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]
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| Venues | Broadmeadows Melbourne Olympic Velodrome |
| Date | 3 –6 December 1956 |
| Competitors | 161 from 30 nations |
Medal summary
editRoad cycling
edit| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Road race, Individual |
Ercole Baldini Italy
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Arnaud Geyre France
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Alan Jackson Great Britain
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| 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
edit| Games | 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
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Guglielmo Pesenti Italy
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Dick Ploog Australia
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| Tandem |
 Ian Browneand Tony Marchant (AUS) |
 Ladislav Foučekand Václav Machek (TCH) |
Giuseppe Ogna and Cesare Pinarello (ITA) |
| Time trial |
Leandro Faggin Italy
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Ladislav Fouček Czechoslovakia
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Alfred Swift South Africa
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Participating nations
edit161 cyclists from 30 nations competed.[1]
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Medal table
edit| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italy | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | France | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 3 | Australia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | Great Britain | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 6 |  South Africa | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| United Team of Germany | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (7 entries) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 | |
References
edit- ^ a b "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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