Wrestling at the 1956 Olympics
Events and Champions

Freestyle welterweight M

JPN

Mitsuo Ikeda

Freestyle lightweight M

IRI

Emam Ali Habibi Gondarzi

Freestyle featherweight M

JPN

Shozo Sasahara

Freestyle heavyweight M

TUR

Hamit Kaplan

Freestyle flyweight M

URS

Mirian Tsalkalamanidze

Freestyle middleweight M

BUL

Nikola Stanchev

Freestyle light-heavyweight M

IRI

Gholam Reza Takhti

Freestyle bantamweight M

TUR

Mustafa Dagistanli

Greco-Roman welterweight M

TUR

Mithat Bayrak

Greco-Roman flyweight M

URS

Nikolai Solovyov

Greco-Roman featherweight M

FIN

Rauno Mäkinen

Greco-Roman middleweight M

URS

Givy Kartoziya

Greco-Roman heavyweight M

URS

Anatoly Parfyonov

Greco-Roman bantamweight M

URS

Konstantin Vyrupayev

Greco-Roman lightweight M

FIN

Kyösti Lehtonen

Greco-Roman light-heavyweight M

URS

Valentin Nikolayev