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Cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's team pursuit
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Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Cycling - Men's team pursuit
at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Venue
Melbourne
Dates
3-4 December 1956
Competitors
65 from 16 nations
Medalists
Antonio Domenicali
,
Franco Gandini
,
Leandro Faggin
,
Valentino Gasparella
,
Virginio Pizzali
Italy
Jean Graczyk
,
Jean-Claude Lecante
,
Michel Vermeulin
,
René Bianchi
France
1960
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Cycling
at the
1956 Summer Olympics
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The
men's team pursuit
was an event at the
Melbourne, Australia.
[1]
There were a total number of 65 participants from 16 nations, due to the Italian team having five riders, instead of four.
[2]
Final classification
Rank
Name
Nationality
Time
Antonio Domenicali
Franco Gandini
Leandro Faggin
Valentino Gasparella
Virginio Pizzali
Italy
4:37.4
Jean Graczyk
Jean-Claude Lecante
Michel Vermeulin
René Bianchi
France
4:39.4
Donald Burgess
John Geddes
Mike Gambrill
Tom Simpson
Great Britain
4:42.2
4
Alfred Swift
Jan Hettema
Charles Jonker
Robert Fowler
South Africa
4:39.4
5
André Bar
François De Wagheneire
Guillaume Van Tongerloo
Gustaaf De Smet
Belgium
—
František Jursa
Jaroslav Cihlář
Jiří Nouza
Jiří Opavský
Czechoslovakia
—
Donald Eagle
Bruce Kent
Neil Ritchie
Warwick Dalton
New Zealand
—
Eduard Gusev
Rodislav Chizhikov
Viktor Ilyin
Volodymyr Mitin
Soviet Union
—
9
Honorio Rua
Octavio Echeverry
Ramón Hoyos
Colombia
—
Rudolf Maresch
Franz Wimmer
Kurt Schein
Walter Bortel
Austria
—
Shazada Muhammad Shah-Rukh
Pakistan
—
Kurt Gieseler
Rolf Nitzsche
Siegfried Köhler
Werner Malitz
United Team of Germany
—
Alberto Velázquez
Eduardo Puertollano
Luis Serra
René Deceja
Uruguay
—
Antonio Montilla
Arsenio Chirinos
Domingo Rivas
Franco Cacioni
Venezuela
—
Cliff Burvill
Frank Brazier
Roy Moore
Warren Scarfe
Australia
—
Allen Bell
Art Longsjo
David Rhoads
Richard Cortright
United States
—
References
^
"Cycling at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games: Men's Team Pursuit"
.
sports-reference.com
. Archived from
the original
on 18 April 2020
. Retrieved
27 July
2014
.
^
"Italy Cycling at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games"
.
sports-reference.com
. Archived from
the original
on 17 April 2020
. Retrieved
27 July
2014
.
External links
Official Report
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e
Olympic Cycling Champions in Men's Team Pursuit
1908
:
Jones
,
Kingsbury
,
Meredith
,
Payne
(
GBR
)
1920
:
Carli
,
Ferrario
,
Giorgetti
,
Magnani
(
ITA
)
1924
:
De Martino
,
Dinale
,
Menegazzi
,
Zucchetti
(
ITA
)
1928
:
Facciani
,
Gaioni
,
Lusiani
,
Tasselli
(
ITA
)
1932
:
Cimatti
,
Pedretti
,
Ghilardi
,
Borsari
(
ITA
)
1936
:
Charpentier
,
Goujon
,
Lapébie
,
Le Nizerhy
(
FRA
)
1948
:
Adam
,
Blusson
,
Coste
,
Decanali
(
FRA
)
1952
:
Campana
,
De Rossi
,
Messina
,
Morettini
(
ITA
)
1956
:
Domenicali
,
Faggin
,
Gandini
,
Gasparella
,
Pizzali
(
ITA
)
1960
:
Arienti
,
Testa
,
Vallotto
,
Vigna
(
ITA
)
1964
:
Claesges
,
Henrichs
,
Link
,
Streng
(
EUA
)
1968
:
Frey
,
Asmussen
,
Lyngemark
,
Olsen
(
DEN
)
1972
:
Schumacher
,
Colombo
,
Haritz
,
Hempel
(
FRG
)
1976
:
Vonhof
,
Braun
,
Lutz
,
Schumacher
(
FRG
)
1980
:
Manakov
,
Movchan
,
Osokin
,
Petrakov
,
Krasnov
(
URS
)
1984
:
Grenda
,
Nichols
,
Turtur
,
Woods
(
AUS
)
1988
:
Ekimov
,
Kasputis
,
Nelyubin
,
Umaras
(
URS
)
1992
:
Steinweg
,
Walzer
,
Fulst
,
Glöckner
,
Lehmann
(
GER
)
1996
:
Capelle
,
Ermenault
,
Monin
,
Moreau
(
FRA
)
2000
:
Fulst
,
Bartko
,
Becke
,
Lehmann
,
Pollack
(
GER
)
2004
:
Brown
,
Lancaster
,
McGee
,
Roberts
(
AUS
)
2008
:
Clancy
,
Manning
,
Thomas
,
Wiggins
(
GBR
)
2012
:
Clancy
,
Thomas
,
Burke
,
Kennaugh
(
GBR
)
2016
:
Clancy
,
Burke
,
Doull
,
Wiggins
(
GBR
)
2020
:
Consonni
,
Ganna
,
Lamon
,
Milan
(
ITA
)