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

The men's team pursuit was an event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in 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]

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
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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	—