Wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman 52 kg

Wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics
	Freestyle	Greco-Roman
	48 kg	48 kg
	52 kg	52 kg
	57 kg	57 kg
	62 kg	62 kg
	68 kg	68 kg
	74 kg	74 kg
	82 kg	82 kg
	90 kg	90 kg
	100 kg	100 kg
	130 kg	130 kg

The Men's Greco-Roman 52 kg at the 1996 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program were held at the Georgia World Congress Center from July 21 to July 22.

The gold and silver medalists were determined by the final match of the main single-elimination bracket. The losers advanced to the repechage. These matches determined the bronze medalist for the event.

Medalists

Gold	Armen Nazaryan  Armenia
Silver	Brandon Paulson  United States
Bronze	Andriy Kalashnykov  Ukraine

Results

Round 1

	Score
Valentin Rebegea (ROU)	0–6 Fall	Dariusz Jabłoński (POL)
Samvel Danielyan (RUS)	11–4	Shamseddin Khudoyberdiev (UZB)
Pappu Yadav (IND)	0–10	Ha Tae-yeon (KOR)
Andriy Kalashnykov (UKR)	0–10	Armen Nazaryan (ARM)
Jon Rønningen (NOR)	0–5	Lázaro Rivas (CUB)
Alfred Ter-Mkrtychyan (GER)	1–3	Khaled Al-Faraj (SYR)
Yordan Anev (BUL)	11–0	Tiebiri Godswill (NGR)
Ruslan Vartanov (LTU)	1–4	Nurym Dyusenov (KAZ)
Ibad Akhmedov (BLR)	11–0	Ulises Valentin (DOM)
Joël Basaldua (PER)	0–6 Fall	Brandon Paulson (USA)

Round 2

	Score
Losers table
Valentin Rebegea (ROU)	12–0 Fall	Shamseddin Khudoyberdiev (UZB)
Pappu Yadav (IND)	0–11	Andriy Kalashnykov (UKR)
Jon Rønningen (NOR)	0–9	Alfred Ter-Mkrtychyan (GER)
Tiebiri Godswill (NGR)	0–4	Ruslan Vartanov (LTU)
Ulises Valentin (DOM)	14–1 Fall	Joël Basaldua (PER)
Winners table
Dariusz Jabłoński (POL)	0–8	Samvel Danielyan (RUS)
Ha Tae-yeon (KOR)	2–12	Armen Nazaryan (ARM)
Lázaro Rivas (CUB)	5–0	Khaled Al-Faraj (SYR)
Yordan Anev (BUL)	9–6	Nurym Dyusenov (KAZ)
Ibad Akhmedov (BLR)	1–6	Brandon Paulson (USA)

Round 3

	Score
Losers table
Valentin Rebegea (ROU)	1–3	Andriy Kalashnykov (UKR)
Alfred Ter-Mkrtychyan (GER)	8–0	Ruslan Vartanov (LTU)
Ulises Valentin (DOM)	0–3 Fall	Dariusz Jabłoński (POL)
Ha Tae-yeon (KOR)	10–0	Khaled Al-Faraj (SYR)
Nurym Dyusenov (KAZ)	5–4	Ibad Akhmedov (BLR)
Winners table (Quarterfinals)
Samvel Danielyan (RUS)	0–3	Armen Nazaryan (ARM)
Lázaro Rivas (CUB)		Bye
Yordan Anev (BUL)		Bye
Brandon Paulson (USA)		Bye

Round 4

	Score
Losers table
Andriy Kalashnykov (UKR)	3–0 Fall	Alfred Ter-Mkrtychyan (GER)
Dariusz Jabłoński (POL)	3–2	Ha Tae-yeon (KOR)
Nurym Dyusenov (KAZ)	0–11	Samvel Danielyan (RUS)
Winners table (Semifinals)
Armen Nazaryan (ARM)	7–1	Lázaro Rivas (CUB)
Yordan Anev (BUL)	2–6	Brandon Paulson (USA)

Round 5

	Score
Losers table
Andriy Kalashnykov (UKR)	8–5	Dariusz Jabłoński (POL)
Samvel Danielyan (RUS)		Bye

Round 6

	Score
Losers table
Lázaro Rivas (CUB)	8–9	Samvel Danielyan (RUS)
Andriy Kalashnykov (UKR)	5–0	Yordan Anev (BUL)

Finals

	Score
7th place match
Dariusz Jabłoński (POL)	2–3	Ha Tae-yeon (KOR)
5th place match
Lázaro Rivas (CUB)	5–0	Yordan Anev (BUL)
Bronze medal match
Samvel Danielyan (RUS)	1–4	Andriy Kalashnykov (UKR)
Gold medal match
Armen Nazaryan (ARM)	5–1	Brandon Paulson (USA)

Final standing

Rank	Athlete
	Armen Nazaryan (ARM)
	Brandon Paulson (USA)
	Andriy Kalashnykov (UKR)
4	Samvel Danielyan (RUS)
5	Lázaro Rivas (CUB)
6	Yordan Anev (BUL)
7	Ha Tae-yeon (KOR)
8	Dariusz Jabłoński (POL)
9	Alfred Ter-Mkrtychyan (GER)
10	Nurym Dyusenov (KAZ)
11	Ibad Akhmedov (BLR)
12	Valentin Rebegea (ROU)
13	Ulises Valentin (DOM)
14	Ruslan Vartanov (LTU)
15	Khaled Al-Faraj (SYR)
16	Shamseddin Khudoyberdiev (UZB)
17	Pappu Yadav (IND)
17	Tiebiri Godswill (NGR)
17	Joël Basaldua (PER)
17	Jon Rønningen (NOR)

References

• Official Report