Wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman 82 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 82 kg at the 1996 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program were held at the Georgia World Congress Center from July 19 to July 20.

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	Hamza Yerlikaya  Turkey
Silver	Thomas Zander  Germany
Bronze	Valery Tsilent  Belarus

Results

Round 1

	Score
Daulet Turlykhanov (KAZ)	10–0 Fall	Elias Marcano (VEN)
Raatbek Sanatbayev (KGZ)	3–0	Aleksandar Jovančević (YUG)
Valery Tsilent (BLR)	10–0	Jean-Pierre Wafflard (BEL)
Dan Henderson (USA)	3–1	Pavel Frinta (CZE)
Martin Lidberg (SWE)	2–0	Levon Geghamyan (ARM)
Sergey Tsvir (RUS)	3–0	Péter Farkas (HUN)
Félix Isisola (PER)	0–10	Thomas Zander (GER)
Tuomo Karila (FIN)	0–2	Gocha Tsitsiashvili (ISR)
Park Myung-suk (KOR)	5–3	Anton Arghira (ROU)
Hamza Yerlikaya (TUR)		Bye

Round 2

	Score
Losers table
Elias Marcano (VEN)	1–11	Aleksandar Jovančević (YUG)
Jean-Pierre Wafflard (BEL)	0–2	Pavel Frinta (CZE)
Levon Geghamyan (ARM)	4–0	Péter Farkas (HUN)
Félix Isisola (PER)	0–11	Tuomo Karila (FIN)
Anton Arghira (ROU)		Bye
Winners table
Hamza Yerlikaya (TUR)	7–0	Daulet Turlykhanov (KAZ)
Raatbek Sanatbayev (KGZ)	1–7	Valery Tsilent (BLR)
Dan Henderson (USA)	1–3	Martin Lidberg (SWE)
Sergey Tsvir (RUS)	0–4 DQ	Thomas Zander (GER)
Gocha Tsitsiashvili (ISR)	4–1	Park Myung-suk (KOR)

Round 3

	Score
Losers table
Anton Arghira (ROU)	0–5	Aleksandar Jovančević (YUG)
Pavel Frinta (CZE)	2–3	Levon Geghamyan (ARM)
Tuomo Karila (FIN)	3–7	Daulet Turlykhanov (KAZ)
Raatbek Sanatbayev (KGZ)	3–2	Dan Henderson (USA)
Sergey Tsvir (RUS)	11–0	Park Myung-suk (KOR)
Winners table (Quarterfinals)
Hamza Yerlikaya (TUR)	5–0	Valery Tsilent (BLR)
Martin Lidberg (SWE)		Bye
Thomas Zander (GER)		Bye
Gocha Tsitsiashvili (ISR)		Bye

Round 4

	Score
Losers table
Aleksandar Jovančević (YUG)	0–2	Levon Geghamyan (ARM)
Daulet Turlykhanov (KAZ)	4–3	Raatbek Sanatbayev (KGZ)
Sergey Tsvir (RUS)	0–10 WDR	Valery Tsilent (BLR)
Winners table (Semifinals)
Hamza Yerlikaya (TUR)	1–0	Martin Lidberg (SWE)
Thomas Zander (GER)	3–1	Gocha Tsitsiashvili (ISR)

Round 5

	Score
Losers table
Levon Geghamyan (ARM)	1–3	Daulet Turlykhanov (KAZ)
Valery Tsilent (BLR)		Bye

Round 6

	Score
Losers table
Martin Lidberg (SWE)	1–4	Valery Tsilent (BLR)
Daulet Turlykhanov (KAZ)	4–0	Gocha Tsitsiashvili (ISR)

Finals

	Score
7th place match
Levon Geghamyan (ARM)	WO	Raatbek Sanatbayev (KGZ)
5th place match
Martin Lidberg (SWE)	WO	Gocha Tsitsiashvili (ISR)
Bronze medal match
Valery Tsilent (BLR)	4–0	Daulet Turlykhanov (KAZ)
Gold medal match
Hamza Yerlikaya (TUR)	3–0	Thomas Zander (GER)

Final standing

Rank	Athlete
	Hamza Yerlikaya (TUR)
	Thomas Zander (GER)
	Valery Tsilent (BLR)
4	Daulet Turlykhanov (KAZ)
5	Gocha Tsitsiashvili (ISR)
6	Martin Lidberg (SWE)
7	Levon Geghamyan (ARM)
8	Raatbek Sanatbayev (KGZ)
9	Aleksandar Jovančević (YUG)
10	Sergey Tsvir (RUS)
11	Tuomo Karila (FIN)
12	Dan Henderson (USA)
13	Pavel Frinta (CZE)
14	Park Myung-suk (KOR)
15	Anton Arghira (ROU)
16	Elias Marcano (VEN)
17	Jean-Pierre Wafflard (BEL)
17	Péter Farkas (HUN)
17	Félix Isisola (PER)

References

• Official Report