1955 World Wrestling Championships

1955 World Championships
Host city	Karlsruhe, West Germany
Dates	April 21–25
Champions
Greco-Roman	Soviet Union

The 1955 World Greco-Roman Wrestling Championship were held in Karlsruhe, West Germany.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	6	1	0	7
2	Hungary	1	1	0	2
3	Italy	1	0	1	2
4	Turkey	0	2	2	4
5	Finland	0	2	0	2
6	Sweden	0	1	3	4
7	West Germany	0	1	1	2
8	Yugoslavia	0	0	1	1
Total		8	8	8	24

Team ranking

Rank	Men's Greco-Roman
	Team	Points
1	Soviet Union	41
2	Sweden	23
3	Turkey	19
4	Finland	15
5	Italy	14
6	Hungary	13

Medal summary

Men's Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight 52 kg	Ignazio Fabra Italy (ITA)	Nail Garayev Soviet Union (URS)	Hüseyin Akbaş Turkey (TUR)
Bantamweight 57 kg	Vladimir Stashkevich Soviet Union (URS)	Yaşar Yılmaz Turkey (TUR)	Pietro Lombardi Italy (ITA)
Featherweight 62 kg	Imre Polyák Hungary (HUN)	Müzahir Sille Turkey (TUR)	Gunnar Håkansson Sweden (SWE)
Lightweight 67 kg	Grigory Gamarnik Soviet Union (URS)	Kyösti Lehtonen Finland (FIN)	Gustav Freij Sweden (SWE)
Welterweight 73 kg	Vladimir Maneyev Soviet Union (URS)	Anton Mackowiak West Germany (FRG)	Milorad Arsić Yugoslavia (YUG)
Middleweight 79 kg	Givi Kartozia Soviet Union (URS)	György Gurics Hungary (HUN)	Horst Heß West Germany (FRG)
Light heavyweight 87 kg	Valentin Nikolayev Soviet Union (URS)	Veikko Lahti Finland (FIN)	Karl-Erik Nilsson Sweden (SWE)
Heavyweight +87 kg	Aleksandr Masur Soviet Union (URS)	Bertil Antonsson Sweden (SWE)	Hamit Kaplan Turkey (TUR)

References

• FILA Database