Nordic skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics

At the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, eight Nordic skiing events were contested – six cross-country skiing events, one ski jumping event, and one Nordic combined event.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
15 km details	Hallgeir Brenden^[1] Norway	Sixten Jernberg Sweden	Pavel Kolchin Soviet Union
30 km details	Veikko Hakulinen^[2] Finland	Sixten Jernberg Sweden	Pavel Kolchin Soviet Union
50 km details	Sixten Jernberg^[3] Sweden	Veikko Hakulinen Finland	Fyodor Terentyev Soviet Union
4 × 10 km relay details	Soviet Union (URS)^[4] Fyodor Terentyev Pavel Kolchin Nikolay Anikin Vladimir Kuzin	Finland (FIN) August Kiuru Jorma Kortelainen Arvo Viitanen Veikko Hakulinen	Sweden (SWE) Lennart Larsson Gunnar Samuelsson Per-Erik Larsson Sixten Jernberg

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Normal hill details	Antti Hyvärinen^[5] Finland	Aulis Kallakorpi Finland	Harry Glaß United Team of Germany

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual details	Sverre Stenersen^[6] Norway	Bengt Eriksson Sweden	Franciszek Gąsienica Gron Poland

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
10 km details	Lyubov Kozyreva^[7] Soviet Union	Radia Yeroshina Soviet Union	Sonja Edström Sweden
3 × 5 km relay details	Finland (FIN)^[4] Sirkka Polkunen Mirja Hietamies Siiri Rantanen	Soviet Union (URS) Lyubov Kozyreva Alevtina Kolchina Radya Yeroshina	Sweden (SWE) Irma Johansson Anna-Lisa Eriksson Sonja Edström

^ "Hallgeir BRENDEN". olympics.com. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
^ "Veikko HAKULINEN". olympics.com. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
^ "Sixten JERNBERG". olympics.com. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
^ ^a ^b "Cross Country Skiing - Medalists". olympics.com. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
^ "Antti HYVÄRINEN". olympics.com. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
^ "Sverre STENERSEN". olympics.com. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
^ "Lyubov BARANOVA". olympics.com. Retrieved 29 May 2024.