1954 World Wrestling Championships

The 1954 World Freestyle Wrestling Championship were held in Tokyo, Japan from 22 to 25 May 1954.^[1]

1954 World Wrestling Championships
Host city	Tokyo, Japan
Dates	22–25 May 1954
Champions
Freestyle	Turkey
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Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	3	0	3	6
2	Turkey	2	3	1	6
3	Iran	2	1	0	3
4	Japan	1	1	2	4
5	Sweden	0	2	1	3
6	Hungary	0	1	0	1
7	Finland	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		8	8	8	24

Team ranking

Rank	Men's freestyle
	Team	Points
1	Turkey	37
2	Soviet Union	35
3	Iran	24

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight 52 kg	Hüseyin Akbaş  Turkey	Yushu Kitano  Japan	Mirian Tsalkalamanidze  Soviet Union
Bantamweight 57 kg	Mustafa Dağıstanlı  Turkey	Lajos Bencze  Hungary	Tauno Jaskari  Finland
Featherweight 62 kg	Shozo Sasahara  Japan	Bayram Şit  Turkey	Nikolay Muzashvili  Soviet Union
Lightweight 67 kg	Tofigh Jahanbakht  Iran	Olle Anderberg  Sweden	Sergey Gabaraev  Soviet Union
Welterweight 73 kg	Vakhtang Balavadze  Soviet Union	Mohammad Ali Fardin  Iran	Yutaka Kaneko  Japan
Middleweight 79 kg	Abbas Zandi  Iran	İsmet Atlı  Turkey	Kazuo Katsuramoto  Japan
Light heavyweight 87 kg	August Englas  Soviet Union	Adil Atan  Turkey	Viking Palm  Sweden
Heavyweight +87 kg	Arsen Mekokishvili  Soviet Union	Bertil Antonsson  Sweden	İrfan Atan  Turkey