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The 1956 Winter Olympics , officially known as the VII Olympic Winter Games ( French : Les " VII Jeux olympiques d ' hiver ") ( Italian : " VII Giochi olimpici invernali "), was a winter multi - ___MASK66___ event celebrated in Cortina d ' Ampezzo , Italy . This celebration of the Games was held from 26 January to 5 February 1956 . Cortina , which had originally been awarded the 1944 Winter Olympics , beat out Montreal , Colorado Springs and Lake Placid for the right to host the 1956 Games . The Cortina Games were unique in that many of the venues were within walking distance of each other . The organising committee received financial support from the Italian government for infrastructure improvements , but the rest of the costs for the Games had to be privately financed . Consequently , the organising committee was the first to rely heavily on corporate sponsorship for funding . Lidiya Pavlovna Skoblikova ( born 8 March 1939 ) is a retired Russian ___MASK52___ and coach . Representing the USSR Olympic team during the Olympic Winter Games in 1960 and 1964 , she won a total of six gold medals , still a record number for a ___MASK52___ . She also won 25 gold medals at the world championships and 15 gold medals at the USSR National Championships in several distances . She was also the first athlete to earn six gold medals in the Olympic Winter Games , and the first to earn four gold medals at a single Olympic Winter Games . She was the most successful athlete at the 1960 and 1964 Winter Olympics , sharing the honour for 1960 Games with her compatriot Yevgeny Grishin . The International Olympic Committee ( IOC ; French : Comité international olympique , CIO ) is the supreme authority of the worldwide Olympic movement . It is an international , non - profit , non - governmental organization based in Lausanne , Switzerland . Its mission is enshrined in the Olympic Charter : to support the development of competitive ___MASK66___ by ethical and environmentally sustainable means . The 1964 Winter Olympics , officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games ( French : Les " IXes Jeux olympiques d ' hiver ") ( German : " Olympische Winterspiele 1964 "), was a winter multi - ___MASK66___ event which was celebrated in Innsbruck , Austria , from January 29 to February 9 , 1964 . The Games included 1091 athletes from 36 nations , and the Olympic Torch was carried by Joseph Rieder , a former alpine skier who had participated in the 1956 Winter Olympics . A multi - ___MASK66___ event is an organized sports event , often held over multiple days , featuring competition in many different sports between organized teams of athletes from ( mostly ) nation states . The first major , modern , multi - ___MASK66___ event of international significance is the modern Olympic Games . Aleksandr Vasilyevich Privalov ( Russian :    ; born 6 August 1933 ) is a former Soviet biathlete . He received a bronze medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley . He received a silver medal at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck . The 1960 Winter Olympics was a winter multi - ___MASK66___ event held between February 18  28 , 1960 in Squaw Valley , California , United States . Squaw Valley was chosen to host the Games at the 1956 meeting of the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ). It was an undeveloped resort in 1955 , so from 1956 to 1960 the infrastructure and all of the venues were built at a cost of US $ 80 , 000 , 000 . It was designed to be intimate , allowing spectators and competitors to walk to nearly all the venues . Squaw Valley hosted athletes from thirty nations who competed in four sports and twenty - seven events . Women ' s ___MASK83___ and ___MASK22___ made their Olympic debuts . The organizers decided the bobsled events did not warrant the cost to build a venue , so for the first and only time bobsled was not on the Winter Olympic program . The Soviet Union dominated the medal count winning twenty - one medals , seven of which were gold . Soviet speed skaters Yevgeny Grishin and Lidiya Skoblikova won two gold medals each . Swedish cross - country skier Sixten Jernberg added a gold and silver to the four medals he won at the 1956 Winter Games . ___MASK83___ is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in travelling a certain distance on skates . Types of ___MASK83___ are ___MASK33___ , ___MASK15___ , and marathon ___MASK83___ . In the Olympic Games , long - track ___MASK83___ is usually referred to as just " ___MASK83___ ", while short - track ___MASK83___ is known as " short track ". The ISU , the governing body of both ice sports , refers to long track as " ___MASK83___ " and short track as " short track skating ". The ___MASK22___ is a winter sport that combines cross - country skiing and rifle shooting .