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Light-Heavyweight, Greco-Roman (≤90 kg), Men

Date	21 – 22 July 1996
Status	Olympic
Location	Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia (Hall G)
Participants	23 from 23 countries
Format	Single-elimination tournament with classification rounds for placements.

This class would be discontinued after 1996, as the International Wrestling Federation (FILA) shuffled weight limits to decrease the number of weight classes, as mandated by the IOC. The favorite in this class was Russian Gogi Koguashvili, of Georgian ethnicity, who had won the bronze medal in Barcelona and won World titles in 1993-94 and European titles in 1995-96. Koguashvili was drawn against Turk Hakkı Başar, 1995 World Champion, in round one, however, and lost 6-1, eliminating him from gold medal contention. That left the event wide open and allowed Ukrainian V’iacheslav Oliynyk to advance to the final, after he defeated Başar in the semi-finals. Oliynyk was the 1994 European Champion and had been runner-up at the 1994 Worlds, but was 30-years-old in 1996 and even his wife considered him too old to contend for medals. In the final he met Jacek Fafiński of Poland, who had finished eighth at the recent Europeans and in his career, would stand on one international podium – this one. Oliynyk had no difficulty winning the gold medal, defeating Fafiński 6-0 in the final.

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	CP	TP
1	7	V'iacheslav Oliynyk	UKR	–	–	Gold
2	15	Jacek Fafiński	POL	–	–	Silver
3	13	Maik Bullmann	GER	–	–	Bronze
4	11	Aliaksandr Sidarenka	BLR	–	–
5	3	Hakkı Başar	TUR	–	–
6	20	Iordanis Konstantinidis	GRE	–	–
7	12	Derrick Waldroup	USA	–	–
8	17	Marek Švec	CZE	–	–
9	21	Tsolak Yeghishyan	ARM	7	11
10	2	Reynaldo Peña	CUB	7	7
11	10	Sergey Matviyenko	KAZ	5	9
12	18	Rozy Redzhepov	TKM	5	7
13	4	Gogi Koguashvili	RUS	5	6
14	14	Moustafa Abdulharis	EGY	4	8
15	23	Hristo Dimitrov	BUL	4	6
16	22	Nándor Gelénesi	HUN	4	3
17	8	Fahrudin Hodžić	BIH	3	5
18	5	Goran Kasum	SCG	3	3
19	6	Doug Cox	CAN	1	2
=20	9	Harri Koskela	FIN	1	1
=20	1	Eom Jin-Han	KOR	1	1
=22	16	Abdel Aziz Essafoui	MAR	0	0
=22	19	Lucio Vásquez	PER	0	0

Round One

Date	21 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	21 Jul	Hall G	Reynaldo Peña	CUB	2	Eom Jin-Han	KOR
Match #2	21 Jul	Hall G	Hakkı Başar	TUR	6	Gogi Koguashvili	RUS
Match #3	21 Jul	Hall G	Goran Kasum	SCG	3	Doug Cox	CAN
Match #4	21 Jul	Hall G	V'iacheslav Oliynyk	UKR	12	Fahrudin Hodžić	BIH
Match #5	21 Jul	Hall G	Sergey Matviyenko	KAZ	7	Harri Koskela	FIN
Match #6	21 Jul	Hall G	Aliaksandr Sidarenka	BLR	3	Derrick Waldroup	USA
Match #7	21 Jul	Hall G	Maik Bullmann	GER	3	Moustafa Abdulharis	EGY
Match #8	21 Jul	Hall G	Jacek Fafiński	POL	4	Abdel Aziz Essafoui	MAR
Match #9	21 Jul	Hall G	Rozy Redzhepov	TKM	3	Marek Švec	CZE
Match #10	21 Jul	Hall G	Iordanis Konstantinidis	GRE	10	Lucio Vásquez	PER
Match #11	21 Jul	Hall G	Tsolak Yeghishyan	ARM	5	Nándor Gelénesi	HUN
Match #12	21 Jul	Hall G	Hristo Dimitrov	BUL

Round Two

Date	21 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	21 Jul	Hall G	Hristo Dimitrov	BUL	3	Reynaldo Peña	CUB
Match #2	21 Jul	Hall G	Hakkı Başar	TUR	3	Goran Kasum	SCG
Match #3	21 Jul	Hall G	V'iacheslav Oliynyk	UKR	4	Sergey Matviyenko	KAZ
Match #4	21 Jul	Hall G	Maik Bullmann	GER	1	Aliaksandr Sidarenka	BLR
Match #5	21 Jul	Hall G	Jacek Fafiński	POL	12	Rozy Redzhepov	TKM
Match #6	21 Jul	Hall G	Iordanis Konstantinidis	GRE	12	Tsolak Yeghishyan	ARM

Quarter-Finals

Date	22 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	22 Jul	Hall G	Hakkı Başar	TUR	5	Hristo Dimitrov	BUL
Match #2	22 Jul	Hall G	V'iacheslav Oliynyk	UKR	4	Maik Bullmann	GER
Match #3	22 Jul	Hall G	Jacek Fafiński	POL
Match #4	22 Jul	Hall G	Iordanis Konstantinidis	GRE

Semi-Finals

Date	22 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	22 Jul	Hall G	V'iacheslav Oliynyk	UKR	3	Hakkı Başar	TUR
Match #2	22 Jul	Hall G	Jacek Fafiński	POL	6	Iordanis Konstantinidis	GRE

Final Round

Date	22 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match 1/2	22 Jul	Hall G	V'iacheslav Oliynyk	UKR	6	Jacek Fafiński	POL
Match 3/4	22 Jul	Hall G	Maik Bullmann	GER	2	Aliaksandr Sidarenka	BLR
Match 5/6	22 Jul	Hall G	Hakkı Başar	TUR	4	Iordanis Konstantinidis	GRE
Match 7/8	22 Jul	Hall G	Derrick Waldroup	USA	10	Marek Švec	CZE

Classification Round Two

Date	21 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	21 Jul	Hall G	Gogi Koguashvili	RUS	4	Eom Jin-Han	KOR
Match #2	21 Jul	Hall G	Fahrudin Hodžić	BIH	5	Doug Cox	CAN
Match #3	21 Jul	Hall G	Derrick Waldroup	USA	11	Harri Koskela	FIN
Match #4	21 Jul	Hall G	Moustafa Abdulharis	EGY	4	Abdel Aziz Essafoui	MAR
Match #5	21 Jul	Hall G	Marek Švec	CZE	10	Lucio Vásquez	PER
Match #6	21 Jul	Hall G	Nándor Gelénesi	HUN

Classification Round Three

Date	21 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	21 Jul	Hall G	Nándor Gelénesi	HUN	2	Gogi Koguashvili	RUS
Match #2	21 Jul	Hall G	Derrick Waldroup	USA	12	Fahrudin Hodžić	BIH
Match #3	21 Jul	Hall G	Marek Švec	CZE	8	Moustafa Abdulharis	EGY
Match #4	21 Jul	Hall G	Reynaldo Peña	CUB	3	Goran Kasum	SCG
Match #5	21 Jul	Hall G	Aliaksandr Sidarenka	BLR	1	Sergey Matviyenko	KAZ
Match #6	21 Jul	Hall G	Tsolak Yeghishyan	ARM	5	Rozy Redzhepov	TKM

Classification Round Four

Date	22 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	22 Jul	Hall G	Derrick Waldroup	USA	6	Nándor Gelénesi	HUN
Match #2	22 Jul	Hall G	Marek Švec	CZE	4	Reynaldo Peña	CUB
Match #3	22 Jul	Hall G	Aliaksandr Sidarenka	BLR	3	Tsolak Yeghishyan	ARM
Match #4	22 Jul	Hall G	Maik Bullmann	GER	11	Hristo Dimitrov	BUL

Classification Round Five

Date	22 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	22 Jul	Hall G	Maik Bullmann	GER	4	Derrick Waldroup	USA
Match #2	22 Jul	Hall G	Aliaksandr Sidarenka	BLR	3	Marek Švec	CZE

Classification Round Six

Date	22 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	22 Jul	Hall G	Maik Bullmann	GER	4	Hakkı Başar	TUR
Match #2	22 Jul	Hall G	Aliaksandr Sidarenka	BLR	5	Iordanis Konstantinidis	GRE