Cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's team pursuit

These are the official results of the Men's Team Pursuit at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. There were a total number of 64 participants from 16 nations.

Final classification

RANK NAME CYCLISTS TEAM TIME
Antonio Domenicali
Franco Gandini
Leandro Faggin
Valentino Gasparella
Italy 4:37.4
Jean Graczyk
Jean-Claude Lecante
Michel Vermeulin
René Bianchi
France 4:39.4
Donald Burgess
John Geddes
Mike Gambrill
Thomas Simpson
Great Britain 4:42.2
4. Alfred Swift
Anne Jan Hettema
Charles Jonker
Robert Fowler
South Africa 4:39.4
5. André Bar
François De Wagheneire
Guillaume Van Tongerloo
Gustaaf De Smet
Belgium
6. Donald Eagle
Leonard Kent
Neil Ritchie
Warwick Dalton
New Zealand
7. František Jursa
Jaroslav Cihlár
Jirí Nouza
Jirí Opavský
Czechoslovakia
8. Eduard Gussev
Rotislav Shidzhikov
Viktor Ilyin
Vladimir Mytin
Soviet Union
9. Cliff Burvill
Frank Brazier
Roy Moore
Warren Scarfe
Australia
10. Rudolf Maresch
Franz Wimmer
Kurt Schein
Walter Bortel
Austria
11. Héctor Monsalve
Honorio Rúa
Octavio Echeverry
Ramón Hoyos
Colombia
12. Kurt Gieseler
Rolf Nitzsche
Siegfried Köhler
Werner Malitz
Germany
13. Din Meraj
Muhammad Naqi Mallick
Saleem Farooki
Shahzada Muhammad Shah-Rukh
Pakistan
14. Alberto Velázquez
Eduardo Puertollano
Luis Pedro Serra
René Deceja
Uruguay
15. Allen Bell
Art Longsjo
David Rhoads
Richard Cortright
United States
16. Antonio Montilla
Arsenio Chirinos
Domingo Rivas
Franco Caccioni
Venezuela

See also

References