Rank
Winner
Nation
Score

Games of the 16th Olympiad, 1956
Athletics
Men
Long Jump
1
BELL Gregory
USA
7.83
2
BENNETT John
USA
7.68
3
VALKAMA Jorma
Finland
7.48
Triple Jump
1
FERREIRA DE SILVA Adhemar
Brazil
16.35
2
EINARSSON Vilhjalmur
Iceland
16.26
3
KREYER Vitold
USSR
16.02
Shot Put
1
O'BRIEN Parry
USA
18.57
2
NIEDER William
USA
18.18
3
SKOBLA Jiri
Czechoslovakia
17.65
Discus
1
OERTER Alfred
USA
56.36
2
GORDIEN Fortune
USA
54.81
3
KOCH Desmond
USA
54.40
Hammer
1
CONNOLLY Harold
USA
63.19
2
KRIVONOSOV Mikhail
USSR
63.03
3
SAMOTSVETOV Anatoly
USSR
62.56