Wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Wrestling

at the Games of the XVI Olympiad

Venue| Royal Exhibition Building
Dates| 28 November – 6 December
Competitors| 173 from 30 nations

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Wrestling at the
1956 Summer Olympics

Greco-Roman
Fly| men
Bantam| men
Feather| men
Light| men
Welter| men
Middle| men
Light heavy| men
Heavy| men
Freestyle
Fly| men
Bantam| men
Feather| men
Light| men
Welter| men
Middle| men
Light heavy| men
Heavy| men

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At the 1956 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 summary

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### Freestyle

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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Flyweight
details | Mirian Tsalkalamanidze
Soviet Union | Mohammad Ali Khojastehpour
Iran | Hüseyin Akbaş
Turkey
Bantamweight
details | Mustafa Dağıstanlı
Turkey | Mehdi Yaghoubi
Iran | Mikhail Shakhov
Soviet Union
Featherweight
details | Shozo Sasahara
Japan | Joseph Mewis
Belgium | Erkki Penttilä
Finland
Lightweight
details | Emam-Ali Habibi
Iran | Shigeru Kasahara
Japan | Alimbeg Bestaev
Soviet Union
Welterweight
details | Mitsuo Ikeda
Japan | Ibrahim Zengin
Turkey | Vakhtang Balavadze
Soviet Union
Middleweight
details | Nikola Stanchev
Bulgaria | Danny Hodge
United States | Georgi Skhirtladze
Soviet Union
Light heavyweight
details | Gholamreza Takhti
Iran | Boris Kulayev
Soviet Union | Peter Blair
United States
Heavyweight
details | Hamit Kaplan
Turkey | Hussein Mehmedov
Bulgaria | Taisto Kangasniemi
Finland

### Greco-Roman

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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Flyweight
details | Nikolai Solovyov
Soviet Union | Ignazio Fabra
Italy | Dursun Ali Egribas
Turkey
Bantamweight
details | Konstantin Vyrupayev
Soviet Union | Edvin Vesterby
Sweden | Francisc Horvat
Romania
Featherweight
details | Rauno Mäkinen
Finland | Imre Polyák
Hungary | Roman Dzeneladze
Soviet Union
Lightweight
details | Kyösti Lehtonen
Finland | Riza Dogan
Turkey | Gyula Tóth
Hungary
Welterweight
details | Mithat Bayrak
Turkey | Vladimir Maneev
Soviet Union | Per Gunnar Berlin
Sweden
Middleweight
details | Givi Kartozia
Soviet Union | Dimitar Dobrev
Bulgaria | Rune Jansson
Sweden
Light Heavyweight
details | Valentin Nikolayev
Soviet Union | Petko Sirakov
Bulgaria | Karl-Erik Nilsson
Sweden
Heavyweight
details | Anatoli Parfenov
Soviet Union | Wilfried Dietrich
United Team of Germany | Adelmo Bulgarelli
Italy

## Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Soviet Union (URS)| 6| 2| 5| 13
2|  Turkey (TUR)| 3| 2| 2| 7
3|  Iran (IRN)| 2| 2| 0| 4
4|  Japan (JPN)| 2| 1| 0| 3
5|  Finland (FIN)| 2| 0| 2| 4
6|  Bulgaria (BUL)| 1| 3| 0| 4
7|  Sweden (SWE)| 0| 1| 3| 4
8|  Hungary (HUN)| 0| 1| 1| 2
Italy (ITA)| 0| 1| 1| 2
United States (USA)| 0| 1| 1| 2
11|  Belgium (BEL)| 0| 1| 0| 1
United Team of Germany (EUA)| 0| 1| 0| 1
13|  Romania (ROU)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (13 entries)| 16| 16| 16| 48

## Participating nations

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A total of 173 wrestlers from 30 nations competed at the Melbourne Games:[1]

* Argentina (2)
* Australia (15)
* Austria (4)
* Belgium (3)
* Bulgaria (8)
* Canada (2)
* Finland (10)
* France (2)
* United Team of Germany (5)
* Great Britain (4)
* Greece (2)
* Hungary (8)
* India (7)
* Iran (8)
* Ireland (1)
* Italy (5)
* Japan (8)
* South Korea (3)
* Mexico (1)
* New Zealand (1)
* Norway (1)
* Pakistan (6)
* Philippines (3)
* Romania (4)
* South Africa (4)
* Soviet Union (16)
* Sweden (10)
* Turkey (13)
* United States (15)
* Yugoslavia (2)[2]

## References

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1. ^ a b "Wrestling at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
2. ^ "THE OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR THE GAMES OF THE XVI OLYMPIAD MELBOURNE 1956". I. 1958: 650–691\. Archived from the original on 31 January 2016. Retrieved 23 September 2015. `{{cite journal}}`: Cite journal requires `|journal=` (help)

## External links

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* Official Olympic Report

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