Wrestling at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Wrestling at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad | |
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Wrestling at the 1964 Olympics on a stamp of Japan. | |
Venue | Komazawa Gymnasium |
Dates | 11 – 19 October |
Competitors | 275 from 42 nations |
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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.[1]
Medal table
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Japan (JPN) | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
2 | Soviet Union (URS) | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
3 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 3 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
4 | Turkey (TUR) | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
5 | Hungary (HUN) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
6 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
7 | United Team of Germany (EUA) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
8 | Romania (ROU) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
9 | Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
10 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
South Korea (KOR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
12 | Iran (IRI) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
13 | United States (USA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Totals (13 entries) | 16 | 16 | 16 | 48 |
Medal summary
Greco-Roman
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Flyweight details | Tsutomu Hanahara Japan | Angel Kerezov Bulgaria | Dumitru Pârvulescu Romania |
Bantamweight details | Masamitsu Ichiguchi Japan | Vladlen Trostyansky Soviet Union | Ion Cernea Romania |
Featherweight details | Imre Polyák Hungary | Roman Rurua Soviet Union | Branislav Martinović Yugoslavia |
Lightweight details | Kazım Ayvaz Turkey | Valeriu Bularca Romania | David Gvantseladze Soviet Union |
Welterweight details | Anatoly Kolesov Soviet Union | Kiril Petkov Bulgaria | Bertil Nyström Sweden |
Middleweight details | Branislav Simić Yugoslavia | Jiří Kormaník Czechoslovakia | Lothar Metz United Team of Germany |
Light Heavyweight details | Boyan Radev Bulgaria | Per Svensson Sweden | Heinz Kiehl United Team of Germany |
Heavyweight details | István Kozma Hungary | Anatoly Roshchin Soviet Union | Wilfried Dietrich United Team of Germany |
Freestyle
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Flyweight details | Yoshikatsu Yoshida Japan | Chang Chang-Sun South Korea | Ali Akbar Heidari Iran |
Bantamweight details | Yojiro Uetake Japan | Hüseyin Akbas Turkey | Aydin Ibrahimov Soviet Union |
Featherweight details | Osamu Watanabe Japan | Stancho Kolev Bulgaria | Nodar Khokhashvili Soviet Union |
Lightweight details | Enyu Valchev Bulgaria | Klaus Rost United Team of Germany | Iwao Horiuchi Japan |
Welterweight details | İsmail Ogan Turkey | Guliko Sagaradze Soviet Union | Mohammad Ali Sanatkaran Iran |
Middleweight details | Prodan Gardzhev Bulgaria | Hasan Güngör Turkey | Daniel Brand United States |
Light Heavyweight details | Aleksandr Medved Soviet Union | Ahmet Ayık Turkey | Said Mustafov Bulgaria |
Heavyweight details | Aleksandr Ivanitsky Soviet Union | Lyutvi Ahmedov Bulgaria | Hamit Kaplan Turkey |
Participating nations
A total of 275 wrestlers from 42 nations competed at the Tokyo Games:[1]
- Afghanistan (8)
- Argentina (4)
- Australia (8)
- Austria (4)
- Belgium (3)
- Bulgaria (16)
- Canada (4)
- Czechoslovakia (4)
- Denmark (3)
- Egypt (4)
- Finland (10)
- France (3)
- United Team of Germany (14)
- Great Britain (6)
- Greece (5)
- Hungary (10)
- India (8)
- Iran (12)
- Ireland (2)
- Italy (5)
- Japan (16)
- South Korea (13)
- Luxembourg (1)
- Mexico (4)
- Mongolia (8)
- New Zealand (2)
- Norway (1)
- Pakistan (6)
- Panama (3)
- Philippines (4)
- Poland (5)
- Romania (10)
- Soviet Union (16)
- Spain (1)
- Sweden (9)
- Switzerland (3)
- Turkey (15)
- United States (16)
- Yugoslavia (4)[2]
See also
- List of World and Olympic Champions in men's freestyle wrestling
- List of World and Olympic Champions in Greco-Roman wrestling
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wrestling at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
- ^ a b "Wrestling at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
- ^ "The Games of the XVIII Olympiad Tokyo 1964 The Official Report of the Organizing Committee". II part 2. 1964: 61–112. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
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