World Wrestling Championships 1957

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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 TurkeyTurkey Mehmet Kartal Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Mirian Zalkalamanidze ItalyItaly Luigi Chinazzo
-57 kg TurkeyTurkey Hüseyin Akbaş FinlandFinland Tauno Jaskari JapanJapan Yasuyuki Shimamura
-62 kg TurkeyTurkey Mustafa Dağıstanlı Iran 1925Iran Hossein Ebrahimian Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Norik Mushegijan
-67 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Alimbek Bestayev TurkeyTurkey Hayrullah Sahin JapanJapan Kazuo Abe
-73 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Vakhtang Balavadze TurkeyTurkey İsmail Ogan Bulgaria 1948Bulgaria Murtaza Murtazov
-79 kg Iran 1925Iran Nabi Sorouri Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Giorgi Schirtladse TurkeyTurkey Hasan Güngör
-87 kg Bulgaria 1948Bulgaria Atanasov Sirakov Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Boris Kulayev TurkeyTurkey İsmet Atlı
+87 kg TurkeyTurkey Hamit Kaplan GermanyGermany Wilfried Dietrich Bulgaria 1948Bulgaria Yussein Mehmedow

Medal table

rank country gold silver bronze
1 TurkeyTurkey Turkey 4th 2 2
2 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 2 3 1
3 Iran 1925Iran Iran 1 1 0
4th Bulgaria 1948Bulgaria Bulgaria 1 0 2
5 GermanyGermany Germany 0 1 0
FinlandFinland Finland 0 1 0
7th JapanJapan Japan 0 0 2
8th ItalyItaly Italy 0 0 1

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