Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Wrestling at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Basilica of Maxentius
Dates	26 August – 6 September
Competitors	324 from 46 nations

Wrestlers in the 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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Turkey (TUR)	7	2	0	9
2	Soviet Union (URS)	3	2	5	10
3	United States (USA)	3	0	0	3
4	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	3	2	6
5	United Team of Germany (EUA)	1	3	0	4
6	Romania (ROU)	1	1	1	3
7	Iran (IRI)	0	1	2	3
8	Egypt (EGY)	0	1	0	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	1	0	1
12	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	2	2
13	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	0	1	1
	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Pakistan (PAK)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		16	16	16	48

Medal summary

Greco-Roman

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight	Dumitru Pârvulescu  Romania	Osman El-Sayed  Egypt	Mohammad Paziraei  Iran
Bantamweight	Oleg Karavayev  Soviet Union	Ion Cernea  Romania	Dinko Petrov  Bulgaria
Featherweight	Müzahir Sille  Turkey	Imre Polyák  Hungary	Konstantin Vyrupayev  Soviet Union
Lightweight	Avtandil Koridze  Soviet Union	Branislav Martinović  Yugoslavia	Gustav Freij  Sweden
Welterweight	Mithat Bayrak  Turkey	Günther Maritschnigg  United Team of Germany	René Schiermeyer  France
Middleweight	Dimitar Dobrev  Bulgaria	Lothar Metz  United Team of Germany	Ion Țăranu  Romania
Light Heavyweight	Tevfik Kis  Turkey	Krali Bimbalov  Bulgaria	Givi Kartoziya  Soviet Union
Heavyweight	Ivan Bogdan  Soviet Union	Wilfried Dietrich  United Team of Germany	Bohumil Kubát  Czechoslovakia

Freestyle

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight	Ahmet Bilek  Turkey	Masayuki Matsubara  Japan	Ebrahim Seifpour  Iran
Bantamweight	Terrence McCann  United States	Nezhdet Zalev  Bulgaria	Tadeusz Trojanowski  Poland
Featherweight	Mustafa Dağıstanlı  Turkey	Stancho Kolev  Bulgaria	Vladimir Rubashvili  Soviet Union
Lightweight	Shelby Wilson  United States	Vladimir Synyavsky  Soviet Union	Enyu Valchev  Bulgaria
Welterweight	Douglas Blubaugh  United States	İsmail Ogan  Turkey	Muhammad Bashir  Pakistan
Middleweight	Hasan Güngör  Turkey	Georgy Skhirtladze  Soviet Union	Hans Antonsson  Sweden
Light heavyweight	Ismet Atli  Turkey	Gholamreza Takhti  Iran	Anatoli Albul  Soviet Union
Heavyweight	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:

•  Afghanistan (7)
•  Argentina (3)
•  Australia (9)
•  Austria (7)
•  Belgium (5)
•  Bulgaria (16)
•  Czechoslovakia (5)
•  Denmark (4)
•  Egypt (4)
•  Finland (14)
•  France (9)
•  United Team of Germany (15)
•  Great Britain (6)
•  Greece (3)
•  Hungary (10)
•  India (5)
•  Iran (12)
•  Iraq (1)
•  Ireland (4)
•  Italy (16)
•  Japan (16)
•  South Korea (4)
•  Lebanon (6)
•  Luxembourg (4)
•  Mexico (4)
•  Morocco (5)
•  Netherlands (3)
•  New Zealand (1)
•  Norway (4)
•  Pakistan (7)
•  Panama (1)
•  Poland (12)
•  Portugal (3)
•  Romania (7)
•  Soviet Union (16)
•  Spain (4)
•  Sweden (12)
•  Switzerland (12)
•  Turkey (16)
•  United States (16)
•  Venezuela (2)
•  Yugoslavia (5)

See also

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

External links

• Official Olympic Report