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Wrestling at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games:

Men's Middleweight, 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: BUL Nikola Stanchev
Silver: USA Dan Hodge
Bronze: URS Giorgi Skhirt'ladze

Round Three

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC BP
1T İsmet Atlı Turkey TUR 1
1T Dan Hodge 24 United States USA 1
3T Hans Sterr 23 Germany GER 3
3T Kazuo Katsuramoto 22 Japan JPN 3
3T Giorgi Skhirt'ladze 24 Soviet Union URS 3
6T Nikola Stanchev 26 Bulgaria BUL 4
6T Abbas Zandi 26 Iran IRI 4
6T Bengt Lindblad 31 Sweden SWE 4
9T William Davies Australia AUS 7 eliminated
9T Bakshish Singh India IND 7 eliminated
9T Manie van Zyl 27 South Africa RSA 7 eliminated

Round Three

Unit Date Result
Match #1 1956-11-30 Atlı (TUR) decision (3-0), Zandi (IRI)
Match #2 1956-11-30 Hodge (USA) fall (4:45), Davies (AUS)
Match #3 1956-11-30 Lindblad (SWE) fall (3:55), Singh (IND)
Match #4 1956-11-30 Skhirt'ladze (URS) fall (4:10), van Zyl (RSA)
Match #5 1956-11-30 Stanchev (BUL) fall (4:23), Sterr (GER)
Match #6 1956-11-30 Katsuramoto (JPN)