1961 World Wrestling Championships - Greco Roman

Host City Yokohama
Country JPN
Held 5 – 7 June 1961
Competitors 24
Countries 9

Events

Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
Greco-Roman -52 kg Men — Medal 3 3
Greco-Roman -57 kg Men — Medal 3 3
Greco-Roman -62 kg Men — Medal 3 3
Greco-Roman -67 kg Men — Medal 3 3
Greco-Roman -73 kg Men — Medal 3 3
Greco-Roman -79 kg Men — Medal 3 3
Greco-Roman -87 kg Men — Medal 3 3
Greco-Roman -+87 kg Men — Medal 3 3

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze Total
1 Soviet Union URS 5 1 0 6
2 Romania ROU 1 2 1 4
3 Hungary HUN 1 1 1 3
4 United Arab Republic UAR 1 0 0 1
5 Turkey TUR 0 2 3 5
6 Yugoslavia YUG 0 1 1 2
7 Sweden SWE 0 1 0 1
8 Czechoslovakia TCH 0 0 1 1
= Iran IRI 0 0 1 1

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
Greco-Roman -52 kg, Men Armais Sayadov URS Dumitru Pîrvulescu ROU Burhan Bozkurt TUR
Greco-Roman -57 kg, Men Oleg Karavayev URS Ion Cernea ROU Jiří Švec TCH
Greco-Roman -62 kg, Men Moustafa Hamid UAR Yaşar Yılmaz TUR Alireza Ghelichkhani IRI
Greco-Roman -67 kg, Men Avtandil Koridze URS Imre Polyák HUN Branko Martinović YUG
Greco-Roman -73 kg, Men Valeriu Bularcă ROU Stevan Horvat YUG Ziya Doğan TUR
Greco-Roman -79 kg, Men Vasily Zenin URS Bertil Nyström SWE Yavuz Selekman TUR
Greco-Roman -+87 kg, Men Ivan Bogdan URS Hamit Kaplan TUR István Kozma HUN
Greco-Roman -87 kg, Men György Gurics HUN Arkady Tkachev URS Gheorghe Popovici ROU