1956 Olympic Freestyle Wrestling Winners

Updated August 28, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
Class  
Flyweight (-114 1/2 lb) Mirian Tsalkalamanidze, URS
  Mohamed Ali Khojastehpour, IRN
  Hüseyin Akbas, TUR
Bantamweight (-125 3/4 lb) Mustafa Dagistanli, TUR
  Mohamad Yaghoubi, IRN
  Michail Chachov, URS
Featherweight (-136 1/2 lb) Shozo Sasahara, JPN
  Joseph Mewis, BEL
  Erkki Penttilä, FIN
Lightweight (-147 1/2 lb) Emamali Habibi, IRN
  Shigeru Kasahara, JPN
  Alimberg Bestayev, URS
Welterweight (-160 3/4 lb) Mitsuo Ikeda, JPN
  Ibrahim Zengin, TUR
  Vakhtang Balavadze, URS
Middleweight (-174 lb) Nikola Stantschev, BUL
  Daniel Hodge, USA
  Georgiy Skhirtladze, URS
Light-Heavyweight (-191 3/4 lb) Gholam-Reza Takhti, IRN
  Boris Kulayev, URS
  Peter Steele Blair, USA
Heavyweight (+191 3/4 lb) Hamit Kaplan, TUR
  Hussein Mehmedov, BUL
  Taisto Kangasniemi, FIN

 

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