Finland at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Finland at the Olympic Games
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At the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo
Competitors	31 (27 men, 4 women) in 6 sports
Flag bearer	Antti Hyvärinen, Ski Jumping
Medals Rank: 3	Gold 3	Silver 3	Bronze 1	Total 7
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Finland competed at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Veikko Hakulinen	Cross-country skiing	Men's 30 km
Gold	Mirja Hietamies Sirkka Polkunen Siiri Rantanen	Cross-country skiing	Women's 3 x 5 km relay
Gold	Antti Hyvärinen	Ski jumping	Men's normal hill (K90 individual 70m)
Silver	Veikko Hakulinen	Cross-country skiing	Men's 50 km
Silver	Veikko Hakulinen August Kiuru Jorma Kortelainen Arvo Viitanen	Cross-country skiing	Men's 4 x 10 km relay
Silver	Aulis Kallakorpi	Ski jumping	Men's normal hill (K90 individual 70m)
Bronze	Toivo Salonen	Speed skating	Men's 1500m

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Pentti Alonen	Downhill					DSQ	–
Kalevi Häkkinen						3:29.2	23
Kalevi Häkkinen	Giant Slalom					3:36.9	43
Pentti Alonen						3:35.0	42
Pentti Alonen	Slalom	DSQ	–	–	–	DSQ	–
Kalevi Häkkinen		1:53.8	41	2:25.4 (+0:05)	36	4:19.2	40

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km	Arto Tiainen	54:11	26
	Veikko Räsänen	52:35	14
	Arvo Viitanen	51:10	9
	Veikko Hakulinen	50:31	4
30 km	August Kiuru	1'51:56	21
	Kalevi Hämäläinen	1'51:38	20
	Olavi Latsa	1'47:30	9
	Veikko Hakulinen	1'44:06
50 km	Veini Kontinen	3'06:15	9
	Antti Sivonen	3'04:16	8
	Eero Kolehmainen	2'56:17	4
	Veikko Hakulinen	2'51:45

Men's 4 x 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
August Kiuru Jorma Kortelainen Arvo Viitanen Veikko Hakulinen	2'16:31

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
10 km	Sanna Kiero	40:52	12
	Sirkka Polkunen	40:25	8
	Mirja Hietamies	40:18	6
	Siiri Rantanen	39:40	5

Women's 3 x 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Sirkka Polkunen Mirja Hietamies Siiri Rantanen	1'09:01

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	CF	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Kalle Tuulos	15	15	124.50	137	15

Nordic combined

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
• 15 km cross-country skiing

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping				Cross-country			Total
		Distance 1	Distance 2	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Esko Jussila	Individual	63.5	65.0	194.0	21	1'02:38	215.500	27	409.500	25
Paavo Korhonen		65.5	69.5	196.5	17	56:32	239.097	2	435.597	4
Eeti Nieminen		70.5	68.0	206.0	8	1'00:20	224.400	14	430.400	9

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Jump 1			Jump 2			Total
		Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Hemmo Silvennoinen	Normal hill	75.5	102.5	15	77.0	105.0	8	207.5	10
Eino Kirjonen		78.0	107.5	7	81.0	111.5	2	219.0	7
Antti Hyvärinen		81.0	111.5	3	84.0	115.5	1	227.0
Aulis Kallakorpi		83.5	114.5	2	80.5	110.5	5	225.0

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Yrjö Uimonen	42.5	13
	Juhani Järvinen	42.2	9
	Matti Hamberg	42.2	9
	Toivo Salonen	41.7	5
1500 m	Leo Tynkkynen	2:16.2	26
	Matti Hamberg	2:14.8	18
	Juhani Järvinen	2:09.7	4
	Toivo Salonen	2:09.4
5000 m	Matti Hamberg	8:28.1	32
	Leo Tynkkynen	8:19.9	25
	Kauko Salomaa	8:14.3	21
	Juhani Järvinen	8:13.7	20
10,000 m	Toivo Salonen	17:37.6	24
	Kauko Salomaa	17:19.0	17
	Juhani Järvinen	17:05.9	12

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 1956, full results by sports-reference.com