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Bulgaria at the
1956 Summer Olympics
Bulgaria at the; 1956 Summer Olympics
IOC code	BUL
NOC	Bulgarian Olympic Committee
Website	www.bgolympic.org (in Bulgarian and English)
in Melbourne/Stockholm
Competitors	43 in 6 sports
Flag bearer	Georgi Panov
Medals; Ranked 19th	Gold 1 Silver 3 Bronze 1 Total 5
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Bulgaria competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia and Stockholm, Sweden (equestrian events).

Medalists

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

Preliminary round

Group C

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

Group B

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

Bulgaria

80,

Philippines 70

5th place match

Bulgaria

64,

Brazil 52

Boxing

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
Athlete	Event	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

First round

Bulgaria	w/o ¹	Egypt

Melbourne

Quarterfinals

30 November 1956
12:00

Bulgaria	6–1	Great Britain
Dimitrov 6' Kolev 40' 85' Milanov 45' 75' 80'	Report	Lewis 30'

Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne

Attendance: 6,748

Referee: Wright (AUS)

Semifinals

5 December 1956
12:00

Soviet Union	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Bulgaria
Streltsov 112' Tatushin 116'	Report	Kolev 95'

Olympic Park Stadium, Melbourne

Attendance: 21,079

Referee: R.H. Mann (GBR)

Bronze Medal match

7 December 1956
14:15

Bulgaria	3–0	India
Diev 37' 60' Milanov 42'	Report

Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne

Attendance: 21,236

Referee: Latyshev (USSR)

Gymnastics

Weightlifting

Men

Athlete	Event	Military press		Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Total	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

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
Athlete	Event	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
Athlete	Event	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

^ 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

References

[Bye-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

[A]

Nations at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia and Stockholm, Sweden
Africa	(Egypt)* Ethiopia Kenya Liberia Nigeria South Africa Uganda
America	Argentina Bahamas Bermuda Brazil British Guiana Canada Chile Colombia Cuba Jamaica Mexico Peru Puerto Rico Trinidad United States Uruguay Venezuela
Asia	Afghanistan Burma (Cambodia)* Ceylon Republic of China Hong Kong India Indonesia Iran Israel Japan South Korea Malaya North Borneo Pakistan Philippines Singapore Thailand Vietnam
Europe	Austria Belgium Bulgaria Czechoslovakia Denmark Finland France Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Luxembourg (Netherlands)* Norway Poland Portugal Romania Soviet Union (Spain)* Sweden (Switzerland)* Turkey Yugoslavia
Oceania	Australia Fiji New Zealand
Nations in bullet brackets indicating competed at the Equestrian events (Stockholm only)