Wrestling at the 1970 Asian Games

Wrestling was one of the sports which was held at the 1970 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand between 10 and 13 December 1970. The competition included only men's freestyle events. Iran topped the medals table, with six golds, followed by Japan with 4 gold medals. India also won a gold medal.

Wrestling at the 1970 Asian Games
Dates	10–13 December 1970
Competitors	61 from 8 nations
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Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Ebrahim Javadi  Iran	Yoshiyuki Matsuhashi  Japan	Kim Hwa-kyung  South Korea
52 kg	Mohammad Ghorbani  Iran	Kiyomi Kato  Japan	Kim Young-jun  South Korea
57 kg	Hideaki Yanagida  Japan	An Jae-won  South Korea	Sardar Muhammad  Pakistan
62 kg	Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi  Iran	Kiyoshi Abe  Japan	Kim Moon-ki  South Korea
68 kg	Abdollah Movahed  Iran	Shared gold	Om Prakash  India
	Kikuo Wada  Japan
74 kg	Toshitada Yoshida  Japan	Mohammad Farhangdoust  Iran	Mukhtiar Singh  India
82 kg	Tatsuo Sasaki  Japan	Ali Hajiloo  Iran	Netra Pal Singh  India
90 kg	Dariush Zakeri  Iran	Jit Singh  India	Koichi Tani  Japan
100 kg	Chandgi Ram  India	Shizuo Yada  Japan	Abolfazl Anvari  Iran
+100 kg	Moslem Eskandar-Filabi  Iran	Yorihide Isogai  Japan	Maroof Khan  Pakistan

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Iran (IRN)	6	2	1	9
2	Japan (JPN)	4	5	1	10
3	India (IND)	1	1	3	5
4	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	3	4
5	Pakistan (PAK)	0	0	2	2
Totals (5 entries)		11	9	10	30

Participating nations

A total of 61 athletes from 8 nations competed in wrestling at the 1970 Asian Games:

•  Ceylon (3)
•  India (10)
•  Indonesia (2)
•  Iran (10)
•  Japan (10)
•  Pakistan (9)
•  South Korea (7)
•  Thailand (10)

References

• Freestyle result
• The Straits Times, 14 December 1970, Page 29

External links

• UWW Database