Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman heavyweight
Men's Greco-Roman heavyweight at the Games of the XVII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Basilica of Maxentius | ||||||||||||
Dates | 26–31 August | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 12 from 12 nations | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics | |
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Greco-Roman | |
Fly | men |
Bantam | men |
Feather | men |
Light | men |
Welter | men |
Middle | men |
Light heavy | men |
Heavy | men |
Freestyle | |
Fly | men |
Bantam | men |
Feather | men |
Light | men |
Welter | men |
Middle | men |
Light heavy | men |
Heavy | men |
The men's Greco-Roman heavyweight competition at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome took place from August 26 to 31 at the Basilica of Maxentius. Nations were limited to one competitor.[1]
Competition format
[edit]This Greco-Roman wrestling competition continued to use the "bad points" elimination system introduced at the 1928 Summer Olympics for Greco-Roman and at the 1932 Summer Olympics for freestyle wrestling, though adjusted the point values slightly. Wins by fall continued to be worth zero points and wins by decision continued to be worth one point. Losses by fall, however, were now worth four points (up from three). Losses by decision were worth three points (consistent with most prior years, though in some losses by split decision had been worth only two points). Ties were now allowed, worth two points for each wrestler. The elimination threshold was also increased from five points to six points. The medal round concept, used in 1952 and 1956 requiring a round-robin amongst the medalists even if one or more finished a round with enough points for elimination, was used only if exactly three wrestlers remained after a round—if two competitors remained, they faced off head-to-head; if only one, he was the gold medalist.[2][1]
Results
[edit]Round 1
[edit]- Bouts
Winner | Nation | Victory Type | Loser | Nation |
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István Kozma | Decision | Dale Lewis | ||
Radoslav Kasabov | Decision | Adelmo Bulgarelli | ||
Lucjan Sosnowski | Decision | Viktor Ahven | ||
Bohumil Kubát | Fall | Kanji Shigeoka | ||
Wilfried Dietrich | Decision | Ragnar Svensson | ||
Ivan Bohdan | Fall | Tan Tarı |
- Points
Rank | Wrestler | Nation | Start | Earned | Total |
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1 | Ivan Bohdan | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
1 | Bohumil Kubát | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
3 | Wilfried Dietrich | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
3 | Radoslav Kasabov | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
3 | István Kozma | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
3 | Lucjan Sosnowski | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
7 | Viktor Ahven | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
7 | Adelmo Bulgarelli | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
7 | Dale Lewis | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
7 | Ragnar Svensson | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
10 | Kanji Shigeoka | 0 | 4 | 4 | |
10 | Tan Tarı | 0 | 4 | 4 |
Round 2
[edit]- Bouts
Winner | Nation | Victory Type | Loser | Nation |
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Adelmo Bulgarelli | Fall | Dale Lewis | ||
Radoslav Kasabov | Decision | István Kozma | ||
Bohumil Kubát | Decision | Viktor Ahven | ||
Lucjan Sosnowski | Fall | Kanji Shigeoka | ||
Ragnar Svensson | Tie | Tan Tarı | ||
Wilfried Dietrich | Tie | Ivan Bohdan |
- Points
Rank | Wrestler | Nation | Start | Earned | Total |
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1 | Bohumil Kubát | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
1 | Lucjan Sosnowski | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
3 | Ivan Bohdan | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
3 | Radoslav Kasabov | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
5 | Adelmo Bulgarelli | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
5 | Wilfried Dietrich | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
7 | István Kozma | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
8 | Ragnar Svensson | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
9 | Viktor Ahven | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
9 | Tan Tarı | 4 | 2 | 6 | |
11 | Dale Lewis | 3 | 4 | 7 | |
12 | Kanji Shigeoka | 4 | 4 | 8 |
Round 3
[edit]- Bouts
Winner | Nation | Victory Type | Loser | Nation |
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István Kozma | Decision | Adelmo Bulgarelli | ||
Radoslav Kasabov | Tie | Lucjan Sosnowski | ||
Bohumil Kubát | Tie | Wilfried Dietrich | ||
Ivan Bohdan | Fall | Ragnar Svensson |
- Points
Rank | Wrestler | Nation | Start | Earned | Total |
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1 | Ivan Bohdan | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
2 | Bohumil Kubát | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
2 | Lucjan Sosnowski | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
4 | Radoslav Kasabov | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
5 | Wilfried Dietrich | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
5 | István Kozma | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
7 | Adelmo Bulgarelli | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
8 | Ragnar Svensson | 5 | 4 | 9 |
Round 4
[edit]Kubát, Bohdan, and Dietrich all remained uneliminated after this round (none having six or more points), but the three wrestlers had all faced each other—with ties between Bohdan and Dietrich in round 2, Dietrich and Kubát in round 3, and Kubát and Bohdan in this round. No more bouts were therefore possible, and the competition ended. Bohdan had the fewest points, at four, and therefore took the gold medal. Dietrich and Kubát were tied at five points, and had drawn their head-to-head bout. The tie was therefore broken by body weight, with Dietrich (the lighter man) winning the silver medal.
Kozma's victory over Sosnowski in this round also functioned as the tie-breaker between the two wrestlers for 4th place.
- Bouts
Winner | Nation | Victory Type | Loser | Nation |
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István Kozma | Decision | Lucjan Sosnowski | ||
Wilfried Dietrich | Fall | Radoslav Kasabov | ||
Bohumil Kubát | Tie | Ivan Bohdan |
- Points
Rank | Wrestler | Nation | Start | Earned | Total |
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Ivan Bohdan | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||
Wilfried Dietrich | 5 | 0 | 5 | ||
Bohumil Kubát | 3 | 2 | 5 | ||
4 | István Kozma | 5 | 1 | 6 | |
5 | Lucjan Sosnowski | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
6 | Radoslav Kasabov | 4 | 4 | 8 |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Wrestling at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Men's Heavyweight, Greco-Roman". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
- ^ Official Report, p. 498.