Wrestling at the 1968 Summer Olympics

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Wrestling

At the 1968 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)
Bulgaria Petar Kirov
Bulgaria (BUL)
Soviet Union Vladimir Bakulin
Soviet Union (URS)
Czechoslovakia Miroslav Zeman
Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Bantamweight
(52 - 57 kg)
Hungary János Varga
Hungary (HUN)
Romania Ion Baciu
Romania (ROM)
Soviet Union Ivan Kochergin
Soviet Union (URS)
Featherweight
(57 - 63 kg)
Soviet Union Roman Rurua
Soviet Union (URS)
Japan Hideo Fujimoto
Japan (JPN)
Romania Simion Popescu
Romania (ROM)
Lightweight
(63 - 70 kg)
Japan Muneji Munemura
Japan (JPN)
Yugoslavia Stevan Harvat
Yugoslavia (YUG)
Greece Petros Galaktopoulos
Greece (GRE)
Welterweight
(70 - 78 kg)
East Germany Rudolf Vesper
East Germany (GDR)
France Daniel Robin
France (FRA)
Hungary Károly Bajkó
Hungary (HUN)
Middleweight
(78 - 87 kg)
East Germany Lothar Metz
East Germany (GDR)
Soviet Union Valentin Olenik
Soviet Union (URS)
Yugoslavia Branislav Simic
Yugoslavia (YUG)
Light Heavyweight
(87 - 97 kg)
Bulgaria Boyan Radev
Bulgaria (BUL)
Soviet Union Nikolai Yakovenko
Soviet Union (URS)
Romania Nicolae Martinescu
Romania (ROM)
Heavyweight
(+ 97 kg)
Hungary István Kozma
Hungary (HUN)
Soviet Union Anatoly Roshchin
Soviet Union (URS)
Czechoslovakia Petr Kment
Czechoslovakia (TCH)

[edit] Freestyle

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Flyweight
(- 52 kg)
Japan Shigeo Nakata
Japan (JPN)
United States Richard Sanders
United States (USA)
Mongolia Surenjav Sukhbataar
Mongolia (MGL)
Bantamweight
(52 - 57 kg)
Japan Yojiro Uetake
Japan (JPN)
United States Donald Behm
United States (USA)
Iran Abutaleb Talebi
Iran (IRI)
Featherweight
(57 - 63 kg)
Japan Masaaki Kaneko
Japan (JPN)
Bulgaria Enyu Todorov
Bulgaria (BUL)
Iran Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi
Iran (IRI)
Lightweight
(63 - 70 kg)
Iran Abdollah Movahed
Iran (IRI)
Bulgaria Enyu Valchev
Bulgaria (BUL)
Mongolia Sereeter Danzandarjaa
Mongolia (MGL)
Welterweight
(70 - 78 kg)
Turkey Mahmut Atalay
Turkey (TUR)
France Daniel Robin
France (FRA)
Mongolia Dagvasuren Purev
Mongolia (MGL)
Middleweight
(78 - 87 kg)
Soviet Union Boris Gurevich
Soviet Union (URS)
Mongolia Jigjidiin Mönkhbat
Mongolia (MGL)
Bulgaria Prodan Gardzhev
Bulgaria (BUL)
Light Heavyweight
(87 - 97 kg)
Turkey Ahmet Ayik
Turkey (TUR)
Soviet Union Shota Lomidze
Soviet Union (URS)
Hungary József Csatári
Hungary (HUN)
Heavyweight
(+ 97 kg)
Soviet Union Alexander Medved
Soviet Union (URS)
Bulgaria Osman Duraliev
Bulgaria (BUL)
West Germany Wilfried Dietrich
West Germany (FRG)