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Wrestling at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games:

Men's Light-Heavyweight, Greco-Roman Round One

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Host City: Helsinki, Finland
Venue(s): Exhibition Hall I, Helsinki
Date Started: July 24, 1952
Date Finished: July 24, 1952

Gold: FIN Kelpo Gröndahl
Silver: URS Shalva Chikhladze
Bronze: SWE Karl-Erik Nilsson

Round One

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC BP
1T Kelpo Gröndahl 32 Finland FIN 0
1T Shalva Chikhladze 40 Soviet Union URS 0
3T Umberto Silvestri 36 Italy ITA 1
3T Michel Skaff Lebanon LIB 1
3T Karl-Erik Nilsson 30 Sweden SWE 1
6T Ovidiu Forai 33 Romania ROU 3
6T İsmet Atlı Turkey TUR 3
6T Max Leichter 32 Germany GER 3
6T Gyula Kovács 34 Hungary HUN 3
6T Jos Schummer 21 Luxembourg LUX 3

Round One

Unit Date Result
Match #1 1952-07-24 Skaff (LIB) decision (2-1), Forai (ROU)
Match #2 1952-07-24 Nilsson (SWE) decision (3-0), Kovács (HUN)
Match #3 1952-07-24 Silvestri (ITA) decision (2-1), Atlı (TUR)
Match #4 1952-07-24 Gröndahl (FIN) fall (3:30), Schummer (LUX)
Match #5 1952-07-24 Chikhladze (URS) fall (9:22), Leichter (GER)