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Wrestling at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games:

Men's Middleweight, 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 Givi K'art'ozia
Silver: BUL Dimitar Dobrev
Bronze: SWE Rune Jansson

Round One

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC BP
1T Dimitar Dobrev 25 Bulgaria BUL 0
1T Viljo Punkari 22 Finland FIN 0
1T Hans Sterr 23 Germany GER 0
4T György Gurics 27 Hungary HUN 1
4T Givi K'art'ozia 27 Soviet Union URS 1
6 Jim Peckham 27 United States USA 2
7T William Paterson Australia AUS 3
7T Rune Jansson 24 Sweden SWE 3
7T İsmet Atlı Turkey TUR 3
7T Branislav Simić 21 Yugoslavia YUG 3 withdrew

Round One

Unit Date Result
Match #1 1956-12-03 Punkari (FIN) fall (2:58), Paterson (AUS)
Match #2 1956-12-03 K'art'ozia (URS) decision (3-0), Jansson (SWE)
Match #3 1956-12-03 Gurics (HUN) decision (2-1), Peckham (USA)
Match #4 1956-12-03 Sterr (GER) fall (8:15), Atlı (TUR)
Match #5 1956-12-03 Dobrev (BUL) fall (9:42), Simić (YUG)