Cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics explained

Event:	Cycling
Games:	1956 Summer
Venues:	Broadmeadows Melbourne Olympic Velodrome
Date:	3 –6 December 1956
Competitors:	161
Nations:	30
Prev:	1952
Next:	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.^[1]

Medal summary

Road cycling

Road race, Individual
Road race, Team	Arnaud Geyre Maurice Moucheraud Michel Vermeulin	Arthur Brittain William Holmes Alan Jackson	Reinhold Pommer Gustav-Adolf Schur Horst Tüller

Track cycling

Pursuit, Team	Valentino Gasparella Antonio Domenicali Leandro Faggin Franco Gandini Virginio Pizzali	Michel Vermeulin René Bianchi Jean Graczyk Jean-Claude Lecante	Tom Simpson Donald Burgess Mike Gambrill John Geddes
Sprint
Tandem
Time trial

Participating nations

161 cyclists from 30 nations competed.

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Cycling at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417053751/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1956/CYC/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . 22 July 2014 . sports-reference.com.