Wrestling
at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Wrestling at the 1964 Olympics on a stamp of Japan.
VenueKomazawa Gymnasium
Dates11 – 19 October
Competitors275 from 42 nations

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

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Japan (JPN)5016
2 Soviet Union (URS)34310
3 Bulgaria (BUL)3418
4 Turkey (TUR)2316
5 Hungary (HUN)2002
6 Yugoslavia (YUG)1012
7 United Team of Germany (EUA)0134
8 Romania (ROU)0123
9 Sweden (SWE)0112
10 Czechoslovakia (TCH)0101
 South Korea (KOR)0101
12 Iran (IRI)0022
13 United States (USA)0011
Totals (13 entries)16161648

Medal summary

Greco-Roman

Games 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

Games 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]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "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}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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