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Olympic Wrestling Championships

Wrestling Tournament
@ Georgia World Congress Center (Atlanta, Georgia)
Saturday-Friday, July 20 - August 2, 1996


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Wrestling at the 1996 Olympics. SOURCE: Columbia Daily Tribune, July 7, 1996.

Album: General

Wrestling Wrestling Wrestling Wrestling

Album: Lou Rosselli

Rosselli Earns Spot On Olympic Wrestling Team Middleport Proclaims 'Lou Rosselli Day' Lou On An Olympic Quest Rossellis ready for long, hard climb to the top step Injury knocks Rosselli out of competition Medal for Rosselli may be out of arm's reach A True Olympian Rosselli's Olympic Heroics Overlooked

Men's Greco-Roman - GR (Level: International, Style: Greco-Roman)
Participating Teams
Armenia [ARM], Azerbaijan [AZE], Belarus [BLR], Bulgaria [BUL], Canada [CAN], Cuba [CUB], Georgia [GEO], Germany [GER], Iran [IRI], Japan [JPN], Kazakhstan [KAZ], North Korea [PRK], Russia [RUS], South Korea [KOR], Turkey [TUR], Ukraine [UKR], United States of America [USA]
Team Final
No team scores reported.
Placewinners
48 kg: 1. Kim Il (North Korea [PRK])
52 kg: 1. Valentin Yordanov (Bulgaria [BUL])
57 kg: 1. Kendall Cross (United States of America [USA])
62 kg: 1. Tom Brands (United States of America [USA])
68 kg: 1. Vadim Bogiev (Russia [RUS])
  2. Townsend Saunders (United States of America [USA])
74 kg: 1. Buvaisar Saitiev (Russia [RUS])
82 kg: 1. Khadzhimurad Magomedov (Russia [RUS])
90 kg: 1. Rasoul Khadem (Iran [IRI])
100 kg: 1. Kurt Angle (United States of America [USA])
130 kg: 1. Mahmut Demir (Turkey [TUR])
  3. Bruce Baumgartner (United States of America [USA])

Men's Freestyle - FS (Level: International, Style: Freestyle)
Participating Teams
Armenia [ARM], Belarus [BLR], China [CHN], Cuba [CUB], Finland [FIN], France [FRA], Germany [GER], Kazakhstan [KAZ], Moldova [MDA], Poland [POL], Russia [RUS], South Korea [KOR], Sweden [SWE], Turkey [TUR], Ukraine [UKR], United States of America [USA]
Team Final
No team scores reported.
Placewinners
48 kg: 1. Sim Kwon-ho (South Korea [KOR])
52 kg: 1. Armen Nazaryan (Armenia [ARM])
  2. Brandon Paulson (United States of America [USA])
57 kg: 1. Yuriy Melnichenko (Kazakhstan [KAZ])
  2. Dennis Hall (United States of America [USA])
62 kg: 1. Włodzimierz Zawadzki (Poland [POL])
68 kg: 1. Ryszard Wolny (Poland [POL])
74 kg: 1. Filiberto Azcuy (Cuba [CUB])
82 kg: 1. Hamza Yerlikaya (Turkey [TUR])
90 kg: 1. Vyacheslav Oliynyk (Ukraine [UKR])
100 kg: 1. Andrzej Wronski (Poland [POL])
130 kg: 1. Aleksandr Karelin (Russia [RUS])
  2. Matt Ghaffari (United States of America [USA])



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