Cycling at the Games of the XVI Olympiad | |
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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
[edit]Road cycling
[edit]Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Road race, Individual |
Ercole Baldini![]() |
Arnaud Geyre![]() |
Alan Jackson![]() |
Road race, Team |
![]() Arnaud Geyre Maurice Moucheraud Michel Vermeulin |
![]() Arthur Brittain William Holmes Alan Jackson |
![]() Reinhold Pommer Gustav-Adolf Schur Horst Tüller |
Track cycling
[edit]Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Pursuit, Team |
![]() Valentino Gasparella Antonio Domenicali Leandro Faggin Franco Gandini Virginio Pizzali |
![]() Michel Vermeulin René Bianchi Jean Graczyk Jean-Claude Lecante |
![]() Tom Simpson Donald Burgess Mike Gambrill John Geddes |
Sprint |
Michel Rousseau![]() |
Guglielmo Pesenti![]() |
Dick Ploog![]() |
Tandem |
![]() and Tony Marchant (AUS) |
![]() and Václav Machek (TCH) |
![]() and Cesare Pinarello (ITA) |
Time trial |
Leandro Faggin![]() |
Ladislav Fouček![]() |
Alfred Swift![]() |
Participating nations
[edit]161 cyclists from 30 nations competed.[1]
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Medal table
[edit]Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | ![]() | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
2 | ![]() | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
3 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
4 | ![]() | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
5 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
6 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
![]() | 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.