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

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 Donald Burgess, John Geddes, Mike Gambrill, Tom Simpson  Great Britain

The men's team pursuit was an event 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

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	Héctor Monsalve Honorio Rua Octavio Echeverry Ramón Hoyos	Colombia	—
	Rudolf Maresch Franz Wimmer Kurt Schein Walter Bortel	Austria	—
	Din Meraj Muhammad Naqi Mallick Saleem Farooqi 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	—

External links

• Official Report