Cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics

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]

Cycling at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Venues	Broadmeadows Melbourne Olympic Velodrome
Date	3 –6 December 1956
Competitors	161 from 30 nations
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At the age of 16 years, 121 days, Pakistan's Saleem Farooqi was the youngest of the 161 cycling competitors. The oldest, Australia's Jim Nestor, was 36 years, 331 days old. Out of the 18 medals up for grabs, Italy took 5, followed by France with 4.^[2]

Medal summary

Road cycling

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Road race, Individual details	Ercole Baldini  Italy	Arnaud Geyre  France	Alan Jackson  Great Britain
Road race, Team details	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

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Pursuit, Team details	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 details	Michel Rousseau  France	Guglielmo Pesenti  Italy	Dick Ploog  Australia
Tandem details	Ian Browne and Tony Marchant (AUS)	Ladislav Fouček and Václav Machek (TCH)	Giuseppe Ogna and Cesare Pinarello (ITA)
Time trial details	Leandro Faggin  Italy	Ladislav Fouček  Czechoslovakia	Alfred Swift  South Africa

Participating nations

161 cyclists from 30 nations competed.^[1]

•  Australia (11)
•  Austria (4)
•  Belgium (7)
•  Brazil (1)
•  Canada (3)
•  Chile (2)
•  Colombia (8)
•  Czechoslovakia (6)
•  Denmark (2)
•  Ethiopia (4)
•  Finland (1)
•  France (11)
•  United Team of Germany (10)
•  Great Britain (12)
•  Italy (12)
•  Japan (1)
•  South Korea (2)
•  Luxembourg (1)
•  Mexico (4)
•  New Zealand (6)
•  Pakistan (4)
•  South Africa (6)
•  Soviet Union (12)
•  Sweden (4)
•  Trinidad and Tobago (1)
•  United States (10)
•  Uruguay (5)
•  Venezuela (4)
•  Vietnam (6)
•  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	South Africa	0	0	1	1
	United Team of Germany	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		6	6	6	18