1961 World Championships
Host city	Yokohama , Japan
Dates	2?7 June
Stadium	Hiyoshi Commemorative Hall
Champions
Freestyle	Iran
Greco-Roman	Soviet Union

The 1961 World Wrestling Championships were held in Yokohama , Japan .

Medal table [ edit ]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	7	4	1	12
2	Iran	5	1	2	8
3	Hungary	1	3	1	5
4	Romania	1	2	1	4
5	United Arab Republic	1	0	0	1
	West Germany	1	0	0	1
7	Turkey	0	4	6	10
8	Sweden	0	1	1	2
	Yugoslavia	0	1	1	2
10	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
	India	0	0	1	1
	Japan	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		16	16	16	48

Team ranking [ edit ]

Rank	Men's freestyle		Men's Greco-Roman
	Team	Points	Team	Points
1	Iran	41	Soviet Union	38
2	Soviet Union	33	Turkey	27.5
3	Turkey	26	Romania	23.5
4	Japan	15	Hungary	15
5	Hungary	13	Yugoslavia	12
6	United States	11.5	Czechoslovakia	8.5

Medal summary [ edit ]

Men's freestyle [ edit ]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight 52 kg	Ali Aliyev   Soviet Union	Nasrollah Soltaninejad   Iran	Cemal Yanılmaz   Turkey
Bantamweight 57 kg	Ebrahim Seifpour   Iran	Janos Varga   Hungary	Huseyin Akba?   Turkey
Featherweight 62 kg	Vladimir Rubashvili   Soviet Union	Yunus Pehlivan   Turkey	Hamid Tavakkol   Iran
Lightweight 67 kg	Mohammad Ali Sanatkaran   Iran	Vladimir Sinyavsky   Soviet Union	Udey Chand   India
Welterweight 73 kg	Emam-Ali Habibi   Iran	Mikhail Bekmurzov   Soviet Union	Yutaka Kaneko   Japan
Middleweight 79 kg	Mansour Mehdizadeh   Iran	Geza Hollosi   Hungary	Hans Antonsson   Sweden
Light heavyweight 87 kg	Gholamreza Takhti   Iran	Boris Gurevich   Soviet Union	Hasan Gungor   Turkey
Heavyweight +87 kg	Wilfried Dietrich   West Germany	Hamit Kaplan   Turkey	Aleksandr Medved   Soviet Union

Men's Greco-Roman [ edit ]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight 52 kg	Armais Sayadov   Soviet Union	Dumitru Parvulescu   Romania	Burhan Bozkurt   Turkey
Bantamweight 57 kg	Oleg Karavayev   Soviet Union	Ion Cernea   Romania	Ji?i ?vec   Czechoslovakia
Featherweight 62 kg	Moustafa Hamid Mansour   United Arab Republic	Ya?ar Yılmaz   Turkey	Alireza Ghelichkhani   Iran
Lightweight 67 kg	Avtandil Koridze   Soviet Union	Imre Polyak   Hungary	Branislav Martinovi?   Yugoslavia
Welterweight 73 kg	Valeriu Bularca   Romania	Stevan Horvat   Yugoslavia	Ziya Do?an   Turkey
Middleweight 79 kg	Vasily Zenin   Soviet Union	Bertil Nystrom   Sweden	Yavuz Selekman   Turkey
Light heavyweight 87 kg	Gyorgy Gurics   Hungary	Arkady Tkachev   Soviet Union	Gheorghe Popovici   Romania
Heavyweight +87 kg	Ivan Bogdan   Soviet Union	Hamit Kaplan   Turkey	Istvan Kozma   Hungary

References [ edit ]

• FILA Database