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Wrestling at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games:

Men's Welterweight, 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: TUR Mithat Bayrak
Silver: URS Vladimir Maneyev
Bronze: SWE Per Berlin

Round Two

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC BP
1 Per Berlin 35 Sweden SWE 0
2T Mithat Bayrak 27 Turkey TUR 1
2T Vladimir Maneyev 24 Soviet Union URS 1
4T Siegfried Schäfer 23 Germany GER 3
4T Miklós Szilvásy 30 Hungary HUN 3
4T Jay Holt 33 United States USA 3
7T Mitko Petkov 30 Bulgaria BUL 4
7T Veikko Rantanen 24 Finland FIN 4
9T Fred Murphy Australia AUS 6 eliminated
9T Ernst Wandaller 22 Austria AUT 6 eliminated

Round Two

Unit Date Result
Match #1 1956-12-04 Szilvásy (HUN) decision (3-0), Holt (USA)
Match #2 1956-12-04 Bayrak (TUR) fall (8:15), Petkov (BUL)
Match #3 1956-12-04 Rantanen (FIN) decision (3-0), Schäfer (GER)
Match #4 1956-12-04 Berlin (SWE) fall (4:00), Murphy (AUS)
Match #5 1956-12-04 Maneyev (URS) fall (8:20), Wandaller (AUT)