Cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics - Men's individual road race

These are the official results of the Men's Individual Road Race at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, held on Friday December 7, 1956.

The road race was held on a circuit at Broadmeadows about 12 miles from the centre of the city. The distance of the race was 187.7315 kilometres (116 miles and 1.144 yards) according to a survey made by the Royal Australian Survey Corps for the Organizing Committee, and consisted of eleven laps of 17.0665 kilometres (10 miles and 1.064 yards) over an undulating road which had a few steep slopes.

In the morning the weather was mild, indeed perfect for the road ; the afternoon, however, was rather warm. For many participants these conditions proved a telling factor. The race started a little late because two Irish cyclists not belonging to an affiliated association tried to start ; they were removed. There were two classes—individual and team: in the individual class 88 participants represented 28 nations and 20 nations competed in the team section.

Final Classification

Did not finish

----;flagIOCteam|AUS|1956 Summer
*Ed Nestor
*Jack Trickey
;flagIOCteam|AUT|1956 Summer
*Walter Bortel
*Kurt Schein
*Rudolf Maresch
;flagIOCteam|BEL|1956 Summer
*François De Wagheneire
;flagIOCteam|CAN|1956 Summer
*Fred Markus
*James Davies
;flagIOCteam|COL|1956 Summer
*Jorge Luque
;flagIOCteam|DEN|1956 Summer
*Palle Lykke Jensen
;flagIOCteam|ETH|1956 Summer
*Negousse Mengistou
;flagIOCteam|JPN|1956 Summer
*Tetsuo Osawa ;flagIOCteam|KOR|1956 Summer
*Im Jang-Jo
;flagIOCteam|LUX|1956 Summer
*Gaston Dumont
;flagIOCteam|MEX|1956 Summer
*Francisco Lozano
*Felipe Liñan
*Rafael Vaca
;flagIOCteam|PAK|1956 Summer
*Muhammad Naqi Mallick
*Din Meraj
*Saleem Farooki
*Shahzada Muhammad Shah-Rukh
;flagIOCteam|RSA|1956 Summer
*Alfred Swift
*Robert Fowler
*Anne Jan Hettema
*Charles Jonker
;flagIOCteam|TCH|1956 Summer
*František Jursa
*Jaroslav Cihlár
*Jirí Nouza
*Jirí Opavský ;flagIOCteam|TRI|1956 Summer
*Hylton Mitchell
;flagIOCteam|URU|1956 Summer
*Alberto Velázquez
*Eduardo Puertollano
*Raymundo Moyano
;flagIOCteam|USA|1956 Summer
*David Rhoads
*Erhard Neumann
*George Van Meter
;flagIOCteam|VEN|1956 Summer
*Arsenio Chirinos
*Antonio Montilla
*Domingo Rivas
*Franco Caccioni
;flagIOCteam|VIE|1956 Summer
*Ngo Tanh Liem
*Nguyen Hw Thoa
*Tran Gia Thu
*Trung Tung Le

ee also

*Men's Team Time Trial

References

* [http://www.olympic-museum.de/o-reports/report1956.htm Official Report]