Wrestling at the 1968 Summer Olympics

At the 1968 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.

Medal summary

Freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
52 kg	Shigeo Nakata (JPN)	Richard Sanders (USA)	Chimedbazaryn Damdinsharav (MGL)
57 kg	Yojiro Uetake (JPN)	Donald Behm (USA)	Aboutaleb Talebi (IRI)
63 kg	Masaaki Kaneko (JPN)	Enyu Todorov (BUL)	Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi (IRI)
70 kg	Abdollah Movahed  Iran	Enyu Valchev  Bulgaria	Danzandarjaagiin Sereeter  Mongolia
78 kg	Mahmut Atalay  Turkey	Daniel Robin  France	Tömöriin Artag  Mongolia
87 kg	Boris Michail Gurevich  Soviet Union	Jigjidiin Mönkhbat  Mongolia	Prodan Gardzhev  Bulgaria
97 kg	Ahmet Ayık  Turkey	Shota Lomidze  Soviet Union	József Csatári  Hungary
+97 kg	Aleksandr Medved  Soviet Union	Osman Duraliev  Bulgaria	Wilfried Dietrich  West Germany

Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
52 kg	Petar Kirov  Bulgaria	Vladimir Bakulin  Soviet Union	Miroslav Zeman  Czechoslovakia
57 kg	János Varga  Hungary	Ion Baciu  Romania	Ivan Kochergin  Soviet Union
63 kg	Roman Rurua  Soviet Union	Hideo Fujimoto  Japan	Simion Popescu  Romania
70 kg	Muneji Munemura  Japan	Stevan Horvat  Yugoslavia	Petros Galaktopoulos  Greece
78 kg	Rudolf Vesper  East Germany	Daniel Robin  France	Károly Bajkó  Hungary
87 kg	Lothar Metz  East Germany	Valentin Oleynik  Soviet Union	Branislav Simić  Yugoslavia
97 kg	Boyan Radev  Bulgaria	Nikolai Yakovenko  Soviet Union	Nicolae Martinescu  Romania
+97 kg	István Kozma  Hungary	Anatoly Roshchin  Soviet Union	Petr Kment  Czechoslovakia

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	4	1	0	5
2	Soviet Union (URS)	3	5	1	9
3	Bulgaria (BUL)	2	3	1	6
4	Hungary (HUN)	2	0	2	4
5	East Germany (GDR)	2	0	0	2
	Turkey (TUR)	2	0	0	2
7	Iran (IRI)	1	0	2	3
8	France (FRA)	0	2	0	2
	United States (USA)	0	2	0	2
10	Mongolia (MGL)	0	1	3	4
11	Romania (ROU)	0	1	2	3
12	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	1	1	2
13	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	0	2	2
14	Greece (GRE)	0	0	1	1
	West Germany (FRG)	0	0	1	1

Participating nations

A total of 296 wrestlers from 45 nations competed at the Mexico City Games:

• Afghanistan (5)
• Argentina (3)
• Australia (3)
• Austria (1)
• Belgium (2)
• Bulgaria (16)
• Canada (7)
• Cuba (3)
• Czechoslovakia (6)
• Denmark (3)
• Dominican Republic (2)
• Ecuador (2)
• Egypt (4)
• Finland (9)
• France (4)
• East Germany (10)
• West Germany (11)
• Great Britain (4)
• Greece (8)
• Guatemala (5)
• Hungary (13)
• India (4)
• Iran (9)
• Iraq (1)
• Italy (5)
• Japan (15)
• Lebanon (2)
• South Korea (8)
• Mexico (12)
• Mongolia (8)
• Morocco (4)
• Norway (3)
• Pakistan (2)
• Panama (2)
• Philippines (4)
• Poland (12)
• Portugal (4)
• Romania (12)
• Soviet Union (16)
• Sweden (7)
• Switzerland (3)
• Syria (2)
• Turkey (16)
• United States (16)
• Yugoslavia (8)^[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 1968 Produced by the Organizing Committee of the Games of the XIX Olympiad". III part 2. 1969: 300–317. Retrieved 21 September 2015.

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2008-10-29.