1961 World Championships | |
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Host city | Yokohama, Japan |
Dates | 2–7 June |
Stadium | Hiyoshi Commemorative Hall |
Champions | |
Freestyle | Iran |
Greco-Roman | Soviet Union |
The 1961 World Wrestling Championships were held in Yokohama, Japan.
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Soviet Union | 7 | 4 | 1 | 12 |
2 | Iran | 5 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
3 | Hungary | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
4 | Romania | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
5 | United Arab Republic | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
West Germany | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
7 | Turkey | 0 | 4 | 6 | 10 |
8 | Sweden | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Yugoslavia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
10 | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
India | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Japan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (12 nations) | 16 | 16 | 16 | 48 |
Rank | Men's freestyle | Men's Greco-Roman | ||
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Team | Points | Team | Points | |
1 | Iran | 41 | Soviet Union | 38 |
2 | Soviet Union | 33 | Turkey | 27.5 |
3 | Turkey | 26 | Romania | 23.5 |
4 | Japan | 15 | Hungary | 15 |
5 | Hungary | 13 | Yugoslavia | 12 |
6 | United States | 11.5 | Czechoslovakia | 8.5 |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Flyweight 52 kg | Ali Aliyev Soviet Union | Nasrollah Soltaninejad Iran | Cemal Yanılmaz Turkey |
Bantamweight 57 kg | Ebrahim Seifpour Iran | János Varga Hungary | Hüseyin Akbaş Turkey |
Featherweight 62 kg | Vladimir Rubashvili Soviet Union | Yunus Pehlivan Turkey | Hamid Tavakkol Iran |
Lightweight 67 kg | Mohammad Ali Sanatkaran Iran | Vladimir Sinyavsky Soviet Union | Udey Chand India |
Welterweight 73 kg | Emam-Ali Habibi Iran | Mikhail Bekmurzov Soviet Union | Yutaka Kaneko Japan |
Middleweight 79 kg | Mansour Mehdizadeh Iran | Géza Hollósi Hungary | Hans Antonsson Sweden |
Light heavyweight 87 kg | Gholamreza Takhti Iran | Boris Gurevich Soviet Union | Hasan Güngör Turkey |
Heavyweight +87 kg | Wilfried Dietrich West Germany | Hamit Kaplan Turkey | Aleksandr Medved Soviet Union |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Flyweight 52 kg | Armais Sayadov Soviet Union | Dumitru Pârvulescu Romania | Burhan Bozkurt Turkey |
Bantamweight 57 kg | Oleg Karavayev Soviet Union | Ion Cernea Romania | Jiří Švec Czechoslovakia |
Featherweight 62 kg | Moustafa Hamid Mansour United Arab Republic | Yaşar Yılmaz Turkey | Alireza Ghelichkhani Iran |
Lightweight 67 kg | Avtandil Koridze Soviet Union | Imre Polyák Hungary | Branislav Martinović Yugoslavia |
Welterweight 73 kg | Valeriu Bularca Romania | Stevan Horvat Yugoslavia | Ziya Doğan Turkey |
Middleweight 79 kg | Vasily Zenin Soviet Union | Bertil Nyström Sweden | Yavuz Selekman Turkey |
Light heavyweight 87 kg | György Gurics Hungary | Arkady Tkachev Soviet Union | Gheorghe Popovici Romania |
Heavyweight +87 kg | Ivan Bogdan Soviet Union | Hamit Kaplan Turkey | István Kozma Hungary |