Nordic skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics

The 1956 Winter Olympics Nordic skiing results

Men's events

15 km

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Hallgeir Brenden (NOR)	49:39
Silver	Sixten Jernberg (SWE)	50:14
Bronze	Pavel Kolchin (URS)	50:17

This was the first race run at 15km after being held at 18km from 1924 to 1952. Kolchin was the first non-Scandinavian to earn an Olympic medal.

30 km

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Veikko Hakulinen (FIN)	1:44.06
Silver	Sixten Jernberg (SWE)	1:44.30
Bronze	Pavel Kolchin (URS)	1:45.45

50 km

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Sixten Jernberg (SWE)	2:50.27
Silver	Veikko Hakulinen (FIN)	2:51.45
Bronze	Fyodor Terentyev (URS)	2:53.32

4 x 10 km

Medal	Team	Time
Gold	Soviet Union (Fyodor Terentyev, Pavel Kolchin, Nikolai Anikin, Vladimir Kuzin)	2:15.30
Silver	Finland (August Kiuru, Jorma Kortelainen, Arvo Viitanen, Veikko Hakulinen)	2:16.31
Bronze	Sweden (Lennart Larsson, Gunnar Samuelsson, Per-Erik Larsson, Sixten Jernberg)	2:17.42

Nordic combined Individual

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold	Sverre Stenersen (NOR)	455.0
Silver	Bengt Eriksson (SWE)	437.4
Bronze	Franciszek Gasienica-Gron (POL)	436.8

The cross-country skiing distance was reduced from 18km to 15km starting with this Olympics.

K90 individual (70m) ski jumping

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold	Antti Hyvärinen (FIN)	227.0
Silver	Aulis Kallakorpi (FIN)	225.0
Bronze	Harry Glass (EUA)	224.5

The competition took place at "Trampolina Italia" with a K-Point of 72m. . Athletes from East and West Germany competed together as the "United Team of Germany", designated as the EUA this combined team appeared in the 1956, 1960 and the 1964 Winter Olympics.

Women's events

10 km

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Lyubov Kosyreva (URS)	38:11
Silver	Radia Yeroshina (URS)	38:16
Bronze	Sonja Edström (SWE)	38:23

3 x 5 km

Medal	Team	Time
Gold	Finland (Sirkka Polkunen, Mirja Hietamies, Siiri Rantanen)	1:09.01
Silver	Soviet Union (Lyubov Kosyreva, Alevtina Kolchina, Radia Yeroshina)	1:09.28
Bronze	Sweden (Irma Johansson, Anna-Lisa Eriksson, Sonja Edström)	1:09.48