Bulgaria at the 1956 Summer Olympics

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

Gold

 * Nikola Stanchev &mdash; Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Middleweight

Silver

 * Dimitar Dobrev &mdash; Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Middleweight
 * Petko Sirakov &mdash; Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Light Heavyweight
 * Yusein Mekhmedov &mdash; Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Heavyweight

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 &mdash; Football (soccer), Men's Team Competition

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.

Weightlifting

 * Men

Wrestling
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:
 * Competition format
 * 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

Notes 
 * Men's Freestyle