1959 World Wrestling Championships

1959 World Championships
Host city	Tehran, Iran
Dates	October 1–5
Champions
Freestyle	Soviet Union

The 1959 World Freestyle Wrestling Championship were held in Tehran, Iran.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	3	1	2	6
2	Turkey	2	2	2	6
3	Iran	2	0	0	2
4	Bulgaria	1	3	0	4
5	Finland	0	1	0	1
	Hungary	0	1	0	1
7	Pakistan	0	0	2	2
8	East Germany	0	0	1	1
	France	0	0	1	1
Total		8	8	8	24

Team ranking

Rank	Men's freestyle
	Team	Points
1	Soviet Union	36
2	Turkey	33
3	Bulgaria	22
4	Iran	20

Medal summary

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight 52 kg	Ali Aliyev Soviet Union (URS)	Ahmet Bilek Turkey (TUR)	Muhammad Niaz Pakistan (PAK)
Bantamweight 57 kg	Hüseyin Akbaş Turkey (TUR)	Tauno Jaskari Finland (FIN)	Vladimir Arsenyan Soviet Union (URS)
Featherweight 62 kg	Mustafa Dağıstanlı Turkey (TUR)	Stancho Ivanov Bulgaria (BUL)	Muhammad Akhtar Pakistan (PAK)
Lightweight 67 kg	Vladimir Sinyavsky Soviet Union (URS)	Enyu Valchev Bulgaria (BUL)	Hayrullah Şahin Turkey (TUR)
Welterweight 73 kg	Emam-Ali Habibi Iran (IRI)	Vakhtang Balavadze Soviet Union (URS)	İsmail Ogan Turkey (TUR)
Middleweight 79 kg	Georgy Skhirtladze Soviet Union (URS)	Géza Hollósi Hungary (HUN)	Lothar Lippa East Germany (GDR)
Light heavyweight 87 kg	Gholamreza Takhti Iran (IRI)	Petko Sirakov Bulgaria (BUL)	Maurice Jacquel France (FRA)
Heavyweight +87 kg	Lyutvi Ahmedov Bulgaria (BUL)	Hamit Kaplan Turkey (TUR)	Savkuds Dzarasov Soviet Union (URS)

References

• FILA Database