Wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman welterweight
Men's Greco-Roman welterweight at the Games of the XVI Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Royal Exhibition Building | ||||||||||||
Dates | 3–6 December | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 11 from 11 nations | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics | |
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Greco-Roman | |
Fly | men |
Bantam | men |
Feather | men |
Light | men |
Welter | men |
Middle | men |
Light heavy | men |
Heavy | men |
Freestyle | |
Fly | men |
Bantam | men |
Feather | men |
Light | men |
Welter | men |
Middle | men |
Light heavy | men |
Heavy | men |
The men's Greco-Roman welterweight competition at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne took place from 3 December to 6 December at the Royal Exhibition Building. Nations were limited to one competitor.[1] Welterweight was the fourth-heaviest category, including wrestlers weighing 67 to 73 kilograms (147.7 to 160.9 lb).[2]
Competition format
[edit]This Greco-Roman wrestling competition continued to use the "bad points" elimination system introduced at the 1928 Summer Olympics for Greco-Roman and at the 1932 Summer Olympics for freestyle wrestling, as modified in 1952 (adding medal rounds and making all losses worth 3 points—from 1936 to 1948 losses by split decision only cost 2). Each round featured all wrestlers pairing off and wrestling one bout (with one wrestler having a bye if there were an odd number). The loser received 3 points. The winner received 1 point if the win was by decision and 0 points if the win was by fall. At the end of each round, any wrestler with at least 5 points was eliminated. This elimination continued until the medal rounds, which began when 3 wrestlers remained. These 3 wrestlers each faced each other in a round-robin medal round (with earlier results counting, if any had wrestled another before); record within the medal round determined medals, with bad points breaking ties.[3][1]
Results
[edit]Round 1
[edit]Vargset withdrew after his bout.
- Bouts
Winner | Nation | Victory Type | Loser | Nation |
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Mithat Bayrak | ![]() |
Decision, 2–1 | Miklós Szilvásy | ![]() |
Mitko Petkov | ![]() |
Decision, 3–0 | Oddvar Vargset | ![]() |
Siegfried Schäfer | ![]() |
Fall | Fred Murphy | ![]() |
Vladimir Maneyev | ![]() |
Decision, 3–0 | Veikko Rantanen | ![]() |
Per Berlin | ![]() |
Fall | Ernst Wandaller | ![]() |
Jay Holt | ![]() |
Bye | N/A | N/A |
- Points
Rank | Wrestler | Nation | Start | Earned | Total |
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1 | Per Berlin | ![]() |
0 | 0 | 0 |
1 | Jay Holt | ![]() |
0 | 0 | 0 |
1 | Siegfried Schäfer | ![]() |
0 | 0 | 0 |
4 | Mithat Bayrak | ![]() |
0 | 1 | 1 |
4 | Vladimir Maneyev | ![]() |
0 | 1 | 1 |
4 | Mitko Petkov | ![]() |
0 | 1 | 1 |
7 | Fred Murphy | ![]() |
0 | 3 | 3 |
7 | Veikko Rantanen | ![]() |
0 | 3 | 3 |
7 | Miklós Szilvásy | ![]() |
0 | 3 | 3 |
7 | Ernst Wandaller | ![]() |
0 | 3 | 3 |
11 | Oddvar Vargset | ![]() |
0 | 3 | 3* |
Round 2
[edit]Petkov withdrew due to injury at 8:15 into his bout and was unable to continue the competition.
- Bouts
Winner | Nation | Victory Type | Loser | Nation |
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Miklós Szilvásy | ![]() |
Decision, 3–0 | Jay Holt | ![]() |
Mithat Bayrak | ![]() |
Forfeit | Mitko Petkov | ![]() |
Veikko Rantanen | ![]() |
Decision, 3–0 | Siegfried Schäfer | ![]() |
Per Berlin | ![]() |
Fall | Fred Murphy | ![]() |
Vladimir Maneyev | ![]() |
Fall | Ernst Wandaller | ![]() |
- Points
Rank | Wrestler | Nation | Start | Earned | Total |
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1 | Per Berlin | ![]() |
0 | 0 | 0 |
2 | Mithat Bayrak | ![]() |
1 | 0 | 1 |
2 | Vladimir Maneyev | ![]() |
1 | 0 | 1 |
4 | Jay Holt | ![]() |
0 | 3 | 3 |
4 | Siegfried Schäfer | ![]() |
0 | 3 | 3 |
6 | Veikko Rantanen | ![]() |
3 | 1 | 4 |
6 | Miklós Szilvásy | ![]() |
3 | 1 | 4 |
8 | Mitko Petkov | ![]() |
1 | 3 | 4* |
9 | Fred Murphy | ![]() |
3 | 3 | 6 |
9 | Ernst Wandaller | ![]() |
3 | 3 | 6 |
Round 3
[edit]- Bouts
Winner | Nation | Victory Type | Loser | Nation |
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Mithat Bayrak | ![]() |
Decision, 3–0 | Jay Holt | ![]() |
Veikko Rantanen | ![]() |
Decision, 3–0 | Miklós Szilvásy | ![]() |
Vladimir Maneyev | ![]() |
Decision, 2–1 | Siegfried Schäfer | ![]() |
Per Berlin | ![]() |
Bye | N/A | N/A |
- Points
Rank | Wrestler | Nation | Start | Earned | Total |
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1 | Per Berlin | ![]() |
0 | 0 | 0 |
2 | Mithat Bayrak | ![]() |
1 | 1 | 2 |
2 | Vladimir Maneyev | ![]() |
1 | 1 | 2 |
4 | Veikko Rantanen | ![]() |
4 | 1 | 5 |
5 | Siegfried Schäfer | ![]() |
3 | 3 | 6 |
5 | Jay Holt | ![]() |
3 | 3 | 6 |
7 | Miklós Szilvásy | ![]() |
4 | 3 | 7 |
Medal rounds
[edit]The Official Report shows Berlin defeating Maneyev in the medal rounds while Sports-Reference shows the opposite result (Maneyev winning the bout against Berlin). The latter is consistent with the final placings, which have Maneyev as the silver medalist and Berlin the bronze. Bayrak defeated both of the other medalists to earn the gold medal.
- Bouts
Winner | Nation | Victory Type | Loser | Nation |
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Mithat Bayrak | ![]() |
Decision, 3–0 | Per Berlin | ![]() |
Vladimir Maneyev | ![]() |
Decision, 3–0 | Per Berlin | ![]() |
Mithat Bayrak | ![]() |
Decision, 3–0 | Vladimir Maneyev | ![]() |
- Points
Rank | Wrestler | Nation | Wins | Losses |
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Mithat Bayrak | ![]() |
2 | 0 |
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Vladimir Maneyev | ![]() |
1 | 1 |
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Per Berlin | ![]() |
0 | 2 |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Wrestling at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games: Men's Welterweight, Greco-Roman". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
- ^ Official Report 1958, p. 683.
- ^ Official Report 1958, p. 680.
General
- The Official Report of the Organizing Committee for the Games of the XVI Olympiad, Melbourne, 1956. Melbourne: W. M. Houston (published 1958). 1956.