Wrestling at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad | |
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Venue | Komazawa Gymnasium |
Dates | 11 – 19 October |
Competitors | 275 from 42 nations |
Wrestling at the 1964 Summer Olympics | |
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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 1964 Summer Olympics, 16 wrestling events were contested, for all men. There were eight weight classes in Greco-Roman wrestling and eight classes in freestyle wrestling. [1]
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Japan (JPN) | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
2 | Soviet Union (URS) | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
3 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 3 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
4 | Turkey (TUR) | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
5 | Hungary (HUN) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
6 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
7 | United Team of Germany (EUA) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
8 | Romania (ROU) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
9 | Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
10 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
South Korea (KOR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
12 | Iran (IRI) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
13 | United States (USA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Totals (13 nations) | 16 | 16 | 16 | 48 |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Flyweight | Tsutomu Hanahara Japan | Angel Kerezov Bulgaria | Dumitru Pârvulescu Romania |
Bantamweight | Masamitsu Ichiguchi Japan | Vladlen Trostyansky Soviet Union | Ion Cernea Romania |
Featherweight | Imre Polyák Hungary | Roman Rurua Soviet Union | Branislav Martinović Yugoslavia |
Lightweight | Kazım Ayvaz Turkey | Valeriu Bularca Romania | David Gvantseladze Soviet Union |
Welterweight | Anatoly Kolesov Soviet Union | Kiril Petkov Bulgaria | Bertil Nyström Sweden |
Middleweight | Branislav Simić Yugoslavia | Jiří Kormaník Czechoslovakia | Lothar Metz United Team of Germany |
Light Heavyweight | Boyan Radev Bulgaria | Per Svensson Sweden | Heinz Kiehl United Team of Germany |
Heavyweight | István Kozma Hungary | Anatoly Roshchin Soviet Union | Wilfried Dietrich United Team of Germany |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Flyweight | Yoshikatsu Yoshida Japan | Chang Chang-Sun South Korea | Ali Akbar Heidari Iran |
Bantamweight | Yojiro Uetake Japan | Hüseyin Akbas Turkey | Aydin Ibrahimov Soviet Union |
Featherweight | Osamu Watanabe Japan | Stancho Kolev Bulgaria | Nodar Khokhashvili Soviet Union |
Lightweight | Enyu Valchev Bulgaria | Klaus Rost United Team of Germany | Iwao Horiuchi Japan |
Welterweight | İsmail Ogan Turkey | Guliko Sagaradze Soviet Union | Mohammad Ali Sanatkaran Iran |
Middleweight | Prodan Gardzhev Bulgaria | Hasan Güngör Turkey | Daniel Brand United States |
Light Heavyweight | Aleksandr Medved Soviet Union | Ahmet Ayık Turkey | Said Mustafov Bulgaria |
Heavyweight | Aleksandr Ivanitsky Soviet Union | Lyutvi Ahmedov Bulgaria | Hamit Kaplan Turkey |
A total of 275 wrestlers from 42 nations competed at the Tokyo Games: [1]
At the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, nine wrestling events were contested, all for men. There were four weight classes in Greco-Roman wrestling and five weight classes in freestyle wrestling.
At the 1920 Summer Olympics, ten wrestling events were contested, for all men. There were five weight classes in Greco-Roman wrestling and five classes in Catch as Catch Can, predecessor to freestyle wrestling. The competitions were held from Monday, August 16 to Friday, August 20, 1920 (Greco-Roman) and from Wednesday, August 25 to Friday, August 27, 1920 (freestyle).
At the 1936 Summer Olympics, 14 wrestling events were contested, all for men. There were seven weight classes in Greco-Roman wrestling and seven classes in freestyle wrestling.
At the 1948 Summer Olympics, 16 wrestling events were contested, for all men. There were eight weight classes in Greco-Roman wrestling and eight classes in freestyle wrestling. The freestyle competitions were held from July 29 to July 31, 1948 and the Greco-Roman events were held from August 3 to August 6, 1948.
At the 1952 Summer Olympics, 16 wrestling events were contested, for all men. There were eight weight classes in Greco-Roman wrestling and eight classes in freestyle wrestling. The events were held at Messuhalli.
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.
At the 1960 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.
At the 1968 Summer Olympics, 16 wrestling events were contested, for all men. There were eight weight classes in Greco-Roman wrestling and eight classes in freestyle wrestling.
Hamit Kaplan was a Turkish World and Olympic champion sports wrestler of Turkish descent in the Heavyweight class. He won the gold, silver and bronze medal in men's freestyle wrestling at three consecutive Olympic Games in 1956, 1960 and 1964.
Hungary is expected to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games have been postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hungarian athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, except for two occasions. Hungary was not invited to the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, because of its role in the first World War, and was also part of the Soviet boycott, when Los Angeles hosted the 1984 Summer Olympics.
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Ukraine is expected to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games have been postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will be the nation's seventh consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics in the post-Soviet era.
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Azerbaijan is expected to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games have been postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It will be the nation's seventh consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics in the post-Soviet era.
Armenia is expected to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games have been postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It will be the nation's seventh consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics in the post-Soviet era.
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