Wrestling at the 1968 Summer Olympics
At the 1968 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 XIX Olympiad | |
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Venue | Insurgentes Ice Rink |
Dates | 16–26 October |
Competitors | 297 from 46 nations |
Wrestling at the 1968 Summer Olympics | |
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Freestyle | |
Flyweight | men |
Bantamweight | men |
Featherweight | men |
Lightweight | men |
Welterweight | men |
Middleweight | men |
Light heavyweight | men |
Heavyweight | men |
Greco-Roman | |
Flyweight | men |
Bantamweight | men |
Featherweight | men |
Lightweight | men |
Welterweight | men |
Middleweight | men |
Light heavyweight | men |
Heavyweight | men |
Medal summary
Freestyle
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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52 kg |
Shigeo Nakata |
Richard Sanders |
Chimedbazaryn Damdinsharav |
57 kg |
Yojiro Uetake |
Donald Behm |
Aboutaleb Talebi |
63 kg |
Masaaki Kaneko |
Enyu Todorov |
Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi |
70 kg |
Abdollah Movahed |
Enyu Valchev |
Danzandarjaagiin Sereeter |
78 kg |
Mahmut Atalay |
Daniel Robin |
Tömöriin Artag |
87 kg |
Boris Michail Gurevich |
Jigjidiin Mönkhbat |
Prodan Gardzhev |
97 kg |
Ahmet Ayık |
Shota Lomidze |
József Csatári |
+97 kg |
Aleksandr Medved |
Osman Duraliev |
Wilfried Dietrich |
Greco-Roman
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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52 kg |
Petar Kirov |
Vladimir Bakulin |
Miroslav Zeman |
57 kg |
János Varga |
Ion Baciu |
Ivan Kochergin |
63 kg |
Roman Rurua |
Hideo Fujimoto |
Simion Popescu |
70 kg |
Muneji Munemura |
Stevan Horvat |
Petros Galaktopoulos |
78 kg |
Rudolf Vesper |
Daniel Robin |
Károly Bajkó |
87 kg |
Lothar Metz |
Valentin Oleynik |
Branislav Simić |
97 kg |
Boyan Radev |
Nikolai Yakovenko |
Nicolae Martinescu |
+97 kg |
István Kozma |
Anatoly Roshchin |
Petr Kment |
Medal table
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 | |
2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 9 | |
3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | |
4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | |
5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
7 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |
8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||
10 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
11 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
12 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
13 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
Totals (15 nations) | 16 | 16 | 16 | 48 |
Participating nations
A total of 297 wrestlers from 46 nations competed at the Mexico City Games:[1]
Afghanistan (5) Argentina (3) Australia (3) Austria (1) Belgium (2) Bulgaria (16) Canada (7) Cuba (3) Czechoslovakia (6) Denmark (3) Dominican Republic (2) Ecuador (2) Egypt (4) Finland (9) France (4) East Germany (10) West Germany (11) Great Britain (4) Greece (8) Guatemala (5) Hungary (13) India (4) Iran (9) Iraq (1) Italy (5) Japan (15) Lebanon (2) South Korea (8) Mexico (12) Mongolia (8) Morocco (4) Norway (3) Pakistan (2) Panama (2) Philippines (4) Poland (12) Portugal (4) Romania (12) Soviet Union (16) Sweden (7) Switzerland (3) Syria (2) Turkey (16) United States (16) Yugoslavia (8)[2]
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See also
References
- "Wrestling at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
- "The Official Report 1968 Produced by the Organizing Committee of the Games of the XIX Olympiad". III part 2. 1969: 300–317. Retrieved 21 September 2015. Cite journal requires
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External links
- "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2008-10-29.
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