Wrestling at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Wrestling
at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Wrestling; at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Venue	Insurgentes Ice Rink
Dates	16–26 October
Competitors	297 from 46 nations

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

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

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


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	4	1	0	5
2	Soviet Union (URS)	3	5	1	9
3	Bulgaria (BUL)	2	3	1	6
4	Hungary (HUN)	2	0	2	4
5	East Germany (GDR)	2	0	0	2
5	Turkey (TUR)	2	0	0	2
7	Iran (IRI)	1	0	2	3
8	France (FRA)	0	2	0	2
8	United States (USA)	0	2	0	2
10	Mongolia (MGL)	0	1	3	4
11	Romania (ROU)	0	1	2	3
12	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	1	1	2
13	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	0	2	2
14	Greece (GRE)	0	0	1	1
14	West Germany (FRG)	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 entries)		16	16	16	48

A total of 297 wrestlers from 46 nations competed at the Mexico City Games:^[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.
^ "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)