| Wrestling at the Games of the XVI Olympiad | |
|---|---|
| | |
| Venue | Royal Exhibition Building |
| Dates | 28 November – 6 December |
| Competitors | 173 from 30 nations |
| Wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics | |
|---|---|
| Greco-Roman | |
| Fly | men |
| Bantam | men |
| Feather | men |
| Light | men |
| Welter | men |
| Middle | men |
| Light heavy | men |
| Heavy | men |
| Freestyle | |
| Fly | men |
| Bantam | men |
| Feather | men |
| Light | men |
| Welter | men |
| Middle | men |
| Light heavy | men |
| Heavy | men |
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]
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flyweight | Mirian Tsalkalamanidze | Mohammad Ali Khojastehpour | Hüseyin Akbaş |
| Bantamweight | Mustafa Dağıstanlı | Mehdi Yaghoubi | Mikhail Shakhov |
| Featherweight | Shozo Sasahara | Joseph Mewis | Erkki Penttilä |
| Lightweight | Emam-Ali Habibi | Shigeru Kasahara | Alimbeg Bestaev |
| Welterweight | Mitsuo Ikeda | Ibrahim Zengin | Vakhtang Balavadze |
| Middleweight | Nikola Stanchev | Danny Hodge | Georgi Skhirtladze |
| Light heavyweight | Gholamreza Takhti | Boris Kulayev | Peter Blair |
| Heavyweight | Hamit Kaplan | Hussein Mehmedov | Taisto Kangasniemi |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flyweight | Nikolai Solovyov | Ignazio Fabra | Dursun Ali Egribas |
| Bantamweight | Konstantin Vyrupayev | Edvin Vesterby | Francisc Horvat |
| Featherweight | Rauno Mäkinen | Imre Polyák | Roman Dzeneladze |
| Lightweight | Kyösti Lehtonen | Riza Dogan | Gyula Tóth |
| Welterweight | Mithat Bayrak | Vladimir Maneev | Per Gunnar Berlin |
| Middleweight | Givi Kartozia | Dimitar Dobrev | Rune Jansson |
| Light Heavyweight | Valentin Nikolayev | Petko Sirakov | Karl-Erik Nilsson |
| Heavyweight | Anatoli Parfenov | Wilfried Dietrich | Adelmo Bulgarelli |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 13 | |
| 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | |
| 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | |
| 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | |
| 7 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
| 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 13 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (13 entries) | 16 | 16 | 16 | 48 | |
A total of 173 wrestlers from 30 nations competed at the Melbourne Games: [1]
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