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Greco-Roman Wrestling

Class
Flyweight (-114 ¹/2 lb)	Nikolai Solovyov, URS
	Ignazio Fabra, ITA
	Durum Ali Egribas, TUR
Bantamweight (-125 ³/4 lb)	Konstantin Vyrupayev, URS
	Edvin Vesterby, SWE
	Francisco Horvat, ROM
Featherweight (-136 ¹/2 lb)	Rauno Mäkinen, FIN
	Imre Polyák, HUN
	Roman Dzneladze, URS
Lightweight (-147 ¹/2 lb)	Kyösti Lehtonen, FIN
	Riza Dogan, TUR
	Gyula Tóth, HUN
Welterweight (-160 ³/4 lb)	Mithat Bayrak, TUR
	Vladimir Maneyev, URS
	Per Berlin, SWE
Middleweight (-174 lb)	Givy Kartoziya, URS
	Dimiter Dobrev, BUL
	Rune Jansson, SWE
Light-Heavyweight (-191 ³/4 lb)	Valentin Nikolayev, URS
	Petko Sirakov, BUL
	Karl-Erik Nilsson, SWE
Heavyweight (+191 ³/4 lb)	Anatoly Parfenov, URS
	Wilfried Dietrich, GER^*
	Adelmo Bulgarelli, ITA

* representing a combined German team

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