Modern pentathlon at the 1956 Summer Olympics

At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, two events in modern pentathlon were contested.^[1]

Men's modern pentathlon at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Dates	23–28 November 1956
Competitors	40 from 16 nations
Medalists
Lars Hall  Sweden Olavi Mannonen  Finland Väinö Korhonen  Finland
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Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual details	Lars Hall  Sweden	Olavi Mannonen  Finland	Väinö Korhonen  Finland
Team details	Soviet Union (URS) Igor Novikov Ivan Deryugin Aleksandr Tarasov	United States (USA) William Andre Jack Daniels George Lambert	Finland (FIN) Olavi Mannonen Väinö Korhonen Berndt Katter

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	1	0	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	0	1
3	Finland (FIN)	0	1	2	3
4	United States (USA)	0	1	0	1
Totals (4 entries)		2	2	2	6

Participating nations

A total of 40 athletes from 16 nations competed at the Melbourne Games:^[1]

•  Argentina (1)
•  Australia (3)
•  Brazil (3)
•  Chile (3)
•  Czechoslovakia (1)
•  Finland (3)
•  France (1)
•  Great Britain (3)
•  Hungary (3)
•  Italy (1)
•  Mexico (3)
•  Romania (3)
•  South Africa (3)
•  Soviet Union (3)
•  Sweden (3)
•  United States (3)