World Wrestling Championships 1961

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The 1961 Wrestling World Championships took place from June 1 to June 7, 1961 in Yokohama . In contrast to all previous world championships, wrestling was carried out in both Greco-Roman and free style . The wrestlers were divided into eight weight classes.

Greco-Roman

The Greco-Roman style competitions took place from June 5th to 7th, 1961.

Medalist

class gold silver bronze
-52 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Armais Sayadov Romania 1952Romania Dumitru Pârvulescu TurkeyTurkey Burhan Bozkurt
-57 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Oleg Karavaev Romania 1952Romania Ion Cernea CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Jiří Švec
-62 kg United Arab RepublicUnited Arab Republic Hamid Mustafa TurkeyTurkey Yasar Yilmaz Iran 1925Iran Alireza Ghelichkhani
-67 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Awtandil Koridze Hungary 1957Hungary Imre Polyák Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Branislav Martinović
-73 kg Romania 1952Romania Valeriu Bularca Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Stevan Horvat TurkeyTurkey Ziya Dogan
-79 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Vasily Zenin SwedenSweden Bertil Nyström TurkeyTurkey Yavuz Selekman
-87 kg Hungary 1957Hungary György Gurics Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Arkady Tkachev Romania 1952Romania Gheorghe Popovici
+87 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Ivan Bogdan TurkeyTurkey Hamit Kaplan Hungary 1957Hungary István Kozma

Medal table

rank country gold silver bronze
1 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 5 1 0
2 Romania 1952Romania Romania 1 2 1
3 Hungary 1957Hungary Hungary 1 1 1
4th United Arab RepublicUnited Arab Republic United Arab Republic 1 0 0
5 TurkeyTurkey Turkey 0 2 3
6th Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Yugoslavia 0 1 1
7th SwedenSweden Sweden 0 1 0
8th Iran 1925Iran Iran 0 0 1
CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 0 0 1

Freestyle

The freestyle competitions took place from June 1st to 3rd, 1961. The wrestlers from Iran secured medals in seven of the eight competitions. Only Hossein Noori could not place in the medal ranks with a fifth place in the weight class +87 kg.

Medalist

class gold silver bronze
-52 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Ali Aliyev Iran 1925Iran Nasrollah Soltaninejad TurkeyTurkey Cemal Yanılmaz
-57 kg Iran 1925Iran Mohammad Ebrahim Seifpour Hungary 1957Hungary Janos Varga TurkeyTurkey Hüseyin Akbaş
-62 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Vladimir Rubashvili TurkeyTurkey Sami Pehlivan Iran 1925Iran Hamid Tavakol
-67 kg Iran 1925Iran Mohammad-Ali Sanatkaran Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Vladimir Sinyavsky IndiaIndia Udey Chand
-73 kg Iran 1925Iran Imam Ali Habibi Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Mikhail Bekmurzov JapanJapan Yutaka Kaneko
-79 kg Iran 1925Iran Mansour Mehdizadeh Hungary 1957Hungary Géza Hollósi SwedenSweden Hans Antonsson
-87 kg Iran 1925Iran Gholamreza Takhti Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Boris Gurevich TurkeyTurkey Hasan Güngör
+87 kg Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany Wilfried Dietrich TurkeyTurkey Hamit Kaplan Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Alexander Medved

Medal table

rank country gold silver bronze
1 Iran 1925Iran Iran 5 1 1
2 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 2 3 1
3 Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany BR Germany 1 0 0
4th TurkeyTurkey Turkey 0 2 3
5 Hungary 1957Hungary Hungary 0 2 0
6th IndiaIndia India 0 0 1
JapanJapan Japan 0 0 1
SwedenSweden Sweden 0 0 1

Medal table

rank country gold silver bronze Total
1 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 7th 4th 1 12
2 Iran 1925Iran Iran 5 1 2 8th
3 Hungary 1957Hungary Hungary 1 3 1 5
4th Romania 1952Romania Romania 1 2 1 4th
5 United Arab RepublicUnited Arab Republic United Arab Republic 1 0 0 1
Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany BR Germany 1 0 0 1
7th TurkeyTurkey Turkey 0 4th 6th 10
8th Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Yugoslavia 0 1 1 2
SwedenSweden Sweden 0 1 1 2
10 IndiaIndia India 0 0 1 1
JapanJapan Japan 0 0 1 1
CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 0 0 1 1

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