1956 World Pro Road Cycling Championships
23rd edition: Sunday, August 26, 1956
Copenhagen (Ballerup) , Denmark
World Road Cycling Championships podium history | 1957 edition | 1955 edition |
71 riders started, 27 classified finishers.
22 laps of 12.96 km totalling 285.1 km.
Winner's average speed: 33.34 km/hr
Complete Results:
- Rik van Steenbergen (Belgium) 7hr 26min 15sec
- Rik van Looy (Belgium) s.t.
- Gerrit Schulte (Netherlands) s.t.
- Stan Ockers (Belgium) s.t.
- Alfred de Bruyne (Belgium) s.t.
- Germain Derijcke (Belgium) s.t.
- Gerrit Voorting (Netherlands) s.t.
- Louison Bobet (France) s.t.
- Jacques Dupont (France) s.t.
- Daan de Groot (Netherlands) s.t.
- André Vlayen (Belgium) @ 12sec
- Fiorenzo Magni (Italy) @ 30sec
- André Darrigade (France) @ 2min 35sec
- Seamus Elliott (Ireland) s.t.
- Fausto Coppi (Italy) s.t.
- Bernard Gauthier (France) s.t.
- Pierino Baffi (Italy) s.t.
- Jan Adriaenssens (Belgium) s.t.
- David Bedwell (Great Britain) @ 6min 56sec
- Cleto Maule (Italy) @ 11min 58sec
- Remo Pianezzi (Switzerland) s.t.
- Antonio Ferraz (Spain) st.
- Emil Reinecke (Germany) s.t.
- Jean-Claude Graet (Switzerland) s.t.
- Horst Backat (Germany) s.t.
- Wim Rusman (Netherlands) s.t.
- Kaj-Allan Olsen (Denmark) s.t.