Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics#Freestyle
{{Infobox Olympic event
| event = Wrestling
| games = 1960 Summer
| image = Wrestling pictogram.svg
| image_size = 100px
| venue = Basilica of Maxentius
| dates = 26 August – 6 September
| competitors = 324
| nations = 46
| prev = 1956
| next = 1964
}}
File:Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics.jpg]]
{{WrestlingAt1960SummerOlympics}}
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.{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1960/WRE/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417045746/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1960/WRE/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Wrestling at the 1960 Rome Summer Games |work=Sports Reference |access-date=15 March 2019}}
Medal table
{{Medals table
| caption =
| host =
| flag_template = FlagIOCteam
| event = 1960 Summer
| team =
| gold_URS = 3 | silver_URS = 2 | bronze_URS = 5
| gold_TUR = 7 | silver_TUR = 2 | bronze_TUR = 0
| gold_IRI = 0 | silver_IRI = 1 | bronze_IRI = 2
| gold_JPN = 0 | silver_JPN = 1 | bronze_JPN = 0
| gold_PAK = 0 | silver_PAK = 0 | bronze_PAK = 1
| gold_BUL = 1 | silver_BUL = 3 | bronze_BUL = 2
| gold_SWE = 0 | silver_SWE = 0 | bronze_SWE = 2
| gold_HUN = 0 | silver_HUN = 1 | bronze_HUN = 0
| gold_FRA = 0 | silver_FRA = 0 | bronze_FRA = 1
| gold_USA = 3 | silver_USA = 0 | bronze_USA = 0
| gold_POL = 0 | silver_POL = 0 | bronze_POL = 1
| gold_EUA = 1 | silver_EUA = 3 | bronze_EUA = 0
| gold_ROU = 1 | silver_ROU = 1 | bronze_ROU = 1
| gold_EGY = 0 | silver_EGY = 1 | bronze_EGY = 0
| gold_YUG = 0 | silver_YUG = 1 | bronze_YUG = 0
| gold_TCH = 0 | silver_TCH = 0 | bronze_TCH = 1
}}
Medal summary
= Greco-Roman=
| {{MedalistTable| width=225|labelwidth=200}} |
| Flyweight {{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman flyweight}} |{{FlagIOCmedalist|Dumitru Pârvulescu|ROU|1960 Summer}} |{{FlagIOCmedalist|Osman El-Sayed|EGY|1960 Summer}} |{{FlagIOCmedalist|Mohammad Paziraei|IRI|1960 Summer}} |
| Bantamweight {{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman bantamweight}} |{{FlagIOCmedalist|Oleg Karavayev|URS|1960 Summer}} |{{FlagIOCmedalist|Ion Cernea|ROU|1960 Summer}} |{{FlagIOCmedalist|Dinko Petrov|BUL|1960 Summer}} |
| Featherweight {{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman featherweight}} |{{FlagIOCmedalist|Müzahir Sille|TUR|1960 Summer}} |{{FlagIOCmedalist|Imre Polyák|HUN|1960 Summer}} |{{FlagIOCmedalist|Konstantin Vyrupayev|URS|1960 Summer}} |
| Lightweight {{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman lightweight}} |{{FlagIOCmedalist|Avtandil Koridze|URS|1960 Summer}} |{{FlagIOCmedalist|Branislav Martinović|YUG|1960 Summer}} |{{FlagIOCmedalist|Gustav Freij|SWE|1960 Summer}} |
| Welterweight {{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman welterweight}} |{{FlagIOCmedalist|Mithat Bayrak|TUR|1960 Summer}} |{{FlagIOCmedalist|Günther Maritschnigg|EUA|1960 Summer}} |{{FlagIOCmedalist|René Schiermeyer|FRA|1960 Summer}} |
| Middleweight {{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman middleweight}} |{{FlagIOCmedalist|Dimitar Dobrev|BUL|1960 Summer}} |{{FlagIOCmedalist|Lothar Metz|EUA|1960 Summer}} |{{FlagIOCmedalist|Ion Țăranu|ROU|1960 Summer}} |
| Light Heavyweight {{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman light heavyweight}} |{{FlagIOCmedalist|Tevfik Kis|TUR|1960 Summer}} |{{FlagIOCmedalist|Krali Bimbalov|BUL|1960 Summer}} |{{FlagIOCmedalist|Givi Kartoziya|URS|1960 Summer}} |
| Heavyweight {{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman heavyweight}} |{{FlagIOCmedalist|Ivan Bogdan|URS|1960 Summer}} |{{FlagIOCmedalist|Wilfried Dietrich|EUA|1960 Summer}} |{{FlagIOCmedalist|Bohumil Kubát|TCH|1960 Summer}} |
=Freestyle=
| {{MedalistTable| width=225|labelwidth=200}} |
| Flyweight {{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle flyweight}} | {{FlagIOCmedalist|Ahmet Bilek|TUR|1960 Summer}} | {{FlagIOCmedalist|Masayuki Matsubara|JPN|1960 Summer}} | {{FlagIOCmedalist|Ebrahim Seifpour|IRI|1960 Summer}} |
| Bantamweight {{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle bantamweight}} | {{FlagIOCmedalist|Terrence McCann|USA|1960 Summer}} | {{FlagIOCmedalist|Nezhdet Zalev|BUL|1960 Summer}} | {{FlagIOCmedalist|Tadeusz Trojanowski|POL|1960 Summer}} |
| Featherweight {{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle featherweight}} | {{FlagIOCmedalist|Mustafa Dağıstanlı|TUR|1960 Summer}} | {{FlagIOCmedalist|Stancho Kolev|BUL|1960 Summer}} | {{FlagIOCmedalist|Vladimir Rubashvili|URS|1960 Summer}} |
| Lightweight {{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle lightweight}} | {{FlagIOCmedalist|Shelby Wilson|USA|1960 Summer}} | {{FlagIOCmedalist|Vladimir Synyavsky|URS|1960 Summer}} | {{FlagIOCmedalist|Enyu Valchev|BUL|1960 Summer}} |
| Welterweight {{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle welterweight}} | {{FlagIOCmedalist|Douglas Blubaugh|USA|1960 Summer}} | {{FlagIOCmedalist|İsmail Ogan|TUR|1960 Summer}} | {{FlagIOCmedalist|Muhammad Bashir|PAK|1960 Summer}} |
| Middleweight {{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle middleweight}} | {{FlagIOCmedalist|Hasan Güngör|TUR|1960 Summer}} | {{FlagIOCmedalist|Georgy Skhirtladze|URS|1960 Summer}} | {{FlagIOCmedalist|Hans Antonsson|SWE|1960 Summer}} |
| Light heavyweight {{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle light heavyweight}} | {{FlagIOCmedalist|Ismet Atli|TUR|1960 Summer}} | {{FlagIOCmedalist|Gholamreza Takhti|IRI|1960 Summer}} | {{FlagIOCmedalist|Anatoli Albul|URS|1960 Summer}} |
| Heavyweight {{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle heavyweight}} | {{FlagIOCmedalist|Wilfried Dietrich|EUA|1960 Summer}} | {{FlagIOCmedalist|Hamit Kaplan|TUR|1960 Summer}} | {{FlagIOCmedalist|Savkuds Dzarasov|URS|1960 Summer}} |
Participating nations
A total of 324 wrestlers from 46 nations competed at the Rome Games:
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- {{flagIOC|AFG|1960 Summer|7}}
- {{flagIOC|ARG|1960 Summer|3}}
- {{flagIOC|AUS|1960 Summer|9}}
- {{flagIOC|AUT|1960 Summer|7}}
- {{flagIOC|BEL|1960 Summer|5}}
- {{flagIOC|BUL|1960 Summer|16}}
- {{flagIOC|TCH|1960 Summer|5}}
- {{flagIOC|DEN|1960 Summer|4}}
- {{flagIOC|EGY|1960 Summer|4}}
- {{flagIOC|FIN|1960 Summer|14}}
- {{flagIOC|FRA|1960 Summer|9}}
- {{flagIOC|EUA|1960 Summer|15}}
- {{flagIOC|GBR|1960 Summer|6}}
- {{flagIOC|GRE|1960 Summer|3}}
- {{flagIOC|HUN|1960 Summer|10}}
- {{flagIOC|IND|1960 Summer|5}}
- {{flagIOC|IRI|1960 Summer|12}}
- {{flagIOC|IRQ|1960 Summer|1}}
- {{flagIOC|IRL|1960 Summer|4}}
- {{flagIOC|ITA|1960 Summer|16}}
- {{flagIOC|JPN|1960 Summer|16}}
- {{flagIOC|KOR|1960 Summer|4}}
- {{flagIOC|LIB|1960 Summer|6}}
- {{flagIOC|LUX|1960 Summer|4}}
- {{flagIOC|MEX|1960 Summer|4}}
- {{flagIOC|MAR|1960 Summer|5}}
- {{flagIOC|NED|1960 Summer|3}}
- {{flagIOC|NZL|1960 Summer|1}}
- {{flagIOC|NOR|1960 Summer|4}}
- {{flagIOC|PAK|1960 Summer|7}}
- {{flagIOC|PAN|1960 Summer|1}}
- {{flagIOC|POL|1960 Summer|12}}
- {{flagIOC|POR|1960 Summer|3}}
- {{flagIOC|ROU|1960 Summer|7}}
- {{flagIOC|URS|1960 Summer|16}}
- {{flagIOC|ESP|1960 Summer|4}}
- {{flagIOC|SWE|1960 Summer|12}}
- {{flagIOC|SUI|1960 Summer|12}}
- {{flagIOC|TUR|1960 Summer|16}}
- {{flagIOC|USA|1960 Summer|16}}
- {{flagIOC|VEN|1960 Summer|2}}
- {{flagIOC|YUG|1960 Summer|5}}{{cite journal|title=THE GAMES OF THE XVII OLYMPIAD ROME 1960 The Official Report of the Organizing Committee|volume= II part 1|pages=468–547|url=http://www.olympic-museum.de/o-reports/report1960.htm}}
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See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.la84foundation.org/5va/reports_frmst.htm Official Olympic Report]
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