Cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics

The cycling competition at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne consisted of two road cycling events and four track cycling events, all for men only.[1]

Cycling
at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
VenuesBroadmeadows
Melbourne Olympic Velodrome
Date3 December – 6 December
Competitors161 from 30 nations

Medal summary

Road cycling
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Road race, Individual
 Ercole Baldini
 Italy		 Arnaud Geyre
 France		 Alan Jackson
 Great Britain
Road race, Team
  France (FRA)
Arnaud Geyre
Maurice Moucheraud
Michel Vermeulin		  Great Britain (GBR)
Arthur Brittain
William Holmes
Alan Jackson		  United Team of Germany (EUA)
Reinhold Pommer
Gustav-Adolf Schur
Horst Tüller

Track cycling
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Pursuit, Team
  Italy (ITA)
Valentino Gasparella
Antonio Domenicali
Leandro Faggin
Franco Gandini
Virginio Pizzali		  France (FRA)
Michel Vermeulin
René Bianchi
Jean Graczyk
Jean-Claude Lecante		  Great Britain (GBR)
Tom Simpson
Donald Burgess
Mike Gambrill
John Geddes
Sprint
 Michel Rousseau
 France		 Guglielmo Pesenti
 Italy		 Dick Ploog
 Australia
Tandem
  Ian Browne
and Tony Marchant (AUS)		  Ladislav Fouček
and Václav Machek (TCH)		  Giuseppe Ogna
and Cesare Pinarello (ITA)
Time trial
 Leandro Faggin
 Italy		 Ladislav Fouček
 Czechoslovakia		 Alfred Swift
 South Africa

Participating nations

161 cyclists from 30 nations competed.[1]

Medal table
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Italy3115
2 France2204
3 Australia1012
4 Czechoslovakia0202
5 Great Britain0123
6 South Africa0011
 United Team of Germany0011
Totals (7 nations)66618

References
  1. "Cycling at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2014.


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