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Bulgaria at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Bulgaria competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia and Stockholm, Sweden (equestrian events).

Bulgaria at the
1956 Summer Olympics
IOC codeBUL
NOCBulgarian Olympic Committee
Websitewww.bgolympic.org (in Bulgarian and English)
in Melbourne/Stockholm
Competitors43 in 6 sports
Flag bearerGeorgi Panov
Medals
Ranked 19th
Gold
1
Silver
3
Bronze
1
Total
5
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)

Medalists

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Medal Name Sport Event Date
  Gold Nikola Stanchev Wrestling Men's Freestyle Middleweight 1 December
  Silver Yusein Mekhmedov Wrestling Men's Freestyle Heavyweight 1 December
  Silver Dimitar Dobrev Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman Middleweight 6 December
  Silver Petko Sirakov Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman Light Heavyweight 6 December
  Bronze Stefan Bozhkov, Todor Diev, Georgi Dimitrov, Milcho Goranov, Ivan Petkov Kolev, Nikola Kovachev, Manol Manolov, Dimitar Milanov, Georgi Naydenov, Panayot Panayotov, Kiril Rakarov, Gavril Stoyanov, Krum Yanev, and Yosif Yosifov Association football Men's team Competition 7 December

Basketball

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Main article: Basketball at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Preliminary round

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Group C

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TEAM PTS P W L PF PA
  Uruguay 6 3 3 0 238 187
  Bulgaria 5 3 2 1 242 199
  Formosa 4 3 1 2 216 249
  South Korea 3 3 0 3 194 255
Uruguay   70,   Bulgaria 65
Scoring by half: 38–35, 32–30
Bulgaria   89,   South Korea 58
Scoring by half: 47–33, 42–25
Formosa   71,   Bulgaria 88
Scoring by half: 35–47, 36–41

Quarterfinal

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Group B

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TEAM PTS P W L PF PA
  United States 6 3 3 0 283 150
  Soviet Union 5 3 2 1 208 209
  Bulgaria 4 3 1 2 182 224
  Brazil 3 3 0 3 192 282
Bulgaria   44,   United States 85
Scoring by half: 19–48, 25–37
Bulgaria   56,   Soviet Union 66
Scoring by half: 32–37, 24–29
Bulgaria   82,   Brazil 73
Scoring by half: 38–36, 44–37

Classification playoffs

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Bulgaria   80,   Philippines 70

5th place match

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Bulgaria   64,   Brazil 52

Boxing

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Main article: Boxing at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Two boxers are competing for Bulgaria,including the bronze medalist from the last Olympics Boris Nikolov.He reached the quarterfinal,where he lost from Pietrzykowski from Poland.

Athlete Event First Round Quarterfinal Semifinal Final
Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Rank
Boris Nikolov Men's light middleweight   Safdar (PAK)
W PTS 		  Pietrzykowski (POL)
L PTS 		Did not advance
Bozhil Lozanov Men's heavyweight   Mukhin (URS)
L KO R3

Football

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Main article: Association football at the 1956 Summer Olympics

First round

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Bulgaria  w/o 1  Egypt

Quarterfinals

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Bulgaria  6–1  Great Britain
Dimitrov   6'
Kolev   40'   85'
Milanov   45'   75'   80'		 Report Lewis   30'
Attendance: 6,748
Referee: Wright (AUS)

Semifinals

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Soviet Union  2–1 (a.e.t.)  Bulgaria
Streltsov   112'
Tatushin   116'		 Report Kolev   95'
Attendance: 21,079
Referee: R.H. Mann (GBR)

Bronze Medal match

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Bulgaria  3–0  India
Diev   37'   60'
Milanov   42'		 Report
Attendance: 21,236
Referee: Latyshev (USSR)

Gymnastics

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Main article: Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Weightlifting

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Main article: Weightlifting at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Men
Athlete Event Military press Snatch Clean & Jerk Total Rank
Result Rank Result Rank Result Rank
Ivan Abadzhiev 75 kg 102.5 15 117.5 2 137.5 6 357.5 7
Ivan Veselinov 90 kg 132.5 4 120 6 155 5 407.5 5

Wrestling

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Main article: Wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Competition format

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. Everyone,who is competing in the first round is qualifying for the second,no matter if they achieved a win by decision or fall,or they achieved a lose. At the end of each round, any wrestler with more than 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.

Key:

  • VT - Victory by Fall.
  • PP - Decision by Points - the loser with technical points.
  • PO - Decision by Points - the loser without technical points.
  • DQ - Fortreit - Lost because of fortreit.
    • Men's Greco-Roman
    Athlete Event Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Medal rounds Rank
    Opposition
    Result     		Opposition
    Result     		Opposition
    Result     		Opposition
    Result     		Opposition
    Result     		Rank
    Dinko Petrov Men's bantamweight   Vesterby (SWE)
    W 2-1 PP     		  Vercouteren (BEL)
    W 3-0 PP     		  Vyrupayev (URS)
    L Fall VT     		Did not advance 6
    Dimitar Stoyanov[A]| Men's lightweight   Anderberg (SWE)
    W 3–0 PP     		  Evans (USA)
    W 3-0 PP     		  Lehtonen (FIN) L 0-3 PO   Brötzner (AUT) W 3–0

      Doğan (TUR) L 1-2 PO

    		Did not advance 5
    Mitko Petkov Men's welterweight   Vargset (NOR)
    W 3–0 PP     		  Mithat Bayrak (TUR)
    L Fortreit DQ     		Did not advance 8
    Dimitar Dobrev Men's middleweight   Simic (YUG)
    W Fall VT     		Bye   Punkari (FIN)
    W 2-1 PP     		  Kartozia (URS)
    L 1-2 PO     		  Jansson (SWE)
    W 3-0 PP     		 
    Petko Sirakov Men's light heavyweight   Nikolayev (URS)
    L 0-3 PO     		  Atan (TUR)
    W 2-1 PP     		  O.Thomas (USA)
    W Fall VT     		  Steckle (CAN)
    W Fall VT     		  Nillson (SWE)
    W 3-0 PP     		 
    Husein Mehmedov Men's heavyweight   Kangasniemi (FIN)
    W 3-0 PP     		  Dietrich (GER)
    L Fall VT     		  Parfyonov (URS)
    L Fortreit DQ     		Did not advance 7
    Men's Freestyle
    Athlete Event Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Medal rounds Rank
    Opposition
    Result     		Opposition
    Result     		Opposition
    Result     		Opposition
    Result     		Opposition
    Result     		Rank
    Georgi Zaychev Men's lightweight   Güngör (TUR)
    L 0-3 PO     		Bye   Bestayev (URS)
    L Fall VT     		Did not advance 10
    Mitko Petkov Men's welterweight   Ochman (CAN)
    W Fall VT     		  de Villiers (RSA)
    L 0-3 PP     		  Sorouri (IRN)
    L 0–3 PO     		Did not advance 7
    Nikola Stanchev Men's middleweight   Skhirtladze (URS)
    W 3-0 PP     		  Katsuramoto (JPN)
    L Fall VT     		  Sterr (GER)
    W Fall VT     		  Lindblad (SWE)
    W Fall VT     		  Hodge (USA)
    W Fall VT     		 
    Husein Mehmedov Men's heavyweight   Nouri (IRN)
    W 3-0 PP     		  Kangasniemi (FIN)
    W Fall VT     		  Vykhristyuk (URS)
    W 3-0 PP     		  Richmond (GBR)
    W 3-0 PP     		  Kaplan (TUR)
    L 0-3 PO     		 

    Notes

    1. ^ In the third round Stoyanov lost from Kyösti Lehtonen from Finland with result 0-3,but apart from that he was in the top five wrestlers with fewest points,which was enough for him to advance to the fourth round. In the fourth round,Stoyanov had to play two matches and win both of them to qualify for the medal rounds.Unfortunately,he lost his match against Riza Doğan from Turkey with result 1-3 and he did not advance

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