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
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:
- Afghanistan (5)
- Argentina (3)
- Australia (3)
- Austria (1)
- Belgium (2)
- Bulgaria (16)
- Canada (7)
- Cuba (3)
- Czechoslovakia (6)
- Denmark (3)
- Dominican Republic (2)
- Ecuador (2)
- Egypt (4)
- Finland (9)
- France (4)
- East Germany (10)
- West Germany (11)
- Great Britain (4)
- Greece (8)
- Guatemala (5)
- Hungary (13)
- India (4)
- Iran (9)
- Iraq (1)
- Italy (5)
- Japan (15)
- Lebanon (2)
- South Korea (8)
- Mexico (12)
- Mongolia (8)
- Morocco (4)
- Norway (3)
- Pakistan (2)
- Panama (2)
- Philippines (4)
- Poland (12)
- Portugal (4)
- Romania (12)
- Soviet Union (16)
- Sweden (7)
- Switzerland (3)
- Syria (2)
- Turkey (16)
- United States (16)
- Yugoslavia (8)[1]
See also
- List of World and Olympic Champions in men's freestyle wrestling
- List of World and Olympic Champions in Greco-Roman wrestling
References
- ↑ "The Official Report 1968 Produced by the Organizing Committee of the Games of the XIX Olympiad". III part 2. 1969: 300–317. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
- "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2008-10-29.
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