1954 World Wrestling Championships

1954 World Championships
Host city	Tokyo, Japan
Dates	May 22–25
Champions
Freestyle	Turkey

The 1954 World Freestyle Wrestling Championship were held in Tokyo, Japan.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	3	0	3	6
2	Turkey	2	3	1	6
3	Iran	2	1	0	3
4	Japan	1	1	2	4
5	Sweden	0	2	1	3
6	Hungary	0	1	0	1
7	Finland	0	0	1	1
Total		8	8	8	24

Team ranking

Rank	Men's freestyle
	Team	Points
1	Turkey	37
2	Soviet Union	35
3	Iran	24

Medal summary

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight 52 kg	Hüseyin Akbaş Turkey (TUR)	Yushu Kitano Japan (JPN)	Mirian Tsalkalamanidze Soviet Union (URS)
Bantamweight 57 kg	Mustafa Dağıstanlı Turkey (TUR)	Lajos Bencze Hungary (HUN)	Tauno Jaskari Finland (FIN)
Featherweight 62 kg	Shozo Sasahara Japan (JPN)	Bayram Şit Turkey (TUR)	Nikolay Musashvili Soviet Union (URS)
Lightweight 67 kg	Jahanbakht Tofigh Iran (IRI)	Olle Anderberg Sweden (SWE)	Sergey Gabaradze Soviet Union (URS)
Welterweight 73 kg	Vakhtang Balavadze Soviet Union (URS)	Mohammad Ali Fardin Iran (IRI)	Yutaka Kaneko Japan (JPN)
Middleweight 79 kg	Abbas Zandi Iran (IRI)	İsmet Atlı Turkey (TUR)	Kazuo Katsuramoto Japan (JPN)
Light heavyweight 87 kg	August Englas Soviet Union (URS)	Adil Atan Turkey (TUR)	Viking Palm Sweden (SWE)
Heavyweight +87 kg	Arsen Mekokishvili Soviet Union (URS)	Bertil Antonsson Sweden (SWE)	İrfan Atan Turkey (TUR)

References

• FILA Database