Ski jumping at the 1956 Winter Olympics

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Ski jumping at the 1956 Winter Olympics consisted of one event held on 5 February The competition took place at the Trampolino Olimpico Italia with a K Point of 72m.

Both Finland, which led the medal table, and the unified Germany team won their first Olympic medals in ski jumping.

Normal hill 227.0 225.0 224.5

Rank Athlete Country Jump 1 Jump 2 Total Antti Hyvärinen 111.5 115.5 227.0 Aulis Kallakorpi 114.5 110.5 225.0 Harry Glaß 115.0 109.5 224.5 4 Max Bolkart 111.5 111.0 222.5 5 Sven Pettersson 109.5 110.5 220.0 6 Andreas Däscher 108.0 111.5 219.5 7 Eino Kirjonen 107.5 111.5 219.0 8 Werner Lesser 105.0 105.0 210.0 9 Sverre Stallvik 104.5 103.5 208.0 10 Hemmo Silvennoinen 102.5 105.0 207.5 11 Arne Hoel 104.5 102.0 206.5 12 Sepp Bradl 104.5 101.0 205.5 13 Hiroshi Yoshizawa 106.5 98.5 205.0 14 Bror Östman 102.5 102.0 204.5 15 Walter Habersatter 102.0 99.5 201.5 16 Nikolay Shamov 103.0 98.0 201.0 16 Władysław Tajner 98.0 103.0 201.0 18 Asbjørn Osnes 102.0 97.5 199.5 19 Rudolf Schweinberger 100.0 99.0 199.0 20 Andrzej Gąsienica Daniel 102.0 96.5 198.5 21 Art Devlin 98.5 96.0 194.5 22 Jože Zidar 99.5 94.5 194.0 23 Albin Rogelj 94.0 98.5 192.5 24 Janez Polda 96.5 95.0 191.5 25 Roman Gąsienica Sieczka 101.5 88.0 189.5 26 Sepp Kleisl 95.0 94.0 189.0 27 Jacques Charland 94.5 93.5 188.0 28 Mojmír Stuchlík 98.5 89.0 187.5 29 Jáchym Bulín 93.5 92.5 186.0 30 K'oba Ts'akadze 107.0 78.0 185.0 30 Józef Huczek 95.5 89.5 185.0 30 Otto Leodolter 94.0 91.0 185.0 33 Tito Tolin 91.0 93.5 184.5 34 Yury Moshkin 91.5 92.5 184.0 35 Sverre Stenersen 90.5 93.0 183.5 36 Roy Sherwood 94.0 89.0 183.0 37 Luigi Pennacchio 91.0 89.5 180.5 38 Alfredo Prucker 88.0 91.5 179.5 39 Koichi Sato 91.0 87.5 178.5 40 Conrad Rochat 89.5 87.5 177.0 41 Holger Karlsson 71.5 104.5 176.0 42 Nicolae Munteanu 85.0 90.0 175.0 43 Willis Olson 84.5 90.0 174.5 44 Erik Styf 102.5 66.5 169.0 45 Francis Perret 86.0 82.5 168.5 46 Richard Rabasa 84.5 83.0 167.5 46 André Monnier 82.5 85.0 167.5 48 Enzo Perin 83.5 80.5 164.0 48 Régis Robert Rey 82.0 82.0 164.0 50 Janez Gorišek 81.5 80.5 162.0 51 Dick Rahoi 86.0 72.0 158.0

Sixteen nations participated in ski jumping at the Cortina Games. The Soviet Union made its Olympic ski jumping debut.