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Wrestling at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games:

Men's Flyweight, Greco-Roman Round One

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Events:
Phases:

Host City: Melbourne, Australia
Venue(s): Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Victoria
Date Started: December 3, 1956
Date Finished: December 3, 1956

Gold: URS Nikolay Solovyov
Silver: ITA Ignazio Fabra
Bronze: TUR Dursan Ali Eğribaş

Round One

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC BP
1T Maurice Mewis 27 Belgium BEL 0
1T Bengt Johansson 30 Sweden SWE 0
3T István Baranya 25 Hungary HUN 1
3T Ignazio Fabra 26 Italy ITA 1
3T Nikolay Solovyov 25 Soviet Union URS 1
3T Dick Wilson 23 United States USA 1
7T Dumitru Pîrvulescu 23 Romania ROU 2
7T Dursan Ali Eğribaş Turkey TUR 2
9T Monty Hakansson Australia AUS 3
9T André Zoete 25 France FRA 3
9T Borivoj Vukov 27 Yugoslavia YUG 3

Round One

Unit Date Result
Match #1 1956-12-03 Baranya (HUN) decision (3-0), Vukov (YUG)
Match #2 1956-12-03 Mewis (BEL) fall (4:45), Hakansson (AUS)
Match #3 1956-12-03 Fabra (ITA) decision (2-1), Eğribaş (TUR)
Match #4 1956-12-03 Wilson (USA) decision (3-0), Zoete (FRA)
Match #5 1956-12-03 Solovyov (URS) decision (2-1), Pîrvulescu (ROU)
Match #6 1956-12-03 Johansson (SWE)