Soviet Union at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Medalists

Gold

• Valentin Muratov — Artistic gymnastics, men's floor exercise
• Larisa Latynina — Artistic gymnastics, women's floor exercise
• Viktor Chukarin — Artistic gymnastics, men's individual all-round
• Larisa Latynina — Artistic gymnastics, women's individual all-round
• Victor Chukarin — Artistic gymnastics, men's parallel bars
• Boris Shakhlin — Artistic gymnastics, men's pommel horse
• Albert Azaryan — Artistic gymnastics, men's rings
• Victor Chukarin, Valentin Muratov, Boris Shakhlin, Albert Azaryan, Yuri Titov, Pavel Stolbov — Artistic gymnastics, men's team competition
• Tamara Manina, Larisa Latynina, Sofia Muratova, Lidiya Kalinina-Ivanova, Polina Astakhova, Lyudmila Egorova — Artistic gymnastics, women's team competition
• Valentin Muratov — Artistic gymnastics, men's vault
• Larisa Latynina — Artistic gymnastics, women's vault
• Vladimir Kuts — Athletics, men's 10000 m
• Leonid Spirin — Athletics, men's 20 km walk
• Vladimir Kuts — Athletics, men's 5000 m
• Inese Jaunzeme — Athletics, women's javelin throw
• Tamara Tyshkevich — Athletics, women's shot put
• Vladimir Safronov — Boxing, men's featherweight
• Vladimir Yengibaryan — Boxing, men's light-welterweight
• Gennadi Shatkov — Boxing, men's 71–75 kg
• Pavel Kharin, Gratsian Botev — Canoeing, men's C-2 10000 m
• Elizaveta Dementyeva — Canoeing, women's K-1 500 m
• Lev Yashin, Nikolai Tishchenko, Mikhail Okonkov, Aleksei Paramonov, Anatoli Bashashkin, Igor Netto, Boris Tatushin, Anatoli Isayev, Eduard Streltsov, Valentin Ivanov, Vladimir Ryzhkin, Boris Kuznetsov, Iosif Betsa, Sergei Salnikov, Boris Razinsky, Anatoli Maslenkin, Anatoli Ilyin and Nikita Simonyan — Football, men's team competition
• Igor Novikov, Ivan Deryugin, Aleksandr Tarasov — Modern pentathlon, men's team competition
• Aleksandr Berkutov, Yuriy Tyukalov — Rowing, men's double sculls
• Vyacheslav Ivanov — Rowing, men's single sculls
• Vitali Romanenko — Shooting, men's 100 m running deer, single/double shots
• Vasili Borisov — Shooting, men's 300 m free rifle 3 positions
• Anatoli Bogdanov — Shooting, men's 50 m rifle 3 positions
• Igor Rybak — Weightlifting, men's lightweight
• Fedor Bogdanovsky — Weightlifting, men's middleweight
• Arkady Vorobyov — Weightlifting, men's middle-heavyweight
• Mirian Tsalkalamanidze — Wrestling, men's freestyle flyweight
• Anatoli Parfenov — Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman super-heavyweight
• Nikolai Soloviev — Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman flyweight
• Konstantin Vyrupaev — Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman bantamweight
• Givi Kartoziya — Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman middleweight
• Valentin Nikolayev — Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman light-heavyweight

  Silver

• Tamara Manina — Artistic gymnastics, women's balance beam
• Victor Chukarin — Artistic gymnastics, men's floor exercise
• Yuri Titov — Artistic gymnastics, men's horizontal bar
• Valentin Muratov — Artistic gymnastics, men's rings
• Larisa Latynina — Artistic gymnastics, women's uneven bars
• Tamara Manina — Artistic gymnastics, women's vault
• Antanas Mikenas — Athletics, men's 20 km walk
• Leonid Bartenev, Yuriy Konovalov, Vladimir Sukharev, Boris Tokarev — Athletics, men's 4 × 100 m relay
• Yevgeniy Maskinskov — Athletics, men's 50 km walk
• Irina Beglyakova — Athletics, women's discus throw
• Mikhail Krivonosov — Athletics, men's hammer throw
• Mariya Pisareva — Athletics, women's high jump
• Galina Zybina — Athletics, women's shot put
• Valdis Muizhniek, Maigonis Valdmanis, Vladimir Torban, Stasys Stonkus, Kazys Petkevičius, Arkadi Bochkarev, Jānis Krūmiņš, Mikhail Semyonov, Algirdas Lauritenas, Yuri Ozerov, Viktor Zubkov, Mikhail Studenetsky — Basketball, men's team competition
• Lev Mukhin — Boxing, men's heavyweight
• Pavel Kharin, Gratsian Botev — Canoeing, men's C-2 1000 m
• Igor Pissarev — Canoeing, men's K-1 1000 m
• Mikhail Kaaleste, Anatoli Demitkov — Canoeing, men's K-2 1000 m
• Igor Buldakov, Viktor Ivanov — Rowing, men's coxless pair
• Yevgeni Cherkasov — Shooting, men's 25 m rapid fire pistol
• Allan Erdman — Shooting, men's 300 m free rifle 3 positions
• Makhmud Umarov — Shooting, men's 50 m pistol
• Vasili Borisov — Shooting, men's 50 m rifle prone
• Vladimir Stogov — Weightlifting, men's bantamweight
• Yevgeni Minaev — Weightlifting, men's featherweight
• Ravil Khabutdinov — Weightlifting, men's lightweight
• Vasili Stepanov — Weightlifting, men's light-heavyweight
• Boris Kulayev — Wrestling, men's freestyle light-heavyweight
• Vladimir Maneev — Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman welterweight

  Bronze

• Yuri Titov — Artistic gymnastics, men's individual all-round
• Sofia Muratova — Artistic gymnastics, women's individual all-round
• Victor Chukarin — Artistic gymnastics, men's pommel horse
• Tamara Manina, Larisa Latynina, Sofia Muratova, Lidiya Kalinina-Ivanova, Polina Astakhova, Lyudmila Egorova — Artistic gymnastics, women's team, portable apparatus
• Sofia Muratova — Artistic gymnastics, women's uneven bars
• Yuri Titov — Artistic gymnastics, men's vault
• Bruno Junk — Athletics, men's 20 km walk
• Ardalion Ignatyev — Athletics, men's 400 m
• Vasili Kuznetsov — Athletics, men's decathlon
• Nina Romashkova — Athletics, women's discus throw
• Anatoli Samotsvetov — Athletics, men's hammer throw
• Igor Kashkarov — Athletics, men's high jump
• Viktor Tsybulenko — Athletics, men's javelin throw
• Nadezhda Konyaeva — Athletics, women's javelin throw
• Nadezhda Khnykina-Dvalishvili — Athletics, women's long jump
• Vitold Kreer — Athletics, men's triple jump
• Anatoli Lagetko — Boxing, men's lightweight
• Romualdas Murauskas — Boxing, men's light-heavyweight
• Gennady Bukharin — Canoeing, men's C-1 10000 m
• Gennady Bukharin — Canoeing, men's C-1 1000 m
• Lev Kuznetsov — Fencing, men's sabre individual
• Yakov Rylsky, David Tyshler, Lev Kuznetsov, Yevgeni Cherepovsky, Leonid Bogdanov — Fencing, men's sabre team
• Igor Emchuk, Heorhiy Zhylin, Vladimir Petrov — Rowing, men's pair-oared shell with coxswain
• Vladimir Sevryugin — Shooting, men's 100 m running deer, single/double shots
• Kharis Yunichev — Swimming, men's 200 m breaststroke
• Vitali Sorokin, Vladimir Struzhanov, Gennadi Nikolaev, Boris Nikitin — Swimming, men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay
• Boris Goikhman, Valentin Prokopov, Yuri Shlyapin, Vyacheslav Kurennoi, Pyotr Breus, Pyotr Mshvenieradze, Boris Markarov, Mikhail Ryzhak, Viktor Ageev and Nodar Gvakhariya — Water polo, men's team competition
• Mikhail Shakhov — Wrestling, men's freestyle bantamweight
• Alimbeg Bestaev — Wrestling, men's freestyle lightweight
• Vakhtang Balavadze — Wrestling, men's freestyle welterweight
• Georgi Skhirtladze — Wrestling, men's freestyle middleweight
• Roman Dzeneladze — Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman featherweight

  Athletics

• Boris Stolyarov
• Anatoly Mikhailov

• Ivan Filine — 2:30:37
• Boris Grichaev — did not finish
• Albert Ivanov — did not finish

  Basketball

Boxing

Canoeing

Cycling

• Boris Romanov — 7th place

• Boris Savostin — 1:12.3

• Rostislav Vargashkin

• Eduard Gusev

• Anatoly Cherepovich

• Anatoly Cherepovich — 5:23:50
• Mykola Kolumbet — 5:23:50
• Viktor Kapitonov — 5:30:45
• Viktor Vershinin — 5:34:21

  Diving

• Roman Brener
• Mikhail Chachba
• Gennady Galkin

• Zoya Blyuvas

• Tatyana Karakashyants-Vereina
• Lyubov Shigalova
• Raisa Gorokhovskaya

  Fencing

• Mark Midler
• Yury Rudov
• Iuri Osip'ovi

• Yury Rudov, Iuri Osip'ovi, Mark Midler, Aleksandr Ovsyankin, Viktor Zhdanovich, Yury Ivanov

• Arnold Chernushevich
• Revaz Tsirek'idze
• Juozas Ūdras

• Arnold Chernushevich, Valentin Chernikov, Lev Saychuk, Revaz Tsirek'idze, Juozas Ūdras, Valentin Vdovichenko

• Lev Kuznetsov
• Yevgeny Cherepovsky
• Yakov Rylsky

• Lev Kuznetsov, Yakov Rylsky, Yevgeny Cherepovsky, David Tyshler, Leonid Bogdanov

• Emma Yefimova
• Valentina Rastvorova
• Nadezhda Shitikova

  Football

Gymnastics

Modern pentathlon

• Igor Novikov
• Aleksandr Tarasov
• Ivan Deriuhin

• Igor Novikov
• Aleksandr Tarasov
• Ivan Deriuhin

  Rowing

• Vyacheslav Ivanov

• Aleksandr Berkutov
• Yuriy Tyukalov

• Igor Buldakov
• Viktor Ivanov

• Ihor Yemchuk
• Heorhiy Zhylin
• Vladimir Petrov

• Leonid Zakharov
• Aleksandr Sheff
• Nikolay Karasyov
• Igor Ivanov

• Andrey Arkhipov
• Yury Popov
• Valentin Zanin
• Yaroslav Cherstvy
• Anatoly Fetisov

• Ernest Verbin
• Boris Fyodorov
• Slava Amiragov
• Leonid Gissen
• Yevgeny Samsonov
• Anatoly Antonov
• Georgy Gushchenko
• Vladimir Kryukov
• Vladimir Petrov

  Sailing

Shooting

• Yevgeny Cherkasov
• Vasily Sorokin

• Makhmud Umarov
• Anton Yasynskiy

• Vasily Borisov
• Allan Erdman

• Anatoly Bogdanov
• Vasily Borisov

• Vasily Borisov
• Anatoly Bogdanov

• Vitali Romanenko
• Vladimir Sevryugin

• Nikolay Mogilevsky
• Yury Nikandrov

  Swimming

Water polo

Weightlifting

Wrestling

Medals by republic