Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Wrestling
at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
VenueBasilica of Maxentius
Dates26 August – 6 September
Competitors324 from 42 nations
Wrestling at the
1960 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
Flymen
Bantammen
Feathermen
Lightmen
Weltermen
Middlemen
Light heavymen
Heavymen
Greco-Roman
Flymen
Bantammen
Feathermen
Lightmen
Weltermen
Middlemen
Light heavymen
Heavymen

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

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Turkey7209
2 Soviet Union32510
3 United States3003
4 Bulgaria1326
5 United Team of Germany1304
6 Romania1113
7 Iran0123
8 Egypt0101
 Hungary0101
 Japan0101
 Yugoslavia0101
12 Sweden0022
13 Czechoslovakia0011
 France0011
 Pakistan0011
 Poland0011
Totals (16 entries)16161648

Medal summary

Men's freestyle

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

Men's Greco-Roman

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

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)
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