Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle welterweight

This freestyle wrestling competition continued to use the "bad points" elimination system introduced at the 1928 Summer Olympics for Greco-Roman and at the 1932 Summer Olympics for freestyle wrestling, though adjusted the point values slightly. Wins by fall continued to be worth 0 points and wins by decision continued to be worth 1 point. Losses by fall, however, were now worth 4 points (up from 3). Losses by decision were worth 3 points (consistent with most prior years, though in some losses by split decision had been worth only 2 points). Ties were now allowed, worth 2 points for each wrestler. The elimination threshold was also increased from 5 points to 6 points. The medal round concept, used in 1952 and 1956 requiring a round-robin amongst the medalists even if one or more finished a round with enough points for elimination, was used only if exactly three wrestlers remained after a round—if two competitors remained, they faced off head-to-head; if only one, he was the gold medalist.{{sfn|Official Report|1960|p=520}}

Rantanen withdrew after his bout.

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With three remaining wrestlers, the competition used a round-robin to determine the medalists rather than giving one wrestler a bye in round 6. Ogan defeated Bashir, but Blubaugh defeated both of them to take the gold medal.

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• {{cite book |url=https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll8/id/20568/rec/27 |title=The Games of the XVII Olympiad, Rome 1960: The Official Report of the Organizing Committee |volume=2 |year=1960 |ref={{sfnref|Official Report|1960}} |access-date=21 August 2024 }}

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