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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
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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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
		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

Football

First round

Bulgaria	w/o	Egypt

Quarterfinals

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

Semifinals

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

Bronze Medal match

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

Gymnastics

Weightlifting

Men

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.

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	Vercouteren (BEL) W 3-0	Vyrupayev (URS) L Fall	Did not advance		6
Dimitar Stoyanov|	Men's lightweight	Anderberg (SWE) W 3–0	Evans (USA) W 3-0	Lehtonen (FIN) L 0-3	Brötzner (AUT) W 3–0  Doğan (TUR) L 1-2	Did not advance	5
Mitko Petkov	Men's welterweight	Vargset (NOR) W 3–0	Mithat Bayrak (TUR) L Fortreit	Did not advance			8
Dimitar Dobrev	Men's middleweight	Simic (YUG) W Fall	Bye	Punkari (FIN) W 2-1	Kartozia (URS) L 1-2	Jansson (SWE) W 3-0
Petko Sirakov	Men's light heavyweight	Nikolayev (URS) L 0-3	Atan (TUR) W 2-1	O.Thomas (USA) W Fall	Steckle (CAN) W Fall	Nillson (SWE) W 3-0
Husein Mehmedov	Men's heavyweight	Kangasniemi (FIN) W 3-0	Dietrich (GER) L Fall	Parfyonov (URS) L Fortreit	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	Bye	Bestayev (URS) L Fall	Did not advance		10
Mitko Petkov	Men's welterweight	Ochman (CAN) W Fall	de Villiers (RSA) L 0-3	Sorouri (IRN) L 0–3	Did not advance		7
Nikola Stanchev	Men's middleweight	Skhirtladze (URS) W 3-0	Katsuramoto (JPN) L Fall	Sterr (GER) W Fall	Lindblad (SWE) W Fall	Hodge (USA) W Fall
Husein Mehmedov	Men's heavyweight	Nouri (IRN) W 3-0	Kangasniemi (FIN) W Fall	Vykhristyuk (URS) W 3-0	Richmond (GBR) W 3-0	Kaplan (TUR) L 0-3

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 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

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database

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