Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics

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]

Wrestling
at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
VenueBasilica of Maxentius
Dates26 August – 6 September
Competitors324 from 46 nations
Wrestler in Basilica di Massenzio.
Wrestling at the
1960 Summer Olympics
Greco-Roman
Flymen
Bantammen
Feathermen
Lightmen
Weltermen
Middlemen
Light heavymen
Heavymen
Freestyle
Flymen
Bantammen
Feathermen
Lightmen
Weltermen
Middlemen
Light heavymen
Heavymen

Medal summary

Greco-Roman
Event 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 Kis
 Turkey		 Krali Bimbalov
 Bulgaria		 Givi Kartoziya
 Soviet Union
Heavyweight
 Ivan Bogdan
 Soviet Union		 Wilfried Dietrich
 United Team of Germany		 Bohumil Kubát
 Czechoslovakia

Freestyle
Event 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
 Ismet Atli
 Turkey		 Gholamreza Takhti
 Iran		 Anatoli Albul
 Soviet Union
Heavyweight
 Wilfried Dietrich
 United Team of Germany		 Hamit Kaplan
 Turkey		 Savkuds Dzarasov
 Soviet Union

Participating nations

A total of 324 wrestlers from 46 nations competed at the Rome Games:[1]

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 requires |journal= (help)
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