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Host City: Atlanta, United States
Venue(s): Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Date Started: July 31, 1996
Date Finished: August 1, 1996
Format: Single-elimination tournament with classification rounds for placements.
| Gold: | Tom Brands |
| Silver: | Jang Jae-Seong |
| Bronze: | Elbrus Tedieiev |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | Medal | CP | TP | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tom Brands | 28 | United States | USA | Gold | |||
| 2 | Jang Jae-Seong | 21 | South Korea | KOR | Silver | |||
| 3 | Elbrus Tedieiev | 21 | Ukraine | UKR | Bronze | |||
| 4 | Takahiro Wada | 24 | Japan | JPN | ||||
| 5 | Magomed Azizov | 27 | Russia | RUS | ||||
| 6 | Giovanni Schillaci | 28 | Italy | ITA | ||||
| 7 | Marty Calder | 29 | Canada | CAN | ||||
| 8 | Ramil Islamov | 22 | Uzbekistan | UZB | ||||
| 9 | István Demeter | 24 | Hungary | HUN | 9 | 16 | ||
| 10 | Arout Parsekian | 26 | Cyprus | CYP | 8 | 16 | ||
| 11 | Sergey Smal | 27 | Belarus | BLR | 6 | 14 | ||
| 12 | Şerban Mumjiev | 23 | Romania | ROU | 5 | 14 | ||
| 13 | Jürgen Scheibe | 27 | Germany | GER | 5 | 7 | ||
| 14 | Enrique Cubas | 22 | Peru | PER | 4 | 8 | ||
| 15 | Len Zaslavsky | 26 | Australia | AUS | 4 | 9 | ||
| 16 | Anibál Nieves | 30 | Puerto Rico | PUR | 3 | 8 | ||
| 17 | Jan Krzesiak | 35 | Poland | POL | 2 | 8 | ||
| 18 | Tjaart du Plessis | 29 | South Africa | RSA | 2 | 2 | ||
| 19 | Abbas Haj Kenari | 22 | Iran | IRI | 1 | 3 | ||
| 20T | Vath Chamroeun | 23 | Cambodia | CAM | 0 | 0 | ||
| 20T | Martin Müller | 29 | Switzerland | SUI | 0 | 0 |