Cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics
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| Road cycling | Broadmeadows | ||||||
| Track cycling | Melbourne Olympic Velodrome | ||||||
| Dates | 3 December – 6 December | ||||||
| Cyclists | 161 from 30 countries | ||||||
| Top ranked countries | |||||||
 Italy: |
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 France: |
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 Australia: |
1 |
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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]
Contents
Medal summary
Road cycling
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Road race, Individual |
 Ercole Baldini (ITA) |
 Arnaud Geyre (FRA) |
 Alan Jackson (GBR) |
| 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
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1000m time trial |
Leandro Faggin (ITA) |
 Ladislav Fouček (TCH) |
22x20px Alfred Swift (RSA) |
| 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 (FRA) |
Guglielmo Pesenti (ITA) |
 Dick Ploog (AUS) |
| Tandem |
Joey Browne and Tony Marchant (AUS) |
Ladislav Fouček and Václav Machek (TCH) |
Giuseppe Ogna and Cesare Pinarello (ITA) |
Participating nations
161 cyclists from 30 nations competed.[1]
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Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 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 |  United Team of Germany |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 23x15px South Africa | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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