Summer Olympics : Freestyle Wrestling in 1956

     MORE YEARS => 1948 | 1952 | 1956 | 1960 | 1964 | 1968 | FREESTYLE WRESTLING BY YEAR

 MEDAL COUNTS:

    
COUNTRY
TOTAL
 GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE


United StatesUnited States
2
0
1
1



BulgariaBulgaria
2
1
1
0



FinlandFinland
2
0
0
2



IranIran
4
2
2
0



JapanJapan
3
2
1
0



TurkeyTurkey
4
2
1
1



Soviet UnionSoviet Union
6
1
1
4



BelgiumBelgium
1
0
1
0






 MEDAL WINNERS:

                              GOLD                          SILVER                            BRONZE                    
Men's Flyweight(52kg)         Mirian Tsalkalamanidze URS  | Mohammed Ali Khojastehpour IRI  | Huseyin Akbas      TUR 
Men's Bantamweight(57kg)      Mustafa Dagistanli     TUR  | Mehdi Yaghoubi             IRI  | Mikhail Shakhov    URS 
Men's Featherweight(62kg)     Shozo Sasahara         JPN  | Joseph Mewis               BEL  | Erkki Penttila     FIN 
Men's Lightweight(67kg)       Emam-Ali Habibi        IRI  | Shigeru Kasahara           JPN  | Alimbeg Bestayev   URS 
Men's Welterweight(73kg)      Mitsuo Ikeda           JPN  | Ibrahim Zengin             TUR  | Vakhtang Balavadze URS 
Men's Middleweight(79kg)      Nikola Stanchev        BUL  | Daniel Hodge               USA  | Georgi Skhirtladze URS 
Men's Light-Heavyweight(87kg) Gholamreza Takhti      IRI  | Boris Kulayev              URS  | Peter Blair        USA 
Men's Heavyweight(+87kg)      Hamit Kaplan           TUR  | Hussein Mehmedov           BUL  | Taisto Kangasniemi FIN