World Wrestling Championships 1958

The 1958 Wrestling World Championships took place in Budapest from July 24 to 27, 1958 . The wrestlers were divided into eight weight classes. In contrast to 1957 , the wrestling was not in the free , but in the Greco-Roman style . The Soviet Union celebrated athletes on the podium in all eight competitions. Anton Geesink , who later became world champion and Olympic champion in judo, was sixth in the -87 kg class.

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-52 kg	Boris Gurevich	Sandor Kerekes	Borivoje Vukov
-57 kg	Oleg Karavaev	Yaşar Yılmaz	Lothar Fischer
-62 kg	Imre Polyák	Müzahir Sille	Vladimir Stashkevich
-67 kg	Rıza Dogan	Viktor Wasin	Gyula Tóth
-73 kg	Kâzım Ayvaz	Grigori Gamarnik	Valeriu Bularca
-79 kg	Giwi Kartosia	Horst Hess	Lothar Metz
-87 kg	Rostom Abashidze	György Gurics	Jansson rune
+87 kg	Ivan Bogdan	Lyutvi Djiber Akhmedov	Hamit Kaplan

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Soviet Union	5	2	1
2	Turkey	2	2	1
3	Hungary	1	2	1
4th	Bulgaria	0	1	0
	BR Germany	0	1	0
6th	German Democratic Republic	0	0	2
7th	Yugoslavia	0	0	1
	Romania	0	0	1
	Sweden	0	0	1

Web links

• Complete medal table (Greco-Roman men ) at the Institute for Applied Training Science