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1956 Omloop Het Volk ( HC)
This race is now "Het Nieuwsblad"
12th edition: March 11, 1956
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad podium history | 1955 edition | 1957 edition
Gent - Gent, 227 km / 37.417 km/hr
179 starters / 34 classified finishers
1956 Omloop Het Volk winner Ernest Sterckx
Complete Results:
| 1 | Ernest Sterckx | Elve-Peugeot | 6hr 4min |
| 2 | Briek Schotte | Faema | s.t. |
| 3 | Léopold Schaeken | Plume Sport | @ 26sec |
| 4 | Roger Decock | Faema | s.t. |
| 5 | Wim Van Est | Locomotief-Vredestein | s.t. |
| 6 | Marcel Ryckaert | Ryssel | s.t. |
| 7 | Raymond Impanis | Elve-Peugeot | s.t. |
| 8 | Rik Van Looy | Faema | s.t. |
| 9 | Roger De Corte | Groene Leeuw | s.t. |
| 10 | Jozef De Feyter | Libertas | s.t. |
| 11 | Marcel Hendrickx | Eldorado-Elve | s.t. |
| 12 | Gilbert Scodeller | Bianchi | s.t. |
| 13 | Lucien Demunster | Elve-Peugeot | s.t. |
| 14 | Frans Schoubben | Eldorado-Elve | s.t. |
| 15 | Raymond Hoorelbeke | Helyett-Potin | s.t. |
| 16 | Basiel Wambeke | Thompson | s.t. |
| 17 | Maurice Blomme | Bertin | s.t. |
| 17 | Edgard Sorgeloos | Elve-Peugeot | s.t. |
| 17 | Boudewijn Devos | Bertin | s.t. |
| 17 | Hilaire Couvreur | Elve-Peugeot | s.t. |
| 21 | Emile Severeyns | Libertas | s.t. |
| 22 | Richard Van Genechten | Elve-Peugeot | s.t. |
| 23 | Jozef Planckaert | Elve-Peugeot | s.t. |
| 24 | Joseph Theuns | Girardengo | s.t. |
| 25 | Marcel Buys | Libertas-Huret | @ 2min 35sec |
| 26 | Hans Junkermann | Altenburger | s.t. |
| 27 | Willy Truye | Mercier-Hutchinson-BP | s.t. |
| 28 | Calixte Van Steenbrugge | Groene Leeuw | s.t. |
| 29 | Attilio Redolfi | Helyett-Potin | s.t. |
| 30 | Maurice Joye | Bertin | s.t. |
| 31 | Pierre Pardoen | Bobet-BP-Hutchinson | s.t. |
| 32 | Josef Verhelst | Libertas | s.t. |
| 33 | Franz Reitz | Altenburger | s.t. |
| 34 | Alfred De Bruyne | Mercier-Hutchinson-BP | s.t. |