1959 World Wrestling Championships

The 1959 World Freestyle Wrestling Championship were held in Tehran, Iran.

1959 World Championships
Host city	Tehran, Iran
Dates	1–5 October
Champions
Freestyle	Soviet Union

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	3	1	2	6
2	Turkey	2	2	2	6
3	Iran	2	0	0	2
4	Bulgaria	1	3	0	4
5	Finland	0	1	0	1
	Hungary	0	1	0	1
7	Pakistan	0	0	2	2
8	East Germany	0	0	1	1
	France	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		8	8	8	24

Team ranking

Rank	Men's freestyle
	Team	Points
1	Soviet Union	36
2	Turkey	33
3	Bulgaria	22
4	Iran	20

Medal summary

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight 52 kg	Ali Aliyev  Soviet Union	Ahmet Bilek  Turkey	Muhammad Niaz Din  Pakistan
Bantamweight 57 kg	Hüseyin Akbaş  Turkey	Tauno Jaskari  Finland	Vladimir Arsenyan  Soviet Union
Featherweight 62 kg	Mustafa Dağıstanlı  Turkey	Stancho Kolev  Bulgaria	Muhammad Akhtar  Pakistan
Lightweight 67 kg	Vladimir Sinyavsky  Soviet Union	Enyu Valchev  Bulgaria	Hayrullah Şahin  Turkey
Welterweight 73 kg	Emam-Ali Habibi  Iran	Vakhtang Balavadze  Soviet Union	İsmail Ogan  Turkey
Middleweight 79 kg	Georgy Skhirtladze  Soviet Union	Géza Hollósi  Hungary	Lothar Lippa  East Germany
Light heavyweight 87 kg	Gholamreza Takhti  Iran	Petko Sirakov  Bulgaria	Maurice Jacquel  France
Heavyweight +87 kg	Lyutvi Ahmedov  Bulgaria	Hamit Kaplan  Turkey	Savkuds Dzarasov  Soviet Union

References

• FILA Database