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Bulgaria at the 1956 Summer Olympics

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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)

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

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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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 Uruguay 70,  Bulgaria 65
Scoring by half: 38–35, 32–30
Bulgaria Bulgaria 89,  South Korea 58
Scoring by half: 47–33, 42–25
Formosa Taiwan 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 Bulgaria 44,  United States 85
Scoring by half: 19–48, 25–37
Bulgaria Bulgaria 56,  Soviet Union 66
Scoring by half: 32–37, 24–29
Bulgaria Bulgaria 82,  Brazil 73
Scoring by half: 38–36, 44–37

Classification playoffs

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5th place match

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Bulgaria Bulgaria 64,  Brazil 52

Boxing

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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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First round

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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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Weightlifting

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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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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 5 wrestlers with least amount of 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

    References

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