Date | 1 – 2 August 1996 | |
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Status | Olympic | |
Location | Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia (Hall G) | |
Participants | 18 from 18 countries | |
Format | Single-elimination tournament with classification rounds for placements. |
The last decade had seen this class dominated by American Bruce Baumgartner, gold medalist in 1984 and 1992, and Soviet Georgian Davit Gobejishvili, the 1988 Olympic Champion. Baumgartner was back and had won the 1993 and 1995 World Championships, but Gobejishvili had retired after the fall of the Soviet Union and the Barcelona Olympics. Baumgartner’s hope of a third gold medal went awry in round two when he was beaten by Russian Andrey Shumilin. The final came down to Turkey’s Mahmut Demir, the 1994 World Champion and winner of three of the last four Europeans, who defeated Shumilin in the semi-finals, and Belarussian Aleksey Medvedev, bronze medalist at the 1994 Worlds. Demir won the gold with a comfortable 3-0 victory. Baumgartner and Shumilin both came through the losers’ table to meet again for the bronze medal. This match was much closer, as they tied 1-1 after overtime, with Baumgartner getting the decision, and the bronze medal, on officials’ decision. This made Baumgartner only the sixth wrestler, to that time, to win four Olympic medals (done eight times through 2012), but still trailing the five won by German Wilfried Dietrich.
Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | CP | TP | |||
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1 | Mahmut Demir | TUR | – | – | Gold | ||
2 | Aliaksei Miadzvedzeu | BLR | – | – | Silver | ||
3 | Bruce Baumgartner | USA | – | – | Bronze | ||
4 | Andrey Shumilin | RUS | – | – | |||
5 | Aleksandr Kovalevsky | KGZ | – | – | |||
6 | Sven Thiele | GER | – | – | |||
7 | Merab Valiyev | UKR | – | – | |||
8 | Petros Bourntoulis | GRE | – | – | |||
9 | Feng Aigang | CHN | 6 | 13 | |||
10 | Zaza Turmanidze | GEO | 6 | 11 | |||
11 | Zsolt Gombos | HUN | 6 | 10 | |||
12 | Ibrahim Mehraban | IRI | 4 | 8 | |||
13 | Amerjit Singh | GBR | 4 | 5 | |||
14 | Andy Borodow | CAN | 3 | 5 | |||
15 | Igor Klimov | KAZ | 2 | 4 | |||
=16 | Mick Pikos | AUS | 0 | 0 | |||
=16 | Alfredo Far | PAN | 0 | 0 | |||
=16 | Neal Kranz | GUM | 0 | 0 |
Match #1 | Ibrahim Mehraban | IRI | decision (6-2) (5:00) | Amerjit Singh | GBR |
Match #2 | Zsolt Gombos | HUN | decision (7-0) (5:00) | Neal Kranz | GUM |
Match #3 | Bruce Baumgartner | USA | grand superiority (10-0) (3:10) | Andy Borodow | CAN |
Match #4 | Andrey Shumilin | RUS | decision (4-1) (5:00) | Igor Klimov | KAZ |
Match #5 | Zaza Turmanidze | GEO | fall (8-0) (1:16) | Mick Pikos | AUS |
Match #6 | Aliaksei Miadzvedzeu | BLR | decision (7-1) (5:00) | Petros Bourntoulis | GRE |
Match #7 | Feng Aigang | CHN | grand superiority (11-0) (3:13) | Alfredo Far | PAN |
Match #8 | Sven Thiele | GER | decision (1-0) (8:00) | Aleksandr Kovalevsky | KGZ |
Match #9 | Mahmut Demir | TUR | decision (1-1) (8:00) | Merab Valiyev | UKR |
Match #1 | Zsolt Gombos | HUN | decision (3-0) (6:55) | Ibrahim Mehraban | IRI |
Match #2 | Andrey Shumilin | RUS | decision (6-1) (5:00) | Bruce Baumgartner | USA |
Match #3 | Aliaksei Miadzvedzeu | BLR | decision (3-1) (5:00) | Zaza Turmanidze | GEO |
Match #4 | Sven Thiele | GER | decision (1-1) (8:00) | Feng Aigang | CHN |
Match #5 | Mahmut Demir | TUR | bye |
Match #1 | Mahmut Demir | TUR | decision (4-0) (5:00) | Zsolt Gombos | HUN |
Match #2 | Andrey Shumilin | RUS | bye | ||
Match #3 | Aliaksei Miadzvedzeu | BLR | bye | ||
Match #4 | Sven Thiele | GER | bye |
Match #1 | Mahmut Demir | TUR | decision (1-0) (8:00) | Andrey Shumilin | RUS |
Match #2 | Aliaksei Miadzvedzeu | BLR | decision (0-0) (8:00) | Sven Thiele | GER |
Match 1/2 | Mahmut Demir | TUR | decision (3-0) (5:00) | Aliaksei Miadzvedzeu | BLR |
Match 3/4 | Bruce Baumgartner | USA | decision (1-1) (8:00) | Andrey Shumilin | RUS |
Match 5/6 | Aleksandr Kovalevsky | KGZ | decision (3-1) (5:00) | Sven Thiele | GER |
Match 7/8 | Merab Valiyev | UKR | decision (5-1) (5:00) | Petros Bourntoulis | GRE |
Match #1 | Amerjit Singh | GBR | decision (3-0) (5:00) | Neal Kranz | GUM |
Match #2 | Andy Borodow | CAN | decision (5-3) (5:00) | Igor Klimov | KAZ |
Match #3 | Petros Bourntoulis | GRE | fall (6-0) (1:26) | Mick Pikos | AUS |
Match #4 | Aleksandr Kovalevsky | KGZ | fall (4-0) (1:32) | Alfredo Far | PAN |
Match #5 | Merab Valiyev | UKR | bye |
Match #1 | Merab Valiyev | UKR | decision (4-0) (5:00) | Amerjit Singh | GBR |
Match #2 | Petros Bourntoulis | GRE | decision (1-0) (8:00) | Andy Borodow | CAN |
Match #3 | Aleksandr Kovalevsky | KGZ | decision (3-2) (7:58) | Ibrahim Mehraban | IRI |
Match #4 | Bruce Baumgartner | USA | grand superiority (14-2) (4:19) | Zaza Turmanidze | GEO |
Match #5 | Feng Aigang | CHN | bye |
Match #1 | Merab Valiyev | UKR | decision (3-1) (5:40) | Feng Aigang | CHN |
Match #2 | Aleksandr Kovalevsky | KGZ | decision (7-1) (5:00) | Petros Bourntoulis | GRE |
Match #3 | Bruce Baumgartner | USA | grand superiority (11-0) (3:22) | Zsolt Gombos | HUN |
Match #1 | Aleksandr Kovalevsky | KGZ | decision (3-1) (5:34) | Merab Valiyev | UKR |
Match #2 | Bruce Baumgartner | USA | bye |
Match #1 | Andrey Shumilin | RUS | decision (3-0) (5:00) | Aleksandr Kovalevsky | KGZ |
Match #2 | Bruce Baumgartner | USA | decision (3-0) (6:32) | Sven Thiele | GER |