Cycling_at_the_1956_Summer_Olympics
Cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Competitive cycling practiced during the 1956 Olympic Summer Games
Quick Facts Cycling at the Games of the XVI Olympiad, Venues ...
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 |
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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]
Road cycling
More information Games, Gold ...
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Road race, Individual details |
Ercole Baldini Italy |
Arnaud Geyre France |
Alan Jackson Great Britain |
Road race, Team details |
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 |
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Track cycling
More information Games, Gold ...
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Pursuit, Team details |
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 details |
Michel Rousseau France |
Guglielmo Pesenti Italy |
Dick Ploog Australia |
Tandem details |
Ian Browne and Tony Marchant (AUS) |
Ladislav Fouček and Václav Machek (TCH) |
Giuseppe Ogna and Cesare Pinarello (ITA) |
Time trial details |
Leandro Faggin Italy |
Ladislav Fouček Czechoslovakia |
Alfred Swift South Africa |
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161 cyclists from 30 nations competed.[1]
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More information Rank, Nation ...
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 | South Africa | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
United Team of Germany | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (7 entries) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 |
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- "Cycling at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
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