Cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's team pursuit
Cycling - Men's team pursuit at the Games of the XVI Olympiad | ||||||||||
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Venue | Melbourne | |||||||||
Dates | 3-4 December 1956 | |||||||||
Competitors | 65 from 16 nations | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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Cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics | |
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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 Pursuit at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia.[1] There were a total number of 65 participants from 16 nations, due to the Italian team having five riders, instead of four.[2]
Final classification
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
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Antonio Domenicali Franco Gandini Leandro Faggin Valentino Gasparella Virginio Pizzali | Italy | 4:37.4 | |
Jean Graczyk Jean-Claude Lecante Michel Vermeulin René Bianchi | France | 4:39.4 | |
Donald Burgess John Geddes Mike Gambrill Tom Simpson | Great Britain | 4:42.2 | |
4 | Alfred Swift Jan Hettema Charles Jonker Robert Fowler | South Africa | 4:39.4 |
5 | André Bar François De Wagheneire Guillaume Van Tongerloo Gustaaf De Smet | Belgium | — |
František Jursa Jaroslav Cihlář Jiří Nouza Jiří Opavský | Czechoslovakia | — | |
Donald Eagle Bruce Kent Neil Ritchie Warwick Dalton | New Zealand | — | |
Eduard Gusev Rodislav Chizhikov Viktor Ilyin Volodymyr Mitin | Soviet Union | — | |
9 | Héctor Monsalve Honorio Rua Octavio Echeverry Ramón Hoyos | Colombia | — |
Rudolf Maresch Franz Wimmer Kurt Schein Walter Bortel | Austria | — | |
Din Meraj Muhammad Naqi Mallick Saleem Farooqi Shazada Muhammad Shah-Rukh | Pakistan | — | |
Kurt Gieseler Rolf Nitzsche Siegfried Köhler Werner Malitz | United Team of Germany | — | |
Alberto Velázquez Eduardo Puertollano Luis Serra René Deceja | Uruguay | — | |
Antonio Montilla Arsenio Chirinos Domingo Rivas Franco Cacioni | Venezuela | — | |
Cliff Burvill Frank Brazier Roy Moore Warren Scarfe | Australia | — | |
Allen Bell Art Longsjo David Rhoads Richard Cortright | United States | — |
References
^ "Cycling at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games: Men's Team Pursuit". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 27 July 2014..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em
^ "Italy Cycling at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
External links
- Official Report