1958 World Wrestling Championships

1958 World Championships
Host city	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	July 21–24
Champions
Greco-Roman	Soviet Union

The 1958 World Greco-Roman Wrestling Championship was held in Budapest, Hungary.

Medal table

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

Team ranking

Rank	Men's Greco-Roman
	Team	Points
1	Soviet Union	44
2	Turkey	26
3	Hungary	23

Medal summary

Men's Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight 52 kg	Boris Gurevich Soviet Union (URS)	Sándor Kerekes Hungary (HUN)	Borivoje Vukov Yugoslavia (YUG)
Bantamweight 57 kg	Oleg Karavayev Soviet Union (URS)	Yaşar Yılmaz Turkey (TUR)	Lothar Fischer East Germany (GDR)
Featherweight 62 kg	Imre Polyák Hungary (HUN)	Müzahir Sille Turkey (TUR)	Vladimir Stashkevich Soviet Union (URS)
Lightweight 67 kg	Rıza Doğan Turkey (TUR)	Viktor Vasin Soviet Union (URS)	Gyula Tóth Hungary (HUN)
Welterweight 73 kg	Kazım Ayvaz Turkey (TUR)	Grigory Gamarnik Soviet Union (URS)	Valeriu Bularcă Romania (ROU)
Middleweight 79 kg	Givi Kartozia Soviet Union (URS)	Horst Heß West Germany (FRG)	Lothar Metz East Germany (GDR)
Light heavyweight 87 kg	Rostom Abashidze Soviet Union (URS)	György Gurics Hungary (HUN)	Rune Jansson Sweden (SWE)
Heavyweight +87 kg	Ivan Bogdan Soviet Union (URS)	Lyutvi Ahmedov Bulgaria (BUL)	Hamit Kaplan Turkey (TUR)

References

• FILA Database