Wrestling at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Basilica of Maxentius
Dates	26 August – 6 September
Competitors	324 from 46 nations
← 1956 1964 →

Wrestler in Basilica di Massenzio.

Wrestling at the 1960 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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At the 1960 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	Turkey (TUR)	7	2	0	9
2	Soviet Union (URS)	3	2	5	10
3	United States (USA)	3	0	0	3
4	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	3	2	6
5	United Team of Germany (EUA)	1	3	0	4
6	Romania (ROU)	1	1	1	3
7	Iran (IRI)	0	1	2	3
8	Egypt (EGY)	0	1	0	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	1	0	1
12	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	2	2
13	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	0	1	1
	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Pakistan (PAK)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		16	16	16	48

Medal summary

Greco-Roman

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight details	Dumitru Pârvulescu  Romania	Osman El-Sayed  Egypt	Mohammad Paziraei  Iran
Bantamweight details	Oleg Karavayev  Soviet Union	Ion Cernea  Romania	Dinko Petrov  Bulgaria
Featherweight details	Müzahir Sille  Turkey	Imre Polyák  Hungary	Konstantin Vyrupayev  Soviet Union
Lightweight details	Avtandil Koridze  Soviet Union	Branislav Martinović  Yugoslavia	Gustav Freij  Sweden
Welterweight details	Mithat Bayrak  Turkey	Günther Maritschnigg  United Team of Germany	René Schiermeyer  France
Middleweight details	Dimitar Dobrev  Bulgaria	Lothar Metz  United Team of Germany	Ion Țăranu  Romania
Light Heavyweight details	Tevfik Kis  Turkey	Krali Bimbalov  Bulgaria	Givi Kartoziya  Soviet Union
Heavyweight details	Ivan Bogdan  Soviet Union	Wilfried Dietrich  United Team of Germany	Bohumil Kubát  Czechoslovakia

Freestyle

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight details	Ahmet Bilek  Turkey	Masayuki Matsubara  Japan	Ebrahim Seifpour  Iran
Bantamweight details	Terrence McCann  United States	Nezhdet Zalev  Bulgaria	Tadeusz Trojanowski  Poland
Featherweight details	Mustafa Dağıstanlı  Turkey	Stancho Kolev  Bulgaria	Vladimir Rubashvili  Soviet Union
Lightweight details	Shelby Wilson  United States	Vladimir Synyavsky  Soviet Union	Enyu Valchev  Bulgaria
Welterweight details	Douglas Blubaugh  United States	İsmail Ogan  Turkey	Muhammad Bashir  Pakistan
Middleweight details	Hasan Güngör  Turkey	Georgy Skhirtladze  Soviet Union	Hans Antonsson  Sweden
Light heavyweight details	Ismet Atli  Turkey	Gholamreza Takhti  Iran	Anatoli Albul  Soviet Union
Heavyweight details	Wilfried Dietrich  United Team of Germany	Hamit Kaplan  Turkey	Savkuds Dzarasov  Soviet Union

Participating nations

A total of 324 wrestlers from 46 nations competed at the Rome Games:^[1]