1955 World Wrestling Championships
1955 World Championships | |
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Host city | Karlsruhe, West Germany |
Dates | 21–25 April |
Champions | |
Greco-Roman | Soviet Union |
The 1955 World Greco-Roman Wrestling Championships were held in Karlsruhe, West Germany.
Medal table
[edit]Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Soviet Union | 6 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
2 | Hungary | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
3 | Italy | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
4 | Turkey | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
5 | Finland | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
6 | Sweden | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
7 | West Germany | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
8 | Yugoslavia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Totals (8 entries) | 8 | 8 | 8 | 24 |
Team ranking
[edit]Rank | Men's Greco-Roman | |
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Team | Points | |
1 | Soviet Union | 41 |
2 | Sweden | 23 |
3 | Turkey | 19 |
4 | Finland | 15 |
5 | Italy | 14 |
6 | Hungary | 13 |
Medal summary
[edit]Men's Greco-Roman
[edit]Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Flyweight 52 kg | Ignazio Fabra Italy | Nail Garayev Soviet Union | Hüseyin Akbaş Turkey |
Bantamweight 57 kg | Vladimir Stashkevich Soviet Union | Yaşar Yılmaz Turkey | Pietro Lombardi Italy |
Featherweight 62 kg | Imre Polyák Hungary | Müzahir Sille Turkey | Gunnar Håkansson Sweden |
Lightweight 67 kg | Grigory Gamarnik Soviet Union | Kyösti Lehtonen Finland | Gustav Freij Sweden |
Welterweight 73 kg | Vladimir Maneyev Soviet Union | Anton Mackowiak West Germany | Milorad Arsić Yugoslavia |
Middleweight 79 kg | Givi Kartozia Soviet Union | György Gurics Hungary | Horst Heß West Germany |
Light heavyweight 87 kg | Valentin Nikolayev Soviet Union | Veikko Lahti Finland | Karl-Erik Nilsson Sweden |
Heavyweight +87 kg | Aleksandr Mazur Soviet Union | Bertil Antonsson Sweden | Hamit Kaplan Turkey |