Cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics
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Venues | |||||||
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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 | |||||||
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3 | 1 | 1 | ||||
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2 | 2 | 0 | ||||
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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]
Medal summary
Road cycling
Event | 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
Event | 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) |
1000m time trial |
Leandro Faggin |
Ladislav Fouček |
Alfred Swift |
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 | 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 nations) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 |
References
- 1 2 "Cycling at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
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