World Wrestling Championships 1955
The Wrestling World Championships in 1955 took place from April 21 to 25, 1955 in the Black Forest Hall in Karlsruhe . The wrestlers were divided into eight weight classes. In contrast to 1954 , the wrestling was not in the free , but in the Greco-Roman style . The wrestlers from the Soviet Union secured medals in seven of the eight competitions.
Medalist
class | gold | silver | bronze |
---|---|---|---|
-52 kg | Ignazio Fabra | Nail Garayev | Hüseyin Akbaş |
-57 kg | Vladimir Stashkevich | Yaşar Yılmaz | Pietro Lombardi |
-62 kg | Imre Polyák | Müzahir Sille | Gunnar Hakansson |
-67 kg | Grigori Gamarnik | Kyösti Lehtonen | Gustav Freij |
-73 kg | Vladimir Maneev | Anton Mackowiak | Milorad Arsic |
-79 kg | Giwi Kartosia | György Gurics | Horst Hess |
-87 kg | Valentin Nikolaev | Veikko Lahti | Karl-Erik Nilsson |
+87 kg | Alexander Masur | Bertil Antonsson | Hamit Kaplan |
Medal table
rank | country | gold | silver | bronze |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Soviet Union | 6th | 1 | 0 |
2 | Hungary | 1 | 1 | 0 |
3 | Italy | 1 | 0 | 1 |
4th | Turkey | 0 | 2 | 2 |
5 | Finland | 0 | 2 | 0 |
6th | Sweden | 0 | 1 | 3 |
7th | BR Germany | 0 | 1 | 1 |
8th | Yugoslavia | 0 | 0 | 1 |