Cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Cycling
at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Cycling; at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Venues	Broadmeadows; Melbourne Olympic Velodrome
Date	3 –6 December 1956
Competitors	161 from 30 nations

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]

Medal summary

Games	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

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	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

161 cyclists from 30 nations competed.^[1]


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
6	United Team of Germany	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		6	6	6	18

1 2 "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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