Wrestling at the 1968 Summer Olympics

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.

Medal summary

Freestyle

Event Gold Silver Bronze
52 kg
 Shigeo Nakata (JPN)  Richard Sanders (USA)  Chimedbazaryn Damdinsharav (MGL)
57 kg
 Yojiro Uetake (JPN)  Donald Behm (USA)  Aboutaleb Talebi (IRI)
63 kg
 Masaaki Kaneko (JPN)  Enyu Todorov (BUL)  Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi (IRI)
70 kg
Abdollah Movahed
 Iran
Enyu Valchev
 Bulgaria
Danzandarjaagiin Sereeter
 Mongolia
78 kg
Mahmut Atalay
 Turkey
Daniel Robin
 France
Tömöriin Artag
 Mongolia
87 kg
Boris Michail Gurevich
 Soviet Union
Jigjidiin Mönkhbat
 Mongolia
Prodan Gardzhev
 Bulgaria
97 kg
Ahmet Ayık
 Turkey
Shota Lomidze
 Soviet Union
József Csatári
 Hungary
+97 kg
Aleksandr Medved
 Soviet Union
Osman Duraliev
 Bulgaria
Wilfried Dietrich
 West Germany

Greco-Roman

Event Gold Silver Bronze
52 kg
Petar Kirov
 Bulgaria
Vladimir Bakulin
 Soviet Union
Miroslav Zeman
 Czechoslovakia
57 kg
János Varga
 Hungary
Ion Baciu
 Romania
Ivan Kochergin
 Soviet Union
63 kg
Roman Rurua
 Soviet Union
Hideo Fujimoto
 Japan
Simion Popescu
 Romania
70 kg
Muneji Munemura
 Japan
Stevan Horvat
 Yugoslavia
Petros Galaktopoulos
 Greece
78 kg
Rudolf Vesper
 East Germany
Daniel Robin
 France
Károly Bajkó
 Hungary
87 kg
Lothar Metz
 East Germany
Valentin Oleynik
 Soviet Union
Branislav Simić
 Yugoslavia
97 kg
Boyan Radev
 Bulgaria
Nikolai Yakovenko
 Soviet Union
Nicolae Martinescu
 Romania
+97 kg
István Kozma
 Hungary
Anatoly Roshchin
 Soviet Union
Petr Kment
 Czechoslovakia

Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Japan (JPN) 4 1 0 5
2  Soviet Union (URS) 3 5 1 9
3  Bulgaria (BUL) 2 3 1 6
4  Hungary (HUN) 2 0 2 4
5  East Germany (GDR) 2 0 0 2
 Turkey (TUR) 2 0 0 2
7  Iran (IRI) 1 0 2 3
8  France (FRA) 0 2 0 2
 United States (USA) 0 2 0 2
10  Mongolia (MGL) 0 1 3 4
11  Romania (ROU) 0 1 2 3
12  Yugoslavia (YUG) 0 1 1 2
13  Czechoslovakia (TCH) 0 0 2 2
14  Greece (GRE) 0 0 1 1
 West Germany (FRG) 0 0 1 1

Participating nations

A total of 296 wrestlers from 45 nations competed at the Mexico City Games:

See also

References

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