The 1956 Challenge Desgrange-Colombo was the ninth edition of the

Challenge Desgrange-Colombo The Challenge Desgrange-Colombo was a season-long road bicycle racing competition between 1948 and 1958. There were two classifications, one for individual cyclists and another for nations. History The Challenge Desgrange-Colombo competition was ...

. It included eleven races: all the races form the 1955 edition were retained with no additions.

Fred De Bruyne Alfred De Bruyne (21 October 1930 – 4 February 1994) was a Belgian champion road cyclist. He won six Tour de France stages early in his career and went on to win many other Monuments and stage races. De Bruyne had a great deal of success early ...

won the first of his three individual championships while Belgium retained the nations championship.

Races

Final standings

Riders

Nations

References