At the 1948 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. The freestyle competitions were held from July 29 to July 31, 1948 and the Greco-Roman events were held from August 3 to August 6, 1948.^[1]

Wrestling at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Greco-Roman
Fly	men
Bantam	men
Feather	men
Light	men
Welter	men
Middle	men
Light heavy	men
Heavy	men
Freestyle
Fly	men
Bantam	men
Feather	men
Light	men
Welter	men
Middle	men
Light heavy	men
Heavy	men
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Medal summary

Greco-Roman

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight details	Pietro Lombardi  Italy	Kenan Olcay  Turkey	Reino Kangasmäki  Finland
Bantamweight details	Kurt Pettersén  Sweden	Mahmoud Hassan  Egypt	Halil Kaya  Turkey
Featherweight details	Mehmet Oktav  Turkey	Olle Anderberg  Sweden	Ferenc Tóth  Hungary
Lightweight details	Gustav Freij  Sweden	Aage Eriksen  Norway	Károly Ferencz  Hungary
Welterweight details	Gösta Andersson  Sweden	Miklós Szilvási  Hungary	Henrik Hansen  Denmark
Middleweight details	Axel Grönberg  Sweden	Muhlis Tayfur  Turkey	Ercole Gallegati  Italy
Light Heavyweight details	Karl-Erik Nilsson  Sweden	Kelpo Gröndahl  Finland	Ibrahim Orabi  Egypt
Heavyweight details	Ahmet Kireççi  Turkey	Tor Nilsson  Sweden	Guido Fantoni  Italy

Freestyle

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight details	Lenni Viitala  Finland	Halit Balamir  Turkey	Thure Johansson  Sweden
Bantamweight details	Nasuh Akar  Turkey	Gerald Leeman  United States	Charles Kouyos  France
Featherweight details	Gazanfer Bilge  Turkey	Ivar Sjölin  Sweden	Adolf Müller  Switzerland
Lightweight details	Celal Atik  Turkey	Gösta Frändfors  Sweden	Hermann Baumann  Switzerland
Welterweight details	Yaşar Doğu  Turkey	Dick Garrard  Australia	Leland Merrill  United States
Middleweight details	Glen Brand  United States	Adil Candemir  Turkey	Erik Lindén  Sweden
Light Heavyweight details	Henry Wittenberg  United States	Fritz Stöckli  Switzerland	Bengt Fahlqvist  Sweden
Heavyweight details	Gyula Bóbis  Hungary	Bertil Antonsson  Sweden	Joseph Armstrong  Australia

Participating nations

A total of 219 wrestlers from 29 nations competed at the London Games:^[1]

N.B. - Pakistan sent four wrestlers, but they could not compete as they had been mistakenly entered for the Greco-Roman style and not freestyle.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Turkey (TUR)	6	4	1	11
2	Sweden (SWE)	5	5	3	13
3	United States (USA)	2	1	1	4
4	Hungary (HUN)	1	1	2	4
5	Finland (FIN)	1	1	1	3
6	Italy (ITA)	1	0	2	3
7	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	2	3
8	Australia (AUS)	0	1	1	2
	Egypt (EGY)	0	1	1	2
10	Norway (NOR)	0	1	0	1
11	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	1	1
	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		16	16	16	48