The men's Greco-Roman lightweight 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. Lightweight was the fourth-lightest category, including wrestlers weighing .
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 (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.
Results
Round 1
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Dimitar Stoyanov Decision, 3–0 Olle Anderberg Kyösti Lehtonen Fall Tommy Evans Bartl Brötzner Decision, 3–0 Vladimir Rosin Rıza Doğan Decision, 3–0 Juan Rolón Gyula Tóth Fall Dumitru Gheorghe
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Start Earned Total 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 3 0 1 1 3 0 1 1 6 0 3 3 6 0 3 3 6 0 3 3 6 0 3 3 6 0 3 3
Round 2
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Kyösti Lehtonen Walkover Olle Anderberg Dimitar Stoyanov Decision, 3–0 Tommy Evans Bartl Brötzner Decision, 2–1 Rıza Doğan Gyula Tóth Decision, 2–1 Vladimir Rosin Dumitru Gheorghe Decision, 3–0 Juan Rolón
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Start Earned Total 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 3 1 1 2 3 1 1 2 5 1 3 4 6 3 1 4 7 3 3 6 7 3 3 6 7 3 3 6 7 3 3 6
Round 3
Brötzner, Stoyanov, and Doğan went to a round-robin.
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Kyösti Lehtonen Decision, 3–0 Dimitar Stoyanov Gyula Tóth Decision, 3–0 Bartl Brötzner Rıza Doğan Decision, 3–0 Dumitru Gheorghe
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Start Earned Total 1 0 1 1 2 1 1 2 3 4 1 5 3 2 3 5 3 2 3 5 6 4 3 7
Elimination rounds
Stoyanov defeated Brötzner, while Doğan defeated Stoyanov. Doğan and Brötzner had already wrestled and did not face each other again.
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Dimitar Stoyanov Decision, 3–0 Bartl Brötzner Rıza Doğan Decision, 2–1 Dimitar Stoyanov Gyula Tóth Bye N/A N/A Rıza Doğan Bye N/A N/A Kyösti Lehtonen Bye N/A N/A
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Start Earned Total 1 1 0 1 2 2 0 2 3 5 1 6 4 5 3 8 5 5 4 9
Medal rounds
Lehtonen won the round robin among the medalists, 2–0; Doğan took silver at 1–1 and Tóth received bronze after being defeated by both of the other medalists.
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Kyösti Lehtonen Decision, 2–1 Rıza Doğan Rıza Doğan Fall Gyula Tóth Kyösti Lehtonen Fall Gyula Tóth
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Wins Losses 2 0 1 1 0 2
References
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