Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman flyweight


The men's Greco-Roman flyweight competition at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki took place from 24 July to 27 July at Messuhalli. Nations were limited to one competitor.

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, removing the slight modification introduced in 1936 and used until 1948. Each round featured all wrestlers pairing off and wrestling one bout. 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. At the end of each round, any wrestler with at least 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 ; record within the medal round determined medals, with bad points breaking ties.

Results

Round 1

; Bouts
WinnerNationVictory TypeLoserNation
Heini WeberFallWerner Zimmer
Béla KenézDecision, 3–0Fahrettin Akbaş
Boris GurevichDecision, 3–0Borivoj Vukov
Svend Aage ThomsenDecision, 3–0Josef Zeman
Maurice MewisDecision, 3–0Dumitru Pîrvulescu
Bengt JohanssonDecision, 3–0Franz Brunner
Ignazio FabraDecision, 3–0Edmond Faure
Mahmoud Omar FawzyFallFrithjof Clausen
Leo HonkalaByeN/AN/A

; Points
RankWrestlerNationStartEarnedTotal
1000
1000
1000
4011
4011
4011
4011
4011
4011
10033
10033
10033
10033
10033
10033
10033
10033

Round 2

Clausen withdrew.
; Bouts
WinnerNationVictory TypeLoserNation
Leo HonkalaFallWerner Zimmer
Heini WeberDecision, 3–0Fahrettin Akbaş
Borivoj VukovFallBéla Kenéz
Boris GurevichFallSvend Aage Thomsen
Maurice MewisFallJosef Zeman
Dumitru PîrvulescuDecision, 3–0Franz Brunner
Bengt JohanssonDecision, 3–0Edmond Faure
Ignazio FabraFallMahmoud Omar Fawzy

; Points
RankWrestlerNationStartEarnedTotal
1000
2101
2101
2101
2011
6112
7033
7303
9134
9314
9134
12303*
13336
13336
13336
13336
13336

Round 3

; Bouts
WinnerNationVictory TypeLoserNation
Leo HonkalaDecision, 2–1Heini Weber
Boris GurevichDecision, 3–0Béla Kenéz
Borivoj VukovDecision, 3–0Svend Aage Thomsen
Bengt JohanssonDecision, 3–0Maurice Mewis
Ignazio FabraDecision, 3–0Dumitru Pîrvulescu
Mahmoud Omar FawzyByeN/AN/A

; Points
RankWrestlerNationStartEarnedTotal
1011
2112
2112
4303
4213
6134
6314
6134
9437
9437
9437

Round 4

; Bouts
WinnerNationVictory TypeLoserNation
Leo HonkalaDecision, 3–0Mahmoud Omar Fawzy
Heini WeberDecision, 3–0Borivoj Vukov
Boris GurevichDecision, 3–0Maurice Mewis
Ignazio FabraDecision, 3–0Bengt Johansson

; Points
RankWrestlerNationStartEarnedTotal
1112
2213
2213
4415
5336
5336
7437
7437

Medal rounds

; Bouts
WinnerNationVictory TypeLoserNation
Boris GurevichDecision, 3–0Leo Honkala
Ignazio FabraDecision, 3–0Leo Honkala
Boris GurevichDecision, 3–0Ignazio Fabra

; Points
RankWrestlerNationWinsLossesStartEarnedTotal
20325
11347
02268