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Wrestling at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games:

Men's Bantamweight, Freestyle Round Three

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Events:
Phases:

Host City: Melbourne, Australia
Venue(s): Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Victoria
Date Started: November 30, 1956
Date Finished: November 30, 1956

Gold: TUR Mustafa Dağıstanlı
Silver: IRI Mohamed Mehdi Yaghoubi
Bronze: URS Mykhailo Shakhov

Round Three

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC BP
1T Mohamed Mehdi Yaghoubi 26 Iran IRI 1
1T Lee Sang-Gyun South Korea KOR 1
3 Mustafa Dağıstanlı 25 Turkey TUR 2
4 Mykhailo Shakhov 25 Soviet Union URS 3
5 Minoru Iizuka 23 Japan JPN 4
6 Fred Kämmerer 22 Germany GER 5 eliminated
7 Din Zahur 23 Pakistan PAK 6 eliminated
8T Adolfo Díaz Argentina ARG 7 eliminated
8T Tarashkeswar Pandey India IND 7 eliminated

Round Three

Unit Date Result
Match #1 1956-11-30 Iizuka (JPN) fall (5:00), Díaz (ARG)
Match #2 1956-11-30 Dağıstanlı (TUR) decision (3-0), Kämmerer (GER)
Match #3 1956-11-30 Yaghoubi (IRI) fall (2:36), Pandey (IND)
Match #4 1956-11-30 Shakhov (URS) fall (6:00), Zahur (PAK)
Match #5 1956-11-30 Lee (KOR)