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| Bulgaria at the 1956 Summer Olympics | |
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| IOC code | BUL |
| NOC | Bulgarian Olympic Committee |
| Website | www |
| in Melbourne/Stockholm | |
| Competitors | 43 in 6 sports |
| Flag bearer | Georgi Panov |
| Medals Ranked 19th |
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| Summer Olympics appearances (overview) | |
Bulgaria competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia and Stockholm, Sweden (equestrian events).
| Medal | Name | Sport | Event | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Gold | Nikola Stanchev | Wrestling | Men's Freestyle Middleweight | 1 December |
 Silver | Yusein Mekhmedov | Wrestling | Men's Freestyle Heavyweight | 1 December |
| Silver | Dimitar Dobrev | Wrestling | Men's Greco-Roman Middleweight | 6 December |
| Silver | Petko Sirakov | Wrestling | Men's Greco-Roman Light Heavyweight | 6 December |
 Bronze | Stefan Bozhkov, Todor Diev, Georgi Dimitrov, Milcho Goranov, Ivan Petkov Kolev, Nikola Kovachev, Manol Manolov, Dimitar Milanov, Georgi Naydenov, Panayot Panayotov, Kiril Rakarov, Gavril Stoyanov, Krum Yanev, and Yosif Yosifov | Association football | Men's team Competition | 7 December |
| TEAM | PTS | P | W | L | PF | PA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Uruguay | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 238 | 187 |
 Bulgaria | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 242 | 199 |
 Formosa | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 216 | 249 |
 South Korea | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 194 | 255 |
| TEAM | PTS | P | W | L | PF | PA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 United States | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 283 | 150 |
 Soviet Union | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 208 | 209 |
| Bulgaria | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 182 | 224 |
 Brazil | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 192 | 282 |
Two boxers are competing for Bulgaria,including the bronze medalist from the last Olympics Boris Nikolov.He reached the quarterfinal,where he lost from Pietrzykowski from Poland.
| Athlete | Event | First Round | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | ||||
| Boris Nikolov | Men's light middleweight |  Safdar (PAK)W PTS |  Pietrzykowski (POL)L PTS | Did not advance | ||||
| Bozhil Lozanov | Men's heavyweight |  Mukhin (URS)LKO R3 | ||||||
| Athlete | Event | Military press | Snatch | Clean & Jerk | Total | Rank | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||||
| Ivan Abadzhiev | 75 kg | 102.5 | 15 | 117.5 | 2 | 137.5 | 6 | 357.5 | 7 |
| Ivan Veselinov | 90 kg | 132.5 | 4 | 120 | 6 | 155 | 5 | 407.5 | 5 |
Each round featured all wrestlers pairing off and wrestling one bout (with one wrestler having a bye if there were an odd number). 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. Everyone,who is competing in the first round is qualifying for the second,no matter if they achieved a win by decision or fall,or they achieved a lose. At the end of each round, any wrestler with more than 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 (with earlier results counting, if any had wrestled another before); record within the medal round determined medals, with bad points breaking ties.
Key:
| Athlete | Event | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Medal rounds | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | ||
| Dinko Petrov | Men's bantamweight |  Vesterby (SWE)W 2-1 PP |  Vercouteren (BEL)W 3-0 PP | Vyrupayev (URS) L Fall VT | Did not advance | 6 | |
| Dimitar Stoyanov [A] | | Men's lightweight | Anderberg (SWE) W 3–0 PP |  Evans (USA)W 3-0 PP |  Lehtonen (FIN)L 0-3 PO |  Brötzner (AUT)W 3–0 | Did not advance | 5 |
| Mitko Petkov | Men's welterweight |  Vargset (NOR)W 3–0 PP |  Mithat Bayrak (TUR)L Fortreit DQ | Did not advance | 8 | ||
| Dimitar Dobrev | Men's middleweight |  Simic (YUG)W Fall VT | Bye | Punkari (FIN) W 2-1 PP | Kartozia (URS) L 1-2 PO | Jansson (SWE) W 3-0 PP |  |
| Petko Sirakov | Men's light heavyweight | Nikolayev (URS) L 0-3 PO | Atan (TUR) W 2-1 PP | O.Thomas (USA) W Fall VT |  Steckle (CAN)W Fall VT | Nillson (SWE) W 3-0 PP | |
| Husein Mehmedov | Men's heavyweight | Kangasniemi (FIN) W 3-0 PP |  Dietrich (GER)L Fall VT | Parfyonov (URS) L Fortreit DQ | Did not advance | 7 | |
| Athlete | Event | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Medal rounds | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | ||
| Georgi Zaychev | Men's lightweight | Güngör (TUR) L 0-3 PO | Bye | Bestayev (URS) L Fall VT | Did not advance | 10 | |
| Mitko Petkov | Men's welterweight | Ochman (CAN) W Fall VT |  de Villiers (RSA)L 0-3 PP |  Sorouri (IRN)L 0–3 PO | Did not advance | 7 | |
| Nikola Stanchev | Men's middleweight | Skhirtladze (URS) W 3-0 PP |  Katsuramoto (JPN)L Fall VT | Sterr (GER) W Fall VT | Lindblad (SWE) W Fall VT | Hodge (USA) W Fall VT |  |
| Husein Mehmedov | Men's heavyweight | Nouri (IRN) W 3-0 PP | Kangasniemi (FIN) W Fall VT | Vykhristyuk (URS) W 3-0 PP |  Richmond (GBR)W 3-0 PP | Kaplan (TUR) L 0-3 PO | |
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