Wrestling at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Wrestling
at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Venue Insurgentes Ice Rink
Dates 16–26 October
Competitors 297 from 46 nations

At the 1968 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.

Medal summary

Freestyle

Event Gold Silver Bronze
52 kg
  Shigeo Nakata (JPN)  Richard Sanders (USA)  Chimedbazaryn Damdinsharav (MGL)
57 kg
  Yojiro Uetake (JPN)  Donald Behm (USA)  Aboutaleb Talebi (IRI)
63 kg
  Masaaki Kaneko (JPN)  Enyu Todorov (BUL)  Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi (IRI)
70 kg
  Abdollah Movahed (IRI)  Enyu Valchev (BUL)  Danzandarjaagiin Sereeter (MGL)
78 kg
  Mahmut Atalay (TUR)  Daniel Robin (FRA)  Tömöriin Artag (MGL)
87 kg
  Boris Michail Gurevich (URS)  Jigjidiin Mönkhbat (MGL)  Prodan Gardzhev (BUL)
97 kg
  Ahmet Ayık (TUR)  Shota Lomidze (URS)  József Csatári (HUN)
+97 kg
  Aleksandr Medved (URS)  Osman Duraliev (BUL)  Wilfried Dietrich (FRG)

Greco-Roman

Event Gold Silver Bronze
52 kg
 Petar Kirov
 Bulgaria		 Vladimir Bakulin
 Soviet Union		 Miroslav Zeman
 Czechoslovakia
57 kg
 János Varga
 Hungary		 Ion Baciu
 Romania		 Ivan Kochergin
 Soviet Union
63 kg
 Roman Rurua
 Soviet Union		 Hideo Fujimoto
 Japan		 Simion Popescu
 Romania
70 kg
 Muneji Munemura
 Japan		 Stevan Horvat
 Yugoslavia		 Petros Galaktopoulos
 Greece
78 kg
 Rudolf Vesper
 East Germany		 Daniel Robin
 France		 Károly Bajkó
 Hungary
87 kg
 Lothar Metz
 East Germany		 Valentin Oleynik
 Soviet Union		 Branislav Simić
 Yugoslavia
97 kg
 Boyan Radev
 Bulgaria		 Nikolai Yakovenko
 Soviet Union		 Nicolae Martinescu
 Romania
+97 kg
 István Kozma
 Hungary		 Anatoly Roshchin
 Soviet Union		 Petr Kment
 Czechoslovakia

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Japan (JPN)4105
2 Soviet Union (URS)3519
3 Bulgaria (BUL)2316
4 Hungary (HUN)2024
5 East Germany (GDR)2002
 Turkey (TUR)2002
7 Iran (IRI)1023
8 France (FRA)0202
 United States (USA)0202
10 Mongolia (MGL)0134
11 Romania (ROU)0123
12 Yugoslavia (YUG)0112
13 Czechoslovakia (TCH)0022
14 Greece (GRE)0011
 West Germany (FRG)0011
Totals (15 nations)16161648


Participating nations

A total of 296 wrestlers from 45 nations competed at the Mexico City Games:

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The Official Report 1968 Produced by the Organizing Committee of the Games of the XIX Olympiad". III part 2. 1969: 300–317. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  • "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2008-10-29.
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