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Wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics

{{Infobox Olympic event

| event = Wrestling

| games = 1956 Summer

| image = Wrestling pictogram.svg

| image_size = 100px

| venue = Royal Exhibition Building

| dates = 28 November – 6 December

| competitors = 173

| nations = 30

| prev = 1952

| next = 1960

}}

{{WrestlingAt1956SummerOlympics}}

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.{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1956/WRE/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417053743/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1956/WRE/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Wrestling at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games |work=Sports Reference |access-date=11 March 2019}}

Medal summary

=Freestyle=

{{MedalistTable|type=Event}}
Flyweight
{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle flyweight}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Mirian Tsalkalamanidze|URS|1956 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Mohammad Ali Khojastehpour|IRN|1956 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Hüseyin Akbaş|TUR|1956 Summer}}

Bantamweight
{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle bantamweight}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Mustafa Dağıstanlı|TUR|1956 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Mehdi Yaghoubi|IRN|1956 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Mikhail Shakhov|URS|1956 Summer}}

Featherweight
{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle featherweight}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Shozo Sasahara|JPN|1956 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Joseph Mewis|BEL|1956 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Erkki Penttilä|FIN|1956 Summer}}

Lightweight
{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle lightweight}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Emam-Ali Habibi|IRN|1956 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Shigeru Kasahara|JPN|1956 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Alimbeg Bestaev|URS|1956 Summer}}

Welterweight
{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle welterweight}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Mitsuo Ikeda|JPN|1956 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Ibrahim Zengin|TUR|1956 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Vakhtang Balavadze|URS|1956 Summer}}

Middleweight
{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle middleweight}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Nikola Stanchev|BUL|1956 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Danny Hodge|USA|1956 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Georgi Skhirtladze|URS|1956 Summer}}

Light heavyweight
{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle light heavyweight}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Gholamreza Takhti|IRN|1956 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Boris Kulayev|URS|1956 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Peter Blair|USA|1956 Summer}}

Heavyweight
{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle heavyweight}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Hamit Kaplan|TUR|1956 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Hussein Mehmedov|BUL|1956 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Taisto Kangasniemi|FIN|1956 Summer}}

= Greco-Roman=

{{MedalistTable|type=Event}}
Flyweight
{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman flyweight}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Nikolai Solovyov|URS|1956 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Ignazio Fabra|ITA|1956 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Dursun Ali Egribas|TUR|1956 Summer}}

Bantamweight
{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman bantamweight}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Konstantin Vyrupayev|URS|1956 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Edvin Vesterby|SWE|1956 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Francisc Horvat|ROU|1956 Summer}}

Featherweight
{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman featherweight}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Rauno Mäkinen|FIN|1956 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Imre Polyák|HUN|1956 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Roman Dzeneladze|URS|1956 Summer}}

Lightweight
{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman lightweight}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Kyösti Lehtonen|FIN|1956 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Riza Dogan|TUR|1956 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Gyula Tóth|HUN|1956 Summer}}

Welterweight
{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman welterweight }}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Mithat Bayrak|TUR|1956 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Vladimir Maneev|URS|1956 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Per Gunnar Berlin|SWE|1956 Summer}}

Middleweight
{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman middleweight}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Givi Kartozia|URS|1956 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Dimitar Dobrev|BUL|1956 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Rune Jansson|SWE|1956 Summer}}

Light Heavyweight
{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman light heavyweight}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Valentin Nikolayev|URS|1956 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Petko Sirakov|BUL|1956 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Karl-Erik Nilsson|SWE|1956 Summer}}

Heavyweight
{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman heavyweight}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Anatoli Parfenov|URS|1956 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Wilfried Dietrich|EUA|1956 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Adelmo Bulgarelli|ITA|1956 Summer}}

Medal table

{{Medals table

| caption =

| host =

| flag_template = FlagIOCteam

| event = 1956 Summer

| team =

| gold_URS = 6 | silver_URS = 2 | bronze_URS = 5

| gold_TUR = 3 | silver_TUR = 2 | bronze_TUR = 2

| gold_IRN = 2 | silver_IRN = 2 | bronze_IRN = 0

| gold_JPN = 2 | silver_JPN = 1 | bronze_JPN = 0

| gold_FIN = 2 | silver_FIN = 0 | bronze_FIN = 2

| gold_BUL = 1 | silver_BUL = 3 | bronze_BUL = 0

| gold_SWE = 0 | silver_SWE = 1 | bronze_SWE = 3

| gold_HUN = 0 | silver_HUN = 1 | bronze_HUN = 1

| gold_ITA = 0 | silver_ITA = 1 | bronze_ITA = 1

| gold_USA = 0 | silver_USA = 1 | bronze_USA = 1

| gold_BEL = 0 | silver_BEL = 1 | bronze_BEL = 0

| gold_EUA = 0 | silver_EUA = 1 | bronze_EUA = 0

| gold_ROU = 0 | silver_ROU = 0 | bronze_ROU = 1

}}

Participating nations

A total of 173 wrestlers from 30 nations competed at the Melbourne Games:

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  • {{flagIOC|ARG|1956 Summer|2}}
  • {{flagIOC|AUS|1956 Summer|15}}
  • {{flagIOC|AUT|1956 Summer|4}}
  • {{flagIOC|BEL|1956 Summer|3}}
  • {{flagIOC|BUL|1956 Summer|8}}
  • {{flagIOC|CAN|1956 Summer|2}}
  • {{flagIOC|FIN|1956 Summer|10}}
  • {{flagIOC|FRA|1956 Summer|2}}
  • {{flagIOC|EUA|1956 Summer|5}}
  • {{flagIOC|GBR|1956 Summer|4}}
  • {{flagIOC|GRE|1956 Summer|2}}
  • {{flagIOC|HUN|1956 Summer|8}}
  • {{flagIOC|IND|1956 Summer|7}}
  • {{flagIOC|IRN|1956 Summer|8}}
  • {{flagIOC|IRL|1956 Summer|1}}
  • {{flagIOC|ITA|1956 Summer|5}}
  • {{flagIOC|JPN|1956 Summer|8}}
  • {{flagIOC|KOR|1956 Summer|3}}
  • {{flagIOC|MEX|1956 Summer|1}}
  • {{flagIOC|NZL|1956 Summer|1}}
  • {{flagIOC|NOR|1956 Summer|1}}
  • {{flagIOC|PAK|1956 Summer|6}}
  • {{flagIOC|PHI|1956 Summer|3}}
  • {{flagIOC|ROU|1956 Summer|4}}
  • {{flagIOC|RSA|1956 Summer|4}}
  • {{flagIOC|URS|1956 Summer|16}}
  • {{flagIOC|SWE|1956 Summer|10}}
  • {{flagIOC|TUR|1956 Summer|13}}
  • {{flagIOC|USA|1956 Summer|15}}
  • {{flagIOC|YUG|1956 Summer|2}}{{cite journal|title=THE OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR THE GAMES OF THE XVI OLYMPIAD MELBOURNE 1956|date=1958|volume=I|pages=650–691|url=http://olympic-museum.de/o-reports/olympic-games-official-report-1956.htm|access-date=23 September 2015|archive-date=31 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131005724/http://olympic-museum.de/o-reports/olympic-games-official-report-1956.htm|url-status=dead}}

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References

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External links

  • [http://www.la84foundation.org/5va/reports_frmst.htm Official Olympic Report]

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1956

Category:1956 in sport wrestling

Category:International wrestling competitions hosted by Australia