Wrestling at the 1958 Asian Games

Wrestling was one of the sports which was held at the 1958 Asian Games in Korakuen Ice Palace, Tokyo, Japan between 25 and 27 May 1958. The competition included only men's freestyle events.

Wrestling at the 1958 Asian Games
Venue	Korakuen Ice Palace
Dates	25–27 May 1958
Competitors	44 from 7 nations

The competition used a form of negative points tournament, with negative points given for any result short of a fall.

Schedule

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Round

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Last round

Event↓/Date →	25th Sun	26th Mon	27th Tue
Men's freestyle 52 kg	●	●	●
Men's freestyle 57 kg	●	●	●
Men's freestyle 62 kg	●	●	●
Men's freestyle 67 kg	●	●	●
Men's freestyle 73 kg	●	●	●
Men's freestyle 79 kg	●	●	●
Men's freestyle 87 kg	●	●	●
Men's freestyle +87 kg	●	●	●

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (52 kg)	Ryoji Yoshida  Japan	Khalil Rayatpanah  Iran	Shujah-ud-Din  Pakistan
Bantamweight (57 kg)	Minoru Iizuka  Japan	Muhammad Akhtar  Pakistan	Gholam Hossein Zandi  Iran
Featherweight (62 kg)	Kiyoshi Nakagawa  Japan	Siraj Din  Pakistan	Nasser Givehchi  Iran
Lightweight (67 kg)	Emam-Ali Habibi  Iran	Kazuo Abe  Japan	Bong Chang-won  South Korea
Welterweight (73 kg)	Yutaka Kaneko  Japan	Tofigh Jahanbakht  Iran	Muhammad Bashir  Pakistan
Middleweight (79 kg)	Takashi Nagai  Japan	Nabi Sorouri  Iran	Nicolas Arcales  Philippines
Light heavyweight (87 kg)	Gholamreza Takhti  Iran	Haruo Takagi  Japan	Hwang Chae-won  South Korea
Heavyweight (+87 kg)	Abbas Zandi  Iran	Muhammad Nazir  Pakistan	Mitsuhiro Ohira  Japan

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	5	2	1	8
2	Iran (IRN)	3	3	2	8
3	Pakistan (PAK)	0	3	2	5
4	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	2	2
5	Philippines (PHI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		8	8	8	24

Participating nations

A total of 44 athletes from 7 nations competed in wrestling at the 1958 Asian Games:

•  Afghanistan (6)
•  Iran (8)
•  Japan (8)
•  Malaya (2)
•  Pakistan (8)
•  Philippines (6)
•  South Korea (6)

References

• www.fila-wrestling.com

External links

• UWW Database