Wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman 68 kg

Men's Greco-Roman 68 kg at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue	Georgia World Congress Center
Dates	20–21 July 1996
Competitors	22 from 22 nations
Medalists
Ryszard Wolny  Poland Ghani Yalouz  France Aleksandr Tretyakov  Russia

Main article: Wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics

The men's Greco-Roman 68 kilograms at the 1996 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program were held at the Georgia World Congress Center from July 20 to July 21. 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.

Results

Round 1

	Score		CP
1/16 finals
Tarieli Melelashvili (GEO)	2–4	Liubal Colás (CUB)	1–3 PP
Ender Memet (ROM)	3–0 Fall	Valeri Nikitin (EST)	4–0 TO
Yalçın Karapınar (TUR)	3–0	Samvel Manukyan (ARM)	3–0 PO
Rodney Smith (USA)	6–1	José Escobar (COL)	3–1 PP
Grigori Pulyaev (UZB)	12–0	Colin Daynes (CAN)	4–0 ST
Anwar Kandafil (MAR)	0–10	Biser Georgiev (BUL)	0–4 ST
Kamandar Madzhidov (BLR)	3–1	Kim Young-il (KOR)	3–1 PP
Marko Yli-Hannuksela (FIN)	6–2	Rustam Adzhi (UKR)	3–1 PP
Yasushi Miyake (JPN)	4–2	Anders Magnusson (SWE)	3–1 PP
Aleksandr Tretyakov (RUS)	0–8	Ghani Yalouz (FRA)	0–3 PO
Ryszard Wolny (POL)	6–1	Attila Repka (HUN)	3–1 PP

Round 2

	Score		CP
1/8 finals
Liubal Colás (CUB)	3–0	Ender Memet (ROM)	3–0 PO
Yalçın Karapınar (TUR)	1–12	Rodney Smith (USA)	1–4 SP
Grigori Pulyaev (UZB)	2–0	Biser Georgiev (BUL)	3–0 PO
Kamandar Madzhidov (BLR)	5–0	Marko Yli-Hannuksela (FIN)	3–0 PO
Yasushi Miyake (JPN)	0–10	Ghani Yalouz (FRA)	0–4 ST
Ryszard Wolny (POL)		Bye
Repechage
Tarieli Melelashvili (GEO)	0–6 Fall	Valeri Nikitin (EST)	0–4 TO
Samvel Manukyan (ARM)	12–0	José Escobar (COL)	4–0 ST
Colin Daynes (CAN)	5–4	Anwar Kandafil (MAR)	3–1 PP
Kim Young-il (KOR)	1–2	Rustam Adzhi (UKR)	1–3 PP
Anders Magnusson (SWE)	2–9	Aleksandr Tretyakov (RUS)	1–3 PP
Attila Repka (HUN)		Bye

Round 3

	Score		CP
Quarterfinals
Ryszard Wolny (POL)	6–0	Liubal Colás (CUB)	3–0 PO
Rodney Smith (USA)	0–4	Grigori Pulyaev (UZB)	0–3 PO
Kamandar Madzhidov (BLR)		Bye
Ghani Yalouz (FRA)		Bye
Repechage
Attila Repka (HUN)	0–2 Fall	Valeri Nikitin (EST)	0–4 TO
Samvel Manukyan (ARM)	9–3	Colin Daynes (CAN)	3–1 PP
Rustam Adzhi (UKR)	1–3	Aleksandr Tretyakov (RUS)	1–3 PP
Ender Memet (ROM)	4–9	Yalçın Karapınar (TUR)	1–3 PP
Biser Georgiev (BUL)	1–1	Marko Yli-Hannuksela (FIN)	3–1 PP
Yasushi Miyake (JPN)		Bye

Round 4

	Score		CP
Semifinals
Ryszard Wolny (POL)	3–0	Grigori Pulyaev (UZB)	3–0 PO
Kamandar Madzhidov (BLR)	1–4	Ghani Yalouz (FRA)	1–3 PP
Repechage
Yasushi Miyake (JPN)	0–6	Valeri Nikitin (EST)	0–3 PO
Samvel Manukyan (ARM)	0–5	Aleksandr Tretyakov (RUS)	0–3 PO
Yalçın Karapınar (TUR)	0–5	Biser Georgiev (BUL)	0–3 PO
Liubal Colás (CUB)	3–2	Rodney Smith (USA)	3–1 PP

Round 5

	Score		CP
Repechage
Valeri Nikitin (EST)	0–4	Aleksandr Tretyakov (RUS)	0–3 PO
Biser Georgiev (BUL)	4–0	Liubal Colás (CUB)	3–0 PO

Round 6

	Score		CP
Repechage
Grigori Pulyaev (UZB)	0–6	Aleksandr Tretyakov (RUS)	0–3 PO
Biser Georgiev (BUL)	1–3	Kamandar Madzhidov (BLR)	1–3 PP

Finals

	Score		CP
Classification 7th–8th
Valeri Nikitin (EST)	1–6	Liubal Colás (CUB)	1–3 PP
Classification 5th–6th
Grigori Pulyaev (UZB)	1–2	Biser Georgiev (BUL)	1–3 PP
Bronze medal match
Aleksandr Tretyakov (RUS)	4–0	Kamandar Madzhidov (BLR)	3–0 PO
Gold medal match
Ryszard Wolny (POL)	7–0	Ghani Yalouz (FRA)	3–0 PO

Final standing

Rank	Athlete
	Ryszard Wolny (POL)
	Ghani Yalouz (FRA)
	Aleksandr Tretyakov (RUS)
4	Kamandar Madzhidov (BLR)
5	Biser Georgiev (BUL)
6	Grigori Pulyaev (UZB)
7	Liubal Colás (CUB)
8	Valeri Nikitin (EST)
9	Rodney Smith (USA)
10	Samvel Manukyan (ARM)
11	Yalçın Karapınar (TUR)
12	Ender Memet (ROM)
13	Rustam Adzhi (UKR)
14	Colin Daynes (CAN)
15	Marko Yli-Hannuksela (FIN)
16	Yasushi Miyake (JPN)
17	Anders Magnusson (SWE)
18	Kim Young-il (KOR)
19	Anwar Kandafil (MAR)
20	Tarieli Melelashvili (GEO)
21	José Escobar (COL)
22	Attila Repka (HUN)

External links

• Official Report