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

Cycling - Men's team road race
at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
VenueBroadmeadows, Victoria, Melbourne
Dates7 September 1956
Competitors60 (individuals) 20 (teams) from 20 nations
Medalists
 
 
 
Cycling at the
1956 Summer Olympics
Road events
Individual road race men
Team road race men
Track events
1000m time trial men
Sprint men
Tandem men
Team pursuit men

These are the official results of the Men's Team Road Race at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, held on Friday 7 December 1956 as a part of the Men's Individual Road Race. The best three performances by nation were rewarded, with twenty teams competing.[1]

Final classification

Rank Name Nationality Ranking Points
1st, gold medalist(s) Arnaud Geyre
Maurice Moucheraud
Michel Vermeulin
René Abadie
France 2
8
12
22
2nd, silver medalist(s) Alan Jackson
Arthur Brittain
William Holmes
Harold Reynolds
Great Britain 3
6
14
23
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Horst Tüller
Gustav-Adolf Schur
Reinhold Pommer
Erich Hagen
United Team of Germany 4
5
18
27
4 Ercole Baldini
Arnaldo Pambianco
Dino Bruni
Aurelio Cestari
Italy 1
7
28
36
5 Lars Nordwall
Karl-Ivar Andersson
Roland Ströhm
Gunnar Göransson
Sweden 10
17
20
47
6 Anatoly Cherepovich
Mykola Kolumbet
Viktor Kapitonov
Viktor Vershinin
Soviet Union 15
16
32
63
7 Norbert Verougstraete
Gustaaf De Smet
François Vandenbosch
François De Wagheneire
Belgium 23
24
42
89
8 Ramón Hoyos
Pablo Hurtado
Jaime Villegas
Jorge Luque
Colombia 13
39
40
92
9 Guremu Demboba
Mesfen Tesfaye
Zehaye Bahta
Negousse Mengistou
Ethiopia 25
36
38
99
AC John O'Sullivan
Jim Nevin
Jim Nestor
Jack Trickey
Australia DNF
Franz Wimmer
Kurt Schein
Rudolf Maresch
Walter Bortel
Austria DNF
Patrick Murphy
Fred Markus
James Davies
Canada DNF
Magdaleno Cano
Felipe Liñan
Francisco Lozano
Rafael Vaca
Mexico DNF
Din Meraj
Shazada Muhammad Shah-Rukh
Muhammad Naqi Mallick
Saleem Farooqi
Pakistan DNF
Jan Hettema
Alfred Swift
Abe Jonker
Robert Fowler
South Africa DNF
František Jursa
Jaroslav Cihlář
Jiří Nouza
Jiří Opavský
Czechoslovakia DNF
René Deceja
Alberto Velázquez
Eduardo Puertollano
Walter Moyano
Uruguay DNF
Joe Becker
David Rhoads
Butch Neumann
George Van Meter
United States DNF
Arsenio Chirinos
Antonio Montilla
Domingo Rivas
Franco Cacioni
Venezuela DNF
Trung Trung Lê
Ngô Thành Liêm
Nguyễn Hw Thoa
Trần Gia Thu
South Vietnam DNF

References

  1. "Cycling at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games: Men's Road Race, Team". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 23 July 2014.

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