Wrestling at the 1964 Summer Olympics

{{Infobox Olympic event

| event = Wrestling

| games = 1964 Summer

| image = 1964 Olympics wrestling stamp of Japan.jpg

| image_size = 250px

| caption = Wrestling at the 1964 Olympics on a stamp of Japan.

| venue = Komazawa Gymnasium

| dates = 11 – 19 October

| competitors = 275

| nations = 42

| prev = 1960

| next = 1968

}}

At the 1964 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1964/WRE/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417045846/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1964/WRE/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Wrestling at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games |work=Sports Reference |access-date=26 March 2019}}

Medal table

{{Medals table

| caption =

| host =

| flag_template = FlagIOCteam

| event = 1964 Summer

| team =

| gold_URS = 3 | silver_URS = 4 | bronze_URS = 3

| gold_TUR = 2 | silver_TUR = 3 | bronze_TUR = 1

| gold_IRI = 0 | silver_IRI = 0 | bronze_IRI = 2

| gold_JPN = 5 | silver_JPN = 0 | bronze_JPN = 1

| gold_BUL = 3 | silver_BUL = 4 | bronze_BUL = 1

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

| gold_HUN = 2 | silver_HUN = 0 | bronze_HUN = 0

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

| gold_EUA = 0 | silver_EUA = 1 | bronze_EUA = 3

| gold_ROU = 0 | silver_ROU = 1 | bronze_ROU = 2

| gold_YUG = 1 | silver_YUG = 0 | bronze_YUG = 1

| gold_TCH = 0 | silver_TCH = 1 | bronze_TCH = 0

| gold_KOR = 0 | silver_KOR = 1 | bronze_KOR = 0

}}

Medal summary

= Greco-Roman=

Flyweight
{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman flyweight}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Tsutomu Hanahara|JPN|1964 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Angel Kerezov|BUL|1964 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Dumitru Pârvulescu|ROU|1964 Summer}}

Bantamweight
{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman bantamweight}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Masamitsu Ichiguchi|JPN|1964 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Vladlen Trostyansky|URS|1964 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Ion Cernea|ROU|1964 Summer}}

Featherweight
{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman featherweight}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Imre Polyák|HUN|1964 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Roman Rurua|URS|1964 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Branislav Martinović|YUG|1964 Summer}}

Lightweight
{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman lightweight}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Kazım Ayvaz|TUR|1964 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Valeriu Bularca|ROU|1964 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|David Gvantseladze|URS|1964 Summer}}

Welterweight
{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman welterweight}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Anatoly Kolesov|URS|1964 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Kiril Petkov|BUL|1964 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Bertil Nyström|SWE|1964 Summer}}

Middleweight
{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman middleweight}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Branislav Simić|YUG|1964 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Jiří Kormaník|TCH|1964 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Lothar Metz|EUA|1964 Summer}}

Light Heavyweight
{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman light heavyweight}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Boyan Radev|BUL|1964 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Per Svensson|SWE|1964 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Heinz Kiehl|EUA|1964 Summer}}

Heavyweight
{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman heavyweight}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|István Kozma|HUN|1964 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Anatoly Roshchin|URS|1964 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Wilfried Dietrich|EUA|1964 Summer}}

=Freestyle=

Flyweight
{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle flyweight}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Yoshikatsu Yoshida|JPN|1964 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Chang Chang-Sun|KOR|1964 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Ali Akbar Heidari|IRI|1964 Summer}}

Bantamweight
{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle bantamweight}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Yojiro Uetake|JPN|1964 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Hüseyin Akbas|TUR|1964 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Aydin Ibrahimov|URS|1964 Summer}}

Featherweight
{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle featherweight}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Osamu Watanabe|JPN|1964 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Stancho Kolev|BUL|1964 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Nodar Khokhashvili|URS|1964 Summer}}

Lightweight
{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle lightweight}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Enyu Valchev|BUL|1964 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Klaus Rost|EUA|1964 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Iwao Horiuchi|JPN|1964 Summer}}

Welterweight
{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle welterweight}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|İsmail Ogan|TUR|1964 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Guliko Sagaradze|URS|1964 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Mohammad Ali Sanatkaran|IRI|1964 Summer}}

Middleweight
{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle middleweight}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Prodan Gardzhev|BUL|1964 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Hasan Güngör|TUR|1964 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Daniel Brand|USA|1964 Summer}}

Light Heavyweight
{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle light heavyweight}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Aleksandr Medved|URS|1964 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Ahmet Ayık|TUR|1964 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Said Mustafov|BUL|1964 Summer}}

Heavyweight
{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle heavyweight}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Aleksandr Ivanitsky|URS|1964 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Lyutvi Ahmedov|BUL|1964 Summer}}

|{{FlagIOCmedalist|Hamit Kaplan|TUR|1964 Summer}}

Participating nations

A total of 275 wrestlers from 42 nations competed at the Tokyo Games:

{{flagIOC|AFG|1964 Summer|8}}
{{flagIOC|ARG|1964 Summer|4}}
{{flagIOC|AUS|1964 Summer|8}}
{{flagIOC|AUT|1964 Summer|4}}
{{flagIOC|BEL|1964 Summer|3}}
{{flagIOC|BUL|1964 Summer|16}}
{{flagIOC|CAN|1964 Summer|4}}
{{flagIOC|TCH|1964 Summer|4}}
{{flagIOC|DEN|1964 Summer|3}}
{{flagIOC|EGY|1964 Summer|4}}
{{flagIOC|FIN|1964 Summer|10}}
{{flagIOC|FRA|1964 Summer|3}}
{{flagIOC|EUA|1964 Summer|14}}
{{flagIOC|GBR|1964 Summer|6}}
{{flagIOC|GRE|1964 Summer|5}}
{{flagIOC|HUN|1964 Summer|10}}
{{flagIOC|IND|1964 Summer|8}}
{{flagIOC|IRI|1964 Summer|12}}
{{flagIOC|IRL|1964 Summer|2}}
{{flagIOC|ITA|1964 Summer|5}}
{{flagIOC|JPN|1964 Summer|16}}
{{flagIOC|KOR|1964 Summer|13}}
{{flagIOC|LUX|1964 Summer|1}}
{{flagIOC|MEX|1964 Summer|4}}
{{flagIOC|MGL|1964 Summer|8}}
{{flagIOC|NZL|1964 Summer|2}}
{{flagIOC|NOR|1964 Summer|1}}
{{flagIOC|PAK|1964 Summer|6}}
{{flagIOC|PAN|1964 Summer|3}}
{{flagIOC|PHI|1964 Summer|4}}
{{flagIOC|POL|1964 Summer|5}}
{{flagIOC|ROU|1964 Summer|10}}
{{flagIOC|URS|1964 Summer|16}}
{{flagIOC|ESP|1964 Summer|1}}
{{flagIOC|SWE|1964 Summer|9}}
{{flagIOC|SUI|1964 Summer|3}}
{{flagIOC|TUR|1964 Summer|15}}
{{flagIOC|USA|1964 Summer|16}}
{{flagIOC|YUG|1964 Summer|4}}{{cite journal|title=The Games of the XVIII Olympiad Tokyo 1964 The Official Report of the Organizing Committee|date=1964|journal=Digital Library Collection|volume= II part 2|pages=61–112|url=http://www.olympic-museum.de/o-reports/report1964.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150929073531/http://www.olympic-museum.de/o-reports/report1964.htm|archive-date=29 September 2015|access-date=21 September 2015}}

References

Category:Events at the 1964 Summer Olympics

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