Cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's sprint

Cycling - Men's sprint at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Venue	Melbourne
Dates	3-6 December 1956
Competitors	18 from 18 nations
Medalists
Michel Rousseau France   Guglielmo Pesenti Italy   Dick Ploog Australia

Cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Road events
Individual road race		men
Team road race		men
Track events
1000m time trial		men
Sprint		men
Tandem		men
Team pursuit		men

These are the official results of the Men's 1.000m Scratch Sprint at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, held from 3 to 6 December 1956. There were 18 participants representing 18 nations in competition.^[1]

Final classification

Rank	Name	Nationality
	Michel Rousseau	France
	Guglielmo Pesenti	Italy
	Dick Ploog	Australia
4	Warren Johnston	New Zealand
5	Jack Disney	United States
	Ladislav Fouček	Czechoslovakia
	Boris Romanov	Soviet Union
	Thomas Shardelow	South Africa
9	Anésio Argenton	Brazil
	Evrard Godefroid	Belgium
	Hernán Masanés	Chile
	León Mejía	Colombia
	Hylton Mitchell	Trinidad and Tobago
	Shazada Muhammad Shah-Rukh	Pakistan
	Keith Harrison	Great Britain
	Lê Văn Phước	Vietnam
	Fred Markus	Canada
	Paul Nyman	Finland

References

1. "Cycling at the 1948 Melbourne Summer Games: Men's Sprint". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 26 July 2014.

External links

• Official Report