World Wrestling Championships 1951

The 1951 Wrestling World Championships took place in Helsinki from April 26th to 29th, 1951 . The wrestlers were divided into eight weight classes. In contrast to all previous world championships, the wrestling was not in the Greco-Roman but in the free style . The wrestlers from Turkey secured medals in seven of the eight competitions. Only Adil Candemir could not place in the medal ranks with a sixth place in the weight class over 87 kg.

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-52 kg	Ali Yücel	Mahmoud Mollaghassemi	Bengt Johansson
-57 kg	Nasuh Akar	Niilo Turkkila	Mohammad Mehdi Yaghoubi
-62 kg	Nurettin Zafer	Ilmari Ruikka	Henry Holmberg
-67 kg	Olle Anderberg	Garibaldo Nizzola	İbrahim Zengin
-73 kg	Celal Atik	Aleksanteri Keisala	Abdollah Mojtabavi
-79 kg	Haydar Zafer	Gholamreza Takhti	God Ekström
-87 kg	Yasar Dogu	Viking palm	Max Lighter
+87 kg	Bertil Antonsson	Pauli Riihimäki	Natale Vecchi

Results

Flyweight (up to 52 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	Turkey	Ali Yücel
2	Iran	Mahmoud Mollaghassemi
3	Sweden	Bengt Johansson
4th	Belgium	Maurice Mewis
5	BR Germany	Heinrich Weber
6th	Finland	Lennart Viitala

Date: April 1951
Defending champion (Greco-Roman): Bengt Johansson Participants: 

Bantam weight (up to 57 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	Turkey	Nasuh Akar
2	Finland	Niilo Turkkila
3	Iran	Mohammad Mehdi Yaghoubi
4th	Sweden	Edvin Vesterby
5	Italy	Ferdinando Carrano
5	Belgium	Joseph Trimpont

Date: April 1951
Defending champion (Greco-Roman): Ali Mahmoud Hassan Participants: 

Feather weight (up to 62 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	Turkey	Nurettin Zafer
2	Finland	Ilmari Ruikka
3	Sweden	Henry Holmberg
4th	France	Roger Bielle
5	BR Germany	Ferdinand Schmitz
6th	Iran	Mehdi Mogharabi

Date: April 1951
Defending champion (Greco-Roman): Olle Anderberg Participant: 

Lightweight (up to 67 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	Sweden	Olle Anderberg
2	Italy	Garibaldo Nizzola
3	Turkey	İbrahim Zengin
4th	Finland	Sulo Leppänen
5	BR Germany	Wolfgang Ehrl
6th	Iran	Ali Ghaffari

Date: April 1951
Defending champion (Greco-Roman): József Gál Participants: 

Welter weight (up to 73 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	Turkey	Celal Atik
2	Finland	Aleksanteri Keisala
3	Iran	Abdollah Mojtabavi
4th	Sweden	Per Berlin
5	Switzerland	Karl Schaad
6th	France	Jean-Baptiste Leclerc

Date: April 1951
Defending champion (Greco-Roman): Matti Siimanainen Participants: 

Middle weight (up to 79 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	Turkey	Haydar Zafer
2	Iran	Gholamreza Takhti
3	Sweden	God Ekström
4th	Finland	Aarno Seppälä
5	Denmark	Preben Rasmussen

Date: April 1951
Defending champion (Greco-Roman): Axel Grönberg Participants: 

Light heavyweight (up to 87 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	Turkey	Yasar Dogu
2	Sweden	Viking palm
3	BR Germany	Max Lighter
4th	Iran	Abbas Zandi
5	Finland	Paavo Sepponen
5	Italy	Oscar Verona

Date: April 1951
Defending champion (Greco-Roman): Muharrem Candaş Participants: 

Heavy weight (over 87 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	Sweden	Bertil Antonsson
2	Finland	Pauli Riihimäki
3	Italy	Natale Vecchi
4th	Switzerland	Willy Lardon
5	Iran	Ahmed Vafadar
6th	Turkey	Adil Candemir

Date: April 1951
Defending champion (Greco-Roman): Bertil Antonsson Participants: 

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Turkey	6th	0	1
2	Sweden	2	1	3
3	Finland	0	4th	0
4th	Iran	0	2	2
5	Italy	0	1	1
6th	BR Germany	0	0	1

Web links

• Complete medal table (freestyle men ) at the Institute for Applied Training Science