1956 Olympic Freestyle Wrestling Winners
Updated August 28, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
| Class | |
|---|---|
| Flyweight (-114 1/2 lb) | Mirian Tsalkalamanidze, URS |
| Mohamed Ali Khojastehpour, IRN | |
| Hüseyin Akbas, TUR | |
| Bantamweight (-125 3/4 lb) | Mustafa Dagistanli, TUR |
| Mohamad Yaghoubi, IRN | |
| Michail Chachov, URS | |
| Featherweight (-136 1/2 lb) | Shozo Sasahara, JPN |
| Joseph Mewis, BEL | |
| Erkki Penttilä, FIN | |
| Lightweight (-147 1/2 lb) | Emamali Habibi, IRN |
| Shigeru Kasahara, JPN | |
| Alimberg Bestayev, URS | |
| Welterweight (-160 3/4 lb) | Mitsuo Ikeda, JPN |
| Ibrahim Zengin, TUR | |
| Vakhtang Balavadze, URS | |
| Middleweight (-174 lb) | Nikola Stantschev, BUL |
| Daniel Hodge, USA | |
| Georgiy Skhirtladze, URS | |
| Light-Heavyweight (-191 3/4 lb) | Gholam-Reza Takhti, IRN |
| Boris Kulayev, URS | |
| Peter Steele Blair, USA | |
| Heavyweight (+191 3/4 lb) | Hamit Kaplan, TUR |
| Hussein Mehmedov, BUL | |
| Taisto Kangasniemi, FIN |
| Weightlifting | 1956 Olympics | Greco-Roman Wrestling |
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