Wrestling at the Games of the XVI Olympiad | |
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Venue | Royal Exhibition Building |
Dates | 28 November – 6 December |
Competitors | 173 from 30 nations |
Wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics | |
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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 |
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 table
[edit]Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | ![]() | 6 | 2 | 5 | 13 |
2 | ![]() | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
3 | ![]() | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
4 | ![]() | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
5 | ![]() | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
6 | ![]() | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
7 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
8 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
11 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
13 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Totals (13 entries) | 16 | 16 | 16 | 48 |
Medal summary
[edit]Greco-Roman
[edit]Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Flyweight |
Nikolai Solovyov![]() |
Ignazio Fabra![]() |
Dursun Ali Egribas![]() |
Bantamweight |
Konstantin Vyrupayev![]() |
Edvin Vesterby![]() |
Francisc Horvat![]() |
Featherweight |
Rauno Mäkinen![]() |
Imre Polyák![]() |
Roman Dzeneladze![]() |
Lightweight |
Kyösti Lehtonen![]() |
Riza Dogan![]() |
Gyula Tóth![]() |
Welterweight |
Mithat Bayrak![]() |
Vladimir Maneyev![]() |
Per Gunnar Berlin![]() |
Middleweight |
Givi Kartozia![]() |
Dimitar Dobrev![]() |
Rune Jansson![]() |
Light Heavyweight |
Valentin Nikolayev![]() |
Petko Sirakov![]() |
Karl-Erik Nilsson![]() |
Heavyweight |
Anatoli Parfenov![]() |
Wilfried Dietrich![]() |
Adelmo Bulgarelli![]() |
Freestyle
[edit]Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Flyweight |
Mirian Tsalkalamanidze![]() |
M. Ali Khojastehpour![]() |
Hüseyin Akbaş![]() |
Bantamweight |
Mustafa Dağıstanlı![]() |
Mehdi Yaghoubi![]() |
Mikhail Shakhov![]() |
Featherweight |
Shozo Sasahara![]() |
Joseph Mewis![]() |
Erkki Penttilä![]() |
Lightweight |
Emam-Ali Habibi![]() |
Shigeru Kasahara![]() |
Alimbeg Bestayev![]() |
Welterweight |
Mitsuo Ikeda![]() |
Ibrahim Zengin![]() |
Vakhtang Balavadze![]() |
Middleweight |
Nikola Stanchev![]() |
Danny Hodge![]() |
Georgi Skhirtladze![]() |
Light heavyweight |
Gholamreza Takhti![]() |
Boris Kulayev![]() |
Peter Blair![]() |
Heavyweight |
Hamit Kaplan![]() |
Hussein Mehmedov![]() |
Taisto Kangasniemi![]() |
Participating nations
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ a b "Wrestling at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
- ^ "THE OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR THE GAMES OF THE XVI OLYMPIAD MELBOURNE 1956". I. 1958: 650–691. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
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