| Men | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
| Men 100m | Bobby Joe Morrow | USA | Thane Baker | USA | Hector Hogan | AUS |
| Men 200m | Bobby Joe Morrow | USA | Andrew Stanfield | USA | Thane Baker | USA |
| Men 400m | Charles Jenkins | USA | Karl-Friedrich Haas | GER | Voitto Hellsten | FIN |
| Men 800m | Thomas Courtney | USA | Derek Johnson | GBR | Audun Boysen | NOR |
| Men 1500m | Ron Delaney | IRL | Klaus Richtzenhain | GER | John Landy | AUS |
| Men 5000m | Vladimir Kuts | URS | Gordon Pirie | GBR | Derek Ibbotson | GBR |
| Men 10000m | Vladimir Kuts | URS | Jozsef Kovacs | HUN | Allan Lawrence | AUS |
| Men Marathon | Alain Mimoun | FRA | Franjo Mihalic | YUG | Veikko Karvonen | FIN |
| Men 4x100m Relay | United States | Soviet Union | Germany | |||
| Men 4x400m Relay | United States | Australia | Great Britain | |||
| Men 110m Hurdles | Lee Calhoun | USA | Jack Davis | USA | Joel Shankle | USA |
| Men 400m Hurdles | Glenn Davis | USA | Edward Southern | USA | Joshua Culbreath | USA |
| Men 3000m Steeplechase | Chris Brasher | GBR | Sandor Rozsnyoi | HUN | Ernst Larsen | NOR |
| Men High Jump | Charles Dumas | USA | Charles Porter | AUS | Igor Kashkarov | URS |
| Men Pole Vault | Robert Richards | USA | Bob Gutowski | USA | Georgios Roubanis | GRE |
| Men Long Jump | Gregory Bell | USA | John Bennett | USA | Jorma Valkama | FIN |
| Men Triple Jump | Adhemar Ferreira da Silva | BRA | Vilhjalmur Einarsson | ISL | Vitold Kreyer | URS |
| Men Shot Put | Parry O'Brien | USA | William Nieder | USA | Jiri Skobla | TCH |
| Men Discus Throw | Alfred Oerter | USA | Fortune Gordien | USA | Desmond Koch | USA |
| Men Hammer Throw | Harold Connolly | USA | Mikhail Krivonosov | URS | Anatoliy Samotsvetov | URS |
| Men Javelin Throw | Egil Danielsen | NOR | Janusz Sidlo | POL | Viktor Tsybulenko | URS |
| Men Decathlon | Milton Campbell | USA | Rafer Johnson | USA | Vasiliy Kuznetsov | URS |
| Men 20km Walk | Leonid Spirine | URS | Antanas Mikenas | URS | Bruno Iounk | URS |
| Men 50km Walk | Norman Read | NZL | Yevgeny Maskinskov | URS | John Lunggren | SWE |
| Women | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
| Women 100m | Elizabeth Cuthbert | AUS | Christina Stubnick | GER | Marlene Mathews | AUS |
| Women 200m | Elizabeth Cuthbert | AUS | Christina Stubnick | GER | Marlene Mathews | AUS |
| Women 4x100m Relay | Australia | Great Britain | United States | |||
| Women 80m Hurdles | Shirley Strickland | AUS | Gisela Kohler | GER | Norma Thrower | AUS |
| Women High Jump | Mildred McDaniel | USA | Thelma Hopkins | GBR | Maria Pisareva | URS |
| Women Long Jump | Elzbieta Krzesinska | POL | Willye White | USA | Nadezhda Dvalishvili | URS |
| Women Shot Put | Tamara Tyshkevich | URS | Galina Zybina | URS | Marianne Werner | GER |
| Women Discus Throw | Olga Fikotova | TCH | Irina Beglyakova | URS | Nina Ponomaryeva | URS |
| Women Javelin Throw | Ineze Jaunzeme | URS | Marlene Ahrens | CHI | Nadezhda Konyayeva | URS |
| Todor 66 |
| Olympics index |
| Melbourne 1956 |
| Athletics World Index |
| Medals | G | S | B | All |
| 1. United States | 16 | 10 | 5 | 31 |
| 2. Soviet Union | 5 | 7 | 9 | 21 |
| 3. Australia | 4 | 2 | 6 | 12 |
| 4. Great Britain | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 |
| 5. Poland | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 6. Norway | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 7. Chechoslovakia | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 8. Brazil | 1 | 1 | ||
| 8. France | 1 | 1 | ||
| 8. Ireland | 1 | 1 | ||
| 8. New Zealand | 1 | 1 | ||
| 12.Germany | 5 | 2 | 7 | |
| 13.Hungary | 2 | 2 | ||
| 14.Chile | 1 | 1 | ||
| 14.Iceland | 1 | 1 | ||
| 14.Yugoslavia | 1 | 1 | ||
| 17.Finland | 3 | 3 | ||
| 18.Greece | 1 | 1 | ||
| 18.Sweden | 1 | 1 |
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Last updated: 29 Aug 2011
