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.
| Cycling at the Games of the XVI Olympiad | |
|---|---|
| Venues | Broadmeadows Melbourne Olympic Velodrome |
| Date | 3 –6 December 1956 |
| Competitors | 161 from 30 nations |
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.
Medal summary
Road cycling
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Road race, Individual | Ercole Baldini Italy | Arnaud Geyre France | Alan Jackson Great Britain |
| Road race, Team | France Arnaud Geyre Maurice Moucheraud Michel Vermeulin | Great Britain Arthur Brittain William Holmes Alan Jackson | United Team of Germany Reinhold Pommer Gustav-Adolf Schur Horst Tüller |
Track cycling
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pursuit, Team | Italy Valentino Gasparella Antonio Domenicali Leandro Faggin Franco Gandini Virginio Pizzali | France Michel Vermeulin René Bianchi Jean Graczyk Jean-Claude Lecante | Great Britain Tom Simpson Donald Burgess Mike Gambrill John Geddes |
| Sprint | Michel Rousseau France | Guglielmo Pesenti Italy | Dick Ploog Australia |
| Tandem | Ian Browne and Tony Marchant (AUS) | Ladislav Fouček and Václav Machek (TCH) | Giuseppe Ogna and Cesare Pinarello (ITA) |
| Time trial | Leandro Faggin Italy | Ladislav Fouček Czechoslovakia | Alfred Swift South Africa |
Participating nations
161 cyclists from 30 nations competed.
- 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 | |
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