1965 World Wrestling Championships

The following is the final results of the 1965 World Wrestling Championships. Freestyle competition were held in Manchester, Great Britain and Greco-Roman competition were held in Tampere, Finland.^[1]

Medal winners of freestyle 87 kg. From left to right, Francisc Balla, Mansour Mehdizadeh and Prodan Gardzhev

1965 World Wrestling Championships
Freestyle
Host city	Manchester, United Kingdom
Dates	1–3 June 1965
Greco-Roman
Host city	Tampere, Finland
Dates	6–8 June 1965
Champions
Freestyle	Iran
Greco-Roman	Soviet Union
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Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	9	1	1	11
2	Iran	3	2	0	5
3	Japan	2	0	2	4
4	Turkey	1	1	1	3
5	Romania	1	1	0	2
6	Bulgaria	0	4	3	7
7	Hungary	0	2	1	3
	West Germany	0	2	1	3
9	Poland	0	1	2	3
10	Finland	0	1	1	2
11	Yugoslavia	0	1	0	1
12	Czechoslovakia	0	0	2	2
13	East Germany	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		16	16	16	48

Team ranking

Rank	Men's freestyle		Men's Greco-Roman
	Team	Points	Team	Points
1	Iran	30.5	Soviet Union	42
2	Bulgaria	26.5	Poland	18
3	Soviet Union	24.5	Bulgaria	16.83
4	Turkey	22	Hungary	11.33
5	Japan	20.5	Romania	10
6	Hungary	6.5	West Germany	10

Medal summary

Freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight 52 kg	Yoshihisa Yoshida  Japan	Bayu Baev  Bulgaria	László Ölveti  Hungary
Bantamweight 57 kg	Tomiaki Fukuda  Japan	Mohammad Ali Farrokhian  Iran	Karl Dodrimont  West Germany
Featherweight 63 kg	Ebrahim Seifpour  Iran	Stancho Kolev  Bulgaria	Takeo Morita  Japan
Lightweight 70 kg	Abdollah Movahed  Iran	Mahmut Atalay  Turkey	Zarbeg Beriashvili  Soviet Union
Welterweight 78 kg	Guram Sagaradze  Soviet Union	Mohammad Ali Sanatkaran  Iran	Yasuo Watanabe  Japan
Middleweight 87 kg	Mansour Mehdizadeh  Iran	Francisc Balla  Romania	Prodan Gardzhev  Bulgaria
Light heavyweight 97 kg	Ahmet Ayık  Turkey	Aleksandr Medved  Soviet Union	Said Mustafov  Bulgaria
Heavyweight +97 kg	Aleksandr Ivanitsky  Soviet Union	Lyutvi Ahmedov  Bulgaria	Larry Kristoff  United States

Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight 52 kg	Sergey Rybalko  Soviet Union	Rolf Lacour  West Germany	Angel Kerezov  Bulgaria
Bantamweight 57 kg	Ion Cernea  Romania	Fritz Stange  West Germany	Bernard Knitter  Poland
Featherweight 63 kg	Yury Grigoriev  Soviet Union	Martti Laakso  Finland	Lothar Schneider  East Germany
Lightweight 70 kg	Gennady Sapunov  Soviet Union	Stevan Horvat  Yugoslavia	Eero Tapio  Finland
Welterweight 78 kg	Anatoly Kolesov  Soviet Union	Kiril Petkov  Bulgaria	Sırrı Acar  Turkey
Middleweight 87 kg	Rimantas Bagdonas  Soviet Union	Bolesław Mackiewicz  Poland	Jiří Kormaník  Czechoslovakia
Light heavyweight 97 kg	Valery Anisimov  Soviet Union	Ferenc Kiss  Hungary	Czesław Kwieciński  Poland
Heavyweight +97 kg	Nikolay Shmakov  Soviet Union	István Kozma  Hungary	Petr Kment  Czechoslovakia