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

Men's cycling road race; at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Venue	Broadmeadows, Victoria, Melbourne; 187.73 km (116.7 mi)
Date	7 December 1956
Competitors	88 from 28 nations
Winning time	5:21:17
Medalists
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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 Individual Road Race at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, held on Friday 7 December 1956. There were 88 participants from 28 nations. Of the 88 starters 44 rode the distance to the end.^[1]

Final classification

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Ercole Baldini	Italy	5:21:17
	Arnaud Geyre	France	5:23:16
	Alan Jackson	Great Britain	5:23:16
4	Horst Tüller	United Team of Germany	5:23:16
5	Gustav-Adolf Schur	United Team of Germany	5:23:16
6	Arthur Brittain	Great Britain	5:23:40
7	Arnaldo Pambianco	Italy	5:23:40
8	Maurice Moucheraud	France	5:23:40
9	Magdaleno Cano	Mexico	5:23:40
10	Lars Nordwall	Sweden	5:23:40
11	Paul Nyman	Finland	5:23:40
12	Michel Vermeulin	France	5:23:40
13	Ramón Hoyos	Colombia	5:23:40
14	William Holmes	Great Britain	5:23:50
15	Anatoly Cherepovich	Soviet Union	5:23:50
16	Mykola Kolumbet	Soviet Union	5:23:50
17	Karl-Ivar Andersson	Sweden	5:23:50
18	Reinhold Pommer	United Team of Germany	5:24:38
19	Harold Reynolds	Great Britain	5:24:44
20	Roland Ströhm	Sweden	5:24:44
21	Juan Pérez	Chile	5:25:38
22	Erich Hagen	United Team of Germany	5:26:38
23	Norbert Verougstraete	Belgium	5:26:47
24	Gustaaf De Smet	Belgium	5:26:47
25	Guremu Demboba	23x15px Ethiopia	5:26:58
26	Veselin Petrović	Yugoslavia	5:26:58
27	René Abadie	France	5:27:28
28	Dino Bruni	Italy	5:27:28
29	Patrick Murphy	23x15px Canada	5:27:28
30	Franz Wimmer	Austria	5:27:28
31	Gunnar Göransson	Sweden	5:30:45
32	Viktor Kapitonov	Soviet Union	5:30:45
33	René Deceja	Uruguay	5:31:58
34	Aurelio Cestari	Italy	5:34:20
35	Viktor Vershinin	Soviet Union	5:34:21
36	Mesfen Tesfaye	23x15px Ethiopia	5:34:25
37	Kim Ho-soon	23x15px South Korea	5:34:37
38	Zehaye Bahta	23x15px Ethiopia	5:34:37
39	Pablo Hurtado	Colombia	5:34:49
40	Jaime Villegas	Colombia	5:34:49
41	John O'Sullivan	Australia	5:36:58
42	François Van Den Bosch	Belgium	5:38:16
43	Joe Becker	United States	5:38:16
44	Jim Nevin	Australia	5:47:02
AC	Jim Nestor	Australia	DNF
	Jack Trickey	Australia	DNF
	Walter Bortel	Austria	DNF
	Kurt Schein	Austria	DNF
	Rudolf Maresch	Austria	DNF
	François De Wagheneire	Belgium	DNF
	Fred Markus	23x15px Canada	DNF
	James Davies	23x15px Canada	DNF
	Jorge Luque	Colombia	DNF
	František Jursa	Czechoslovakia	DNF
	Jaroslav Cihlář	Czechoslovakia	DNF
	Jiří Nouza	Czechoslovakia	DNF
	Jiří Opavský	Czechoslovakia	DNF
	Palle Lykke	Denmark	DNF
	Negousse Mengistou	23x15px Ethiopia	DNF
	Tetsuo Osawa	Japan	DNF
	Im Sang-jo	23x15px South Korea	DNF
	Gaston Dumont	Luxembourg	DNF
	Francisco Lozano	Mexico	DNF
	Felipe Liñan	Mexico	DNF
	Rafael Vaca	Mexico	DNF
	Muhammad Naqi Mallick	Pakistan	DNF
	Din Meraj	Pakistan	DNF
	Saleem Farooqi	Pakistan	DNF
	Shazada Muhammad Shah-Rukh	Pakistan	DNF
	Alfred Swift	23x15px South Africa	DNF
	Robert Fowler	23x15px South Africa	DNF
	Jan Hettema	23x15px South Africa	DNF
	Charles Jonker	23x15px South Africa	DNF
	Hylton Mitchell	23x15px Trinidad and Tobago	DNF
	David Rhoads	United States	DNF
	Erhard Neumann	United States	DNF
	George Van Meter	United States	DNF
	Alberto Velázquez	Uruguay	DNF
	Eduardo Puertollano	Uruguay	DNF
	Walter Moyano	Uruguay	DNF
	Arsenio Chirinos	23x15px Venezuela	DNF
	Antonio Montilla	23x15px Venezuela	DNF
	Domingo Rivas	23x15px Venezuela	DNF
	Franco Cacioni	23x15px Venezuela	DNF
	Trần Gia Thu	Vietnam	DNF
	Nguyễn Hw Thoa	Vietnam	DNF
	Ngô Thành Liêm	Vietnam	DNF
	Trung Trung Lê	Vietnam	DNF