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Wrestling at the 1968 Summer Olympics

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Wrestling
at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
VenueInsurgentes Ice Rink
Dates16–26 October
Competitors297 from 46 nations
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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]

Medal summary

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Freestyle

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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

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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

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Japan (JPN)4105
2 Soviet Union (URS)3519
3 Bulgaria (BUL)2316
4 Hungary (HUN)2024
5 East Germany (GDR)2002
 Turkey (TUR)2002
7 Iran (IRI)1023
8 France (FRA)0202
 United States (USA)0202
10 Mongolia (MGL)0134
11 Romania (ROU)0123
12 Yugoslavia (YUG)0112
13 Czechoslovakia (TCH)0022
14 Greece (GRE)0011
 West Germany (FRG)0011
Totals (15 entries)16161648

Participating nations

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

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "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)
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