Wrestling at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Wrestling

at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad

Wrestling at the 1964 Olympics on a stamp of Japan.

Venue| Komazawa Gymnasium
Dates| 11 – 19 October
Competitors| 275 from 42 nations

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Wrestling at the
1964 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 1964 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.[1]

## Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Japan (JPN)| 5| 0| 1| 6
2|  Soviet Union (URS)| 3| 4| 3| 10
3|  Bulgaria (BUL)| 3| 4| 1| 8
4|  Turkey (TUR)| 2| 3| 1| 6
5|  Hungary (HUN)| 2| 0| 0| 2
6|  Yugoslavia (YUG)| 1| 0| 1| 2
7|  United Team of Germany (EUA)| 0| 1| 3| 4
8|  Romania (ROU)| 0| 1| 2| 3
9|  Sweden (SWE)| 0| 1| 1| 2
10|  Czechoslovakia (TCH)| 0| 1| 0| 1
South Korea (KOR)| 0| 1| 0| 1
12|  Iran (IRI)| 0| 0| 2| 2
13|  United States (USA)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (13 entries)| 16| 16| 16| 48

## Medal summary

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### Greco-Roman

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Games  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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Flyweight
details | Tsutomu Hanahara
Japan | Angel Kerezov
Bulgaria | Dumitru Pârvulescu
Romania
Bantamweight
details | Masamitsu Ichiguchi
Japan | Vladlen Trostyansky
Soviet Union | Ion Cernea
Romania
Featherweight
details | Imre Polyák
Hungary | Roman Rurua
Soviet Union | Branislav Martinović
Yugoslavia
Lightweight
details | Kazım Ayvaz
Turkey | Valeriu Bularca
Romania | David Gvantseladze
Soviet Union
Welterweight
details | Anatoly Kolesov
Soviet Union | Kiril Petkov
Bulgaria | Bertil Nyström
Sweden
Middleweight
details | Branislav Simić
Yugoslavia | Jiří Kormaník
Czechoslovakia | Lothar Metz
United Team of Germany
Light Heavyweight
details | Boyan Radev
Bulgaria | Per Svensson
Sweden | Heinz Kiehl
United Team of Germany
Heavyweight
details | István Kozma
Hungary | Anatoly Roshchin
Soviet Union | Wilfried Dietrich
United Team of Germany

### Freestyle

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Games  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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Flyweight
details | Yoshikatsu Yoshida
Japan | Chang Chang-Sun
South Korea | Ali Akbar Heidari
Iran
Bantamweight
details | Yojiro Uetake
Japan | Hüseyin Akbas
Turkey | Aydin Ibrahimov
Soviet Union
Featherweight
details | Osamu Watanabe
Japan | Stancho Kolev
Bulgaria | Nodar Khokhashvili
Soviet Union
Lightweight
details | Enyu Valchev
Bulgaria | Klaus Rost
United Team of Germany | Iwao Horiuchi
Japan
Welterweight
details | İsmail Ogan
Turkey | Guliko Sagaradze
Soviet Union | Mohammad Ali Sanatkaran
Iran
Middleweight
details | Prodan Gardzhev
Bulgaria | Hasan Güngör
Turkey | Daniel Brand
United States
Light Heavyweight
details | Aleksandr Medved
Soviet Union | Ahmet Ayık
Turkey | Said Mustafov
Bulgaria
Heavyweight
details | Aleksandr Ivanitsky
Soviet Union | Lyutvi Ahmedov
Bulgaria | Hamit Kaplan
Turkey

## Participating nations

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A total of 275 wrestlers from 42 nations competed at the Tokyo Games:[1]

*  Afghanistan (8)
*  Argentina (4)
*  Australia (8)
*  Austria (4)
*  Belgium (3)
*  Bulgaria (16)
*  Canada (4)
*  Czechoslovakia (4)
*  Denmark (3)
*  Egypt (4)
*  Finland (10)
*  France (3)
*  United Team of Germany (14)
*  Great Britain (6)
*  Greece (5)
*  Hungary (10)
*  India (8)
*  Iran (12)
*  Ireland (2)
*  Italy (5)
*  Japan (16)
*  South Korea (13)
*  Luxembourg (1)
*  Mexico (4)
*  Mongolia (8)
*  New Zealand (2)
*  Norway (1)
*  Pakistan (6)
*  Panama (3)
*  Philippines (4)
*  Poland (5)
*  Romania (10)
*  Soviet Union (16)
*  Spain (1)
*  Sweden (9)
*  Switzerland (3)
*  Turkey (15)
*  United States (16)
*  Yugoslavia (4)[2]

## See also

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* List of World and Olympic Champions in men's freestyle wrestling
* List of World and Olympic Champions in Greco-Roman wrestling

## References

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wrestling at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

1. ^ a b "Wrestling at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
2. ^ "The Games of the XVIII Olympiad Tokyo 1964 The Official Report of the Organizing Committee". Digital Library Collection. II part 2: 61–112\. 1964. Archived from the original on 29 September 2015. Retrieved 21 September 2015.

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