The men's Greco-Roman flyweight 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. Flyweight was the lightest category, including wrestlers weighing up to .
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, 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.
Results
Round 1
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation István Baranya Decision, 3–0 Borivoj Vukov Maurice Mewis Fall Monty Hakansson Ignazio Fabra Decision, 2–1 Dursun Ali Eğribaş Dick Wilson Decision, 3–0 André Zoete Nikolay Solovyov Decision, 2–1 Dumitru Pîrvulescu Bengt Johansson Bye N/A N/A
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Start Earned Total 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 3 0 1 1 3 0 1 1 3 0 1 1 7 0 3 3 7 0 3 3 7 0 3 3 7 0 3 3 7 0 3 3
Round 2
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Borivoj Vukov Decision, 3–0 Bengt Johansson István Baranya Decision, 3–0 Maurice Mewis Dursun Ali Eğribaş Fall Monty Hakansson Ignazio Fabra Decision, 3–0 Dick Wilson Nikolay Solovyov Fall André Zoete Dumitru Pîrvulescu Bye N/A N/A
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Start Earned Total 1 1 0 1 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 4 3 0 3 4 0 3 3 4 0 3 3 4 3 0 3 8 3 1 4 8 1 3 4 10 3 3 6 10 3 3 6
Round 3
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Dumitru Pîrvulescu Decision, 3–0 Bengt Johansson Borivoj Vukov Decision, 3–0 Maurice Mewis Ignazio Fabra Decision, 3–0 István Baranya Dursun Ali Eğribaş Fall Dick Wilson Nikolay Solovyov Bye N/A N/A
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Start Earned Total 1 1 0 1 2 3 0 3 2 2 1 3 4 3 1 4 5 2 3 5 6 4 1 5 7 3 3 6 7 3 3 6 9 4 3 7
Round 4
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Dursun Ali Eğribaş Decision, 3–0 Nikolay Solovyov Ignazio Fabra Decision, 3–0 Dumitru Pîrvulescu
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Start Earned Total 1 3 1 4 1 3 1 4 1 1 3 4 4 4 3 7
Medal rounds
Fabra's victory over Eğribaş in round 1 and Eğribaş's victory over Solovyov in round 4 counted for the medal round. Solovyov defeated Fabra in the medal round. Solovyov won gold due to his best score within the medal rounds (a win by fall and a loss for 3 points, compared to a win by decision and a loss for 4 points for each of the other two wrestlers). Between the two remaining wrestlers, Fabra had won head-to-head, so took silver. Eğribaş finished with bronze.
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Nikolay Solovyov Fall Ignazio Fabra
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Wins Losses Points in round 1 1 3 1 1 4 1 1 4
References
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