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Wrestling at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games:

Men's Middleweight, Freestyle Round Two

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Events:
Phases:

Host City: Melbourne, Australia
Venue(s): Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Victoria
Date Started: November 29, 1956
Date Finished: November 29, 1956

Gold: BUL Nikola Stanchev
Silver: USA Dan Hodge
Bronze: URS Giorgi Skhirt'ladze

Round Two

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC BP
1T Hans Sterr 23 Germany GER 0
1T İsmet Atlı Turkey TUR 0
3T Abbas Zandi 26 Iran IRI 1
3T Dan Hodge 24 United States USA 1
5T Viljo Punkari 22 Finland FIN 3
5T Kazuo Katsuramoto 22 Japan JPN 3
5T Giorgi Skhirt'ladze 24 Soviet Union URS 3
8T William Davies Australia AUS 4
8T Nikola Stanchev 26 Bulgaria BUL 4
8T Bakshish Singh India IND 4
8T Manie van Zyl 27 South Africa RSA 4
8T Bengt Lindblad 31 Sweden SWE 4
13T George Farquhar 26 Great Britain GBR 6 eliminated
13T Muhammad Faiz 19 Pakistan PAK 6 eliminated
13T Nicolas Arcales 41 Philippines PHI 6 eliminated

Round Two

Unit Date Result
Match #1 1956-11-29 Atlı (TUR) fall (5:00), Faiz (PAK)
Match #2 1956-11-29 Hodge (USA) decision (3-0), Punkari (FIN)
Match #3 1956-11-29 Davies (AUS) decision (3-0), Farquhar (GBR)
Match #4 1956-11-29 van Zyl (RSA) decision (3-0), Singh (IND)
Match #5 1956-11-29 Sterr (GER) fall (7:00), Lindblad (SWE)
Match #6 1956-11-29 Skhirt'ladze (URS) fall (2:15), Arcales (PHI)
Match #7 1956-11-29 Katsuramoto (JPN) fall (12:00), Stanchev (BUL)
Match #8 1956-11-29 Zandi (IRI)