Regarded as one of our greatest accomplishments, the 1956 Olympics is being celebrated in a new book. #9News | http://9News.com.au | 9 News

Let's step back in time to 1956. 🕛 The last time Cortina d'Ampezzo hosted the Winter Olympics! The Games were opened on this day 69 years ago with a magical ceremony on a crisp winter's day. ❄️ Only 376 days remain until the Opening Ceremony of #MilanoCortina2026! 🙌 MilanoCortina2026 | Olympics

On this day, 65 years years ago the 1956 Summer Olympics commenced in Melbourne. There were several future film and TV makers shooting home movies at the Games in Melbourne, which ran from 22 November to 8 December. In this clip, shot by Bruce Beresford, today one of Australia’s most successful and internationally recognised film directors, we see Melbourne street scenes and the banners for the Olympic Games, crowds scenes, the Olympic Village and athletes. At 16 years of age Bruce was only just

A new world record and a first Olympic swimming gold for 32 years - #ThrowbackThursday to Judy Grinham's sensational performance at the 1956 Melbourne Games 🥇 | Team GB

Terrific colour footage of the men's marathon at the 1956 Olympic Games. Starting from the MCG going down to Oakleigh, then returning to a packed MCG. This was the final event of the Melbourne games held on Saturday the 1st of December 1956. There were 46 participants from 23 nations, The event was won by Alain Mimoun of France, Yugoslavia took its first Olympic marathon medal with Franjo Mihalić's silver. Finland returned to the podium in the event for the first time since 1932 as Veikko Karvon

Regarded as one of our greatest accomplishments, the 1956 Olympics is being celebrated in a new book. #9News | http://9News.com.au | 9 News Melbourne

14 reactions | Celebrate tonight's opening ceremony with this home movie footage of the 1956 Melbourne Olympics from the ACMI Collection. Subscribe to the ACMI Collection YouTube channel for more home movies. https://acmi.me/acmicollectionchannel | ACMI | Facebook

The 1956 Melbourne Olympic's was the first to be held in the Southern Hemisphere and the first Australian event to be covered extensively on radio and television. #NFSAOnline #SoundsofAustralia #Olympics #Melbourne https://bit.ly/32Hyj6f | NFSA - National Film and Sound Archive of Australia