1956 Summer Olympics / Cycling

Cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Melbourne
Competition venue	Broadmeadows Olympic Park Velodrome
Nations	30th
Athletes	161 (161 )
date	December 3-6, 1956
decisions	6th
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At the XVI. At the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne , six cycling competitions were held.

train

sprint

→ Main article : 1956 Summer Olympics / Cycling - Sprint

space	country	athlete	time
1	FRA	Michel Rousseau	11.4 s
2	ITA	Guglielmo Pesenti	k. A.
3	OUT	Dick Ploog	k. A.

1000 m time trial

→ Main article : 1956 Summer Olympics / Cycling - Time Trial Track (Men)

space	country	athlete	time
1	ITA	Leandro Faggin	1: 09.8 min ( OR )
2	TCH	Ladislav Fouček	1: 11.4 min
3	RSA	Jimmy Swift	1: 11.6 min

tandem

→ Main article : 1956 Summer Olympics / Cycling - Tandem (men)

space	country	Athletes
1	OUT	Ian Browne / Anthony Marchant
2	TCH	Ladislav Fouček / Václav Machek
3	ITA	Giuseppe Ogna / Cesare Pinarello

4000 m team pursuit

→ Main article : 1956 Summer Olympics / cycling - track team pursuit (men)

space	country	Athletes	time
1	ITA	Valentino Gasparella Franco Gandini Leandro Faggin Antonio Domenicali Virginio Pizzali	4: 37.4 min ( OR )
2	FRA	René Bianchi Jean Graczyk Jean-Claude Lecante Michel Vermeulin	4: 39.4 min
3	GBR	Tom Simpson Don Burgess John Geddes Mike Gambrill	4: 43.8 min

Street

Road Race (187.73 km)

→ Main article : 1956 Summer Olympics / Cycling - road racing (men)

space	country	athlete	time
1	ITA	Ercole Baldini	5:21:17 h
2	FRA	Arnaud Geyre	5:23:16 h
3	GBR	Alan Jackson	5:23:16 h

Team competition (187.73 km)

→ Main article : 1956 Summer Olympics / cycling - road team ranking (men)

space	country	Athlete (placement)	Points
1	FRA	Arnaud Geyre (2nd) Maurice Moucheraud (8th) Michel Vermeulin (12th)	22nd
2	GBR	Alan Jackson (3rd) Arthur Brittain (6th) William Holmes (14th)	23
3	EUA	Horst Tüller (4th) Gustav-Adolf Schur (5th) Reinhold Pommer (18th)	27

The placements of the three best drivers of each team from the individual road race were decisive. The team with the lowest number of places won gold.

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Italy	3	1	1	5
2	France	2	2	0	4th
3	Australia	1	0	1	2
4th	Czechoslovakia	0	2	0	2
5	United Kingdom	0	1	2	3
6th	Germany	0	0	1	1
6th	South African Union	0	0	1	1

Remarks

1. ↑ Pizzali crashed in the first round and was replaced by Gasparella. Nevertheless, he is also considered an Olympic champion.

Web links

• 1956 Summer Olympics / Cycling in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )