Rowing at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's coxless four

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Men's coxless four at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Date	23–27 November
Competitors	48 from 12 nations
Medalists
Archibald MacKinnon Lorne Loomer Walter D'Hondt Donald Arnold  Canada John Welchli John McKinlay Art McKinlay James McIntosh  United States René Guissart Yves Delacour Gaston Mercier Guy Guillabert  France
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Rowing at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Single sculls	men
Double sculls	men
Coxless pair	men
Coxed pair	men
Coxless four	men
Coxed four	men
Eight	men
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The men's coxless four competition at the 1956 Summer Olympics took place at Lake Wendouree near Ballarat, Australia.^[1]

The following rowers took part:^[1]

Rank	Rowers	Country
	Archibald MacKinnon Lorne Loomer Walter D'Hondt Donald Arnold	Canada
	John Welchli John McKinlay Art McKinlay James McIntosh	United States
	René Guissart Yves Delacour Gaston Mercier Guy Guillabert	France
	Giuseppe Moioli Attilio Cantoni Giovanni Zucchi Abbondio Marcelli	Italy
	Leonid Zakharov Aleksandr Sheff Nikolay Karasyov Igor Ivanov	Soviet Union
	Willi Montag Horst Stobbe Gunther Kaschlun Manfred Fitze	United Team of Germany
	Kazimierz Błasiński Szczepan Grajczyk Zbigniew Paradowski Marian Nietupski	Poland
	John Harrison Peter Evatt Geoff Williamson Dave Anderson	Australia
	Kauko Hänninen Reino Poutanen Veli Lehtelä Toimi Pitkänen	Finland
	Csaba Kovács Rezső Riheczky Zoltán Kávay Géza Ütő	Hungary
	Luis Olivera Orlando Lanza Enrique Hernández Joaquín Pérez	Cuba
	Elo Tostenæs Mogens Sørensen Børge Hansen Tage Grøndahl	Denmark