 2 September 2024
The Republic of China (Taiwan) competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia as the Republic of China, Formosa. Athletes from this nation...
3 KB (227 words) - 18:46, 24 October 2024
Athletes from the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. As a partial support to the Dutch-led...
6 KB (265 words) - 18:52, 24 October 2024
the British Olympic Association (BOA), competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. British athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic...
13 KB (863 words) - 17:13, 24 October 2024
Sweden competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, with the exception of the equestrian events, which could not be held in Australia...
9 KB (443 words) - 12:22, 17 October 2024
the 1972 Summer Olympics. In addition, Germany had been selected to host the 1916 Summer Olympics as well as the 1940 Winter Olympics, both of which had...
27 KB (649 words) - 17:01, 28 October 2024
Finland competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia and Stockholm, Sweden (equestrian events). 64 competitors, 63 men and 1 woman, took...
7 KB (471 words) - 12:13, 24 September 2024
The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Summer Olympics or the Games of the Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once...
103 KB (8,374 words) - 13:24, 22 November 2024