Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Wrestling at the Games of the XVII Olympiad | |
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Venue | Basilica of Maxentius |
Dates | 26 August – 6 September |
Competitors | 324 from 46 nations |
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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]
Medal table
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Turkey (TUR) | 7 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
2 | Soviet Union (URS) | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 |
3 | United States (USA) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
4 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
5 | United Team of Germany (EUA) | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
6 | Romania (ROU) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
7 | Iran (IRI) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
8 | Egypt (EGY) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Japan (JPN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Yugoslavia (YUG) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
12 | Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
13 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
France (FRA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Pakistan (PAK) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Poland (POL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (16 entries) | 16 | 16 | 16 | 48 |
Medal summary
Greco-Roman
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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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 Kis Turkey | Krali Bimbalov Bulgaria | Givi Kartoziya Soviet Union |
Heavyweight details | Ivan Bogdan Soviet Union | Wilfried Dietrich United Team of Germany | Bohumil Kubát Czechoslovakia |
Freestyle
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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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 | Ismet Atli Turkey | Gholamreza Takhti Iran | Anatoli Albul Soviet Union |
Heavyweight details | 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]
- Afghanistan (7)
- Argentina (3)
- Australia (9)
- Austria (7)
- Belgium (5)
- Bulgaria (16)
- Czechoslovakia (5)
- Denmark (4)
- Egypt (4)
- Finland (14)
- France (9)
- United Team of Germany (15)
- Great Britain (6)
- Greece (3)
- Hungary (10)
- India (5)
- Iran (12)
- Iraq (1)
- Ireland (4)
- Italy (16)
- Japan (16)
- South Korea (4)
- Lebanon (6)
- Luxembourg (4)
- Mexico (4)
- Morocco (5)
- Netherlands (3)
- New Zealand (1)
- Norway (4)
- Pakistan (7)
- Panama (1)
- Poland (12)
- Portugal (3)
- Romania (7)
- Soviet Union (16)
- Spain (4)
- Sweden (12)
- Switzerland (12)
- Turkey (16)
- United States (16)
- Venezuela (2)
- Yugoslavia (5)[2]
See also
- List of World and Olympic Champions in men's freestyle wrestling
- List of World and Olympic Champions in Greco-Roman wrestling
References
- ^ a b "Wrestling at the 1960 Rome Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ^ "THE GAMES OF THE XVII OLYMPIAD ROME 1960 The Official Report of the Organizing Committee". II part 1: 468–547.
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External links
- Official Olympic Report