Wrestling at the 1962 Asian Games

Wrestling
at the 1962 Asian Games

Venue| Ikada Sports Hall
Dates| 25–30 August 1962
Competitors| 59 from 8 nations

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Wrestling at the 1962 Asian Games on a stamp of Indonesia

Wrestling was one of the sports which was held at the 1962 Asian Games at Ikada Sports Hall in Jakarta, Indonesia between 25 and 30 August 1962. The competition included only men's events.

## Medalists

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### Freestyle

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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Flyweight
(52 kg) details | Noriyuki Harada
Japan | Chang Chang-sun
South Korea | Malwa Singh
India
Bantamweight
(57 kg) details | Tadashi Asai
Japan | Siraj Din
Pakistan | Choi Young-kil
South Korea
Featherweight
(63 kg) details | Osamu Watanabe
Japan | Muhammad Akhtar
Pakistan | Mohammad Ebrahim Khedri
Afghanistan
Lightweight
(70 kg) details | Kazuo Abe
Japan | Udey Chand
India | Ghulam Rasool
Pakistan
Welterweight
(78 kg) details | Yutaka Kaneko
Japan | Muhammad Bashir
Pakistan | Lakshmikant Pandey
India
Middleweight
(87 kg) details | Faiz Muhammad
Pakistan | Sajjan Singh
India | Shunichi Kawano
Japan
Light heavyweight
(97 kg) details | Maruti Mane
India | Haruo Takagi
Japan | Muhammad Niaz
Pakistan
Heavyweight
(+97 kg) details | Muhammad Saeed
Pakistan | Ganpat Andalkar
India | Jiro Seki
Japan

### Greco-Roman

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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Flyweight
(52 kg) details | Malwa Singh
India | Tsutomu Hanahara
Japan | Mujari
Indonesia
Bantamweight
(57 kg) details | Masamitsu Ichiguchi
Japan | Siraj Din
Pakistan | Narin Ghume
India
Featherweight
(63 kg) details | Tokuaki Fujita
Japan | Muhammad Akhtar
Pakistan | Rachman Firdaus
Indonesia
Lightweight
(70 kg) details | Yoichi Sasaki
Japan | Udey Chand
India | Ghulam Rasool
Pakistan
Welterweight
(78 kg) details | Yutaka Kaneko
Japan | Muhammad Bashir
Pakistan | Oh Jae-young
South Korea
Middleweight
(87 kg) details | Shunichi Kawano
Japan | Sajjan Singh
India | Faiz Muhammad
Pakistan
Light heavyweight
(97 kg) details | Muhammad Niaz
Pakistan | Haruo Takagi
Japan | Shared silver
Maruti Mane
India
Heavyweight
(+97 kg) details | Ganpat Andalkar
India | Muhammad Saeed
Pakistan | Jiro Seki
Japan

## Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Japan (JPN)| 10| 3| 3| 16
2|  Pakistan (PAK)| 3| 7| 4| 14
3|  India (IND)| 3| 6| 3| 12
4|  South Korea (KOR)| 0| 1| 2| 3
5|  Indonesia (INA)| 0| 0| 2| 2
6|  Afghanistan (AFG)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (6 entries)| 16| 17| 15| 48

## Participating nations

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A total of 59 athletes from 8 nations competed in wrestling at the 1962 Asian Games:

*  Afghanistan (7)
*  Ceylon (1)
*  India (7)
*  Indonesia (13)
*  Japan (12)
*  Pakistan (8)
*  Philippines (6)
*  South Korea (5)

## References

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* Freestyle result
* Greco-roman result

## External links

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* UWW Database

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Events at the 1962 Asian Games (Jakarta)

* Athletics
* Badminton
* Basketball
* Boxing
* Cycling
* Diving
* Field hockey
* Football
* Shooting
* Swimming
* Table tennis
* Tennis
* Volleyball
* Water polo
* Wrestling

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Wrestling at the Asian Games

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