# Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics

At the 1960 Summer Olympics, 16 wrestling events were contested, all for men. There were eight weight classes in Greco-Roman wrestling and eight classes in freestyle wrestling.

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Turkey (TUR) | 7 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 2 | Soviet Union (URS) | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 3 | United States (USA) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 5 | United Team of Germany (EUA) | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 6 | Romania (ROU) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | Iran (IRI) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 8 | Egypt (EGY) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | France (FRA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | Pakistan (PAK) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | Poland (POL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (16 entries) | Totals (16 entries) | 16 | 16 | 16 | 48 |

## Medal summary
### Greco-Roman

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Flyweight details | Dumitru Pârvulescu Romania | Osman El-Sayed Egypt | Mohammad Paziraei Iran |
| Bantamweight details | Oleg Karavayev Soviet Union | Ion Cernea Romania | Dinko Petrov Bulgaria |
| Featherweight details | Müzahir Sille Turkey | Imre Polyák Hungary | Konstantin Vyrupayev Soviet Union |
| Lightweight details | Avtandil Koridze Soviet Union | Branislav Martinović Yugoslavia | Gustav Freij Sweden |
| Welterweight details | Mithat Bayrak Turkey | Günther Maritschnigg United Team of Germany | René Schiermeyer France |
| Middleweight details | Dimitar Dobrev Bulgaria | Lothar Metz United Team of Germany | Ion Țăranu Romania |
| Light Heavyweight details | Tevfik Kis Turkey | Krali Bimbalov Bulgaria | Givi Kartoziya Soviet Union |
| Heavyweight details | Ivan Bogdan Soviet Union | Wilfried Dietrich United Team of Germany | Bohumil Kubát Czechoslovakia |

### Freestyle

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Flyweight details | Ahmet Bilek Turkey | Masayuki Matsubara Japan | Ebrahim Seifpour Iran |
| Bantamweight details | Terrence McCann United States | Nezhdet Zalev Bulgaria | Tadeusz Trojanowski Poland |
| Featherweight details | Mustafa Dağıstanlı Turkey | Stancho Kolev Bulgaria | Vladimir Rubashvili Soviet Union |
| Lightweight details | Shelby Wilson United States | Vladimir Synyavsky Soviet Union | Enyu Valchev Bulgaria |
| Welterweight details | Douglas Blubaugh United States | İsmail Ogan Turkey | Muhammad Bashir Pakistan |
| Middleweight details | Hasan Güngör Turkey | Georgy Skhirtladze Soviet Union | Hans Antonsson Sweden |
| Light heavyweight details | Ismet Atli Turkey | Gholamreza Takhti Iran | Anatoli Albul Soviet Union |
| Heavyweight details | Wilfried Dietrich United Team of Germany | Hamit Kaplan Turkey | Savkuds Dzarasov Soviet Union |

## Participating nations

A total of 324 wrestlers from 46 nations competed at the Rome Games:
* Afghanistan (7)
* Argentina (3)
* Australia (9)
* Austria (7)
* Belgium (5)
* Bulgaria (16)
* Czechoslovakia (5)
* Denmark (4)
* Egypt (4)
* Finland (14)
* France (9)
* United Team of Germany (15)
* Great Britain (6)
* Greece (3)
* Hungary (10)
* India (5)
* Iran (12)
* Iraq (1)
* Ireland (4)
* Italy (16)
* Japan (16)
* South Korea (4)
* Lebanon (6)
* Luxembourg (4)
* Mexico (4)
* Morocco (5)
* Netherlands (3)
* New Zealand (1)
* Norway (4)
* Pakistan (7)
* Panama (1)
* Poland (12)
* Portugal (3)
* Romania (7)
* Soviet Union (16)
* Spain (4)
* Sweden (12)
* Switzerland (12)
* Turkey (16)
* United States (16)
* Venezuela (2)
* Yugoslavia (5)