Olympic Games | Melbourne 1956

The XVI Olympic Games were held in Melbourne Australia over sixteen days from 22 November until 8 December 1956.

The 2032 Brisbane Olympics (Games of the XXXV Olympiad) will be the 3rd Olympics held in Australia, after the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Games of the XVI Olympiad | Melbourne
⊜ Melbourne
Melbourne won the right to host the 1956 Olympic Games by one vote over Buenos Aires. Australian quarantine laws were too severe to allow the entry of foreign horses, so the equestrian events...

Games Venue: Melbourne Cricket Ground
⊜ Melbourne Cricket Ground Melbourne
The Melbourne Cricket Ground was the main arena for the Olympic Games with 107,700 attending the opening ceremony on 22 November 1956. HRH The Duke of Edinburgh opened the games. 104,700...

Melbourne Olympic 1956 Trivia
⊜ Melbourne
The 1956 Melbourne Olympics was the first time that the Olympic Games were held in Oceania. Equestrian sports in Stockholm This is the only time in the Games' hundred year existence that the...

Melbourne Olympics, 1956
⊜ Melbourne Olympics, 1956 Melbourne
Conducted against the backdrop of the Suez crisis and the Hungarian Revolution, the Melbourne Olympics began in October 1956. The Games were centred around the Melbourne Cricket Ground and in...

Olympic Games Melbourne | State Library of Victoria
⊜ 328 Swanston Street Melbourne
The State Library of Victoria's 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games exhibition site explores the history of Australia's first experience hosting an Olympic Games and the impact it had on Australia as a...

Olympic Village | Heidelberg 1956
⊜ Heidelberg West
The Olympic Village was built in Heidelberg West as accommodation for the 1956 Olympic Games held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The Olympic Village was built to house athletes competing in...