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 65 participants from 16 nations, due to the Italian team having five riders, instead of four.

Final classification

RankNameNationalityTime
Antonio Domenicali
Franco Gandini
Leandro Faggin
Valentino Gasparella
Virginio Pizzali
4:37.4
Jean Graczyk
Jean-Claude Lecante
Michel Vermeulin
René Bianchi
4:39.4
Donald Burgess
John Geddes
Mike Gambrill
Tom Simpson
4:42.2
4Alfred Swift
Jan Hettema
Charles Jonker
Robert Fowler
4:39.4
5André Bar
François De Wagheneire
Guillaume Van Tongerloo
Gustaaf De Smet
5František Jursa
Jaroslav Cihlář
Jiří Nouza
Jiří Opavský
5Donald Eagle
Bruce Kent
Neil Ritchie
Warwick Dalton
5Eduard Gusev
Rodislav Chizhikov
Viktor Ilyin
Volodymyr Mitin
9Héctor Monsalve
Honorio Rua
Octavio Echeverry
Ramón Hoyos
9Rudolf Maresch
Franz Wimmer
Kurt Schein
Walter Bortel
9Din Meraj
Muhammad Naqi Mallick
Saleem Farooqi
Shazada Muhammad Shah-Rukh
9Kurt Gieseler
Rolf Nitzsche
Siegfried Köhler
Werner Malitz
9Alberto Velázquez
Eduardo Puertollano
Luis Serra
René Deceja
9Antonio Montilla
Arsenio Chirinos
Domingo Rivas
Franco Cacioni
9Cliff Burvill
Frank Brazier
Roy Moore
Warren Scarfe
9Allen Bell
Art Longsjo
David Rhoads
Richard Cortright