1958 Wrestling World Cup

The 1958 Wrestling World Cup was held from June 20 to 22 in Sofia, Bulgaria. The second freestyle Wrestling World Cup drew 76 wrestlers from 14 countries. This was the second World Cup organized by FILA. As during the first edition in each weight category, a separate individual tournament was held, and the winning team was determined by the total number of the points gained by each of its participants. As during the previous edition, the winner of the World Cup was the USSR National Team, which scored 38 points. This time, Greco-Roman wrestling event has not been contested. Roger Coulon, President of the International Wrestling Federation, visited Bulgaria for the World Cup, he called the event "an example of sports organization."[1]

1958 Wrestling World Cup
Host citySofia, Bulgaria
Dates20–22 June
Champions
Freestyle8

Final ranking
#Team
1  Soviet Union
2  Turkey
3  People's Republic of Bulgaria
4  Iran
5  Italy
6  East Germany
7  Hungarian People's Republic
8  Polish People's Republic
9  Japan
10  Socialist Republic of Romania
11  West Germany

Medal summary
Event 1st place 2nd place 3rd place
Flyweight
52 kg		 Georgy Sayadov
 Soviet Union		 Mohammad Ali Khojastehpour
 Iran		 Naydet Zalev
 Bulgaria
Bantamweight
57 kg		 Hüseyin Akbaş
 Turkey		 Enyu Valchev
 Bulgaria		 Mikhail Shakhov
 Soviet Union
Featherweight
62 kg		 Norayr Musheghyan
 Soviet Union		 Mustafa Dağıstanlı
 Turkey		 Stancho Kolev
 Bulgaria
Lightweight
67 kg		 Vladimir Sinyavsky
 Soviet Union		 Musa Aliyev
 Bulgaria		 Gyula Tóth
 Hungary
Welterweight
73 kg		 İsmail Ogan
 Turkey		 Jahanbakht Tofigh
 Iran		 Garibaldo Nizzola
 Italy
Middleweight
79 kg		 Hasan Güngör
 Turkey		 Georgy Skhirtladze
 Soviet Union		 Lothar Lippa
 East Germany
Light heavyweight
87 kg		 Anatoly Albul
 Soviet Union		 Gholamreza Takhti
 Iran		 Ibrahim Karabacak
 Turkey
Heavyweight
+87 kg		 Lyutvi Ahmedov
 Bulgaria		 Ottar Kandelaki
 Soviet Union		 Hamit Kaplan
 Turkey

Commemoration

Bulgarian painter Vesselin Tomov made designs for a series of commemorative postage stamps "1958 World Cup Wrestling Championship," which were published later that year by the Bulgarian Post Office.[2][3]

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References
  1. ""An Example of Sports Organization"". Bulgaria Today. Sofia Press Agency. 7: 61. 1958.
  2. Enhagen, Carl-Olof (1961). Sports Stamps. S. Paul. p. 224.
  3. "Exposition du livre". La Bulgarie d'aujourd'hui. 7: 27. 1958.

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