World Wrestling Championships 1962

The 1962 Wrestling World Championships took place in Toledo from June 21 to 27, 1962 . It was wrestled in both Greco-Roman and free styles . The wrestlers were divided into eight weight classes.

Greco-Roman

The Greco-Roman style competitions took place from June 25 to June 27, 1962. The wrestlers from the Soviet Union , Hungary and Turkey formed an almost unbreakable superiority. Only Masamitsu Ichiguchi ( Japan ) defeated Amari Egadze (Soviet Union) and thus became world champion. The wrestlers from the Soviet Union secured medals in seven of the eight competitions. Only Wladimir Rosin could not place himself in the medal ranks with a fourth place in the weight class -70 kg.

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-52 kg	Sergei Rybalko	Ignazio Fabra	Burhan Bozkurt
-57 kg	Masamitsu Ichiguchi	Amari Egadze	Camel Ali El Sajed
-63 kg	Imre Polyák	Konstantin Vyrupayev	Rıza Dogan
-70 kg	Kâzım Ayvaz	Stevan Horvat	James Burke
-78 kg	Anatoly Kolessov	Bjarne Ansbøl	Yavuz Selekman
-87 kg	Tevfik Kış	Krali Bimbalow	Anatoly Kirov
-97 kg	Rostom Abashidze	Bojan Radew	İsmet Atlı
+97 kg	István Kozma	Anatoly Roschtschin	Wilfried Dietrich

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Soviet Union	3	3	1
2	Turkey	2	0	4th
3	Hungary	2	0	0
4th	Japan	1	0	0
5	Bulgaria	0	2	0
6th	Denmark	0	1	0
	Italy	0	1	0
	Yugoslavia	0	1	0
9	BR Germany	0	0	1
	Egypt	0	0	1
	United States	0	0	1

Freestyle

The freestyle competitions took place from June 21 to 23, 1962. The wrestlers from the Soviet Union also proved their strength in free style : with three gold and one silver medal they came first, closely followed by the Iranians , who each won two gold and silver medals. The Japanese came third with one gold, two silver and one bronze medal. The most interesting fight took place in the 97kg weight class when two of the greatest freestyle wrestlers of all time, Gholamreza Takhti (Iran) and Alexander Medved (Soviet Union), faced each other. Medved won this fight and became world champion for the first time. The German Wilfried Dietrich also won a bronze medal in freestyle.

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-52 kg	Ali Aliyev	Noriyuki Harada	Satilmis Tektas
-57 kg	Hüseyin Akbaş	Masaki Hatta	Janos Varga
-63 kg	Osamu Watanabe	Mohammad Khadem	Ewald Tauer
-70 kg	Enju Waltschew Dimov	Robert Dzhganadze	Osvaldo Ferrari
-78 kg	Imam Ali Habibi	Petko Dermendschiev	James Ferguson
-87 kg	Mansour Mehdizadeh	Hasan Güngör	Shunichi Kawano
-97 kg	Alexander Medved	Gholamreza Takhti	Daniel Brand
+97 kg	Alexander Ivanitsky	Lyutvi Djiber Akhmedov	Wilfried Dietrich

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Soviet Union	3	1	0
2	Iran	2	2	0
3	Japan	1	2	1
4th	Bulgaria	1	2	0
5	Turkey	1	1	1
6th	United States	0	0	2
	BR Germany	0	0	2
8th	Italy	0	0	1
	Hungary	0	0	1

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	6th	4th	1	11
2	Turkey	3	1	5	8th
3	Japan	2	2	1	5
4th	Iran	2	2	0	4th
5	Hungary	2	0	1	3
6th	Bulgaria	1	4th	0	5
7th	Italy	0	1	1	2
8th	Denmark	0	1	0	1
	Yugoslavia	0	1	0	1
10	BR Germany	0	0	3	3
	United States	0	0	3	3
12	Egypt	0	0	1	1

Web links

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