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.

Nordic skiing discipline	Men's events	Women's events
Cross-country skiing	• 15 km	• 10 km
	• 30 km
	• 50 km
	• 4 × 10 km relay	• 3 × 5 km relay
Ski jumping	• Large hill (70m)	none
Nordic combined	• Individual	none

Medal summary

Men's events

Cross-country skiing

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
15 km	Hallgeir Brenden  Norway	Sixten Jernberg  Sweden	Pavel Kolchin  Soviet Union
30 km	Veikko Hakulinen  Finland	Sixten Jernberg  Sweden	Pavel Kolchin  Soviet Union
50 km	Sixten Jernberg  Sweden	Veikko Hakulinen  Finland	Fyodor Terentyev  Soviet Union
4 × 10 km relay	Soviet Union (URS) 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

Ski jumping

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Normal hill	Antti Hyvärinen  Finland	Aulis Kallakorpi  Finland	Harry Glaß  United Team of Germany

Nordic combined

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual	Sverre Stenersen  Norway	Bengt Eriksson  Sweden	Franciszek Gąsienica Gron  Poland

Women's events

Cross-country skiing

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