World Wrestling Championships 1961
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 | Armais Sayadov | Dumitru Pârvulescu | Burhan Bozkurt |
-57 kg | Oleg Karavaev | Ion Cernea | Jiří Švec |
-62 kg | Hamid Mustafa | Yasar Yilmaz | Alireza Ghelichkhani |
-67 kg | Awtandil Koridze | Imre Polyák | Branislav Martinović |
-73 kg | Valeriu Bularca | Stevan Horvat | Ziya Dogan |
-79 kg | Vasily Zenin | Bertil Nyström | Yavuz Selekman |
-87 kg | György Gurics | Arkady Tkachev | Gheorghe Popovici |
+87 kg | Ivan Bogdan | Hamit Kaplan | István Kozma |
Medal table
rank | country | gold | silver | bronze |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Soviet Union | 5 | 1 | 0 |
2 | Romania | 1 | 2 | 1 |
3 | Hungary | 1 | 1 | 1 |
4th | United Arab Republic | 1 | 0 | 0 |
5 | Turkey | 0 | 2 | 3 |
6th | Yugoslavia | 0 | 1 | 1 |
7th | Sweden | 0 | 1 | 0 |
8th | Iran | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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 | Ali Aliyev | Nasrollah Soltaninejad | Cemal Yanılmaz |
-57 kg | Mohammad Ebrahim Seifpour | Janos Varga | Hüseyin Akbaş |
-62 kg | Vladimir Rubashvili | Sami Pehlivan | Hamid Tavakol |
-67 kg | Mohammad-Ali Sanatkaran | Vladimir Sinyavsky | Udey Chand |
-73 kg | Imam Ali Habibi | Mikhail Bekmurzov | Yutaka Kaneko |
-79 kg | Mansour Mehdizadeh | Géza Hollósi | Hans Antonsson |
-87 kg | Gholamreza Takhti | Boris Gurevich | Hasan Güngör |
+87 kg | Wilfried Dietrich | Hamit Kaplan | Alexander Medved |
Medal table
rank | country | gold | silver | bronze |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Iran | 5 | 1 | 1 |
2 | Soviet Union | 2 | 3 | 1 |
3 | BR Germany | 1 | 0 | 0 |
4th | Turkey | 0 | 2 | 3 |
5 | Hungary | 0 | 2 | 0 |
6th | India | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Japan | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Sweden | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Medal table
rank | country | gold | silver | bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Soviet Union | 7th | 4th | 1 | 12 |
2 | Iran | 5 | 1 | 2 | 8th |
3 | Hungary | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
4th | Romania | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4th |
5 | United Arab Republic | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
BR Germany | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
7th | Turkey | 0 | 4th | 6th | 10 |
8th | Yugoslavia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Sweden | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
10 | India | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Japan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Czechoslovakia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |