1958 Wrestling World Cup

Wrestling World Cup 1958 Sofia, Bulgaria 20–22 June 8 1956 Istanbul 1973 Toledo The 1958 Wrestling World Cup was held from June 20 to 22 in Sofia, Bulgaria. The second freestyle Wrestling World Cup drew 76 wrestlers from 14 countries. This was the second World Cup organized by FILA. As during the first edition in each weight category, a separate individual tournament was held, and the winning team was determined by the total number of the points gained by each of its participants. As during the previous edition, the winner of the World Cup was the USSR National Team, which scored 38 points. This time, Greco-Roman wrestling event has not been contested. Roger Coulon, President of the International Wrestling Federation, visited Bulgaria for the World Cup, he called the event "an example of sports organization."https://books.google.com/books?id=KV9OAAAAYAAJ&q=Roger+Coulon "An Example of Sports Organization" Bulgaria Today Sofia Press Agency 1958 7 61 Final ranking #Team1 Soviet Union 19552 Turkey3 People's Republic of Bulgaria4 Iran5 Italy6 East Germany7 Hungarian People's Republic8 Polish People's Republic9 Japan 194710 Socialist Republic of Romania11 West Germany Medal summary Event 1st place 2nd place 3rd placeFlyweight52 kgGeorgy Sayadov URS 1955Mohammad Ali Khojastehpour IRN 1925Naydet Zalev BUL 1946Bantamweight57 kgHüseyin Akbaş TUREnyu Valchev BUL 1946Mikhail Shakhov URS 1955Featherweight62 kgNorayr Musheghyan URS 1955Mustafa Dağıstanlı TURStancho Kolev BUL 1946Lightweight67 kgVladimir Sinyavsky URS 1955Musa Aliyev BUL 1946Gyula Tóth HUNWelterweight73 kgİsmail Ogan TURJahanbakht Tofigh IRN 1925Garibaldo Nizzola ItalyMiddleweight79 kgHasan Güngör TURGeorgy Skhirtladze URS 1955Lothar Lippa GDRLight heavyweight87 kgAnatoly Albul URS 1955Gholamreza Takhti IRN 1925Ibrahim Karabacak TURHeavyweight+87 kgLyutvi Ahmedov BUL 1946Ottar Kandelaki URS 1955Hamit Kaplan TUR Commemoration Bulgarian painter Vesselin Tomov made designs for a series of commemorative postage stamps "1958 World Cup Wrestling Championship," which were published later that year by the Bulgarian Post Office.Carl-Olof Enhagen https://books.google.com/books?id=UMxaAAAAYAAJ&q=Free+Style+Wrestling Sports Stamps S. Paul 1961 224https://books.google.com/books?id=NvsfAQAAMAAJ&q=World+Cup+Wrestling+Championship+Vesselin+Tomov Exposition du livre La Bulgarie d'aujourd'hui 1958 7 27 References Sources News Associated Press https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/135822850/ Two Russian wrestlers won four of eight titles in the World Cup team prize Democrat and Chronicle Rochester, New York June 24, 1958 18 Associated Press https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/449680812/ Russian Wrestlers Capture World Cup The Daily Oklahoman June 24, 1958 37 Reuters https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Issue/singstandard19580606 World Cup Wrestling Singapore Standard 6 June 1958 8 338 12 https://books.google.com/books?id=KV9OAAAAYAAJ&q=Roger+Coulon An Example of Sports Organization Bulgaria Today Sofia Press Agency 1958 7 61 https://books.google.com/books?id=9-AVAQAAMAAJ&q=Wrestling+Cup World's Strongest Wrestlers Compete Bulgaria State Printing House 1958 40, 123 https://books.google.com/books?id=JlBOAAAAYAAJ&q=Kaplan The Strongest Man in the World Bulgaria Today Sofia Press Agency 1960 9 39 Web World Cup, Freestyle Seniors, 1958-06-20 Sofia (BUL). Institut für Angewandte Trainingswissenschaft Ringen Datenbanken (Wrestling Database). Category:1958 in sport wrestling Category:Wrestling World Cup Category:International wrestling competitions hosted by Bulgaria Wrestling World Cup Wrestling World Cup