Equestrian at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Individual jumping

This was the 10th appearance of the event, which had first been held at the 1900 Summer Olympics and has been held at every Summer Olympics at which equestrian sports have been featured (that is, excluding 1896, 1904, and 1908). It is the oldest event on the current programme, the only one that was held in 1900.[2]

Five of the top 10 riders from the 1952 competition returned: gold medalist Pierre Jonquères d'Oriola of France, bronze medalist Fritz Thiedemann of Germany (now competing as the United Team of Germany), fourth-place finisher Eloy de Menezes of Brazil, fifth-place finisher Wilfred White of Great Britain, and seventh-place finisher Raimondo D'Inzeo of Italy. The first two World Champions in the event, Paco Goyoaga of Spain (1953) and Hans Günter Winkler of the United Team of Germany (1954 and 1955) were present, with Winkler favored in the competition.[2]

Australia, Cambodia, and Venezuela each made their debut in the event; East and West Germany competed together as the United Team of Germany for the first time. France and Sweden both competed for the ninth time, tied for the most of any nation; Sweden had missed only the inaugural 1900 competition, while France missed the individual jumping in 1932.

The competition used the two-round format introduced in 1952. Scores from the two runs were added together for a total score.

The team and individual jumping competitions used the same results. The course had 13 obstacles. The time limit was 1 minute, 56.1 seconds. Penalty points were received for obstacle faults (3, 4, 6, or 8 points based on severity) or exceeding the time limit (0.25 points per second or fraction thereof over the limit). A third refusal or jumping an obstacle out of order resulted in elimination.

All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

66 riders competed.[3] For the first time since 1932, no jump-off was required to determine the medalists.

Winkler led after one round with 4 faults. In second was defending champion Jonquères d'Oriola at 7. There were five riders tied for third at 8, including both D'Inzeo brothers. Winkler suffered a pulled groin and would have withdrawn except that doing so would cost his teammates a chance at a team event medal (Germany led, but all three riders had to finish). He rode the second round dosed with (visibly insufficient) painkillers and coffee.[2]

Despite those impediments, Winkler was one of three riders to ride a clean second round (though one, López, had a .75 time penalty). He both took the individual gold and led Germany to the team gold. The other rider to come out of round 2 with no faults was the younger D'Inzeo, Raimondo. With Jonquères d'Oriola having a relatively poor second round (at 8 faults), the Frenchman fell to sixth—leaped over by 4 of the 5 men who had been tied for third after round 1. Raimondo's clean round earned him silver; his elder brother Piero's 3 second-round faults was good for bronze. Thiedemann and White each had 4 faults in the second round, tying for fourth.

The first two women to compete in the event, Pat Smythe and Brigitte Schockaert, finished 10th and 34th, respectively.

Rank	Rider	Nation	Horse	Round 1			Round 2			Total
				Faults	Time	Total	Faults	Time	Total
	Hans Günter Winkler	Halla	United Team of Germany	4	0	4	0	0	0	4
	Raimondo D'Inzeo	Merano	Italy	8	0	8	0	0	0	8
	Piero D'Inzeo	Uruguay	Italy	8	0	8	3	0	3	11
4	Fritz Thiedemann	Meteor	United Team of Germany	8	0	8	4	0	4	12
	Wilfred White	Nizefela	Great Britain	8	0	8	4	0	4	12
6	Pierre Jonquères d'Oriola	Voulette	France	7	0	7	7	1	8	15
7	Henrique Callado	Martingil	Portugal	12	0	12	4	0	4	16
8	Carlos César Delía	Discutido	Argentina	15	0	15	4	0	4	19
9	Mohamed Selim Zaki	Insh' Allah	Egypt	16	0	16	4	0	4	20
10	Pat Smythe	Flanagan	Great Britain	8	0	8	11	2	13	21
11	Albert Szatola	Aranyos	Hungary	16	0	16	8	0	8	24
	Hugh Wiley	Trail Guide	United States	16	0	16	8	0	8	24
	Alfons Lütke Westhues	Ala	United Team of Germany	16	0	16	8	0	8	24
14	Carlos López	Tapatío	Spain	27	0	27	0	0.75	0.75	27.75
15	Paco Goyoaga	Fahnenkönig	Spain	20	0	20	8	0	8	28
	William Steinkraus	Night Owl	United States	20	0	20	8	0	8	28
17	Pedro Mayorga	Coriolano	Argentina	16	0	16	16	0	16	32
18	Kevin Barry	Ballyneety	Ireland	23	0	23	12	0	12	35
19	William de Rham	Va-Vite	Switzerland	20	0	20	16	0	16	36
	Peter Robeson	Scorchin	Great Britain	16	0	16	20	0	20	36
21	Andrey Favorsky	Maneuvr	Soviet Union	20	0	20	20	0	20	40
	Gamal Haress	Nefertity II	Egypt	20	0	20	20	0	20	40
23	Billy Ringrose	Liffey Vale	Ireland	24	0	24	20	0	20	44
24	Salvatore Oppes	Pagoro	Italy	19	4	23	24	0	24	47
25	Naldo Dasso	Ramito	Argentina	16	0	16	19	13.5	32.5	48.5
26	Koichi Kawaguchi	Fuji	Japan	28	0	28	24	0	24	52
27	Frank Chapot	Belair	United States	35	1.25	36.25	16	0	16	52.25
	Patrick Kiernan	Ballynonty	Ireland	19	0	19	29	4.25	33.25	52.25
29	Bernard de Fombelle	Doria	France	12	0	12	39	1.75	40.75	52.75
30	Salih Koç	Basak	Turkey	24	0	24	28	1.25	29.25	53.25
31	Kunihiro Ohta	Eforegiot	Japan	20	0	20	32	2.25	34.25	54.25
32	Anders Gernandt	Röhäll	Sweden	32	0	32	19	4	23	55
33	Nelson Pessoa Filho	Relincho	Brazil	32	0	32	23	3	26	58
34	Brigitte Schockaert	Muscadin	Belgium	32	0	32	27	0	27	59
	Alexander Stoffel	Bricole	Switzerland	27	0	27	32	0	32	59
36	Carlos Figueroa	Gracieux	Spain	21	12.5	33.5	28	0	28	61.5
37	Marc Büchler	Duroc	Switzerland	25	3.5	28.5	36	0	36	64.5
38	Alpaslan Günes	Esmer Altin	Turkey	29	4.25	33.25	32	0	32	65.25
39	Vladimir Raspopov	Kodex	Soviet Union	32	0	32	27	17.5	44.5	76.5
40	Wilhelm Stewen	Lojal	Finland	47	0	47	36	0	36	83
41	Eloy de Menezes	Biguá	Brazil	31	25.25	56.25	25	3.75	28.75	85
42	Renyldo Ferreira	Bibelot	Brazil	21	8.25	29.25	41	15.25	56.25	85.5
43	Raymond Lombard	Dandy	Belgium	39	11.5	50.5	36	0	36	86.5
44	Georges Calmon	Virtuoso	France	41	13.75	54.75	32	0	32	86.75
45	Tor Burman	Rouquade	Sweden	35	8.25	43.25	39	18.75	57.75	101
—	Georges Poffé	Hicamboy	Belgium	12	0	12	Eliminated			Eliminated
	Omar El-Hadary	Auer	Egypt	69	19.5	88.5	Eliminated			Eliminated
	Kauko Paananen	Lassi	Finland	37	7.5	44.5	Eliminated			Eliminated
	Lajos Somlay	Dobos	Hungary	Eliminated			47	4.25	51.25	Eliminated
	Arvi Tervalampi	Marras	Finland	Eliminated			Eliminated			Eliminated
	Boris Lilov	Boston	Soviet Union	Eliminated			Eliminated			Eliminated
	Bedri Böke	Domino	Turkey	Eliminated			Eliminated			Eliminated
	István Szondy	Higany	Hungary	Eliminated			Eliminated			Eliminated
	Rodrigo da Silveira	Limerick	Portugal	Eliminated			Did not start			Eliminated
	João Azevedo	Licorne	Portugal	Eliminated			Did not start			Eliminated
	Víctor Molina	Tamanaco	Venezuela	Eliminated			Did not start			Eliminated
	Jesús Rivas	Murachi	Venezuela	Eliminated			Did not start			Eliminated
	Roberto Moll	Sorocaima	Venezuela	Eliminated			Did not start			Eliminated
	Peter Lichtner-Hoyer	Rienzi	Austria	Eliminated			Did not start			Eliminated
	Adolf Lauda	Schönbrunn	Austria	Eliminated			Did not start			Eliminated
	Romuald Halm	Bianka	Austria	Eliminated			Did not start			Eliminated
	Birck Elgaaen	Osira	Norway	Eliminated			Did not start			Eliminated
	Douglas Wijkander	Bimbo	Sweden	Eliminated			Did not start			Eliminated
	Bert Jacobs	Dumbell	Australia	Eliminated			Did not start			Eliminated
	Saing Pen	Pompon	Cambodia	Eliminated			Did not start			Eliminated
	Isoup Ganthy	Flatteur II	Cambodia	Eliminated			Did not start			Eliminated