Wrestling at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Wrestling
at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Wrestling; at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
	Wrestling at the 1964 Olympics on a stamp of Japan.
Venue	Komazawa Gymnasium
Dates	11 – 19 October
Competitors	275 from 42 nations
	← 1960 1968 →

Last updated July 04, 2021

At the 1964 Summer Olympics, 16 wrestling events were contested, for all men. There were eight weight classes in Greco-Roman wrestling and eight classes in freestyle wrestling.^[1]

Medal Table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	5	0	1	6
2	Soviet Union (URS)	3	4	3	10
3	Bulgaria (BUL)	3	4	1	8
4	Turkey (TUR)	2	3	1	6
5	Hungary (HUN)	2	0	0	2
6	Yugoslavia (YUG)	1	0	1	2
7	United Team of Germany (EUA)	0	1	3	4
8	Romania (ROU)	0	1	2	3
9	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	1	2
10	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	1	0	1
10	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	0	1
12	Iran (IRI)	0	0	2	2
13	United States (USA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 nations)		16	16	16	48

Medal summary

Greco-Roman

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight details	Tsutomu Hanahara Japan	Angel Kerezov Bulgaria	Dumitru Pârvulescu Romania
Bantamweight details	Masamitsu Ichiguchi Japan	Vladlen Trostyansky Soviet Union	Ion Cernea Romania
Featherweight details	Imre Polyák Hungary	Roman Rurua Soviet Union	Branislav Martinović Yugoslavia
Lightweight details	Kazım Ayvaz Turkey	Valeriu Bularca Romania	David Gvantseladze Soviet Union
Welterweight details	Anatoly Kolesov Soviet Union	Kiril Petkov Bulgaria	Bertil Nyström Sweden
Middleweight details	Branislav Simić Yugoslavia	Jiří Kormaník Czechoslovakia	Lothar Metz United Team of Germany
Light Heavyweight details	Boyan Radev Bulgaria	Per Svensson Sweden	Heinz Kiehl United Team of Germany
Heavyweight details	István Kozma Hungary	Anatoly Roshchin Soviet Union	Wilfried Dietrich United Team of Germany

Freestyle

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight details	Yoshikatsu Yoshida Japan	Chang Chang-Sun South Korea	Ali Akbar Heidari Iran
Bantamweight details	Yojiro Uetake Japan	Hüseyin Akbas Turkey	Aydin Ibrahimov Soviet Union
Featherweight details	Osamu Watanabe Japan	Stancho Kolev Bulgaria	Nodar Khokhashvili Soviet Union
Lightweight details	Enyu Valchev Bulgaria	Klaus Rost United Team of Germany	Iwao Horiuchi Japan
Welterweight details	İsmail Ogan Turkey	Guliko Sagaradze Soviet Union	Mohammad Ali Sanatkaran Iran
Middleweight details	Prodan Gardzhev Bulgaria	Hasan Güngör Turkey	Daniel Brand United States
Light Heavyweight details	Aleksandr Medved Soviet Union	Ahmet Ayık Turkey	Said Mustafov Bulgaria
Heavyweight details	Aleksandr Ivanitsky Soviet Union	Lyutvi Ahmedov Bulgaria	Hamit Kaplan Turkey

Participating nations

A total of 275 wrestlers from 42 nations competed at the Tokyo Games:^[1]

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References

1 2 "Wrestling at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
↑ "The Games of the XVIII Olympiad Tokyo 1964 The Official Report of the Organizing Committee". II part 2. 1964: 61–112. Retrieved 21 September 2015.Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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[SR-1] 1 2 "Wrestling at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2019.

[2] "The Games of the XVIII Olympiad Tokyo 1964 The Official Report of the Organizing Committee". II part 2. 1964: 61–112. Retrieved 21 September 2015.Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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