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 known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, from 22 November to 8 December 1956, with the exception of the equestrian events, whi ...

Melbourne, Australia Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a metropol ...

, alongside

Arnaud Geyre Arnaud Geyre (21 April 1935 – 20 February 2018) was a racing cyclist from France who represented his native country at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the ...

and Maurice Moucheraud. 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 y ...

André Darrigade André Darrigade (born 24 April 1929 in Narrosse) 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 vict ...

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 Fra ...

and

Jean Graczyk Jean Graczyk (26 May 1933 – 27 June 2004) was a professional 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 Es ...

) :

Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consists ...

: ::Wearing

yellow jersey The general classification is the most important classification, the one by which the winner of the Tour de France is determined. Since 1919, the leader of the general classification wears the yellow jersey (french: maillot jaune ). History Th ...

for three days ;1960 :

Grand Prix de Fourmies The Grand Prix de Fourmies is a bicycle race held in the Fourmies commune of France. Since 2005 it has been organised as a 1.HC event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which we ...

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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 Cyclists from Paris Olympic medalists in cycling Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics {{France-cycling-Olympic-medalist-stub