1956 Olympics: Freestyle Wrestling

Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster 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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