Wrestling at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Venue	Royal Exhibition Building
Dates	28 November – 6 December
Competitors	173 from 30 nations
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Wrestling at the 1956 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
v t e

At the 1956 Summer Olympics, 16 wrestling events were contested, all for men. There were eight weight classes in Greco-Roman wrestling and eight classes in freestyle wrestling.^[1]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	6	2	5	13
2	Turkey (TUR)	3	2	2	7
3	Iran (IRI)	2	2	0	4
4	Japan (JPN)	2	1	0	3
5	Finland (FIN)	2	0	2	4
6	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	3	0	4
7	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	3	4
8	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	1	2
	Italy (ITA)	0	1	1	2
	United States (USA)	0	1	1	2
11	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	0	1
	United Team of Germany (EUA)	0	1	0	1
13	Romania (ROU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		16	16	16	48

Medal summary

Greco-Roman

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight details	Nikolai Solovyov  Soviet Union	Ignazio Fabra  Italy	Dursun Ali Egribas  Turkey
Bantamweight details	Konstantin Vyrupayev  Soviet Union	Edvin Vesterby  Sweden	Francisc Horvat  Romania
Featherweight details	Rauno Mäkinen  Finland	Imre Polyák  Hungary	Roman Dzeneladze  Soviet Union
Lightweight details	Kyösti Lehtonen  Finland	Riza Dogan  Turkey	Gyula Tóth  Hungary
Welterweight details	Mithat Bayrak  Turkey	Vladimir Maneyev  Soviet Union	Per Gunnar Berlin  Sweden
Middleweight details	Givi Kartozia  Soviet Union	Dimitar Dobrev  Bulgaria	Rune Jansson  Sweden
Light Heavyweight details	Valentin Nikolayev  Soviet Union	Petko Sirakov  Bulgaria	Karl-Erik Nilsson  Sweden
Heavyweight details	Anatoli Parfenov  Soviet Union	Wilfried Dietrich  United Team of Germany	Adelmo Bulgarelli  Italy

Freestyle

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight details	Mirian Tsalkalamanidze  Soviet Union	M. Ali Khojastehpour  Iran	Hüseyin Akbaş  Turkey
Bantamweight details	Mustafa Dağıstanlı  Turkey	Mehdi Yaghoubi  Iran	Mikhail Shakhov  Soviet Union
Featherweight details	Shozo Sasahara  Japan	Joseph Mewis  Belgium	Erkki Penttilä  Finland
Lightweight details	Emam-Ali Habibi  Iran	Shigeru Kasahara  Japan	Alimbeg Bestayev  Soviet Union
Welterweight details	Mitsuo Ikeda  Japan	Ibrahim Zengin  Turkey	Vakhtang Balavadze  Soviet Union
Middleweight details	Nikola Stanchev  Bulgaria	Danny Hodge  United States	Georgi Skhirtladze  Soviet Union
Light heavyweight details	Gholamreza Takhti  Iran	Boris Kulayev  Soviet Union	Peter Blair  United States
Heavyweight details	Hamit Kaplan  Turkey	Hussein Mehmedov  Bulgaria	Taisto Kangasniemi  Finland

Participating nations

A total of 173 wrestlers from 30 nations competed at the Melbourne Games:^[1]