Cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics
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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]
At the age of 16 years, 121 days, Pakistan's Saleem Farooqi was the youngest of the 161 cycling competitors. The oldest, Australia's Jim Nestor, was 36 years, 331 days old. Out of the 18 medals up for grabs, Italy took 5, followed by France with 4.[2]
Medal summary
[edit]Road 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
[edit]161 cyclists from 30 nations competed.[1]
Australia (11)
Austria (4)
Belgium (7)
Brazil (1)
Canada (3)
Chile (2)
Colombia (8)
Czechoslovakia (6)
Denmark (2)
Ethiopia (4)
Finland (1)
France (11)
United Team of Germany (10)
Great Britain (12)
Italy (12)
Japan (1)
South Korea (2)
Luxembourg (1)
Mexico (4)
New Zealand (6)
Pakistan (4)
South Africa (6)
Soviet Union (12)
Sweden (4)
Trinidad and Tobago (1)
United States (10)
Uruguay (5)
Venezuela (4)
Vietnam (6)
Yugoslavia (1)
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.
- ^ "Cycling at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com". web.archive.org. 17 April 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2025.
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