Wrestling at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Wrestling at the 1964 Olympics on a stamp of Japan.
Venue	Komazawa Gymnasium
Dates	11 – 19 October
Competitors	275 from 42 nations
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Wrestling at the 1964 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 1964 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 Table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	5	0	1	6
2	Soviet Union (URS)	3	4	3	10
3	Bulgaria (BUL)	3	4	1	8
4	Turkey (TUR)	2	3	1	6
5	Hungary (HUN)	2	0	0	2
6	Yugoslavia (YUG)	1	0	1	2
7	United Team of Germany (EUA)	0	1	3	4
8	Romania (ROU)	0	1	2	3
9	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	1	2
10	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	1	0	1
	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	0	1
12	Iran (IRI)	0	0	2	2
13	United States (USA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		16	16	16	48

Medal summary

Greco-Roman

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight details	Tsutomu Hanahara  Japan	Angel Kerezov  Bulgaria	Dumitru Pârvulescu  Romania
Bantamweight details	Masamitsu Ichiguchi  Japan	Vladlen Trostyansky  Soviet Union	Ion Cernea  Romania
Featherweight details	Imre Polyák  Hungary	Roman Rurua  Soviet Union	Branislav Martinović  Yugoslavia
Lightweight details	Kazım Ayvaz  Turkey	Valeriu Bularca  Romania	David Gvantseladze  Soviet Union
Welterweight details	Anatoly Kolesov  Soviet Union	Kiril Petkov  Bulgaria	Bertil Nyström  Sweden
Middleweight details	Branislav Simić  Yugoslavia	Jiří Kormaník  Czechoslovakia	Lothar Metz  United Team of Germany
Light Heavyweight details	Boyan Radev  Bulgaria	Per Svensson  Sweden	Heinz Kiehl  United Team of Germany
Heavyweight details	István Kozma  Hungary	Anatoly Roshchin  Soviet Union	Wilfried Dietrich  United Team of Germany

Freestyle

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight details	Yoshikatsu Yoshida  Japan	Chang Chang-Sun  South Korea	Ali Akbar Heidari  Iran
Bantamweight details	Yojiro Uetake  Japan	Hüseyin Akbas  Turkey	Aydin Ibrahimov  Soviet Union
Featherweight details	Osamu Watanabe  Japan	Stancho Kolev  Bulgaria	Nodar Khokhashvili  Soviet Union
Lightweight details	Enyu Valchev  Bulgaria	Klaus Rost  United Team of Germany	Iwao Horiuchi  Japan
Welterweight details	İsmail Ogan  Turkey	Guliko Sagaradze  Soviet Union	Mohammad Ali Sanatkaran  Iran
Middleweight details	Prodan Gardzhev  Bulgaria	Hasan Güngör  Turkey	Daniel Brand  United States
Light Heavyweight details	Aleksandr Medved  Soviet Union	Ahmet Ayık  Turkey	Said Mustafov  Bulgaria
Heavyweight details	Aleksandr Ivanitsky  Soviet Union	Lyutvi Ahmedov  Bulgaria	Hamit Kaplan  Turkey

Participating nations

A total of 275 wrestlers from 42 nations competed at the Tokyo Games:^[1]