Men Road Race Cycling XVI Olympic Games Melbourne, Australia 1956 - Friday 7th December - Gold Medal:
Finaltime
1. Ercole BaldiniITA Italy5:21:17
2. Arnaud GeyreFRA France5:23:16
3. Alan JacksonGBR Great Britain5:23:16
4. Horst TüllerUT Germany5:23:16
5. Gustav-Adolf SchurUT Germany5:23:16
6. Arthur BrittainGreat Britain5:23:40
7. Arnaldo PambiancoItaly5:23:40
8. Maurice MoucheraudFrance5:23:40
9. Magdaleno CanoMexico5:23:40
10.Lars NordwallSweden5:23:40
11.Paul NymanFinland5:23:40
12.Michel VermeulinFrance5:23:40
13.Ramón HoyosColombia5:23:40
14.William HolmesGreat Britain5:23:50
15.Anatoly CherepovichSoviet Union5:23:50
16.Mykola KolumbetSoviet Union5:23:50
17.Karl-Ivar AnderssonSweden5:23:50
18.Reinhold PommerUT Germany5:24:38
19.Harold ReynoldsGreat Britain5:24:44
20.Roland StröhmSweden5:24:44
21.Juan PérezChile5:25:38
22.Erich HagenUT Germany5:26:38
23.Norbert VerougstraeteBelgium5:26:47
24.Gustaaf De SmetBelgium5:26:47
25.Guremu DembobaEthiopia5:26:58
26.Veselin PetrovićYugoslavia5:26:58
27.René AbadieFrance5:27:28
28.Dino BruniItaly5:27:28
29.Patrick MurphyCanada5:27:28
30.Franz WimmerAustria5:27:28
31.Gunnar GöranssonSweden5:30:45
32.Viktor KapitonovSoviet Union5:30:45
33.René DecejaUruguay5:31:58
34.Aurelio CestariItaly5:34:20
35.Viktor VershininSoviet Union5:34:21
36.Mesfen TesfayeEthiopia5:34:25
37.Kim Ho-soonSouth Korea5:34:37
38.Zehaye BahtaEthiopia5:34:37
39.Pablo HurtadoColombia5:34:49
40.Jaime VillegasColombia5:34:49
41.John O'SullivanAustralia5:36:58
42.François Van Den BoschBelgium5:38:16
43.Joe BeckerUnited States5:38:16
44.Jim NevinAustralia5:47:02
-. Jim NestorAustraliaDNF
-. Jack TrickeyAustraliaDNF
-. Walter BortelAustriaDNF
-. Kurt ScheinAustriaDNF
-. Rudolf MareschAustriaDNF
-. François De WagheneireBelgiumDNF
-. Fred MarkusCanadaDNF
-. James DaviesCanadaDNF
-. Jorge LuqueColombiaDNF
-. František JursaCzechoslovakiaDNF
-. Jaroslav CihlářCzechoslovakiaDNF
-. Jiří NouzaCzechoslovakiaDNF
-. Jiří OpavskýCzechoslovakiaDNF
-. Palle LykkeDenmarkDNF
-. Negousse MengistouEthiopiaDNF
-. Tetsuo OsawaJapanDNF
-. Im Sang-joSouth KoreaDNF
-. Gaston DumontLuxembourgDNF
-. Francisco LozanoMexicoDNF
-. Felipe LiñanMexicoDNF
-. Rafael VacaMexicoDNF
-. Muhammad Naqi MallickPakistanDNF
-. Din MerajPakistanDNF
-. Saleem FarooqiPakistanDNF
-. Shazada Muhammad Shah-RukhPakistanDNF
-. Alfred SwiftSouth AfricaDNF
-. Robert FowlerSouth AfricaDNF
-. Jan HettemaSouth AfricaDNF
-. Charles JonkerSouth AfricaDNF
-. Hylton MitchellTrinidad and TobagoDNF
-. David RhoadsUnited StatesDNF
-. Erhard NeumannUnited StatesDNF
-. George Van MeterUnited StatesDNF
-. Alberto VelázquezUruguayDNF
-. Eduardo PuertollanoUruguayDNF
-. Walter MoyanoUruguayDNF
-. Arsenio ChirinosVenezuelaDNF
-. Antonio MontillaVenezuelaDNF
-. Domingo RivasVenezuelaDNF
-. Franco CacioniVenezuelaDNF
-. Trần Gia ThuVietnamDNF
-. Nguyễn Hw ThoaVietnamDNF
-. Ngô Thành LiêmVietnamDNF
-. Trung Trung LêVietnamDNF
Venue: Broadmeadows, Victoria, Melbourne 187.73km (116.7mi)
88 competitors from 28 nations.
44 rode the distance to the end.
Len Williams from Coffs Harbour was nominated for the Australian team but declined due to work commitments.
French and British officials protested against Baldini's victory, claiming that he was protected from the hot sun by the Olympic film unit van that drove alongside him, but the protest was upheld.
The start of the race was delayed fifteen minutes when it was discovered that two 'unauthorised' Irish cyclists, Tom Gerrard and Paul Fitzgerald were in the starting field.
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