Wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics

At the 1956 Summer Olympics, 16 wrestling events were contested, all for men. There were eight weight classes in Greco-Roman wrestling and eight classes in freestyle wrestling.

Medal summary

Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight	Nikolai Solovyov  Soviet Union	Ignazio Fabra  Italy	Dursun Ali Egribas  Turkey
Bantamweight	Konstantin Vyrupayev  Soviet Union	Edvin Vesterby  Sweden	Francisc Horvat  Romania
Featherweight	Rauno Mäkinen  Finland	Imre Polyák  Hungary	Roman Dzeneladze  Soviet Union
Lightweight	Kyösti Lehtonen  Finland	Riza Dogan  Turkey	Gyula Tóth  Hungary
Welterweight	Mithat Bayrak  Turkey	Vladimir Maneyev  Soviet Union	Per Gunnar Berlin  Sweden
Middleweight	Givi Kartozia  Soviet Union	Dimitar Dobrev  Bulgaria	Rune Jansson  Sweden
Light Heavyweight	Valentin Nikolayev  Soviet Union	Petko Sirakov  Bulgaria	Karl-Erik Nilsson  Sweden
Heavyweight	Anatoli Parfenov  Soviet Union	Wilfried Dietrich  Germany	Adelmo Bulgarelli  Italy

Freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight	Mirian Tsalkalamanidze  Soviet Union	M. Ali Khojastehpour  Iran	Hüseyin Akbaş  Turkey
Bantamweight	Mustafa Dağıstanlı  Turkey	Mehdi Yaghoubi  Iran	Mikhail Shakhov  Soviet Union
Featherweight	Shozo Sasahara  Japan	Joseph Mewis  Belgium	Erkki Penttilä  Finland
Lightweight	Emam-Ali Habibi  Iran	Shigeru Kasahara  Japan	Alimbeg Bestayev  Soviet Union
Welterweight	Mitsuo Ikeda  Japan	Ibrahim Zengin  Turkey	Vakhtang Balavadze  Soviet Union
Middleweight	Nikola Stanchev  Bulgaria	Danny Hodge  United States	Georgi Skhirtladze  Soviet Union
Light heavyweight	Gholamreza Takhti  Iran	Boris Kulayev  Soviet Union	Peter Blair  United States
Heavyweight	Hamit Kaplan  Turkey	Hussein Mehmedov  Bulgaria	Taisto Kangasniemi  Finland

Participating nations

A total of 167 wrestlers from 30 nations competed at the Melbourne Games:

• Argentina (2)
• Australia (15)
• Austria (4)
• Belgium (3)
• Bulgaria (8)
• Canada (2)
• Finland (10)
• France (2)
• Germany (5)
• Great Britain (4)
• Greece (2)
• Hungary (8)
• India (7)
• Iran (8)
• Ireland (1)
• Italy (5)
• Japan (8)
• South Korea (3)
• Mexico (1)
• New Zealand (1)
• Norway (1)
• Pakistan (6)
• Philippines (3)
• Romania (4)
• South Africa (4)
• Soviet Union (16)
• Sweden (10)
• Turkey (13)
• United States (15)
• Yugoslavia (2)^[1]

References

1. "THE OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR THE GAMES OF THE XVI OLYMPIAD MELBOURNE 1956" I. 1958: 650–691. Retrieved 23 September 2015.

• Official Olympic Report