Nordic combined at the 1956 Winter Olympics consisted of one event, held from 29 January to 31 January. The ski jumping portion took place at Trampolino Olimpico, while the cross-country portion took place at Lo Stadio della neve.

Standings were determined by the combined length of 3 jumps per entrant and combined style points (best 2 out of 3), awarded by a pool of 5 international judges. The cross-country course had a vertical drop of , a maximum climb of and a total climb.

Medal summary Medal table

Franciszek Gąsienica Groń's bronze medal was the first, and as of 2010, only, medal for Poland in Nordic combined.

Events

Individual 455.00 437.40 436.80

Individual Athletes did three normal hill ski jumps, with the lowest score dropped. They then raced a 15 kilometre cross-country course, with the time converted to points. The athlete with the highest combined points score was awarded the gold medal. Rank Name Country Ski JumpingCross-countryTotal Jump 1 Jump 2 Jump 3 Total Rank Time Points Rank Sverre Stenersen 95.5 107.5 107.5 215.0 2 56:18 240.00 1 455.00 Bengt Eriksson 108.0 106.0 99.5 214.0 3 1:00:36 223.40 15 437.40 Franciszek Gąsienica Groń 60.0 101.5 101.5 203.0 10 57:55 233.80 7 436.80 4 Paavo Korhonen 97.0 96.5 99.5 196.5 17 56:32 239.10 2 435.60 5 Arne Barhaugen 99.0 98.5 100.0 199.0 15 57:11 236.58 3 435.58 6 Tormod Knutsen 89.5 103.5 99.5 203.0 10 58:22 232.00 9 435.00 7 Nikolay Gusakov 98.0 102.0 96.5 200.0 14 58:17 232.30 8 432.30 8 Alfredo Prucker 101.0 100.0 95.0 201.0 12 58:52 230.10 10 431.10 9 Eeti Nieminen 99.5 105.0 101.0 206.0 8 1:00:20 224.40 14 430.40 10 Leonid Fyodorov 101.0 100.0 98.0 201.0 12 59:17 228.50 12 429.50 11 Sepp Schiffner 105.0 106.5 104.0 211.5 4 1:02:02 217.80 25 429.30 12 Vítězslav Lahr 92.0 98.0 95.0 193.0 22 57:39 234.80 5 427.80 13 Yury Moshkin 110.5 83.5 107.0 217.5 1 1:04:18 209.10 30 426.60 14 Kjetil Mårdalen 93.0 92.5 96.0 189.0 26 57:43 234.50 6 423.50 15 Aleksander Kowalski 99.0 104.5 106.0 210.5 5 1:03:37 211.70 29 422.20 16 Willi Egger 102.0 105.0 103.0 208.0 7 1:03:00 214.10 28 422.10 17 Leopold Kohl 97.5 101.0 95.5 198.5 16 1:01:00 221.80 21 420.30 18 Vlastimil Melich 88.5 90.5 93.0 183.5 28 57:18 236.10 4 419.60 19 Helmut Böck 97.0 93.0 91.5 190.0 24 59:13 228.70 11 418.70 20 Enzo Perin 97.5 98.5 95.5 196.0 19 1:00:48 222.60 18 418.60 21 Heinz Hauser 93.0 101.0 94.0 195.0 20 1:00:43 222.90 17 417.90 22 Josef Nüsser 92.5 95.5 94.0 189.5 25 59:28 227.80 13 417.30 23 Marvin Crawford 96.5 97.5 99.0 196.5 17 1:02:24 216.40 26 412.90 24 Gerhard Glaß 103.0 100.5 77.0 203.5 9 1:04:17 209.10 30 412.60 25 Esko Jussila 96.5 97.5 95.0 194.0 21 1:02:38 215.50 27 409.50 26 Uno Kajak 84.0 92.0 94.5 186.5 27 1:00:48 222.60 18 409.10 27 Irvin Servold 91.0 89.0 87.5 180.0 31 1:01:44 219.00 24 399.00 28 Herbert Leonhardt 79.5 89.0 88.0 177.0 32 1:01:34 219.60 23 396.60 29 Józef Daniel Krzeptowski 78.0 87.5 86.0 173.5 33 1:00:48 222.60 18 396.10 30 Theodore Farwell, Jr. 88.5 83.0 85.0 173.5 33 1:01:21 220.50 22 394.00 31 Aldo Pedrana 85.0 79.5 83.0 168.0 35 1:00:36 223.40 15 391.40 32 Jan Raszka 89.0 91.5 91.0 182.5 29 1:05:15 205.40 32 387.90 33 Koichi Sato 93.0 98.0 93.5 191.5 23 1:08:21 193.40 35 384.90 34 Charles Tremblay 88.0 91.0 91.0 182.0 30 1:07:40 196.00 34 378.00 35 Buck Levy 72.5 80.5 81.5 162.0 36 1:05:42 203.60 33 365.60 - Hiroshi Yoshizawa 98.0 106.5 104.0 210.5 5 DNF DNF - -

Participating National Olympic Committees Twelve nations participated in Nordic combined at the Cortina Games. The Soviet Union made their Olympic Nordic combined debut.

References

External links Sports-Reference - 1956 Olympics - Nordic Combined - Individual