Cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's individual road race

Men's cycling road race
at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Venue Broadmeadows, Victoria, Melbourne
187.73 km (116.7 mi)
Date 7 December 1956
Competitors 88 from 28 nations
Winning time 5:21:17
Medalists
1st, gold medalist(s) Ercole Baldini  Italy
2nd, silver medalist(s) Arnaud Geyre  France
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Alan Jackson  Great Britain

These are the official results of the Men's Individual Road Race at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, held on Friday 7 December 1956. There were 88 participants from 28 nations. Of the 88 starters 44 rode the distance to the end.[1]Len Williams from Coffs Harbour was nominated for the Australian team but declined due to work commitments. French and British officials protested against Baldini's victory, claiming that he was protected from the hot sun by the Olympic film unit van that drove alongside him, but the protest was upheld.[2] The start of the race was delayed fifteen minutes when it was discovered that two 'unauthorised' Irish cyclists, Tom Gerrard and Paul Fitzgerald were in the starting field.[2]


Final classification

RankNameNationalityTime
1st, gold medalist(s)Ercole Baldini Italy5:21:17
2nd, silver medalist(s)Arnaud Geyre France5:23:16
3rd, bronze medalist(s)Alan Jackson Great Britain5:23:16
4Horst Tüller United Team of Germany5:23:16
5Gustav-Adolf Schur United Team of Germany5:23:16
6Arthur Brittain Great Britain5:23:40
7Arnaldo Pambianco Italy5:23:40
8Maurice Moucheraud France5:23:40
9Magdaleno Cano Mexico5:23:40
10Lars Nordwall Sweden5:23:40
11Paul Nyman Finland5:23:40
12Michel Vermeulin France5:23:40
13Ramón Hoyos Colombia5:23:40
14William Holmes Great Britain5:23:50
15Anatoly Cherepovich Soviet Union5:23:50
16Mykola Kolumbet Soviet Union5:23:50
17Karl-Ivar Andersson Sweden5:23:50
18Reinhold Pommer United Team of Germany5:24:38
19Harold Reynolds Great Britain5:24:44
20Roland Ströhm Sweden5:24:44
21Juan Pérez Chile5:25:38
22Erich Hagen United Team of Germany5:26:38
23Norbert Verougstraete Belgium5:26:47
24Gustaaf De Smet Belgium5:26:47
25Guremu Demboba Ethiopia5:26:58
26Veselin Petrović Yugoslavia5:26:58
27René Abadie France5:27:28
28Dino Bruni Italy5:27:28
29Patrick Murphy Canada5:27:28
30Franz Wimmer Austria5:27:28
31Gunnar Göransson Sweden5:30:45
32Viktor Kapitonov Soviet Union5:30:45
33René Deceja Uruguay5:31:58
34Aurelio Cestari Italy5:34:20
35Viktor Vershinin Soviet Union5:34:21
36Mesfen Tesfaye Ethiopia5:34:25
37Kim Ho-soon South Korea5:34:37
38Zehaye Bahta Ethiopia5:34:37
39Pablo Hurtado Colombia5:34:49
40Jaime Villegas Colombia5:34:49
41John O'Sullivan Australia5:36:58
42François Van Den Bosch Belgium5:38:16
43Joe Becker United States5:38:16
44Jim Nevin Australia5:47:02
ACJim Nestor AustraliaDNF
Jack Trickey AustraliaDNF
Walter Bortel AustriaDNF
Kurt Schein AustriaDNF
Rudolf Maresch AustriaDNF
François De Wagheneire BelgiumDNF
Fred Markus CanadaDNF
James Davies CanadaDNF
Jorge Luque ColombiaDNF
František Jursa CzechoslovakiaDNF
Jaroslav Cihlář CzechoslovakiaDNF
Jiří Nouza CzechoslovakiaDNF
Jiří Opavský CzechoslovakiaDNF
Palle Lykke DenmarkDNF
Negousse Mengistou EthiopiaDNF
Tetsuo Osawa JapanDNF
Im Sang-jo South KoreaDNF
Gaston Dumont LuxembourgDNF
Francisco Lozano MexicoDNF
Felipe Liñan MexicoDNF
Rafael Vaca MexicoDNF
Muhammad Naqi Mallick PakistanDNF
Din Meraj PakistanDNF
Saleem Farooqi PakistanDNF
Shazada Muhammad Shah-Rukh PakistanDNF
Alfred Swift South AfricaDNF
Robert Fowler South AfricaDNF
Jan Hettema South AfricaDNF
Charles Jonker South AfricaDNF
Hylton Mitchell Trinidad and TobagoDNF
David Rhoads United StatesDNF
Erhard Neumann United StatesDNF
George Van Meter United StatesDNF
Alberto Velázquez UruguayDNF
Eduardo Puertollano UruguayDNF
Walter Moyano UruguayDNF
Arsenio Chirinos VenezuelaDNF
Antonio Montilla VenezuelaDNF
Domingo Rivas VenezuelaDNF
Franco Cacioni VenezuelaDNF
Trần Gia Thu VietnamDNF
Nguyễn Hw Thoa VietnamDNF
Ngô Thành Liêm VietnamDNF
Trung Trung Lê VietnamDNF

References

  1. ↑ "Cycling at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games: Men's Road Race, Individual". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  2. 1 2 Wallechinsky, David (1984). The Complete Book of the Olympics. England: Penguin Books. p. 207. ISBN 0140066322.
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