World Wrestling Championships 1959

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The 1959 Wrestling World Championships took place in Tehran from October 1st to 4th, 1959 . The wrestlers were divided into eight weight classes. In contrast to 1958 , the wrestling was not in the Greco-Roman but in the free style .

Medalist

class gold silver bronze
-52 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Ali Aliyev TurkeyTurkey Ahmet Bilek PakistanPakistan Muhamad Niaz-Din
-57 kg TurkeyTurkey Hüseyin Akbaş FinlandFinland Tauno Jaskari Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Vladimir Arsenyan
-62 kg TurkeyTurkey Mustafa Dağıstanlı Bulgaria 1948Bulgaria Stancho Kolew Ivanov PakistanPakistan Muhamad Akhtar
-67 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Vladimir Sinyavsky Bulgaria 1948Bulgaria Enju Waltschew Dimov TurkeyTurkey Hayrullah Sahin
-73 kg Iran 1925Iran Imam Ali Habibi Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Vakhtang Balavadze TurkeyTurkey İsmail Ogan
-79 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Giorgi Schirtladse Hungary 1957Hungary Géza Hollósi Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR Lothar Lippa
-87 kg Iran 1925Iran Gholamreza Takhti Bulgaria 1948Bulgaria Petko Sirakov FranceFrance Maurice Jacquel
+87 kg Bulgaria 1948Bulgaria Lyutvi Djiber Akhmedov TurkeyTurkey Hamit Kaplan Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Sawkus Jarasov

Medal table

rank country gold silver bronze
1 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 3 1 2
2 TurkeyTurkey Turkey 2 2 2
3 Iran 1925Iran Iran 2 0 0
4th Bulgaria 1948Bulgaria Bulgaria 1 3 0
5 Hungary 1957Hungary Hungary 0 1 0
FinlandFinland Finland 0 1 0
7th PakistanPakistan Pakistan 0 0 2
8th Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR German Democratic Republic 0 0 1
FranceFrance France 0 0 1

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