Men's Freestyle heavyweight - Wrestling
Melbourne 1956 Summer Olympics

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Men's Freestyle heavyweight 1956
Final standing
Hamit KaplanTUR
Yusein MekhmedovBUL
Taisto KangasniemiFIN
4. Kenneth RichmondGBR
4. Ray MitchellAUS
6. Ivan VykhrystyukURS
William KerslakeUSA
Saburo NakaoJPN
Hussain NooriIRI
Lila Ram SangwanIND
John da SilvaNZL
Round 6
Hamit KaplanTURdecision
Yusein MekhmedovBUL
Round 5
Hamit KaplanTURdecision
Taisto KangasniemiFINeliminated
Yusein MekhmedovBULbye
Round 4
Taisto KangasniemiFINfall
Ray MitchellAUSeliminated
Yusein MekhmedovBULdecision
Kenneth RichmondGBReliminated
Hamit KaplanTURbye
Round 3
Taisto KangasniemiFINfall
Saburo NakaoJPNeliminated
Yusein MekhmedovBULdecision
Ivan VykhrystyukURSeliminated
Hamit KaplanTURfall
Hussain NooriIRIeliminated
Kenneth RichmondGBRfall
William KerslakeUSAeliminated
Ray MitchellAUSbye
Round 2
Yusein MekhmedovBULfall
Taisto KangasniemiFIN
Hussain NooriIRIdecision
John da SilvaNZLeliminated
Ivan VykhrystyukURSdecision
Kenneth RichmondGBR
Hamit KaplanTURfall
Lila Ram SangwanINDeliminated
William KerslakeUSAfall
Ray MitchellAUS
Saburo NakaoJPNbye
Round 1
Yusein MekhmedovBULdecision
Hussain NooriIRI
Ivan VykhrystyukURSdecision
John da SilvaNZL
Kenneth RichmondGBRdecision
Lila Ram SangwanIND
Hamit KaplanTURdecision
William KerslakeUSA
Ray MitchellAUSdecision
Saburo NakaoJPN
Taisto KangasniemiFINbye

Men's Freestyle heavyweight - Wrestling - Melbourne 1956 Summer Olympics

Event Format: Athletes scored negative points based on decisions from three judges (win by fall: 0 points - win by decision: 1 points - loss by descision 2-1: 2 points - loss by decision 3-0: 3 points - loss by fall: 3 points). Accumulation of 5 negative points eliminated the athlete.

Event facts: Men's Freestyle heavyweight competition was held at the Exhibition Building and 11 athletes participated in the event.

These results for Men's Freestyle heavyweight - Melbourne 1956 Summer Olympics - are based on the official Olympic reports and the Olympian Database
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