Cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics
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| Cycling at the Games of the XVI Olympiad |
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| Road cycling | Broadmeadows | ||||||
| Track cycling | Melbourne Olympic Velodrome | ||||||
| Dates | 3 December – 6 December | ||||||
| Cyclists | 161 from 30 countries | ||||||
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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[edit]
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| Road race, Individual |
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| Road race, Team |
Arnaud Geyre Maurice Moucheraud Michel Vermeulin |
Arthur Brittain William Holmes Alan Jackson |
Reinhold Pommer Gustav-Adolf Schur Horst Tüller |
| 1000m time trial |
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| Sprint |
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| Tandem |
Joey Browne Anthony Marchant |
Ladislav Fouček Václav Machek |
Giuseppe Ogna Cesare Pinarello |
| 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 |
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 |
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Cycling at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
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