Road Race, Team, Men

Date	7 December 1956 — 10:00
Status	Olympic
Location	Broadmeadows, Victoria
Participants	79 from 20 countries
Format	187.73 km. mass start race (116.6 miles) (11 laps of a 17.0665 km. course). Total placements of nation's three best riders to count for team score.

For the only time in Olympic history, the team road race was decided by point-for-place scores, rather than adding the times of the team’s top three finishing riders. France won with their top riders finishing 2nd, 8th, and 12th, for 22 points, narrowly defeating Great Britain, who had riders placed 3rd, 6th, and 14th for 23 points. This was the last team road race in Olympic history, as it would be replaced in 1960 by a team time trial.

Pos	Bib	Competitors	NOC	Placements (Individual Placement)
1	–	France	FRA	22	Gold
	–	Arnaud Geyre		2
	–	Maurice Moucheraud		8
	–	Michel Vermeulin		12
	–	René Abadie		27		non-scoring
2	–	Great Britain	GBR	23	Silver
	–	Alan Jackson		3
	–	Stan Brittain		6
	–	Bill Holmes		14
	–	Harry Reynolds		19		non-scoring
3	–	Unified Team of Germany	GER	27	Bronze
	–	Horst Tüller		4
	–	Gustav-Adolf Schur		5
	–	Reinhold Pommer		18
	–	Erich Hagen		22		non-scoring
4	–	Italy	ITA	36
	–	Ercole Baldini		1
	–	Arnaldo Pambianco		7
	–	Dino Bruni		28
	–	Aurelio Cestari		34		non-scoring
5	–	Sweden	SWE	47
	–	Lars Nordwall		10
	–	Karl-Ivar Andersson		17
	–	Roland Ströhm		20
	–	Gunnar Göransson		31		non-scoring
6	–	Soviet Union	URS	63
	–	Anatoly Cherepovich		15
	–	Nikolay Kolumbet		16
	–	Viktor Kapitonov		32
	–	Viktor Vershinin		35		non-scoring
7	–	Belgium	BEL	89
	–	Norbert Verougstraete		23
	–	Gustaaf De Smet		24
	–	Frans Van Den Bosch		42
	–	François De Wagheneire		AC/DNF		non-scoring
8	–	Colombia	COL	92
	–	Ramón Hoyos		13
	–	Pablo Hurtado		39
	–	Jaime Villegas		40
	–	Jorge Luque		AC/DNF		non-scoring
9	–	Ethiopia	ETH	99
	–	Geremew Denboba		25
	–	Mesfen Tesfaye		36
	–	Zehaye Bahta		38
	–	Negousse Mengistou		AC/DNF		non-scoring
DNF	–	Australia	AUS	–
	–	John O'Sullivan		41
	–	Jim Nevin		44
	–	Jim Nestor		AC/DNF
	–	Jack Trickey		AC/DNF
DNF	–	Austria	AUT	–
	–	Franz Wimmer		30
	–	Kurt Schein		AC/DNF
	–	Rudolf Maresch		AC/DNF
	–	Walter Bortel		AC/DNF
DNF	–	Canada	CAN	–
	–	Pat Murphy		29
	–	Fred Markus		AC/DNF
	–	Jimmy Davies		AC/DNF
DNF	–	Mexico	MEX	–
	–	Magdaleno Cano		9
	–	Felipe Liñán Saldaña		AC/DNF
	–	Francisco Lozano		AC/DNF
	–	Rafael Vaca		AC/DNF
DNF	–	Pakistan	PAK	–
	–	Din Meraj		AC/DNF
	–	Shazada Muhammad Shah-Rukh		AC/DNF
	–	Muhammad Naqi Mallick		AC/DNF
	–	Saleem Farooqi		AC/DNF
DNF	–	South Africa	RSA	–
	–	Jan Hettema		AC/DNF
	–	Jimmy Swift		AC/DNF
	–	Abe Jonker		AC/DNF
	–	Bobby Fowler		AC/DNF
DNF	–	Czechoslovakia	TCH	–
	–	František Jursa		AC/DNF
	–	Jaroslav Cihlář		AC/DNF
	–	Jiří Nouza		AC/DNF
	–	Jiří Opavský		AC/DNF
DNF	–	Uruguay	URU	–
	–	René Deceja		33
	–	Alberto Velázquez		AC/DNF
	–	Eduardo Puertollano		AC/DNF
	–	Walter Moyano		AC/DNF
DNF	–	United States	USA	–
	–	Joe Becker		43
	–	David Rhoads		AC/DNF
	–	Butch Neumann		AC/DNF
	–	George Van Meter		AC/DNF
DNF	–	Venezuela	VEN	–
	–	Arsenio Chirinos		AC/DNF
	–	Antonio Montilla		AC/DNF
	–	Domingo Rivas		AC/DNF
	–	Franco Cacioni		AC/DNF
DNF	–	South Vietnam	VNM	–
	–	Lê Trung Trung		AC/DNF
	–	Ngô Thành Liêm		AC/DNF
	–	Nguyễn Hw Thoa		AC/DNF
	–	Trần Gia Thu		AC/DNF