1960 Summer Olympics / wrestling

Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Rome
Competition venue	Maxentius Basilica
Nations	46
Athletes	324 (324 )
date	August 28 - September 6, 1960
decisions	16
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At the XVII. At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome , 16 wrestling competitions were held, eight each in freestyle and eight in Greco-Roman style. The venue was the Maxentius basilica on the edge of the Roman Forum .

Balance sheet

Wrestling mats were laid out in the barrel vaults of the Maxentius basilica, and the stands were on the square in front of them.

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Turkey	7th	2	-	9
2	Soviet Union	3	2	5	10
3	United States	3	-	-	3
4th	Bulgaria	1	3	2	6th
5	Germany	1	3	-	4th
6th	Romania	1	1	1	3
7th	Iran	-	1	2	3
8th	Japan	-	1	-	1
	Yugoslavia	-	1	-	1
	Hungary	-	1	-	1
	United Arab Republic	-	1	-	1
12	Sweden	-	-	2	2
13	France	-	-	1	1
	Pakistan	-	-	1	1
	Poland	-	-	1	1
	Czechoslovakia	-	-	1	1

Medalist

Freestyle competitor gold silver bronze Flyweight Ahmet Bilek Matsayuki Matsubara Mohammad Seifpour Bantamweight Terrence McCann Nejet Zalev Tadeusz Trojanowski Featherweight Mustafa Dağıstanlı Stancho Kolew Vladimir Rubashvili lightweight Shelby Wilson Vladimir Sinyavsky Enjo Waltschew Welterweight Douglas Blubaugh İsmail Ogan Muhammed Bashir medium weight Hasan Güngör Giorgi Schirtladse Hans Antonsson Light heavyweight İsmet Atlı Gholamreza Takhti Anatoly Albul Heavyweight Wilfried Dietrich Hamit Kaplan Sawkuds Dzarasov

Greco-Roman style competitor gold silver bronze Flyweight Dumitru Pârvulescu Osman El-Sayed Mohammad Paziraei Bantamweight Oleg Karavaev Ion Cernea Dinko Petrov Featherweight Müzahir Sille Imre Polyák Konstantin Vyrupayev lightweight Awtandil Koridze Branislav Martinović Gustav Freij Welterweight Mithat Bayrak Günther Maritschnigg René Schiermeyer medium weight Dimitar Dobrew Lothar Metz Ion Țăranu Light heavyweight Tevfik Kış Krali Bimbalow Giwi Kartosia Heavyweight Ivan Bohdan Wilfried Dietrich Bohumil Kubát

Results freestyle

Flyweight (up to 52 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	DOOR	Ahmet Bilek
2	JPN	Matsayuki Matsubara
3	IRN	Mohammad Ebrahim Seifpour
4th	EUA	Paul Neff
5	United States	Gray Simons
6th	URS	Ali Aliyev
7th	BUL	Nikola Dimitrov
8th	FRA	André Zoete

Date: September 1st to 6th, 1960
17 participants from 17 countries

Bantam weight (up to 57 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	United States	Terrence McCann
2	BUL	Nejet Zalev
3	POLE	Tadeusz Trojanowski
4th	JPN	Tadashi Asai
5	FIN	Tauno Jaskari
6th	URS	Mikhailo Shachow
7th	IRN	Mohamed Mehdi Yaghoubi
8th	ITA	Luigi Chinazzo
9	EUA	Fred Chamberlain
16	SUI	Paul Hänni

Date: September 1 to 6, 1960
19 participants from 19 countries

Feather weight (up to 62 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	DOOR	Mustafa Dağıstanlı
2	BUL	Stancho Kolew
3	URS	Vladimir Rubashvili
4th	JPN	Tamiji Sato
5	BEL	Joseph Mewis
6th	PAH	Muhammad Akhtar
7th	RSA	Abraham Geldenhuys
8th	IRN	Mohamed Khadem Khorasani
16	AUT	Hans Marte
23	SUI	Ernst Meinhard

Date: September 1-6, 1960
25 participants from 25 countries

Lightweight (up to 67 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	United States	Shelby Wilson
2	URS	Vladimir Sinyavsky
3	BUL	Enjo Waltschew
4th	COR	Bong Ug-Won
	IRN	Moustafa Tajiki
6th	ITA	Garibaldo Nizzola
7th	FIN	Martti Peltoniemi
8th	JPN	Kazuo Abe
17th	EUA	Horst Bergmann

Date: September 1 to 6, 1960
24 participants from 24 countries

Welter weight (up to 73 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	United States	Douglas Blubaugh
2	DOOR	İsmail Ogan
3	PAH	Muhammed Bashir
4th	ITA	Gaetano De Vescovi
	IRN	Imam Ali Habibi
	JPN	Yutaka Kaneko
7th	RSA	Coenraad de Villiers
8th	SWE	Åke Carlsson
9	SUI	Karl Bruggmann
	EUA	Martin Heinze
19th	AUT	Franz Berger

Date: September 1st to 6th, 1960
23 participants from 23 countries

Middle weight (up to 79 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	DOOR	Hasan Güngör
2	URS	Giorgi Schirtladse
3	SWE	Hans Antonsson
4th	United States	Edward DeWitt
5	BUL	Prodan Gardschew
	HUN	Géza Hollósi
	IND	Madho Singh
8th	JPN	Takashi Nagai
9	EUA	Georg Utz
17th	CHE	Henri Mottier

Date: September 1 to 6, 1960
19 participants from 19 countries

Light heavyweight (up to 87 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	DOOR	İsmet Atlı
2	IRN	Gholamreza Takhti
3	URS	Anatoly Albul
4th	SWE	Viking palm
5	United States	Daniel Brand
6th	RSA	Mania van Zyl
7th	IND	Sajan Singh
8th	HUN	György Gurics
12	CHE	Eugen Holzherr
15th	EUA	Dieter Rauchbach

Date: September 1 to 6, 1960
19 participants from 19 countries

Heavy weight (over 87 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	EUA	Wilfried Dietrich
2	DOOR	Hamit Kaplan
3	URS	Sawkuds Dzarasov
4th	ITA	Pietro Marascalchi
5	BUL	Lyutvi Djiber Akhmedov
6th	HUN	János Reznák
7th	SWE	Bertil Antonsson
8th	GBR	Bill Kerslake
15th	CHE	Max Widmer

Date: September 1st to 6th, 1960
17 participants from 17 countries

Results Greco-Roman style

Flyweight (up to 52 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	ROME	Dumitru Pârvulescu
2	VAR	Osman El-Sayed
3	IRN	Mohammad Paziraei
4th	JPN	Takashi Hirata
5	ITA	Ignazio Fabra
	URS	Ivan Kochergin
7th	YUG	Borivoje Vukov
8th	SWE	Bengt Frännfors
12	CHE	Franz Burkhard
14th	EUA	Fritz Stange

Date: August 26th to 31st, 1960
18 participants from 18 countries

Bantam weight (up to 57 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	URS	Oleg Karavaev
2	ROME	Ion Cernea
3	BUL	Dinko Petrov
4th	SWE	Edvin Vesterby
5	TCH	Jiří Švec
	DOOR	Yaşar Yılmaz
7th	JPN	Masamitsu Ichiguchi
8th	POLE	Bernard Knitter
13	AUT	Franz Brunner
	EUA	Ewald Tauer
17th	SUI	Richard Debrunner
28	LUX	François Schlechter

Date: August 26th to 31st, 1960
28 participants from 28 countries

Feather weight (up to 62 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	DOOR	Müzahir Sille
2	HUN	Imre Polyák
3	URS	Konstantin Vyrupayev
4th	ITA	Umberto Trippa
5	ROME	Mihai Șulț
6th	IRN	Hossein Ebrahimian
	TCH	Vojtech Tóth
8th	United States	Lee Allen
11	AUT	Hans Marte
	EUA	Gottlieb Neumair
19th	SUI	Joseph Schmid
22nd	LUX	Jean Schintgen

Date: August 26th to 31st, 1960
25 participants from 25 countries

Lightweight (up to 67 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	URS	Awtandil Koridze
2	YUG	Branislav Martinović
3	SWE	Gustav Freij
4th	TCH	Karel Matoušek
5	ROME	Dumitru Gheorghe
	POLE	Ernest Gondzik
	DOOR	Adil Güngör
	JPN	Mitsuharu Kitamura
	FIN	Kyösti Lehtonen
	FRA	Jacques Pourtau
12	AUT	Bartholomäus Brötzner
21st	EUA	Edmund Seger

Date: August 26th to 31st, 1960
23 participants from 23 countries

Welter weight (up to 73 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	DOOR	Mithat Bayrak
2	EUA	Günther Maritschnigg
3	FRA	René Schiermeyer
4th	YUG	Stevan Horvat
5	URS	Hryhoriy Hamarnik
6th	FIN	Matti Laakso
7th	HUN	Antal Rizmayer
8th	CHE	Hansjörg Hirschbühl
12	AUT	Franz Berger
20th	LUX	Bernard Philippe

Date: August 26th to 31st, 1960
27 participants from 27 countries

Middle weight (up to 79 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	BUL	Dimitar Dobrew
2	EUA	Lothar Metz
3	ROME	Ion Țăranu
4th	DOOR	Kâzım Ayvaz
5	POLE	Bolesław Dubicki
	URS	Nikolai Chuchalov
7th	LIB	Yacoub Romanos
8th	United States	Russell Camilleri
15th	SUI	Charles Berthoud
21st	AUT	Helmut Längle
	LUX	Raymond Schummer

Date: August 26th to 31st, 1960
24 participants from 24 countries

Light heavyweight (up to 87 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	DOOR	Tevfik Kış
2	BUL	Krali Bimbalow
3	URS	Giwi Kartosia
4th	HUN	Péter Piti
5	FIN	Antero Vanhane
6th	ESP	José Panizo
7th	ROME	Gheorghe Popovici
8th	AUT	Eugen Wiesberger
9	EUA	Herbert Albrecht
12	SUI	Kurt Rusterholz

Date: August 26th to 31st, 1960
17 participants from 17 countries

Heavy weight (over 87 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	URS	Ivan Bohdan
2	EUA	Wilfried Dietrich
3	TCH	Bohumil Kubát
4th	HUN	István Kozma
5	POLE	Lucjan Sosnowski
6th	BUL	Radoslaw Kassabow
7th	ITA	Adelmo Bulgarelli
8th	SWE	Ragnar Svensson

Date: August 26th to 31st, 1960
12 participants from 12 countries

Web links

Commons : Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official results of the 1960 Summer Games (PDF, 11.9 MB)