Wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman bantamweight


The men's Greco-Roman bantamweight 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.

Competition format

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. Each round featured all wrestlers pairing off and wrestling one bout. 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 ; record within the medal round determined medals, with bad points breaking ties.

Results

Round 1

; Bouts
WinnerNationVictory TypeLoserNation
Imre HódosDecision, 3–0Reijo Nykänen
Adolfo DíazFallJoe Sweeney
Francisc HorvathDecision, 2–1Konstantin Vyrupayev
Yaşar YılmazDecision, 3–0Omer Vercouteren
Dinko PetrovDecision, 2–1Edvin Vesterby
Fred KämmererDecision, 2–1Franz Brunner
Kent TownleyByeN/AN/A

; Points
RankWrestlerNationStartEarnedTotal
1000
1000
3011
3011
3011
3011
3011
8033
8033
8033
8033
8033
8033

Round 2

; Bouts
WinnerNationVictory TypeLoserNation
Imre HódosDecision, 3–0Kent Townley
Reijo NykänenDecision, 2–1Adolfo Díaz
Francisc HorvathDecision, 3–0Joe Sweeney
Konstantin VyrupayevDecision, 3–0Yaşar Yılmaz
Dinko PetrovDecision, 3–0Omer Vercouteren
Edvin VesterbyDecision, 3–0Franz Brunner
Fred KämmererByeN/AN/A

; Points
RankWrestlerNationStartEarnedTotal
1101
2112
2112
2112
5033
5033
7314
7314
7314
7134
11336
11336
11336

Round 3

; Bouts
WinnerNationVictory TypeLoserNation
Fred KämmererDecision, 3–0Kent Townley
Imre HódosFallAdolfo Díaz
Francisc HorvathDecision, 2–1Reijo Nykänen
Konstantin VyrupayevFallDinko Petrov
Edvin VesterbyWalkoverYaşar Yılmaz

; Points
RankWrestlerNationStartEarnedTotal
1202
1112
3213
4404
4404
6235
7336
8336
9437
9437

Round 4

Vyrupayev had defeated Hódos; Kammerer had a bye while neither of the other two wrestlers tied at 5 points had one.
; Bouts
WinnerNationVictory TypeLoserNation
Francisc HorvathDecision, 3–0Fred Kämmerer
Konstantin VyrupayevDecision, 3–0Imre Hódos
Edvin VesterbyByeN/AN/A

; Points
RankWrestlerNationStartEarnedTotal
1404
1314
3415
4235
5235

Medal rounds

Horvath's victory over Vyrupayev in round 1 counted for the medal rounds. The three medalists all finished 1–1 against each other. Vyrupayev had the best result within the group, with his win coming by unanimous decision as opposed to the split-decision wins of the other two medalists; he took gold. Of the two remaining wrestlers, Vesterby had defeated Horvath head-to-head and took silver. Horvath earned bronze.
; Bouts
WinnerNationVictory TypeLoserNation
Edvin VesterbyDecision, 2–1Francisc Horvath
Konstantin VyrupayevDecision, 3–0Edvin Vesterby

; Points
RankWrestlerNationWinsLossesPoints
114
114
114