Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics

At the 1952 Summer Olympics, 16 wrestling events were contested, for all men. There were eight weight classes in Greco-Roman wrestling and eight classes in freestyle wrestling. The events were held at Messuhalli.

Medal summary

Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight	Boris Gurevich (URS)	Ignazio Fabra (ITA)	Leo Honkala (FIN)
Bantamweight	Imre Hódos (HUN)	Zakaria Chibab (LIB)	Artem Teryan (URS)
Featherweight	Yakov Punkin (URS)	Imre Polyák (HUN)	Abdel Al-Rashid (EGY)
Lightweight	Shazam Safin (URS)	Gustav Freij (SWE)	Mikuláš Athanasov (TCH)
Welterweight	Miklós Szilvásy (HUN)	Gösta Andersson (SWE)	Khalil Taha (LIB)
Middleweight	Axel Grönberg (SWE)	Kalervo Rauhala (FIN)	Nikolay Belov (URS)
Light Heavyweight	Kelpo Gröndahl (FIN)	Shalva Chikhladze (URS)	Karl-Erik Nilsson (SWE)
Heavyweight	Johannes Kotkas (URS)	Josef Růžička (TCH)	Tauno Kovanen (FIN)

Freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight	Hasan Gemici (TUR)	Yushu Kitano (JPN)	Mahmoud Mollaghasemi (IRI)
Bantamweight	Shohachi Ishii (JPN)	Rashid Mammadbeyov (URS)	Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav (IND)
Featherweight	Bayram Sit (TUR)	Nasser Givehchi (IRI)	Josiah Henson (USA)
Lightweight	Olle Anderberg (SWE)	Jay Thomas Evans (USA)	Jahanbakht Tofigh (IRI)
Welterweight	William Smith (USA)	Per Berlin (SWE)	Abdollah Mojtabavi (IRI)
Middleweight	David Tsimakuridze (URS)	Gholamreza Takhti (IRI)	György Gurics (HUN)
Light heavyweight	Viking Palm (SWE)	Henry Wittenberg (USA)	Adil Atan (TUR)
Heavyweight	Arsen Mekokishvili (URS)	Bertil Antonsson (SWE)	Kenneth Richmond (GBR)

Participating nations

A total of 215 wrestlers from 36 nations competed at the Helsinki Games:

• Argentina (5)
• Australia (4)
• Austria (3)
• Belgium (8)
• Canada (4)
• Czechoslovakia (3)
• Denmark (5)
• Egypt (12)
• Finland (16)
• France (10)
• Germany (8)
• Great Britain (6)
• Greece (3)
• Guatemala (3)
• Hungary (12)
• India (4)
• Iran (8)
• Ireland (1)
• Italy (14)
• Japan (5)
• South Korea (1)
• Lebanon (4)
• Luxembourg (3)
• Mexico (5)
• Norway (7)
• Philippines (1)
• Poland (5)
• Romania (7)
• South Africa (5)
• Soviet Union (16)
• Sweden (1)
• Switzerland (5)
• Turkey (15)
• United States (8)
• Venezuela (3)
• Yugoslavia (3)^[1]

See also

• List of World and Olympic Champions in men's freestyle wrestling
• List of World and Olympic Champions in Greco-Roman wrestling

References

1. "THE OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE FOR THE GAMES OF THE XV OLYMPIAD HELSINKI 1952". Volume I. 1952: 353–384. Retrieved 23 September 2015.