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
VenueInsurgentes Ice Rink
Dates16–26 October
Competitors297 from 46 nations
← 1964
1972 →

Medal summary

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Freestyle

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
52 kg
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Shigeo Nakata
  Japan
Richard Sanders
  United States
Chimedbazaryn Damdinsharav
  Mongolia
57 kg
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Yojiro Uetake
  Japan
Donald Behm
  United States
Aboutaleb Talebi
  Iran
63 kg
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Masaaki Kaneko
  Japan
Enyu Todorov
  Bulgaria
Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi
  Iran
70 kg
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Abdollah Movahed
  Iran
Enyu Valchev
  Bulgaria
Danzandarjaagiin Sereeter
  Mongolia
78 kg
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Mahmut Atalay
  Turkey
Daniel Robin
  France
Tömöriin Artag
  Mongolia
87 kg
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Boris Michail Gurevich
  Soviet Union
Jigjidiin Mönkhbat
  Mongolia
Prodan Gardzhev
  Bulgaria
97 kg
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Ahmet Ayık
  Turkey
Shota Lomidze
  Soviet Union
József Csatári
  Hungary
+97 kg
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Aleksandr Medved
  Soviet Union
Osman Duraliev
  Bulgaria
Wilfried Dietrich
  West Germany

Greco-Roman

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
52 kg
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Petar Kirov
  Bulgaria
Vladimir Bakulin
  Soviet Union
Miroslav Zeman
  Czechoslovakia
57 kg
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János Varga
  Hungary
Ion Baciu
  Romania
Ivan Kochergin
  Soviet Union
63 kg
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Roman Rurua
  Soviet Union
Hideo Fujimoto
  Japan
Simion Popescu
  Romania
70 kg
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Muneji Munemura
  Japan
Stevan Horvat
  Yugoslavia
Petros Galaktopoulos
  Greece
78 kg
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Rudolf Vesper
  East Germany
Daniel Robin
  France
Károly Bajkó
  Hungary
87 kg
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Lothar Metz
  East Germany
Valentin Oleynik
  Soviet Union
Branislav Simić
  Yugoslavia
97 kg
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Boyan Radev
  Bulgaria
Nikolai Yakovenko
  Soviet Union
Nicolae Martinescu
  Romania
+97 kg
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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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