Wrestling at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Wrestling
at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Wrestling; at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Venue	Insurgentes Ice Rink
Dates	16–26 October
Competitors	297 from 46 nations
	← 1964 1972 →

Dates16–26 October

Competitors297 from 46 nations

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.^[1]

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

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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	4	1	0	5
2	Soviet Union	3	5	1	9
3	Bulgaria	2	3	1	6
4	Hungary	2	0	2	4
5	East Germany	2	0	0	2
5	Turkey	2	0	0	2
7	Iran	1	0	2	3
8	France	0	2	0	2
8	United States	0	2	0	2
10	Mongolia	0	1	3	4
11	Romania	0	1	2	3
12	Yugoslavia	0	1	1	2
13	Czechoslovakia	0	0	2	2
14	Greece	0	0	1	1
14	West Germany	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 entries)		16	16	16	48

Freestyle

Wrestling at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Freestyle
Flyweight	men
Bantamweight	men
Featherweight	men
Lightweight	men
Welterweight	men
Middleweight	men
Light heavyweight	men
Heavyweight	men
Greco-Roman
Flyweight	men
Bantamweight	men
Featherweight	men
Lightweight	men
Welterweight	men
Middleweight	men
Light heavyweight	men
Heavyweight	men
v t e

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