1961 World Wrestling Championships
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The 1961 World Wrestling Championships were held in Yokohama, Japan.
1961 World Championships | |
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Host city | ![]() |
Dates | 2–7 June |
Stadium | Hiyoshi Commemorative Hall |
Champions | |
Men's freestyle | ![]() |
Greco-Roman | ![]() |
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Medal table
editRank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Soviet Union | 7 | 4 | 1 | 12 |
2 | Iran | 5 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
3 | Hungary | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
4 | Romania | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
5 | United Arab Republic | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
West Germany | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
7 | Turkey | 0 | 4 | 6 | 10 |
8 | Sweden | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Yugoslavia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
10 | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
India | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Japan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (12 entries) | 16 | 16 | 16 | 48 |
Team ranking
editRank | Men's freestyle | Men's Greco-Roman | ||
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Team | Points | Team | Points | |
1 | Iran | 41 | Soviet Union | 38 |
2 | Soviet Union | 33 | Turkey | 27.5 |
3 | Turkey | 26 | Romania | 23.5 |
4 | Japan | 15 | Hungary | 15 |
5 | Hungary | 13 | Yugoslavia | 12 |
6 | United States | 11.5 | Czechoslovakia | 8.5 |
Medal summary
editMen's freestyle
editEvent | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Flyweight 52 kg |
Ali Aliyev Soviet Union |
Nasrollah Soltaninejad Iran |
Cemal Yanılmaz Turkey |
Bantamweight 57 kg |
Ebrahim Seifpour Iran |
János Varga Hungary |
Hüseyin Akbaş Turkey |
Featherweight 62 kg |
Vladimir Rubashvili Soviet Union |
Yunus Pehlivan Turkey |
Hamid Tavakkol Iran |
Lightweight 67 kg |
Mohammad Ali Sanatkaran Iran |
Vladimir Sinyavsky Soviet Union |
Udey Chand India |
Welterweight 73 kg |
Emam-Ali Habibi Iran |
Mikhail Bekmurzov Soviet Union |
Yutaka Kaneko Japan |
Middleweight 79 kg |
Mansour Mehdizadeh Iran |
Géza Hollósi Hungary |
Hans Antonsson Sweden |
Light heavyweight 87 kg |
Gholamreza Takhti Iran |
Boris Gurevich Soviet Union |
Hasan Güngör Turkey |
Heavyweight +87 kg |
Wilfried Dietrich West Germany |
Hamit Kaplan Turkey |
Aleksandr Medved Soviet Union |
Men's Greco-Roman
editEvent | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Flyweight 52 kg |
Armais Sayadov Soviet Union |
Dumitru Pârvulescu Romania |
Burhan Bozkurt Turkey |
Bantamweight 57 kg |
Oleg Karavayev Soviet Union |
Ion Cernea Romania |
Jiří Švec Czechoslovakia |
Featherweight 62 kg |
Moustafa Hamid Mansour United Arab Republic |
Yaşar Yılmaz Turkey |
Alireza Ghelichkhani Iran |
Lightweight 67 kg |
Avtandil Koridze Soviet Union |
Imre Polyák Hungary |
Branislav Martinović Yugoslavia |
Welterweight 73 kg |
Valeriu Bularca Romania |
Stevan Horvat Yugoslavia |
Ziya Doğan Turkey |
Middleweight 79 kg |
Vasily Zenin Soviet Union |
Bertil Nyström Sweden |
Yavuz Selekman Turkey |
Light heavyweight 87 kg |
György Gurics Hungary |
Arkady Tkachev Soviet Union |
Gheorghe Popovici Romania |
Heavyweight +87 kg |
Ivan Bogdan Soviet Union |
Hamit Kaplan Turkey |
István Kozma Hungary |