Michel Vermeulin (born 6 September 1934) is a former

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and

track cyclist Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles. History Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it wa ...

from France, who won the gold medal in the men's team road race at the

1956 Summer Olympics The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XVI Olympiad and officially branded as Melbourne 1956, were an international multi-sport event held in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, from 22 November to 8 December ...

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, alongside Arnaud Geyre and

Maurice Moucheraud Maurice Moucheraud (28 July 1933 – 13 January 2020) was a road racing cyclist from France, who won the gold medal in the men's team road race at the 1956 Summer Olympics The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XVI Olympi ...

. He also won the silver medal in the men's 4.000m team pursuit in the track competition in

. Vermeulin was a professional rider from 1958 to 1964.

Major results

;1956 :Gold Medal team time trial at Summer Olympics ;1958 :Aurillac :Circuit de la Vienne ;1959 :Trofeo Longines (with

Jacques Anquetil Jacques Anquetil (; 8 January 1934 – 18 November 1987) was a French road racing cyclist and the first cyclist to win the Tour de France five times, in 1957 and from 1961 to 1964. He stated before the 1961 Tour that he would gain the ye ...

André Darrigade André Darrigade (born 24 April 1929) is a retired French professional road bicycle racer between 1951 and 1966. Darrigade, a road sprinter won the 1959 World Championship and 22 stages of the Tour de France. Five of those Tour victories were on ...

Seamus Elliott Seamus "Shay" Elliott (4 June 1934 – 4 May 1971) was an Irish road bicycle racer, Ireland's first major international rider, with a record comparable only to Sean Kelly and Stephen Roche. He was the first Irish person to ride the Tour de F ...

and

Jean Graczyk Jean Graczyk (26 May 1933 – 27 June 2004) was a French road bicycle racer who won two Points classification in the Tour de France, points classifications in the Tour de France and several stages each at the Tour de France and Vuelta a España. ...

) :

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: ::Wearing

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for three days ;1960 :

Grand Prix de Fourmies The Grand Prix de Fourmies is a bicycle race held in the Fourmies commune of France. From 2005 to 2019 it was organised as a 1.HC event on the UCI Europe Tour. In 2021, it joined the UCI ProSeries The UCI ProSeries is the second tier men's ...

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Official Tour de France results for Michel Vermeulin
1934 births Living people French male cyclists French track cyclists Cyclists at the 1956 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists for France Olympic gold medalists for France Olympic silver medalists for France Olympic gold medalists in cycling Olympic silver medalists in cycling Cyclists from Paris Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics 20th-century French sportsmen {{France-cycling-Olympic-medalist-stub