1961 FILA Wrestling World Championships
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Medal table
| 1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 12 | |
| 2 |  Iran |
5 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | |
| 4 |  Romania |
1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 |  United Arab Republic |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 7 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 10 | |
| 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Freestyle
| 52 kg |  Ali Aliev |
Nasrollah Soltaninejad |
 Cemal Yanilmaz |
| 57 kg | Ebrahim Seifpour Mohammad Ebrahim Seifpour Mohammad Ebrahim Seifpour Saadabadi more known as Ebrahim Seifpour, is an Iranian retired wrestler who competed in Freestyle at the 1960 Summer Olympics.-References:*... |
 Janos VargaJános Varga János Varga is a Hungarian wrestler and both Olympic champion and world champion in Greco-Roman wrestling.-Olympics:... |
Huseyin Akbas |
| 62 kg | Vladimir Rubashvili |
Sami Pehlivan |
Hamid Tavakkol |
| 67 kg | Mohammad Ali Sanatkaran Mohammad Ali Sanatkaran Mohammad Ali Sanatkaran is an Iranian wrestler who won a bronze medal in Freestyle at the 1964 Summer Olympics.-References: *... |
Vladimir Sinyavski |
 Udey Chand |
| 73 kg | Imam-Ali Habibi Imam-Ali Habibi Emam-Ali Habibi Goudarzi is an Iranian wrestler who competed in Freestyle at the 1956 Summer Olympics.Habibi also took 4th at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, losing one of his matches by fall to Douglas Blubaugh of the United States... |
Mikhail Bekmurzov |
 Yutaka Kaneko |
| 79 kg | Mansour Mehdizadeh |
Geza Höllösi |
 Hans Antonsson |
| 87 kg | Gholamreza Takhti Gholamreza Takhti Gholamreza Takhti is the most famous wrestler in Iranian history. He was most famous for his chivalrous behavior and sportsmanship, and he continues to symbolize the essence of sport to the Iranian people.- Early life :... |
Boris Mikhailovich Gurevich |
Hasan Güngör Hasan Güngör Hasan Güngör , is a former Turkish Olympic medalist sports wrestler in the Middleweight class and a trainer... |
| +87 kg |  Wilfried DietrichWilfried Dietrich Wilfried Dietrich was a German wrestler, Olympic Champion in freestyle wrestling, Olympic silver medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling, winner of a total of five Olympic medals, World Champion in freestyle wrestling, and European Champion.He was born in Schifferstadt and died in Durbanville, South... |
Hamit Kaplan Hamit Kaplan Hamit Kaplan , was a renowned Circassian World and Olympic champion sports wrestler in the Heavyweight class who was born in Turkey... |
Alexander Medved Alexander Medved Alexander Vasiliyevich Medved is a famous Soviet/Russian Belarussian wrestler. He is considered by most to be the best freestyle wrestler of all time. He was the first person ever to win three gold medals in freestyle wrestling. FILA recognizes Medved as The Greatest Wrestler of the 20th Century... |
Greco-Roman
| 52 kg | Armais Sayadov |
Dumitru Pirvulescu |
Burhan Bozkurt |
| 57 kg | Oleg Karavayev Oleg Karavayev Oleg Karavayev was a Soviet wrestler and Olympic Champion. He was born in Minsk.He was Jewish. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome where he won a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, the bantamweight class. He was also 1958 and 1961 world champion, and USSR champion multiple... |
Ion Cernea |
 Jiri Svec |
| 62 kg |  Hamid Mansour Mustafa |
Yasar Yilmaz |
Alireza Ghelichkhani |
| 67 kg | Avtandil Koridze Avtandil Koridze Avtandil Koridze is a former Soviet wrestler and Olympic Champion.He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome where he won a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, the lightweight class.-References:... |
Imre Polyák Imre Polyák Imre Polyák was a Hungarian wrestler and Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling.-Career:... |
 Branislav Martinovic |
| 73 kg | Valeriu Bularca |
Stevan Horvat |
Ziya Dogan |
| 79 kg | Vasili Zenin |
Bertil Nystrom |
Yavuz Selekman |
| 87 kg | György Gurics |
Arkadi Tkatchev |
Gheorghe Popovici |
| +87 kg | Ivan Bogdan |
Hamit Kaplan Hamit Kaplan Hamit Kaplan , was a renowned Circassian World and Olympic champion sports wrestler in the Heavyweight class who was born in Turkey... |
Istvan Kozma István Kozma (wrestler) István Kozma is a Hungarian wrestler, Olympic champion and world champion in Greco-Roman wrestling.-Olympics:... |
See also
List of World and Olympic Champions in men's freestyle wrestlingList of World and Olympic Champions in Greco-Roman wrestling
United States results in men's freestyle wrestling
United States results in men's freestyle wrestling
-List of Results by the United States in Men's Freestyle Wrestling at the Olympics and World Championships:Men's freestyle wrestling competition began in the Olympics in 1904...