Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Wrestling
at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
VenueBasilica of Maxentius
Dates26 August – 6 September
Competitors324 from 46 nations
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Wrestler in Basilica di Massenzio.

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.

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Turkey (TUR)7209
2 Soviet Union (URS)32510
3 United States (USA)3003
4 Bulgaria (BUL)1326
5 United Team of Germany (EUA)1304
6 Romania (ROU)1113
7 Iran (IRI)0123
8 Egypt (EGY)0101
 Hungary (HUN)0101
 Japan (JPN)0101
 Yugoslavia (YUG)0101
12 Sweden (SWE)0022
13 Czechoslovakia (TCH)0011
 France (FRA)0011
 Pakistan (PAK)0011
 Poland (POL)0011
Totals (16 entries)16161648

Medal summary

Greco-Roman

Games Gold Silver Bronze
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
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:

See also


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