By 1956 Melbourne was clearly ready for the Olympics and the games started as planned. Britain's Gold Medal Victory (1956) 1956 Olympic equestrian events in Sweden, Great Britain take team gold. 1956 Stockholm olympics BADGE for Team Assistants such as Vets In fantastic condition! Melbourne played host to all events of the 1956 Summer Olympics with the exception of Equestrian events, due to Australia's quarantine laws. Norway competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia and Stockholm, Sweden (equestrian events). The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were held at Melbourne in Victoria, Australia.. Melbourne was chosen as the host city over instead of Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Montreal and six American cities on 28 April 1949 at the 43rd IOC session.. Royal Diary (1956) Queen Elizabeth visits ball, and Olympics equestrian events in Stockholm, 1956. The 1956 Games were the first games to be held in the southern hemisphere. Each badge has the same design, but colors and ribbons are different depending on the holder’s status. Historic Events. Auction your bronze 1956 Stockholm Equestrian Olympics medal at Nate D. Sanders Auctions. 158 athletes from 29 countries competed in equestrian events in June 1956, almost six months before the Melbourne games. From shop HeritagePosters. The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event that was held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia from 22 November to 8 December 1956, with the exception of the equestrian events, which were held in Stockholm, Sweden in June 1956.. 1956 Stockholm Summer Olympics Silver Plated Plate. The Olympic torchbearer for the 1956 Olympics was a virtually unknown 19 year old at the time he carried the torch into the stadium at Melbourne. Offered here is a rare silver-plated plate representing the 1956 Stockholm Summer games. The equestrian events were not held in Australia because of quarantine regulations.

Those events were staged in Stockholm instead. British Pathé. 22 competitors, 19 men and 3 women, took part in 18 events in 6 sports. Olympics Games 1956 Stockholm Sweden Summer Sport International Multi-Sport Event Vintage Poster Repro Free S/H in USA HeritagePosters. For the first time since WWII, East and West Germany enter the games as the United Team of Germany; Because of quarantine laws, the equestrian events took place in Stockholm in June, since foreign horses are not allowed in Australia. Measuring at … As a result, the 1956 Olympiad was the first and last to be held in two different hemispheres in the same year, and 1956 saw posters that featured two different cities.

British Pathé. The one above is the equestrian part of the 1956 Olympics in Stockholm, while the one below is the standard poster for the Melbourne Games. Instead, the equestrian portion of the games was held in Stockholm, marking the second time in Olympic history that the Games were spread across two cities (the first being in 1920). 1956 Stockholm Badge While the 1956 Summer Olympics were held in Melbourne, Australia the equestrian events were held separately in Stockholm, Sweden.