The men's Greco-Roman bantamweight competition at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki took place from 24 July to 27 July at Messuhalli. Nations were limited to one competitor. Bantamweight is the second-lightest category, including wrestlers weighing .
Competition format 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, removing the slight modification introduced in 1936 and used until 1948 (which had a reduced penalty for a loss by 2–1 decision). 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.
Results
Round 1
Hassan and Panagiotopoulos withdrew after their matches.
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Norbert Kohler Fall Oswaldo Johnston Pietro Lombardi Decision, 2–1 Hubert Persson Artem Teryan Fall Rudolf Toboła Kemal Demirsüren Fall Leo Cortsen Zakaria Chihab Decision, 3–0 Ion Popescu Arvo Kyllönen Fall Maurice Faure Imre Hódos Decision, 3–0 Mahmoud Hassan Reidar Merli Decision, 3–0 Sotirios Panagiotopoulos Ferdinand Schmitz Bye N/A N/A
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Start Earned Total 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 6 0 1 1 6 0 1 1 6 0 1 1 6 0 1 1 10 0 3 3 10 0 3 3 10 0 3 3 10 0 3 3 10 0 3 3 10 0 3 3 16 0 3 3* 16 0 3 3*
Round 2
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Ferdinand Schmitz Fall Norbert Kohler Hubert Persson Fall Oswaldo Johnston Pietro Lombardi Decision, 3–0 Rudolf Toboła Artem Teryan Decision, 3–0 Kemal Demirsüren Ion Popescu Decision, 2–1 Leo Cortsen Zakaria Chihab Decision, 2–1 Maurice Faure Imre Hódos Decision, 2–1 Arvo Kyllönen Reidar Merli Bye N/A N/A
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Start Earned Total 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 2 0 1 1 4 1 1 2 4 1 1 2 4 1 1 2 7 0 3 3 7 0 3 3 7 0 3 3 7 3 0 3 11 3 1 4 12 3 3 6 12 3 3 6 12 3 3 6 12 3 3 6
Round 3
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Reidar Merli Decision, 3–0 Ferdinand Schmitz Hubert Persson Decision, 3–0 Norbert Kohler Artem Teryan Decision, 3–0 Pietro Lombardi Ion Popescu Fall Kemal Demirsüren Zakaria Chihab Decision, 3–0 Arvo Kyllönen Imre Hódos Bye N/A N/A
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Start Earned Total 1 2 0 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 4 2 1 3 4 0 3 3 6 3 1 4 6 4 0 4 8 2 3 5 9 3 3 6 9 3 3 6 9 3 3 6
Round 4
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Imre Hódos Decision, 3–0 Reidar Merli Hubert Persson Fall Ferdinand Schmitz Artem Teryan Decision, 3–0 Ion Popescu Zakaria Chihab Bye N/A N/A
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Start Earned Total 1 3 0 3 1 2 1 3 1 2 1 3 4 4 0 4 5 2 3 5 6 3 3 6 7 4 3 7
Round 5
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Imre Hódos Decision, 2–1 Zakaria Chihab Artem Teryan Decision, 3–0 Hubert Persson
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Start Earned Total 1 3 1 4 1 3 1 4 3 3 3 6 4 4 3 7
Medal rounds
Chihab and Hódos had met in round 5 and did not wrestle each other again. The tie between Chihab and Hódos in the standings was resolved by head-to-head (Hódos had won the bout between the two).
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Zakaria Chihab Decision, 2–1 Artem Teryan Artem Teryan Decision, 3–0 Imre Hódos
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Wins Losses Start Earned Total 1 1 4 3 7 1 1 6 1 7 1 1 4 4 8
References
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