The men's freestyle flyweight competition at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne took place from 28 November to 1 December at the Royal Exhibition Building. Nations were limited to one competitor. Flyweight was the lightest category, including wrestlers weighing up to .
Competition format
This freestyle 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 Hüseyin Akbaş Decision, 3–0 Luigi Chinazzo André Zoete Fall Fred Flannery Lee Jeong-gyu Fall Abdul Aziz Tadashi Asai Fall Baban Daware Mirian Tsalkalamanidze Decision, 3–0 Dick Delgado Mohamed Ali Khojastehpour Bye N/A N/A
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Start Earned Total 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 Lee Jeong-gyu 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 5 0 1 1 5 0 1 1 7 0 3 3 7 0 3 3 7 0 3 3 7 0 3 3 7 0 3 3
Round 2
Lee withdrew after his bout.
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Mohamed Ali Khojastehpour Decision, 3–0 Luigi Chinazzo Hüseyin Akbaş Fall André Zoete Abdul Aziz Decision, 3–0 Fred Flannery Baban Daware Decision, 3–0 Lee Jeong-gyu Mirian Tsalkalamanidze Decision, 2–1 Tadashi Asai Dick Delgado Bye N/A N/A
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Start Earned Total 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 3 1 1 2 4 0 3 3 4 3 0 3 4 0 3 3 7 3 1 4 7 3 1 4 9 Lee Jeong-gyu 0 3 3* 10 3 3 6 10 3 3 6
Round 3
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Mohamed Ali Khojastehpour Decision, 3–0 Dick Delgado Hüseyin Akbaş Fall Abdul Aziz Tadashi Asai Decision, 3–0 André Zoete Mirian Tsalkalamanidze Fall Baban Daware
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Start Earned Total 1 1 0 1 2 0 1 2 2 2 0 2 4 3 1 4 5 3 3 6 5 3 3 6 7 4 3 7 7 4 3 7
Round 4
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Mohamed Ali Khojastehpour Decision, 3–0 Tadashi Asai Hüseyin Akbaş Decision, 3–0 Mirian Tsalkalamanidze
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Start Earned Total 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 3 3 2 3 5 4 4 3 7
Medal rounds
Akbaş's victory over Tsalkalamanidze in round 4 counted for the medal rounds. Each wrestler went 1–1 against the other medalists, but Tsalkalamanidze received the gold medal since he had the only win by fall. Of the remaining two competitors, Khojastehpour had defeated Akbaş head-to-head and so took silver.
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Mohamed Ali Khojastehpour Decision, 3–0 Hüseyin Akbaş Mirian Tsalkalamanidze Fall Mohamed Ali Khojastehpour
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Wins Losses Points 1 1 3 1 1 4 1 1 4
References
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