Wrestling at the 1964 Summer Olympics

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]

Wrestling at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Wrestling at the 1964 Olympics on a stamp of Japan.
Venue	Komazawa Gymnasium
Dates	11 – 19 October
Competitors	275 from 42 nations

Medal summary

Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight	Tsutomu Hanahara  Japan	Angel Kerezov  Bulgaria	Dumitru Pârvulescu  Romania
Bantamweight	Masamitsu Ichiguchi  Japan	Vladlen Trostyansky  Soviet Union	Ion Cernea  Romania
Featherweight	Imre Polyák  Hungary	Roman Rurua  Soviet Union	Branislav Martinović  Yugoslavia
Lightweight	Kazım Ayvaz  Turkey	Valeriu Bularca  Romania	David Gvantseladze  Soviet Union
Welterweight	Anatoly Kolesov  Soviet Union	Kiril Petkov  Bulgaria	Bertil Nyström  Sweden
Middleweight	Branislav Simić  Yugoslavia	Jiří Kormaník  Czechoslovakia	Lothar Metz  United Team of Germany
Light Heavyweight	Boyan Radev  Bulgaria	Per Svensson  Sweden	Heinz Kiehl  United Team of Germany
Heavyweight	István Kozma  Hungary	Anatoly Roshchin  Soviet Union	Wilfried Dietrich  United Team of Germany

Freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight	Yoshikatsu Yoshida  Japan	Chang Chang-Sun  South Korea	Ali Akbar Heidari  Iran
Bantamweight	Yojiro Uetake  Japan	Hüseyin Akbas  Turkey	Aydin Ibrahimov  Soviet Union
Featherweight	Osamu Watanabe  Japan	Stancho Kolev  Bulgaria	Nodar Khokhashvili  Soviet Union
Lightweight	Enyu Valchev  Bulgaria	Klaus Rost  United Team of Germany	Iwao Horiuchi  Japan
Welterweight	İsmail Ogan  Turkey	Guliko Sagaradze  Soviet Union	Mohammad Ali Sanatkaran  Iran
Middleweight	Prodan Gardzhev  Bulgaria	Hasan Güngör  Turkey	Daniel Brand  United States
Light Heavyweight	Aleksandr Medved  Soviet Union	Ahmet Ayık  Turkey	Said Mustafov  Bulgaria
Heavyweight	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

1. "Wrestling at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
2. "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. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)