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Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956

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54 Sixten Jernberg 1956 Olympics
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Winner’s Medal Cortina D'Ampezzo 1956
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Cortina D\'Ampezzo 1956 Ice Hockey Men
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TOP MEDALISTS

ATHLETE MEDALS	NOC	Medals
Anton SAILER	AUT	3
Yevgeny GRISHIN	URS	2
Sixten JERNBERG	SWE	1 2 1
Veikko HAKULINEN	FIN	1 2
Sigvard ERICSSON	SWE	1 1

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Opening date	26 January 1956
Closing date	05 February 1956
Country of the host city	Italy

The Soviet Union makes its Olympic Winter debut

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Golden Soviet debut

These Games marked the debut of the USSR team, which immediately won more medals than any other nation. Their speed skaters won three of the four events, while their ice hockey team ended Canada’s domination.

Memorable champions

Pavel Kolchin of the USSR became the first non-Scandinavian to earn a medal in cross country skiing. Madeleine Berthod of Switzerland celebrated her birthday by winning the downhill by an amazing 4.7 seconds. The US dominated figure skating: Tenley Albright won the women’s title and Hayes Alan Jenkins led an all-American medal sweep on the men’s side.

Downhill king

Austrian Toni Sailer became the first Alpine skier to win three Olympic gold medals. He began by winning the giant slalom by 6.2 seconds, the largest margin of victory in Olympic history. He then won the slalom, recording the fastest time in both runs, and the downhill by 3.5 seconds.

Historic oath

The Olympic Oath was sworn by a female athlete for the first time. The honour was given to the Italian Alpine skier Giuliana Chenal-Minuzzo, bronze medallist in the downhill at the 1952 Oslo Games.

NOCs 32
Athletes 821 (134 women, 687 men)
Events 24
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A symbolic Roman flame

A symbolic flame is lit in Rome's ancient Capitol.

The end of open air skating

The Cortina Games were the last Games at which the figure skating competitions took place outdoors.

The Oath taken by a woman

For the first time in the history of the Games, the Olympic Oath was sworn by a female athlete- the skier Giuliana Chenal Minuzzo, bronze medallist in the downhill at the 1952 Oslo Games

The Body Position

In the ski jumping competition, the Finnish team inaugurated a new aerodynamic style, which consisted of holding the arms flat against the body rather than over the head in a diving position.