Cycling XVI Olympic Games Melbourne, Australia 1956 - 3rd December to 6th December
Venues: Broadmeadows and Melbourne Olympic Velodrome. 161 competitors from 30 nations.
Track
Men Sprint
1. Michel RousseauFrance
2. Guglielmo PesentiItaly
3. Dick PloogAustralia
Men 1000m Time Trial
1. Leandro FagginItaly
2. Ladislav FoučekCzechoslovakia
3. Alfred SwiftSouth Africa
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Men Tandem
1. Joey Browne and Tony MarchantAUSAUS
2. Ladislav Fouček and Václav MachekTCHTCH
3. Giuseppe Ogna and Cesare PinarelloITAITA
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Men Team Pursuit, Team
1. ItalyITAITA
Valentino Gasparella, Antonio Domenicali, Leandro Faggin, Franco Gandini, Virginio Pizzali
2. FranceFRAFRA
Michel Vermeulin, René Bianchi, Jean Graczyk, Jean-Claude Lecante
3. Great BritainGBRGBR
Tom Simpson, Donald Burgess, Mike GambrillJohn Geddes
Road
Men Road Race
1. Ercole BaldiniITAITA5:21:17
2. Arnaud GeyreFRAFRA5:23:16
3. Alan JacksonGBRGBR5:23:16
Men Team Road Race
1. FranceFRAFRA
Arnaud Geyre, Maurice Moucheraud, Michel Vermeulin
2. Great BritainGBRGBR
Arthur Brittain, William Holmes, Alan Jackson
3. UT GermanyGERGER
Reinhold Pommer, Gustav-Adolf Schur, Horst Tüller
MedalsGSBAll
1. ItalyITAITA3115
2. FranceFRAFRA22 4
3. AustraliaAUSAUS1 12
4. CzechoslovakiaTCHTCH 2 2
5. Great BritainGBRGBR 123
6. South AfricaSaFSaF 11
6. UT GermanyGERGER 11
Total7 nat66618
161 cyclists from 30 nations.
Australia11Austria4
Belgium7Brazil1
Canada3Chile2
Colombia8Czechoslovakia6
Denmark2Ethiopia4
Finland1France11
UT Germany10Great Britain12
Italy12Japan1
Luxembourg1Mexico4
New Zealand6Pakistan4
South Africa6South Korea2
South Vietnam6Soviet Union12
Sweden4Trinidad Tobago1
United States10Uruguay5
Venezuela4Yugoslavia1
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