Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Wrestling at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Basilica of Maxentius
Dates	26 August – 6 September
Competitors	324 from 42 nations
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Wrestlers in the Basilica di Massenzio

At the 1960 Summer Olympics, 16 wrestling events were contested, all for men. There were eight weight classes in Greco-Roman wrestling and eight classes in freestyle wrestling. ^{[1] [2]}

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Turkey	7	2	0	9
2	Soviet Union	3	2	5	10
3	United States	3	0	0	3
4	Bulgaria	1	3	2	6
5	United Team of Germany	1	3	0	4
6	Romania	1	1	1	3
7	Iran	0	1	2	3
8	Egypt	0	1	0	1
	Hungary	0	1	0	1
	Japan	0	1	0	1
	Yugoslavia	0	1	0	1
12	Sweden	0	0	2	2
13	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
	France	0	0	1	1
	Pakistan	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		16	16	16	48

Medal summary

Men's freestyle

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight details	Ahmet Bilek   Turkey	Masayuki Matsubara   Japan	Ebrahim Seifpour   Iran
Bantamweight details	Terrence McCann   United States	Nezhdet Zalev   Bulgaria	Tadeusz Trojanowski   Poland
Featherweight details	Mustafa Dağıstanlı   Turkey	Stancho Kolev   Bulgaria	Vladimir Rubashvili   Soviet Union
Lightweight details	Shelby Wilson   United States	Vladimir Synyavsky   Soviet Union	Enyu Valchev   Bulgaria
Welterweight details	Douglas Blubaugh   United States	İsmail Ogan   Turkey	Muhammad Bashir   Pakistan
Middleweight details	Hasan Güngör   Turkey	Georgy Skhirtladze   Soviet Union	Hans Antonsson   Sweden
Light heavyweight details	İsmet Atlı   Turkey	Gholamreza Takhti   Iran	Anatoli Albul   Soviet Union
Heavyweight details	Wilfried Dietrich   United Team of Germany	Hamit Kaplan   Turkey	Savkuds Dzarasov   Soviet Union

Men's Greco-Roman

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight details	Dumitru Pârvulescu   Romania	Osman El-Sayed   Egypt	Mohammad Paziraei   Iran
Bantamweight details	Oleg Karavayev   Soviet Union	Ion Cernea   Romania	Dinko Petrov   Bulgaria
Featherweight details	Müzahir Sille   Turkey	Imre Polyák   Hungary	Konstantin Vyrupayev   Soviet Union
Lightweight details	Avtandil Koridze   Soviet Union	Branislav Martinović   Yugoslavia	Gustav Freij   Sweden
Welterweight details	Mithat Bayrak   Turkey	Günther Maritschnigg   United Team of Germany	René Schiermeyer   France
Middleweight details	Dimitar Dobrev   Bulgaria	Lothar Metz   United Team of Germany	Ion Țăranu   Romania
Light Heavyweight details	Tevfik Kış   Turkey	Krali Bimbalov   Bulgaria	Givi Kartoziya   Soviet Union
Heavyweight details	Ivan Bogdan   Soviet Union	Wilfried Dietrich   United Team of Germany	Bohumil Kubát   Czechoslovakia

Participating nations

324 wrestlers from 42 countries participated.

1.   Afghanistan  (7)
2.   Argentina  (3)
3.   Australia  (9)
4.   Austria  (7)
5.   Belgium  (5)
6.   Bulgaria  (16)
7.   Czechoslovakia  (5)
8.   Denmark  (4)
9.   Egypt  (4)
10.   Finland  (14)
11.   France  (9)
12.   United Team of Germany  (15)
13.   Great Britain  (6)
14.   Greece  (3)
15.   Hungary  (10)
16.   India  (5)
17.   Iran  (12)
18.   Iraq  (1)
19.   Ireland  (4)
20.   Italy  (16)
21.   Japan  (16)
22.   South Korea  (4)
23.   Lebanon  (6)
24.   Luxembourg  (4)
25.   Mexico  (4)
26.   Morocco  (5)
27.   Netherlands  (3)
28.   New Zealand  (1)
29.   Norway  (4)
30.   Pakistan  (7)
31.   Panama  (1)
32.   Poland  (12)
33.   Portugal  (3)
34.   Romania  (7)
35.   Soviet Union  (16)
36.   Spain  (4)
37.   Sweden  (12)
38.   Switzerland  (12)
39.   Turkey  (16)
40.   United States  (16)
41.   Venezuela  (2)
42.   Yugoslavia  (5)

See also

• List of World and Olympic Champions in men's freestyle wrestling
• List of World and Olympic Champions in Greco-Roman wrestling

References

1. "Wrestling at the 1960 Rome Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
2. "THE GAMES OF THE XVII OLYMPIAD ROME 1960 The Official Report of the Organizing Committee". II part 1: 468–547.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

External links

• Official Olympic Report