Cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Cycling at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Venues
Road cycling	Broadmeadows
Track cycling	Melbourne Olympic Velodrome
Dates	3 December – 6 December
Cyclists	161 from 30 countries
Top ranked countries
Italy:			3	1	1
France:			2	2	0
Australia:			1	0	1
« 1952	1960 »

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.

Medal summary

Road cycling

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Road race, Individual	Ercole Baldini (ITA)	Arnaud Geyre (FRA)	Alan Jackson (GBR)
Road race, Team	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

Track cycling

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1000m time trial	Leandro Faggin (ITA)	Ladislav Fouček (TCH)	22x20px Alfred Swift (RSA)
Pursuit, Team	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	Michel Rousseau (FRA)	Guglielmo Pesenti (ITA)	Dick Ploog (AUS)
Tandem	Joey Browne and Tony Marchant (AUS)	Ladislav Fouček and Václav Machek (TCH)	Giuseppe Ogna and Cesare Pinarello (ITA)

Participating nations

161 cyclists from 30 nations competed.

Australia (11)  Austria (4)  Belgium (7)  Brazil (1) 23x15px Canada (3)  Chile (2)  Colombia (8)  Czechoslovakia (6)  Denmark (2) 23x15px Ethiopia (4)

Finland (1)  France (11)  Germany (10)  Great Britain (12)  Italy (12)  Japan (1)  Luxembourg (1)  Mexico (4)  New Zealand (6)  Pakistan (4)

23x15px South Africa (6) 23x15px South Korea (2)  South Vietnam (6)  Soviet Union (12)  Sweden (4) 23x15px Trinidad and Tobago (1)  United States (10)  Uruguay (5) 23x15px Venezuela (4)  Yugoslavia (1)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
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	United Team of Germany	0	0	1	1
	23x15px South Africa	0	0	1	1