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


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.

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

Vargset withdrew after his bout.
; Bouts
WinnerNationVictory TypeLoserNation
Mithat BayrakDecision, 2–1Miklós Szilvásy
Mitko PetkovDecision, 3–0Oddvar Vargset
Siegfried SchäferFallFred Murphy
Vladimir ManeyevDecision, 3–0Veikko Rantanen
Per BerlinFallErnst Wandaller
Jay HoltByeN/AN/A

; Points
RankWrestlerNationStartEarnedTotal
1000
1000
1000
4011
4011
4011
7033
7033
7033
7033
11033*

Round 2

Petkov withdrew due to injury at 8:15 into his bout and was unable to continue the competition.
; Bouts
WinnerNationVictory TypeLoserNation
Miklós SzilvásyDecision, 3–0Jay Holt
Mithat BayrakForfeitMitko Petkov
Veikko RantanenDecision, 3–0Siegfried Schäfer
Per BerlinFallFred Murphy
Vladimir ManeyevFallErnst Wandaller

; Points
RankWrestlerNationStartEarnedTotal
1000
2101
2101
4033
4033
6314
6314
8134*
9336
9336

Round 3

; Bouts
WinnerNationVictory TypeLoserNation
Mithat BayrakDecision, 3–0Jay Holt
Veikko RantanenDecision, 3–0Miklós Szilvásy
Vladimir ManeyevDecision, 2–1Siegfried Schäfer
Per BerlinByeN/AN/A

; Points
RankWrestlerNationStartEarnedTotal
1000
2112
2112
4415
5336
5336
7437

Medal rounds

The Official Report shows Berlin defeating Maneyev in the medal rounds while Sports-Reference shows the opposite result. 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
WinnerNationVictory TypeLoserNation
Mithat BayrakDecision, 3–0Per Berlin
Vladimir ManeyevDecision, 3–0Per Berlin
Mithat BayrakDecision, 3–0Vladimir Maneyev

; Points
RankWrestlerNationWinsLosses
20
11
02