1957 World Wrestling Championships

The 1957 World Freestyle Wrestling Championship were held in Istanbul, Turkey from 1 to 3 June 1957.^[1]

1957 World Wrestling Championships
Host city	Istanbul, Turkey
Dates	1–3 June 1957
Champions
Freestyle	Turkey
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Medal table

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

Team ranking

Rank	Men's freestyle
	Team	Points
1	Turkey	42
2	Soviet Union	35
3	Iran	20
4	Bulgaria	18
5	Japan	15
6	West Germany	9

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight 52 kg	Mehmet Kartal  Turkey	Mirian Tsalkalamanidze  Soviet Union	Luigi Chinazzo  Italy
Bantamweight 57 kg	Hüseyin Akbaş  Turkey	Tauno Jaskari  Finland	Yasuyuki Shimamura  Japan
Featherweight 62 kg	Mustafa Dağıstanlı  Turkey	Hossein Mollaghasemi  Iran	Norayr Musheghyan  Soviet Union
Lightweight 67 kg	Alimbeg Bestaev  Soviet Union	Hayrullah Şahinkaya  Turkey	Kazuo Abe  Japan
Welterweight 73 kg	Vakhtang Balavadze  Soviet Union	İsmail Ogan  Turkey	Murtaza Murtazov  Bulgaria
Middleweight 79 kg	Nabi Sorouri  Iran	Georgy Skhirtladze  Soviet Union	Hasan Güngör  Turkey
Light heavyweight 87 kg	Petko Sirakov  Bulgaria	Boris Kulaev  Soviet Union	İsmet Atlı  Turkey
Heavyweight +87 kg	Hamit Kaplan  Turkey	Wilfried Dietrich  West Germany	Husein Mehmedov  Bulgaria