World Wrestling Championships 1957
The 1957 Wrestling World Championships took place from June 1st to 3rd, 1957 in Istanbul . The wrestlers were divided into eight weight classes. In contrast to 1955 , the wrestling was not in the Greco-Roman but in the free style . Host Turkey celebrated athletes on the podium in all 8 competitions.
Medalist
class | gold | silver | bronze |
---|---|---|---|
-52 kg | Mehmet Kartal | Mirian Zalkalamanidze | Luigi Chinazzo |
-57 kg | Hüseyin Akbaş | Tauno Jaskari | Yasuyuki Shimamura |
-62 kg | Mustafa Dağıstanlı | Hossein Ebrahimian | Norik Mushegijan |
-67 kg | Alimbek Bestayev | Hayrullah Sahin | Kazuo Abe |
-73 kg | Vakhtang Balavadze | İsmail Ogan | Murtaza Murtazov |
-79 kg | Nabi Sorouri | Giorgi Schirtladse | Hasan Güngör |
-87 kg | Atanasov Sirakov | Boris Kulayev | İsmet Atlı |
+87 kg | Hamit Kaplan | Wilfried Dietrich | Yussein Mehmedow |
Medal table
rank | country | gold | silver | bronze |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Turkey | 4th | 2 | 2 |
2 | Soviet Union | 2 | 3 | 1 |
3 | Iran | 1 | 1 | 0 |
4th | Bulgaria | 1 | 0 | 2 |
5 | Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Finland | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
7th | Japan | 0 | 0 | 2 |
8th | Italy | 0 | 0 | 1 |