Wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman 82 kg

The men's Greco-Roman 82 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.^[1]

Men's Greco-Roman 82 kg at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue	Georgia World Congress Center
Dates	20–21 July 1996
Competitors	19 from 19 nations
Medalists
Hamza Yerlikaya  Turkey Thomas Zander  Germany Valery Tsilent  Belarus
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Results

Legend

• DQ — Won by disqualification
• WO — Won by walkover

Round 1

	Score		CP
1/16 finals
Daulet Turlykhanov (KAZ)	10–0 Fall	Elias Marcano (VEN)	4–0 TO
Raatbek Sanatbayev (KGZ)	3–0	Aleksandar Jovančević (YUG)	3–0 PO
Valery Tsilent (BLR)	10–0	Jean-Pierre Wafflard (BEL)	4–0 ST
Dan Henderson (USA)	3–1	Pavel Frinta (CZE)	3–1 PP
Martin Lidberg (SWE)	2–0	Levon Geghamyan (ARM)	3–0 PO
Sergey Tsvir (RUS)	3–0	Péter Farkas (HUN)	3–0 PO
Félix Isisola (PER)	0–10	Thomas Zander (GER)	0–4 ST
Tuomo Karila (FIN)	0–2	Gocha Tsitsiashvili (ISR)	0–3 PO
Park Myung-suk (KOR)	5–3	Anton Arghira (ROM)	3–1 PP
Hamza Yerlikaya (TUR)		Bye

Round 2

	Score		CP
1/8 finals
Hamza Yerlikaya (TUR)	7–0	Daulet Turlykhanov (KAZ)	3–0 PO
Raatbek Sanatbayev (KGZ)	1–7	Valery Tsilent (BLR)	1–3 PP
Dan Henderson (USA)	1–3	Martin Lidberg (SWE)	1–3 PP
Sergey Tsvir (RUS)	0–4 DQ	Thomas Zander (GER)	0–4 EV
Gocha Tsitsiashvili (ISR)	4–1	Park Myung-suk (KOR)	3–1 PP
Repechage
Elias Marcano (VEN)	1–11	Aleksandar Jovančević (YUG)	1–4 SP
Jean-Pierre Wafflard (BEL)	0–2	Pavel Frinta (CZE)	0–3 PO
Levon Geghamyan (ARM)	4–0	Péter Farkas (HUN)	3–0 PO
Félix Isisola (PER)	0–11	Tuomo Karila (FIN)	0–4 ST
Anton Arghira (ROM)		Bye

Round 3

	Score		CP
Quarterfinals
Hamza Yerlikaya (TUR)	5–0	Valery Tsilent (BLR)	3–0 PO
Martin Lidberg (SWE)		Bye
Thomas Zander (GER)		Bye
Gocha Tsitsiashvili (ISR)		Bye
Repechage
Anton Arghira (ROM)	0–5	Aleksandar Jovančević (YUG)	0–3 PO
Pavel Frinta (CZE)	2–3	Levon Geghamyan (ARM)	1–3 PP
Tuomo Karila (FIN)	3–7	Daulet Turlykhanov (KAZ)	1–3 PP
Raatbek Sanatbayev (KGZ)	3–2	Dan Henderson (USA)	3–1 PP
Sergey Tsvir (RUS)	11–0	Park Myung-suk (KOR)	4–0 ST

Round 4

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

Round 5

	Score		CP
Repechage
Levon Geghamyan (ARM)	1–3	Daulet Turlykhanov (KAZ)	1–3 PP
Valery Tsilent (BLR)		Bye

Round 6

	Score		CP
Repechage
Martin Lidberg (SWE)	1–4	Valery Tsilent (BLR)	1–3 PP
Daulet Turlykhanov (KAZ)	4–0	Gocha Tsitsiashvili (ISR)	3–0 PO

Finals

	Score		CP
Classification 7th–8th
Levon Geghamyan (ARM)	WO	Raatbek Sanatbayev (KGZ)	4–0 PA
Classification 5th–6th
Martin Lidberg (SWE)	WO	Gocha Tsitsiashvili (ISR)	0–4 PA
Bronze medal match
Valery Tsilent (BLR)	4–0	Daulet Turlykhanov (KAZ)	3–0 PO
Gold medal match
Hamza Yerlikaya (TUR)	3–0	Thomas Zander (GER)	3–0 PO

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 (ROM)
16	Elias Marcano (VEN)
17	Jean-Pierre Wafflard (BEL)
17	Péter Farkas (HUN)
17	Félix Isisola (PER)