1955 World Wrestling Championships

1955 World Championships
Host city	Karlsruhe, West Germany
Dates	April 21–25
Champions
Greco-Roman	Soviet Union

The 1955 World Greco-Roman Wrestling Championship were held in Karlsruhe, West Germany.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	6	1	0	7
2	Hungary	1	1	0	2
3	Italy	1	0	1	2
4	Turkey	0	2	2	4
5	Finland	0	2	0	2
6	Sweden	0	1	3	4
7	West Germany	0	1	1	2
8	Yugoslavia	0	0	1	1
Total		8	8	8	24

Team ranking

Rank	Men's Greco-Roman
	Team	Points
1	Soviet Union	41
2	Sweden	23
3	Turkey	19
4	Finland	15
5	Italy	14
6	Hungary	13

Medal summary

Men's Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight 52 kg	Ignazio Fabra  Italy (ITA)	Nail Garayev  Soviet Union (URS)	Hüseyin Akbaş  Turkey (TUR)
Bantamweight 57 kg	Vladimir Stashkevich  Soviet Union (URS)	Yaşar Yılmaz  Turkey (TUR)	Pietro Lombardi  Italy (ITA)
Featherweight 62 kg	Imre Polyák  Hungary (HUN)	Müzahir Sille  Turkey (TUR)	Gunnar Håkansson  Sweden (SWE)
Lightweight 67 kg	Grigory Gamarnik  Soviet Union (URS)	Kyösti Lehtonen  Finland (FIN)	Gustav Freij  Sweden (SWE)
Welterweight 73 kg	Vladimir Maneyev  Soviet Union (URS)	Anton Mackowiak  West Germany (FRG)	Milorad Arsić  Yugoslavia (YUG)
Middleweight 79 kg	Givi Kartozia  Soviet Union (URS)	György Gurics  Hungary (HUN)	Horst Heß  West Germany (FRG)
Light heavyweight 87 kg	Valentin Nikolayev  Soviet Union (URS)	Veikko Lahti  Finland (FIN)	Karl-Erik Nilsson  Sweden (SWE)
Heavyweight +87 kg	Aleksandr Masur  Soviet Union (URS)	Bertil Antonsson  Sweden (SWE)	Hamit Kaplan  Turkey (TUR)

References

• FILA Database