Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics

At the 1960 Summer Olympics, 16 wrestling events were contested, all for men. There were eight weight classes in Greco-Roman wrestling and eight classes in freestyle wrestling.

Medal summary

Greco-Roman

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Flyweight
(- 52 kg)		  Dumitru Pârvulescu
Romania (ROU)		  Osman El-Sayed
United Arab Republic (EGY)		  Mohammad Paziraei
Iran (IRI)
Bantamweight
(52 – 57 kg)		  Oleg Karavayev
Soviet Union (URS)		  Ion Cernea
Romania (ROU)		  Dinko Petrov
Bulgaria (BUL)
Featherweight
(57 – 62 kg)		  Müzahir Sille
Turkey (TUR)		  Imre Polyák
Hungary (HUN)		  Konstantin Vyrupayev
Soviet Union (URS)
Lightweight
(62 – 67 kg)		  Avtandil Koridze
Soviet Union (URS)		  Branislav Martinović
Yugoslavia (YUG)		  Gustav Freij
Sweden (SWE)
Welterweight
(67 – 73 kg)		  Mithat Bayrak
Turkey (TUR)		  Günther Maritschnigg
Germany (EUA)		  René Schiermeyer
France (FRA)
Middleweight
(73 – 79 kg)		  Dimitar Dobrev
Bulgaria (BUL)		  Lothar Metz
Germany (EUA)		  Ion Țăranu
Romania (ROU)
Light Heavyweight
(79 – 87 kg)		  Tevfik Kis
Turkey (TUR)		  Krali Bimbalov
Bulgaria (BUL)		  Givi Kartoziya
Soviet Union (URS)
Heavyweight
(+ 87 kg)		  Ivan Bogdan
Soviet Union (URS)		  Wilfried Dietrich
Germany (EUA)		  Bohumil Kubát
Czechoslovakia (TCH)

Freestyle

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Flyweight
(- 52 kg)		  Ahmet Bilek
Turkey (TUR)		  Masayuki Matsubara
Japan (JPN)		  Ebrahim Seifpour
Iran (IRI)
Bantamweight
(52 – 57 kg)		  Terrence McCann
United States (USA)		  Nezhdet Zalev
Bulgaria (BUL)		  Tadeusz Trojanowski
Poland (POL)
Featherweight
(57 – 62 kg)		  Mustafa Dağıstanlı
Turkey (TUR)		  Stancho Kolev
Bulgaria (BUL)		  Vladimir Rubashvili
Soviet Union (URS)
Lightweight
(62 – 67 kg)		  Shelby Wilson
United States (USA)		  Vladimir Synyavsky
Soviet Union (URS)		  Enyu Valchev
Bulgaria (BUL)
Welterweight
(67 – 73 kg)		  Douglas Blubaugh
United States (USA)		  İsmail Ogan
Turkey (TUR)		  Muhammad Bashir
Pakistan (PAK)
Middleweight
(73 – 79 kg)		  Hasan Güngör
Turkey (TUR)		  Georgy Skhirtladze
Soviet Union (URS)		  Hans Antonsson
Sweden (SWE)
Light heavyweight
(79 – 87 kg)		  Ismet Atli
Turkey (TUR)		  Gholamreza Takhti
Iran (IRI)		  Anatoli Albul
Soviet Union (URS)
Heavyweight
(+ 87 kg)		  Wilfried Dietrich
Germany (EUA)		  Hamit Kaplan
Turkey (TUR)		  Savkuds Dzarasov
Soviet Union (URS)

See also

List of World and Olympic Champions in men's freestyle wrestling

List of World and Olympic Champions in Greco-Roman wrestling

United States results in men's freestyle wrestling

References