Players of the Soviet Union and United States teams, finalists in the basketball event at the 1956 Summer Olympics, at the Royal Exhibition Building...
Photographers on the bank beside the running track as the Hungarian team make their entrance, following the flagbearer, at the closing ceremony for...
Aerial view of the opening ceremony of the 1956 Summer Olympics, the stands packed with spectators at Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne,...
Three unidentified members of the India men's field hockey team wearing their hair in rumals, as the heat makes wearing a turban impractical, at the...
High angle view as one of the competing nations walk the track, following the flagbearer at the opening ceremony at the 1956 Summer Olympics, at...
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in naval uniform, among the dignitaries watching the parade of athletes at the opening ceremony of the 1956 Summer...
The closing ceremony of the 1956 Summer Olympics showing the Olympic flag being carried to the rostrum where it will be handed to Lord Mayor of...
Swedish equestrian rider Hans Wilkne carries the Olympic torch into the Stockholm Olympic Stadium, which is hosting the equestrian events of the 1956...
The facade of supermarket Coles Stores celebrates Melbourne hosting the 1956 Summer Olympics, with the Olympic torch above the Olympic rings a...
Melbourne: XVITH Olympiad. - U. S. Live Girl at Practice. American platform and springboard dive girl, Patricia McCormick of Lakewood, California,...
Melbourne, Texas- OLYMPIC GOLD AND SILVER FOR U.S. Bobby Morrow, of Abilene, Texas, stands on the winner's spot after he was presented with the gold...
Winter Olympic Games at Cortina d’Ampezzo in Italy. Olympic Ice Skater jumps into the air as she displays her skills. January 1956.
Winter Olympic Games held at Cortina d' Ampezzo in Northern Italy. Woman posing holding the Olympic Flame. January 1956.
Special cages are set up in the stands for the official cameramen at the 1956 Summer Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia, 23rd November 1956.
Russian discus thrower Nina Ponomaryova signing autographs for members of the Royal Australian Air Force, who surround Ponomaryova in the Olympic...
Czech discus thrower Jirina Nemcova sits with fellow competitors Canadian discus thrower Jackie MacDonald, British discus thrower Suzanne Allday ,...
On the Beam. Melbourne, Australia: Russian female gymnast Larissa Latynina balances on a beam during Olympic Gymnastic event here. She captured first...
American shot putter Lois Testa and coach of the USA women's Olympic track team Boo Morcom watch American shot putter Earlene Brown during a training...
Workman affix the Coat of Arms of the Duke of Edinburgh to the Royal Box at Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Australia, 17th November 1956. The...
Track & Field: 1956 Summer Olympics, USA Milt Campbell in action, winning race during decathlon, Melbourne, AUS --12/8/1956
Japan delegation pose for photographs during the Melbourne Olympic Games Team Forming Ceremony on October 10, 1956 in Tokyo, Japan.
As part of a nationwide industrial campaign for the U.S. Olympic team, "Victoria," a one-year-old kangaroo from Melbourne, Australia, gets a friendly...
Melbourne Host City for 1956. Melbourne, Australia: Melbourne, Australia will be the host city for the 1956 Olympic games. It is the first city in...
Olympia, Greece- The First Priestess of the Temple hands over the Sacred Flame to the first runner after pronouncing the Olympic Oath at the foot of...
Winter Olympic Games at Cortina d’Ampezzo in Italy. British Olympic Team parade through town during the opening ceremony.
Female athletes welcomed with bouquets of flowers as the Soviet team arrives ahead of the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, 18th November...
English swimmer Judy Grinham holding up her Olympic gold medal at home at Neasden, north west London.
Australian swimmer Mina Wylie and Fanny Durack pose together, hands behind their backs and both in swimming suits and caps, on a dock, probably in...
Melbourne, Australia- K.C. Jones of San Francisco, California, and Russia's Mikhail Semenov chase a loose ball in the semifinal Olympic basketball...
Big Bill Russell of the U.S. Team is shown out-rebounding two members of the Japanese team, H. Saito and T. Itoyama in the U.S. Japan basketball game...
Soviet-Latvian basketball player Janis Krumins shaking hands with team USA's Bill Russell at the Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, November...
The British Equestrian team parading past the Royal Box during the opening ceremony of the Equestrian Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden.
Melbourne, Australia- MORROW RACKS UP SECOND GOLD MEDAL. The U.S. 200 meter team of Bobby Morrow , Andy Stanfield and Thane Baker finish in that...
Denis Brodeur, the first line goalkeeper of Canada's ice hockey team during a practice match. The team are in training to defend their title against...
Ron Clarke of Australia lights the Olympic Torch at the opening ceremony of the 17th Olympic Games held in Melbourne during 1956.
Melbourne, Australia- BIG BILL SINKS ONE. America's Big Bill Russell reaches high above the head of Russia's A. Lauritenas to score a rebound shot...
Picture taken 1956 of American legendary discus thrower Al Oerter in action during the Melbourne Olympic Games. Best discus thrower of all times, Al...
Cricket scoreboard above the pitch which will be used as an Olympic Stadium for the forthcoming 1956 Olympic Games at Melbourne, Australia....
Olympic silver and bronze medallist in the Women's 4 × 100 metres Relay event, June Paul of Great Britain crosses the line to finish second to Anne...
Laszlo Papp of Hungary shares the distinction in Olympic records with Teofilo Stevenson of Cuba of winning three boxing gold medals. He was the...
Legendary American athlete Babe Didrikson Zaharias stands on a golf course and putts the ball, mid 1940s. Zaharias was not only a champion golfer,...
Legendary American athlete Babe Didrikson Zaharias stands in a sand trap on the sixth hole of a golf field and swings out as a crowd of spectators...
Trampolino Olimpico Italia is seen on October 05, 2023 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. The venue which is no longer in use hosted ski jumping and...
German contestant Ossi Reichert wins the Women's Giant Slalom in the Winter Olympics at Cortina d'Ampezzo, 28th January 1956.
The 400 meters Hurdles Finals at the Olympic Games in Melbourne with Glenn Davis the American Champion in front of the field.
The two sisters and swimming champions Daniela, on the left, and Anna Beneck get distracted with the music of a juke box; both are going to take part...
The two sisters and swimming champions Daniela, on the left, and Anna Beneck are seated side by side, both engaged in a telephone communication, and...
Hungarian-Israeli retired Olympic and world champion artistic gymnast Agnes Keleti shows her first gold medal won during the Olympic Games in...
Trampoline "Italy", Postage stamp from the series dedicated by the Italian Post Office to the 7th Winter Olympic Games held in Cortina D'Ampezzo from...
Soviet Larissa Latynina performs her routine on the beam during the Olympic Games in Melbourne, December 1956. Larissa Latynina, who finished fourth...
Melbourne, Australia- THOUSANDS WITNESS OPENING OF 16TH OLYMPIAD. A general view of the huge crowd that gathered in the stands at the Melbourne...
Field hockey, men: award ceremony for the winning Indian team, captain Balbir Singh on the winner's rostrum waving to the audience
Athletes jump a hurdle in the final of the 80m hurdles, Helsinki olympics, 26 July 1952. Australian athlete de la Hunty won the gold medal. She also...
Melbourne, Australia- AUSTRALIAN GIRL WINS SOMEN'S 100-METER FINAL. Australia's Betty Cuthbert is shown winning the 100-meter final at the Olympic...
Mildred Babe Didrikson of the USA throws the javelin to win the gold medal during the Women's Track and Field javelin event at the 1932 Summer...
