1956 Freestyle Wrestling medal counts

                   Total    Gold   Silver  Bronze
Soviet Union          6       1       1       4
Iran                  4       2       2       0
Turkey                4       2       1       1
Japan                 3       2       1       0
Bulgaria              2       1       1       0
United States         2       0       1       1
Finland               2       0       0       2
Belgium               1       0       1       0

Medal winners:
      Event                     Gold                         Silver                           Bronze                 
1956  Men's Flyweight           Mirian Tsalkalamanidze URS   Mohammed Ali Khojastehpour IRI   Huseyin Akbas       TUR
1956  Men's Bantamweight        Mustafa Dagistanli     TUR   Mohamad Yaghoubi           IRI   Michail Chachov     URS
1956  Men's Featherweight       Shozo Sasahara         JPN   Joseph Mewis               BEL   Erkki Penttila      FIN
1956  Men's Lightweight         Emamali Habibi         IRI   Shigeru Kasahara           JPN   Alimberg Bestayev   URS
1956  Men's Welterweight        Mitsuo Ikeda           JPN   Ibrahim Zengin             TUR   Vakhtang Balavadze  URS
1956  Men's Middleweight        Nikola Stantschev      BUL   Daniel Hodge               USA   Georgiy Skhirtladze URS
1956  Men's Light-Heavyweight   Gholam-Reza Takhti     IRI   Boris Kulayev              URS   Peter Steele Blair  USA
1956  Men's Heavyweight         Hamit Kaplan           TUR   Hussein Mehmedov           BUL   Taisto Kangasniemi  FIN