Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Wrestling at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Basilica of Maxentius
Dates	26 August – 6 September
Competitors	324 from 46 nations

At the 1960 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	Dumitru Pârvulescu  Rumänien	Osman El-Sayed  Ägypten	Mohammad Paziraei  Iran
Bantamweight	Oleg Karavayev  Soviet Union	Ion Cernea  Rumänien	Dinko Petrov  Bulgarien
Featherweight	Müzahir Sille  Türkei	Imre Polyák  Ungarn	Konstantin Vyrupayev  Soviet Union
Lightweight	Avtandil Koridze  Soviet Union	Branislav Martinović  Yugoslavia	Gustav Freij  Schweden
Welterweight	Mithat Bayrak  Türkei	Günther Maritschnigg  United Team of Germany	René Schiermeyer  Frankreich
Middleweight	Dimitar Dobrev  Bulgarien	Lothar Metz  United Team of Germany	Ion Țăranu  Rumänien
Light Heavyweight	Tevfik Kis  Türkei	Krali Bimbalov  Bulgarien	Givi Kartoziya  Soviet Union
Heavyweight	Ivan Bogdan  Soviet Union	Wilfried Dietrich  United Team of Germany	Bohumil Kubát  Czechoslovakia

Freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight	Ahmet Bilek  Türkei	Masayuki Matsubara  Japan	Ebrahim Seifpour  Iran
Bantamweight	Terrence McCann  Vereinigte Staaten	Nezhdet Zalev  Bulgarien	Tadeusz Trojanowski  Polen
Featherweight	Mustafa Dağıstanlı  Türkei	Stancho Kolev  Bulgarien	Vladimir Rubashvili  Soviet Union
Lightweight	Shelby Wilson  Vereinigte Staaten	Vladimir Synyavsky  Soviet Union	Enyu Valchev  Bulgarien
Welterweight	Douglas Blubaugh  Vereinigte Staaten	İsmail Ogan  Türkei	Muhammad Bashir  Pakistan
Middleweight	Hasan Güngör  Türkei	Georgy Skhirtladze  Soviet Union	Hans Antonsson  Schweden
Light heavyweight	Ismet Atli  Türkei	Gholamreza Takhti  Iran	Anatoli Albul  Soviet Union
Heavyweight	Wilfried Dietrich  United Team of Germany	Hamit Kaplan  Türkei	Savkuds Dzarasov  Soviet Union

Participating nations

A total of 324 wrestlers from 46 nations competed at the Rome Games:

•  Afghanistan (7)
•  Argentinien (3)
•  Australien (9)
•  Österreich (7)
•  Belgien (5)
•  Bulgarien (16)
•  Czechoslovakia (5)
•  Dänemark (4)
•  Ägypten (4)
•  Finnland (14)
•  Frankreich (9)
•  United Team of Germany (15)
•  Great Britain (6)
•  Griechenland (3)
•  Ungarn (10)
•  Indien (5)
•  Iraq (1)
•  Irland (4)
•  Italien (16)
•  Japan (16)
•  Südkorea (4)
•  Libanon (6)
•  Luxemburg (4)
•  Mexiko (4)
•  Marokko (5)
•  Niederlande (3)
•  Neuseeland (1)
•  Norwegen (4)
•  Pakistan (7)
•  Panama (1)
•  Polen (12)
•  Portugal (3)
•  Rumänien (7)
•  Soviet Union (16)
•  Spanien (4)
•  Schweden (12)
•  Schweiz (12)
•  Türkei (16)
•  Vereinigte Staaten (16)
•  Venezuela (2)
•  Yugoslavia (5)

See also

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

External links

• Official Olympic Report