1956 Summer Olympics / Cycling - Road Team Ranking (Men)
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| sport | Cycling | ||||||||
| discipline | Road race - team competition (187.73 km) | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 88 athletes from 28 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | Broadmeadows | ||||||||
| Competition phase | 7th December 1956 | ||||||||
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Cycling competitions at the 1956 Olympic Games |
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 Road cycling
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| Road racing | Men |
| Team ranking | Men |
 Track cycling
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| sprint | Men |
| tandem | Men |
| Team pursuit | Men |
| Time trial | Men |
At the Olympic Games in 1956 in the Australian metropolis of Melbourne , the road race in cycling for men was held on December 7th .
88 athletes - of whom only 44 were rated - from 28 nations determined the winning teams over a distance of 187.73 km (= 116.7 mi ) in the Melbourne suburb of Broadmeadows . The rankings of the three best drivers of each nation in the individual ranking (EW) were decisive for the team ranking : The rankings were added up, the team with the lowest number of points won the gold medal.
The winner was the team from France . The team from Great Britain took second place, the team from Germany won the bronze medal.
Result
| rank | nation | Names | EW | Points |
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 France
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Arnaud Geyre Maurice Moucheraud Michel Vermeulin |
2 8 12 |
22nd |
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 Great Britain
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Alan Jackson Arthur Brittain William Holmes |
3 6 14 |
23 |
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 Germany
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Horst Tüller Gustav-Adolf Schur Reinhold Pommer |
4 5 18 |
27 |
| 4th |
 Italy
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Ercole Baldini Arnaldo Pambianco Dino Bruni |
1 7 28 |
36 |
| 5 |
 Sweden
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Lars Nordwall Karl-Ivar Andersson Roland Ströhm |
10 17 20 |
47 |
| 6th |
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Anatoly Tscherepowitsch Mykola Columbet Viktor Kapitonov |
15 16 32 |
63 |
| 7th |
 Belgium
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Norbert Verougstraete Gustaaf De Smet François Vandenbosch |
23 24 42 |
89 |
| 8th |
 Colombia
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Ramón Hoyos Pablo Hurtado Jaime Villegas |
13 39 40 |
92 |
| 9 |
.svg){kind=small} Ethiopia
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Guremu Demboba Mesfen Tesfaye Zehaye Bahta |
25 36 38 |
99 |
The teams from Australia , Canada , Mexico , Austria , Pakistan , South Africa , Czechoslovakia , Uruguay , Venezuela , the United States and Vietnam did not make it into the ranking because at least two drivers on one team did not finish the individual race.