Wrestling at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Basilica of Maxentius
Dates	26 August – 6 September
Competitors	324 from 46 nations
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Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Greco-Roman
Fly	men
Bantam	men
Feather	men
Light	men
Welter	men
Middle	men
Light heavy	men
Heavy	men
Freestyle
Fly	men
Bantam	men
Feather	men
Light	men
Welter	men
Middle	men
Light heavy	men
Heavy	men
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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. ^[1]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Turkey (TUR)	7	2	0	9
2	Soviet Union (URS)	3	2	5	10
3	United States (USA)	3	0	0	3
4	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	3	2	6
5	United Team of Germany (EUA)	1	3	0	4
6	Romania (ROU)	1	1	1	3
7	Iran (IRI)	0	1	2	3
8	Egypt (EGY)	0	1	0	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	1	0	1
12	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	2	2
13	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	0	1	1
	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Pakistan (PAK)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		16	16	16	48

Medal summary

Greco-Roman

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight details	Dumitru Pârvulescu   Romania	Osman El-Sayed   Egypt	Mohammad Paziraei   Iran
Bantamweight details	Oleg Karavayev   Soviet Union	Ion Cernea   Romania	Dinko Petrov   Bulgaria
Featherweight details	Müzahir Sille   Turkey	Imre Polyák   Hungary	Konstantin Vyrupayev   Soviet Union
Lightweight details	Avtandil Koridze   Soviet Union	Branislav Martinović   Yugoslavia	Gustav Freij   Sweden
Welterweight details	Mithat Bayrak   Turkey	Günther Maritschnigg   United Team of Germany	René Schiermeyer   France
Middleweight details	Dimitar Dobrev   Bulgaria	Lothar Metz   United Team of Germany	Ion Țăranu   Romania
Light Heavyweight details	Tevfik Kis   Turkey	Krali Bimbalov   Bulgaria	Givi Kartoziya   Soviet Union
Heavyweight details	Ivan Bogdan   Soviet Union	Wilfried Dietrich   United Team of Germany	Bohumil Kubát   Czechoslovakia

Freestyle

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight details	Ahmet Bilek   Turkey	Masayuki Matsubara   Japan	Ebrahim Seifpour   Iran
Bantamweight details	Terrence McCann   United States	Nezhdet Zalev   Bulgaria	Tadeusz Trojanowski   Poland
Featherweight details	Mustafa Dağıstanlı   Turkey	Stancho Kolev   Bulgaria	Vladimir Rubashvili   Soviet Union
Lightweight details	Shelby Wilson   United States	Vladimir Synyavsky   Soviet Union	Enyu Valchev   Bulgaria
Welterweight details	Douglas Blubaugh   United States	İsmail Ogan   Turkey	Muhammad Bashir   Pakistan
Middleweight details	Hasan Güngör   Turkey	Georgy Skhirtladze   Soviet Union	Hans Antonsson   Sweden
Light heavyweight details	Ismet Atli   Turkey	Gholamreza Takhti   Iran	Anatoli Albul   Soviet Union
Heavyweight details	Wilfried Dietrich   United Team of Germany	Hamit Kaplan   Turkey	Savkuds Dzarasov   Soviet Union

Participating nations

A total of 324 wrestlers from 46 nations competed at the Rome Games: ^[1]

See also

• List of World and Olympic Champions in men's freestyle wrestling
• List of World and Olympic Champions in Greco-Roman wrestling

References

External links

• Official Olympic Report