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Wrestling at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games:

Men's Heavyweight, Greco-Roman Round Two

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Events:
Phases:

Host City: Melbourne, Australia
Venue(s): Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Victoria
Date Started: December 4, 1956
Date Finished: December 4, 1956

Gold: URS Anatoly Parfyonov
Silver: GER Wilfried Dietrich
Bronze: ITA Adelmo Bulgarelli

Round Two

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC BP
1 Bertil Antonsson 35 Sweden SWE 1
2T Wilfried Dietrich 23 Germany GER 2
2T Hamit Kaplan 22 Turkey TUR 2
4T Taisto Kangasniemi 32 Finland FIN 3
4T Adelmo Bulgarelli 24 Italy ITA 3
6T Yusein Mekhmedov 32 Bulgaria BUL 4
6T Antonios Georgoulis 28 Greece GRE 4
6T Anatoly Parfyonov 31 Soviet Union URS 4
9T Joseph Zammit 23 Australia AUS 6 eliminated
9T Dale Lewis 23 United States USA 6 eliminated

Round Two

Unit Date Result
Match #1 1956-12-04 Bulgarelli (ITA) fall (11:00), Zammit (AUS)
Match #2 1956-12-04 Kaplan (TUR) decision (3-0), Georgoulis (GRE)
Match #3 1956-12-04 Kangasniemi (FIN) fall (14:52), Lewis (USA)
Match #4 1956-12-04 Dietrich (GER) fall (7:09), Mekhmedov (BUL)
Match #5 1956-12-04 Antonsson (SWE) decision (3-0), Parfyonov (URS)