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.^[1]

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

Medal summary

Freestyle

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

Greco-Roman

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

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
Totals (15 entries)		16	16	16	48

Participating nations

A total of 297 wrestlers from 46 nations competed at the Mexico City Games:^[1]

•  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)^[2]

See also

• List of World and Olympic Champions in men's freestyle wrestling
• List of World and Olympic Champions in Greco-Roman wrestling

References

1. "Wrestling at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
2. "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. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

External links

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2008-10-29.