World Wrestling Championships 1959
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 | Ali Aliyev | Ahmet Bilek | Muhamad Niaz-Din |
-57 kg | Hüseyin Akbaş | Tauno Jaskari | Vladimir Arsenyan |
-62 kg | Mustafa Dağıstanlı | Stancho Kolew Ivanov | Muhamad Akhtar |
-67 kg | Vladimir Sinyavsky | Enju Waltschew Dimov | Hayrullah Sahin |
-73 kg | Imam Ali Habibi | Vakhtang Balavadze | İsmail Ogan |
-79 kg | Giorgi Schirtladse | Géza Hollósi | Lothar Lippa |
-87 kg | Gholamreza Takhti | Petko Sirakov | Maurice Jacquel |
+87 kg | Lyutvi Djiber Akhmedov | Hamit Kaplan | Sawkus Jarasov |
Medal table
rank | country | gold | silver | bronze |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Soviet Union | 3 | 1 | 2 |
2 | Turkey | 2 | 2 | 2 |
3 | Iran | 2 | 0 | 0 |
4th | Bulgaria | 1 | 3 | 0 |
5 | Hungary | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Finland | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
7th | Pakistan | 0 | 0 | 2 |
8th | German Democratic Republic | 0 | 0 | 1 |
France | 0 | 0 | 1 |