Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman middleweight explained

Event:	Men's Greco-Roman middleweight
Games:	1960 Summer
Venue:	Basilica of Maxentius
Dates:	26–31 August
Competitors:	24
Nations:	24
Gold:	Dimitar Dobrev
Goldnoc:	BUL
Silver:	Lothar Metz
Silvernoc:	EUA
Bronze:	Ion Ţăranu
Bronzenoc:	ROU
Prev:	1956
Next:	1964

The men's Greco-Roman middleweight competition at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome took place from 26 to 31 August at the Basilica of Maxentius. Nations were limited to one competitor.^[1]

Competition format

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 0 points and wins by decision continued to be worth 1 point. Losses by fall, however, were now worth 4 points (up from 3). Losses by decision were worth 3 points (consistent with most prior years, though in some losses by split decision had been worth only 2 points). Ties were now allowed, worth 2 points for each wrestler. The elimination threshold was also increased from 5 points to 6 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

Round 1

Gurics withdrew after his bout.

Bouts

Winner	Nation	Victory Type	Loser	Nation
Oddvar Barlie		Tie	Bolesław Dubicki
Ronald Hunt		Tie	Hammou Haddaoui Khadir
Pentti Punkari		Tie	Mansour Hazrati
		Decision	André Lamy
		Decision
		Fall
		Decision
		Fall
		Fall
		Fall
		Decision
		Fall

Points

Rank	Wrestler	Nation	Start	Earned	Total
1			0	0	0
1			0	0	0
1			0	0	0
1			0	0	0
1			0	0	0
6			0	1	1
6			0	1	1
6			0	1	1
9			0	2	2
9			0	2	2
9			0	2	2
9			0	2	2
9			0	2	2
9			0	2	2
15			0	3	3
15			0	3	3
15			0	3	3
15			0	3	3
19			0	4	4
19			0	4	4
19			0	4	4
19			0	4	4
19			0	4	4
24			0	1	1*

Round 2

Bouts

Winner	Nation	Victory Type	Loser	Nation
		Fall
		Fall
		Decision	André Lamy
		Decision
		Decision
		Fall
		Fall
		Decision
		Decision
		Fall
		Decision
		Bye	N/A	N/A

Points

Rank	Wrestler	Nation	Start	Earned	Total
1			0	0	0
2			1	0	1
2			1	0	1
2			0	1	1
2			0	1	1
2			0	1	1
7			2	0	2
7			2	0	2
7			1	1	2
10			0	3	3
10			2	1	3
12			4	0	4
12			3	1	4
14			2	3	5
15			3	3	6
15			2	4	6
15			2	4	6
15			3	3	6
15			3	3	6
20			4	3	7
21			4	4	8
21			4	4	8
21			4	4	8

Round 3

Bouts

Winner	Nation	Victory Type	Loser	Nation
		Fall
		Decision
		Decision
Lothar Metz		Tie	Jiří Kormaník
Russell Camilleri		Tie	Yacoub Romanos
		Decision
		Decision

Points

Rank	Wrestler	Nation	Start	Earned	Total
1			0	0	0
2			1	1	2
2			1	1	2
4			1	2	3
4			2	1	3
4			1	2	3
4			1	2	3
8			3	1	4
8			2	2	4
10			2	4	6
10			3	3	6
12			4	3	7
12			4	3	7
14			5	3	8

Round 4

Bouts

Winner	Nation	Victory Type	Loser	Nation
Ion Ţăranu		Tie	Bolesław Dubicki
		Fall
		Fall
		Fall
		Bye	N/A	N/A

Points

Rank	Wrestler	Nation	Start	Earned	Total
1			2	0	2
1			2	0	2
1			0	2	2
4			3	0	3
5			4	0	4
6			3	2	5
7			3	4	7
7			3	4	7
9			4	4	8

Round 5

Bouts

Winner	Nation	Victory Type	Loser	Nation
		Decision
Bolesław Dubicki		Tie	Kazım Ayvaz
		Decision

Points

Rank	Wrestler	Nation	Start	Earned	Total
1			2	1	3
2			2	2	4
2			3	1	4
4			2	3	5
5			4	3	7
5			5	2	7

Round 6

Bouts

Winner	Nation	Victory Type	Loser	Nation
		Decision
Ion Ţăranu		Tie	Lothar Metz

Points

Rank	Wrestler	Nation	Start	Earned	Total
			3	1	4
			4	2	6
3			4	3	7
3			5	2	7

Bronze medal bout

Ţăranu and Ayvaz finished round 6 tied for 3rd at 7 points and had not faced each other; they competed in a bronze medal bout, won by Ţăranu.

Bouts

Winner	Nation	Victory Type	Loser	Nation
		Decision

Points

Rank	Wrestler	Nation	Start	Earned	Total
			7	1	8
4			7	3	10

Notes and References

Web site: Wrestling at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Men's Middleweight, Greco-Roman . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418130414/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1960/WRE/mens-middleweight-greco-roman.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 20 March 2019.
Official Report, p. 488.