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Middleweight, Greco-Roman (≤82 kg), Men

Date	19 – 20 July 1996
Status	Olympic
Location	Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia (Hall G)
Participants	19 from 19 countries
Format	Single-elimination tournament with classification rounds for placements.

Turkey’s Hamza Yerlikaya was a clear favorite, having won the 1993 and 1995 World Championships, the former at only 16-years-old, and the 1996 European Championship. He won the gold medal in Atlanta quite easily, throwing a shut-out as nobody scored a point off him. In the final Yerlikaya met German Thomas Zander, the 1994 World Champion and a three-time European champ. Yerlikaya would return in 2000 and defend his gold medal in this class. He would also win six of the next seven European Championships.

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	CP	TP
1	19	Hamza Yerlikaya	TUR	–	–	Gold
2	14	Thomas Zander	GER	–	–	Silver
3	5	Valery Tsylents	BLR	–	–	Bronze
4	1	Daulet Turlykhanov	KAZ	–	–
5	16	Gotcha Tsitsiashvili	ISR	–	–
6	9	Martin Lidberg	SWE	–	–
7	10	Levon Geghamyan	ARM	–	–
8	3	Raatbek Sanatbayev	KGZ	–	–
9	4	Aleksandar Jovančević	SCG	7	16
10	11	Sergey Tsvir	RUS	7	14
11	15	Tuomo Karila	FIN	5	14
12	7	Dan Henderson	USA	5	6
13	8	Pavel Frinta	CZE	5	5
14	17	Park Myeong-Seok	KOR	4	6
15	18	Anton Arghira	ROU	1	3
16	2	Elías Marcano	VEN	1	1
=17	6	Jean-Pierre Wafflard	BEL	0	0
=17	12	Péter Farkas	HUN	0	0
=17	13	Félix Isisola	PER	0	0

Round One

Date	19 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	19 Jul	Hall G	Daulet Turlykhanov	KAZ	Fall (10-0) (2:47)	Elías Marcano	VEN
Match #2	19 Jul	Hall G	Raatbek Sanatbayev	KGZ	Decision (3-0) (5:00)	Aleksandar Jovančević	SCG
Match #3	19 Jul	Hall G	Valery Tsylents	BLR	Grand superiority (10-0) (2:27)	Jean-Pierre Wafflard	BEL
Match #4	19 Jul	Hall G	Dan Henderson	USA	Decision (3-1) (5:00)	Pavel Frinta	CZE
Match #5	19 Jul	Hall G	Martin Lidberg	SWE	Decision (2-0) (8:00)	Levon Geghamyan	ARM
Match #6	19 Jul	Hall G	Sergey Tsvir	RUS	Decision (3-0) (5:00)	Péter Farkas	HUN
Match #7	19 Jul	Hall G	Thomas Zander	GER	Grand superiority (10-0) (2:33)	Félix Isisola	PER
Match #8	19 Jul	Hall G	Gotcha Tsitsiashvili	ISR	Decision (2-0) (8:00)	Tuomo Karila	FIN
Match #9	19 Jul	Hall G	Park Myeong-Seok	KOR	Decision (5-3) (5:39)	Anton Arghira	ROU
Match #10	19 Jul	Hall G	Hamza Yerlikaya	TUR

Round Two

Date	19 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	19 Jul	Hall G	Hamza Yerlikaya	TUR	Decision (7-0) (5:00)	Daulet Turlykhanov	KAZ
Match #2	19 Jul	Hall G	Valery Tsylents	BLR	Decision (7-1) (5:00)	Raatbek Sanatbayev	KGZ
Match #3	19 Jul	Hall G	Martin Lidberg	SWE	Decision (3-1) (5:00)	Dan Henderson	USA
Match #4	19 Jul	Hall G	Thomas Zander	GER	Dq (4-0) (1:27)	Sergey Tsvir	RUS
Match #5	19 Jul	Hall G	Gotcha Tsitsiashvili	ISR	Decision (4-1) (5:00)	Park Myeong-Seok	KOR

Quarter-Finals

Date	20 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	20 Jul	Hall G	Hamza Yerlikaya	TUR	Decision (5-0) (5:00)	Valery Tsylents	BLR
Match #2	20 Jul	Hall G	Martin Lidberg	SWE
Match #3	20 Jul	Hall G	Thomas Zander	GER
Match #4	20 Jul	Hall G	Gotcha Tsitsiashvili	ISR

Semi-Finals

Date	20 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	20 Jul	Hall G	Hamza Yerlikaya	TUR	Decision (1-0) (8:00)	Martin Lidberg	SWE
Match #2	20 Jul	Hall G	Thomas Zander	GER	Decision (3-1) (5:00)	Gotcha Tsitsiashvili	ISR

Final Round

Date	20 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match 1/2	20 Jul	Hall G	Hamza Yerlikaya	TUR	Decision (3-0) (5:00)	Thomas Zander	GER
Match 3/4	20 Jul	Hall G	Valery Tsylents	BLR	Decision (4-0) (5:00)	Daulet Turlykhanov	KAZ
Match 5/6	20 Jul	Hall G	Gotcha Tsitsiashvili	ISR	Default (0-0) (0:00)	Martin Lidberg	SWE
Match 7/8	20 Jul	Hall G	Levon Geghamyan	ARM	Default (0-0) (0:00)	Raatbek Sanatbayev	KGZ

Classification Round Two

Date	19 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	19 Jul	Hall G	Aleksandar Jovančević	SCG	Grand superiority (11-1) (4:59)	Elías Marcano	VEN
Match #2	19 Jul	Hall G	Pavel Frinta	CZE	Decision (2-0) (8:00)	Jean-Pierre Wafflard	BEL
Match #3	19 Jul	Hall G	Levon Geghamyan	ARM	Decision (4-0) (5:00)	Péter Farkas	HUN
Match #4	19 Jul	Hall G	Tuomo Karila	FIN	Grand superiority (11-0) (1:28)	Félix Isisola	PER
Match #5	19 Jul	Hall G	Anton Arghira	ROU

Classification Round Three

Date	19 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	19 Jul	Hall G	Aleksandar Jovančević	SCG	Decision (5-0) (5:00)	Anton Arghira	ROU
Match #2	19 Jul	Hall G	Levon Geghamyan	ARM	Decision (3-2) (5:00)	Pavel Frinta	CZE
Match #3	19 Jul	Hall G	Daulet Turlykhanov	KAZ	Decision (7-3) (5:00)	Tuomo Karila	FIN
Match #4	19 Jul	Hall G	Raatbek Sanatbayev	KGZ	Decision (3-2) (5:00)	Dan Henderson	USA
Match #5	19 Jul	Hall G	Sergey Tsvir	RUS	Grand superiority (11-0) (3:45)	Park Myeong-Seok	KOR

Classification Round Four

Date	20 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	20 Jul	Hall G	Levon Geghamyan	ARM	Decision (2-0) (8:00)	Aleksandar Jovančević	SCG
Match #2	20 Jul	Hall G	Daulet Turlykhanov	KAZ	Decision (4-3) (5:00)	Raatbek Sanatbayev	KGZ
Match #3	20 Jul	Hall G	Valery Tsylents	BLR	Default (10-0) (3:39)	Sergey Tsvir	RUS

Classification Round Five

Date	20 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	20 Jul	Hall G	Daulet Turlykhanov	KAZ	Decision (3-1) (5:00)	Levon Geghamyan	ARM
Match #2	20 Jul	Hall G	Valery Tsylents	BLR

Classification Round Six

Date	20 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	20 Jul	Hall G	Valery Tsylents	BLR	Decision (4-1) (5:00)	Martin Lidberg	SWE
Match #2	20 Jul	Hall G	Daulet Turlykhanov	KAZ	Decision (4-0) (5:00)	Gotcha Tsitsiashvili	ISR