1961 World Wrestling Championships

1961 World Wrestling Championships 140 JPN 1947 Yokohama, Japan 1–7 June 1961 Hiyoshi Commemorative Hall IRI 1925 1959 1962 The 1961 World Wrestling Championships were held in Yokohama, Japan from 1 to 7 June 1961.75 Years FILA https://jerzylipski.pl/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/HF01-75-lecie-FILA-ang-2.pdf 16 April 2025 FILA 56 thumb|right|Medal winners of freestyle 79 kg. From left to right, Géza Hollósi, Mansour Mehdizadeh and Hans Antonsson Medal table flagcountry 7 4 1 5 1 2 IRI 1925 1 3 1 1 2 1 ROU 1952 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 4 6 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 JPN 1947 Team ranking Rank Men's freestyle Men's Greco-RomanTeamPointsTeamPoints 1IRI 1925 41 38 2 33 27.5 3 26 ROU 1952 23.5 4JPN 1947 15 15 5 13 12 6 11.5 8.5 Medal summary Freestyle Flyweight52 kgAli Aliev URSNasrollah Soltaninejad IRI 1925Cemal Yanılmaz TURBantamweight57 kgEbrahim Seifpour IRI 1925János Varga HUNHüseyin Akbaş TURFeatherweight62 kgVladimir Rubashvili URSYunus Pehlivan TURHamid Tavakkol IRI 1925Lightweight67 kgMohammad Ali Sanatkaran IRI 1925Vladimir Sinyavsky URSUdey Chand INDWelterweight73 kgEmam-Ali Habibi IRI 1925Mikhail Bekmurzov URSYutaka Kaneko JPN 1947Middleweight79 kgMansour Mehdizadeh IRI 1925Géza Hollósi HUNHans Antonsson SWELight heavyweight87 kgGholamreza Takhti IRI 1925Boris Gurevich URSHasan Güngör TURHeavyweight+87 kgWilfried Dietrich FRGHamit Kaplan TURAleksandr Medved URS Greco-Roman Flyweight52 kgArmais Sayadov URSDumitru Pârvulescu ROU 1952Burhan Bozkurt TURBantamweight57 kgOleg Karavaev URSIon Cernea ROU 1952Jiří Švec TCHFeatherweight62 kgMoustafa Hamid Mansour UARYaşar Yılmaz TURAlireza Ghelichkhani IRI 1925Lightweight67 kgAvtandil Koridze URSImre Polyák HUNBranislav Martinović YUGWelterweight73 kgValeriu Bularca ROU 1952Stevan Horvat YUGZiya Doğan TURMiddleweight79 kgVasily Zenin URSBertil Nyström SWEYavuz Selekman TURLight heavyweight87 kgGyörgy Gurics HUNArkady Tkachev URSGheorghe Popovici ROU 1952Heavyweight+87 kgIvan Bohdan URSHamit Kaplan TURIstván Kozma HUN References External links UWW Database Category:World Wrestling Championships Category:International wrestling competitions hosted by Japan FILA Category:1961 in sport wrestling Category:June 1961 sports events in Asia