Men's Greco-Roman lightweight at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Venue	Royal Exhibition Building
Dates	3?6 December
Competitors	10 from 10 nations
Medalists
Kyosti Lehtonen   Finland Rıza Do?an   Turkey Gyula Toth   Hungary
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Wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics
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The men's Greco-Roman lightweight competition at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne took place from 3 December to 6 December at the Royal Exhibition Building . Nations were limited to one competitor. ^[1]

Competition format [ edit ]

This Greco-Roman wrestling competition continued to use the "bad points" elimination system introduced at the 1928 Summer Olympics for Greco-Roman and at the 1932 Summer Olympics for freestyle wrestling, as modified in 1952 (adding medal rounds and making all losses worth 3 points?from 1936 to 1948 losses by split decision only cost 2). Each round featured all wrestlers pairing off and wrestling one bout (with one wrestler having a bye if there were an odd number). The loser received 3 points. The winner received 1 point if the win was by decision and 0 points if the win was by fall. At the end of each round, any wrestler with at least 5 points was eliminated. This elimination continued until the medal rounds, which began when 3 wrestlers remained. These 3 wrestlers each faced each other in a round-robin medal round (with earlier results counting, if any had wrestled another before); record within the medal round determined medals, with bad points breaking ties. ^{[2] [1]}

Results [ edit ]

Round 1 [ edit ]

Bouts

Winner	Nation	Victory Type	Loser	Nation
Dimitar Stoyanov	Bulgaria	Decision, 3?0	Olle Anderberg	Sweden
Kyosti Lehtonen	Finland	Fall	Tommy Evans	United States
Bartl Brotzner	Austria	Decision, 3?0	Vladimir Rosin	Soviet Union
Rıza Do?an	Turkey	Decision, 3?0	Juan Rolon	Argentina
Gyula Toth	Hungary	Fall	Dumitru Gheorghe	Romania

Points

Rank	Wrestler	Nation	Start	Earned	Total
1	Kyosti Lehtonen	Finland	0	0	0
1	Gyula Toth	Hungary	0	0	0
3	Bartl Brotzner	Austria	0	1	1
3	Rıza Do?an	Turkey	0	1	1
3	Dimitar Stoyanov	Bulgaria	0	1	1
6	Olle Anderberg	Sweden	0	3	3
6	Tommy Evans	United States	0	3	3
6	Dumitru Gheorghe	Romania	0	3	3
6	Juan Rolon	Argentina	0	3	3
6	Vladimir Rosin	Soviet Union	0	3	3

Round 2 [ edit ]

Bouts

Winner	Nation	Victory Type	Loser	Nation
Kyosti Lehtonen	Finland	Walkover	Olle Anderberg	Sweden
Dimitar Stoyanov	Bulgaria	Decision, 3?0	Tommy Evans	United States
Bartl Brotzner	Austria	Decision, 2?1	Rıza Do?an	Turkey
Gyula Toth	Hungary	Decision, 2?1	Vladimir Rosin	Soviet Union
Dumitru Gheorghe	Romania	Decision, 3?0	Juan Rolon	Argentina

Points

Rank	Wrestler	Nation	Start	Earned	Total
1	Kyosti Lehtonen	Finland	0	0	0
2	Gyula Toth	Hungary	0	1	1
3	Bartl Brotzner	Austria	1	1	2
3	Dimitar Stoyanov	Bulgaria	1	1	2
5	Rıza Do?an	Turkey	1	3	4
6	Dumitru Gheorghe	Romania	3	1	4
7	Olle Anderberg	Sweden	3	3	6
7	Tommy Evans	United States	3	3	6
7	Juan Rolon	Argentina	3	3	6
7	Vladimir Rosin	Soviet Union	3	3	6

Round 3 [ edit ]

Brotzner, Stoyanov, and Do?an went to a round-robin.

Bouts

Winner	Nation	Victory Type	Loser	Nation
Kyosti Lehtonen	Finland	Decision, 3?0	Dimitar Stoyanov	Bulgaria
Gyula Toth	Hungary	Decision, 3?0	Bartl Brotzner	Austria
Rıza Do?an	Turkey	Decision, 3?0	Dumitru Gheorghe	Romania

Points

Rank	Wrestler	Nation	Start	Earned	Total
1	Kyosti Lehtonen	Finland	0	1	1
2	Gyula Toth	Hungary	1	1	2
3	Rıza Do?an	Turkey	4	1	5
3	Bartl Brotzner	Austria	2	3	5
3	Dimitar Stoyanov	Bulgaria	2	3	5
6	Dumitru Gheorghe	Romania	4	3	7

Elimination rounds [ edit ]

Stoyanov defeated Brotzner, while Do?an defeated Stoyanov. Do?an and Brotzner had already wrestled and did not face each other again.

Bouts

Winner	Nation	Victory Type	Loser	Nation
Dimitar Stoyanov	Bulgaria	Decision, 3?0	Bartl Brotzner	Austria
Rıza Do?an	Turkey	Decision, 2?1	Dimitar Stoyanov	Bulgaria
Gyula Toth	Hungary	Bye	N/A	N/A
Rıza Do?an	Turkey	Bye	N/A	N/A
Kyosti Lehtonen	Finland	Bye	N/A	N/A

Points

Rank	Wrestler	Nation	Start	Earned	Total
1	Kyosti Lehtonen	Finland	1	0	1
2	Gyula Toth	Hungary	2	0	2
3	Rıza Do?an	Turkey	5	1	6
4	Bartl Brotzner	Austria	5	3	8
5	Dimitar Stoyanov	Bulgaria	5	4	9

Medal rounds [ edit ]

Lehtonen won the round robin among the medalists, 2?0; Do?an took silver at 1?1 and Toth received bronze after being defeated by both of the other medalists.

Bouts

Winner	Nation	Victory Type	Loser	Nation
Kyosti Lehtonen	Finland	Decision, 2?1	Rıza Do?an	Turkey
Rıza Do?an	Turkey	Fall	Gyula Toth	Hungary
Kyosti Lehtonen	Finland	Fall	Gyula Toth	Hungary

Points

Rank	Wrestler	Nation	Wins	Losses
	Kyosti Lehtonen	Finland	2	0
	Rıza Do?an	Turkey	1	1
	Gyula Toth	Hungary	0	2

References [ edit ]