Wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics

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.

Medal summary

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

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

A total of 167 wrestlers from 30 nations competed at the Melbourne Games:

Events at the 1956 Summer Olympics (Melbourne/Stockholm)

Athletics Association football Australian football (demonstration) Baseball (demonstration) Basketball Boxing Canoeing Cycling Diving Equestrian Fencing Field hockey Gymnastics Modern pentathlon Rowing Sailing Shooting Swimming Water polo Weightlifting Wrestling

Wrestling at the Summer Olympics

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List of medalists Freestyle Greco-Roman List of Olympic venues

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