1956 Summer Olympics / Cycling - Time Trial Track (Men)

sport	Cycling
discipline	1000 m time trial
gender	Men
Attendees	22 athletes from 22 countries
Competition location	Olympic Park Velodrome
Competition phase	December 6, 1956
Medalist  Leandro Faggin ( ITA )  Ladislav Fouček ( TCH )  Alfred Swift ( ZAF )
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Cycling competitions at the 1956 Olympic Games
Road cycling
Road racing	Men
Team ranking	Men
Track cycling
sprint	Men
tandem	Men
Team pursuit	Men
Time trial	Men

At the Olympic Games in 1956 in the Australian metropolis of Melbourne , the 1000 m time trial in cycling for men was held on December 6th .

22 athletes from 22 nations determined the Olympic champion in the Melbourne Olympic Park Velodrome : The Italian Leandro Faggin won ahead of the Czechoslovak Ladislav Fouček and the South African Alfred Swift .

Result

rank	Surname	nation	time	Diff.
	Leandro Faggin	Italy	1: 09.8 min
	Ladislav Fouček	Czechoslovakia	1: 11.4 min	+ 1.6 s
	Alfred Swift	South African Union	1: 11.6 min	+ 1.8 s
4th	Warren Scarfe	Australia	1: 12.1 min	+ 2.3 s
5	Alan Danson	Great Britain	1: 12.3 min	+ 2.5 s
	Boris Sawostin	Soviet Union	1: 12.3 min	+ 2.5 s
	Luis Serra	Uruguay	1: 12.3 min	+ 2.5 s
8th	Warwick Dalton	New Zealand	1: 12.6 min	+ 2.8 s
9	Anésio Argenton	Brazil	1: 12.7 min	+ 2.9 s
10	Allen Bell	United States	1: 12.8 min	+ 3.0 s
11	Kurt Schein	Austria	1: 13.1 min	+ 3.3 s
12	Tetsuo Osawa	Japan	1: 13.3 min	+ 3.5 s
13	Allan Juel Larsen	Denmark	1: 14.3 min	+ 4.5 s
14th	Hernán Masanés	Chile	1: 14.7 min	+ 4.9 s
15th	Octavio Echeverry	Colombia	1: 14.8 min	+ 5.0 s
16	Renzo Colzi	France	1: 15.1 min	+ 5.3 s
17th	James Davies	Canada	1: 15.2 min	+ 5.4 s
18th	Paul Nyman	Finland	1: 16.1 min	+ 6.3 s
19th	Hylton Mitchell	Trinidad and Tobago	1: 16.5 min	+ 6.7 s
	Evrard Godefroid	Belgium	1: 16.5 min	+ 6.7 s
21st	Saleem Farooqi	Pakistan	1: 20.8 min	+ 11.0 s
22nd	Nguyễn Văn Nhieu	South Vietnam	1: 23.6 min	+ 13.8 s

Web links

• Results at www.olympic.org ( English )