# Bulgaria at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Bulgaria competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia and Stockholm, Sweden (equestrian events).

## Medalists

| 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 |

## Basketball
### Group C

| 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 |
Uruguay 70,  Bulgaria 65 :
* Scoring by half: 38–35, 32–30 ||
Bulgaria 89,  South Korea 58 :
* Scoring by half: 47–33, 42–25 ||
Formosa 71,  Bulgaria 88 :
* Scoring by half: 35–47, 36–41 ||

### Group B

| 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 |
Bulgaria 44,  United States 85 :
* Scoring by half: 19–48, 25–37 ||
Bulgaria 56,  Soviet Union 66 :
* Scoring by half: 32–37, 24–29 ||
Bulgaria 82,  Brazil 73 :
* Scoring by half: 38–36, 44–37 ||

### 5th place match
## Boxing

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 | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | 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 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Bozhil Lozanov | Men's heavyweight | Mukhin (URS) L $^{KOR3}$ |

## Weightlifting
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Military press | Military press | Snatch | Snatch | Clean & Jerk | Clean & Jerk | Total | Rank |
| Athlete | Event | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Total | 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 |

## Wrestling
### Competition format

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:
* VT - Victory by Fall.
* PP - Decision by Points - the loser with technical points.
* PO - Decision by Points - the loser without technical points.
* DQ - Fortreit - Lost because of fortreit.

### Men's Greco-Roman

| Athlete | Event | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Medal rounds | Rank |
| Athlete | Event | 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 | Did not advance | 6 |
| Dimitar Stoyanov| | 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  Doğan (TUR) L 1-2 $^{PO}$ | Did not advance | 5 |
| Mitko Petkov | Men's welterweight | Vargset (NOR) W 3–0 $^{PP}$ | Mithat Bayrak (TUR) L Fortreit $^{DQ}$ | Did not advance | Did not advance | 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 | Did not advance | 7 |

### Men's Freestyle

| Athlete | Event | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Medal rounds | Rank |
| Athlete | Event | 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 | 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 | 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 $^{PO}$ | |
Notes
* ↑ In the third round Stoyanov lost from Kyösti Lehtonen from Finland with result 0-3,but apart from that he was in the top five wrestlers with fewest points,which was enough for him to advance to the fourth round. In the fourth round,Stoyanov had to play two matches and win both of them to qualify for the medal rounds.Unfortunately,he lost his match against Riza Doğan from Turkey with result 1-3 and he did not advance