Wrestling at the 1964 Summer Olympics

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At the 1964 Summer Olympics, 16 wrestling events were contested, for all men. There were eight weight classes in Greco-Roman wrestling and eight classes in freestyle wrestling.

[edit] Medal summary

[edit] Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (- 52 kg)	Tsutomu Hanahara Japan (JPN)	Angel Kerezov Bulgaria (BUL)	Dumitru Pirvulescu Romania (ROM)
Bantamweight (52 - 57 kg)	Masamitsu Ichiguchi Japan (JPN)	Vladlen Trostyansky Soviet Union (URS)	Ion Cernea Romania (ROM)
Featherweight (57 - 63 kg)	Imre Polyák Hungary (HUN)	Roman Rurua Soviet Union (URS)	Branislav Martinovic Yugoslavia (YUG)
Lightweight (63 - 70 kg)	Kazim Ayvaz Turkey (TUR)	Valeriu Bularca Romania (ROM)	David Gvantseladze Soviet Union (URS)
Welterweight (70 - 78 kg)	Anatoly Kolesov Soviet Union (URS)	Kiril Todorov Bulgaria (BUL)	Bertil Nyström Sweden (SWE)
Middleweight (78 - 87 kg)	Branislav Simic Yugoslavia (YUG)	Jiří Kormaník Czechoslovakia (TCH)	Lothar Metz Germany (EUA)
Light Heavyweight (87 - 97 kg)	Boyan Radev Bulgaria (BUL)	Per Svensson Sweden (SWE)	Heinz Kiehl Germany (EUA)
Heavyweight (+ 97 kg)	István Kozma Hungary (HUN)	Anatoly Roshchin Soviet Union (URS)	Wilfried Dietrich Germany (EUA)

[edit] Freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (- 52 kg)	Yoshikatsu Yoshida Japan (JPN)	Chang Chang-Sun South Korea (KOR)	Ali Akbar Heidari Iran (IRI)
Bantamweight (52 - 57 kg)	Yojiro Uetake Japan (JPN)	Hüseyin Akbas Turkey (TUR)	Aydyn Ibragimov Soviet Union (URS)
Featherweight (57 - 63 kg)	Osamu Watanabe Japan (JPN)	Stancho Kolev Bulgaria (BUL)	Nodar Khokhashvili Soviet Union (URS)
Lightweight (63 - 70 kg)	Enyu Valchev Bulgaria (BUL)	Klaus Rost Germany (EUA)	Iwao Horiuchi Japan (JPN)
Welterweight (70 - 78 kg)	Ismail Ogan Turkey (TUR)	Guliko Sagaradze Soviet Union (URS)	Mohammad Ali Sanatkaran Iran (IRI)
Middleweight (78 - 87 kg)	Prodan Gardzhev Bulgaria (BUL)	Hasan Güngör Turkey (TUR)	Daniel Brand United States (USA)
Light Heavyweight (87 - 97 kg)	Alexander Medved Soviet Union (URS)	Ahmet Ayik Turkey (TUR)	Said Mustafov Bulgaria (BUL)
Heavyweight (+ 97 kg)	Aleksandr Ivanitsky Soviet Union (URS)	Lyutvi Akhmedov Bulgaria (BUL)	Hamit Kaplan Turkey (TUR)

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