Wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Wrestling
at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Wrestling; at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Venue	Royal Exhibition Building
Dates	28 November – 6 December
Competitors	173 from 30 nations
	← 1952 1960 →

At the 1956 Summer Olympics, 16 wrestling events were contested, all for men. There were eight weight classes in Greco-Roman wrestling and eight classes in freestyle wrestling.^[1]

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Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight details	Mirian Tsalkalamanidze Soviet Union	Mohammad Ali Khojastehpour Iran	Hüseyin Akbaş Turkey
Bantamweight details	Mustafa Dağıstanlı Turkey	Mehdi Yaghoubi Iran	Mikhail Shakhov Soviet Union
Featherweight details	Shozo Sasahara Japan	Joseph Mewis Belgium	Erkki Penttilä Finland
Lightweight details	Emam-Ali Habibi Iran	Shigeru Kasahara Japan	Alimbeg Bestaev Soviet Union
Welterweight details	Mitsuo Ikeda Japan	Ibrahim Zengin Turkey	Vakhtang Balavadze Soviet Union
Middleweight details	Nikola Stanchev Bulgaria	Danny Hodge United States	Georgi Skhirtladze Soviet Union
Light heavyweight details	Gholamreza Takhti Iran	Boris Kulayev Soviet Union	Peter Blair United States
Heavyweight details	Hamit Kaplan Turkey	Hussein Mehmedov Bulgaria	Taisto Kangasniemi Finland

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight details	Nikolai Solovyov Soviet Union	Ignazio Fabra Italy	Dursun Ali Egribas Turkey
Bantamweight details	Konstantin Vyrupayev Soviet Union	Edvin Vesterby Sweden	Francisc Horvat Romania
Featherweight details	Rauno Mäkinen Finland	Imre Polyák Hungary	Roman Dzeneladze Soviet Union
Lightweight details	Kyösti Lehtonen Finland	Riza Dogan Turkey	Gyula Tóth Hungary
Welterweight details	Mithat Bayrak Turkey	Vladimir Maneev Soviet Union	Per Gunnar Berlin Sweden
Middleweight details	Givi Kartozia Soviet Union	Dimitar Dobrev Bulgaria	Rune Jansson Sweden
Light Heavyweight details	Valentin Nikolayev Soviet Union	Petko Sirakov Bulgaria	Karl-Erik Nilsson Sweden
Heavyweight details	Anatoli Parfenov Soviet Union	Wilfried Dietrich United Team of Germany	Adelmo Bulgarelli Italy

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	6	2	5	13
2	Turkey (TUR)	3	2	2	7
3	Iran (IRN)	2	2	0	4
4	Japan (JPN)	2	1	0	3
5	Finland (FIN)	2	0	2	4
6	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	3	0	4
7	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	3	4
8	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	1	2
	Italy (ITA)	0	1	1	2
	United States (USA)	0	1	1	2
11	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	0	1
11	United Team of Germany (EUA)	0	1	0	1
13	Romania (ROU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		16	16	16	48

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