1957 World Wrestling Championships

1957 World Championships
Host city	Istanbul, Turkey
Dates	June 1–2
Champions
Freestyle	Turkey

The 1957 World Freestyle Wrestling Championship were held in Istanbul, Turkey.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Turkey	4	2	2	8
2	Soviet Union	2	3	1	6
3	Iran	1	1	0	2
4	Bulgaria	1	0	2	3
5	Finland	0	1	0	1
	West Germany	0	1	0	1
7	Japan	0	0	2	2
8	Italy	0	0	1	1
Total		8	8	8	24

Team ranking

Rank	Men's freestyle
	Team	Points
1	Turkey	42
2	Soviet Union	35
3	Iran	20
4	Bulgaria	18
5	Japan	15
6	West Germany	9

Medal summary

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight 52 kg	Mehmet Kartal  Turkey (TUR)	Mirian Tsalkalamanidze  Soviet Union (URS)	Luigi Chinazzo  Italy (ITA)
Bantamweight 57 kg	Hüseyin Akbaş  Turkey (TUR)	Tauno Jaskari  Finland (FIN)	Yasuyuki Shimamura  Japan (JPN)
Featherweight 62 kg	Mustafa Dağıstanlı  Turkey (TUR)	Hossein Mollaghasemi  Iran (IRI)	Norik Mushegyan  Soviet Union (URS)
Lightweight 67 kg	Alimbeg Bestayev  Soviet Union (URS)	Hayrullah Şahin  Turkey (TUR)	Kazuo Abe  Japan (JPN)
Welterweight 73 kg	Vakhtang Balavadze  Soviet Union (URS)	İsmail Ogan  Turkey (TUR)	Murtaza Murtazov  Bulgaria (BUL)
Middleweight 79 kg	Nabi Sorouri  Iran (IRI)	Georgy Skhirtladze  Soviet Union (URS)	Hasan Güngör  Turkey (TUR)
Light heavyweight 87 kg	Petko Sirakov  Bulgaria (BUL)	Boris Kulayev  Soviet Union (URS)	İsmet Atlı  Turkey (TUR)
Heavyweight +87 kg	Hamit Kaplan  Turkey (TUR)	Wilfried Dietrich  West Germany (FRG)	Hussein Mehmedov  Bulgaria (BUL)

References

• FILA Database