# Wrestling at the 1968 Summer Olympics

At the 1968 Summer Olympics, 16 wrestling events were contested, for all men. There were eight weight classes in Greco-Roman wrestling and eight classes in freestyle wrestling.

## Medal summary
### Freestyle

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 52 kg details | Shigeo Nakata Japan | Richard Sanders United States | Chimedbazaryn Damdinsharav Mongolia |
| 57 kg details | Yojiro Uetake Japan | Donald Behm United States | Aboutaleb Talebi Iran |
| 63 kg details | Masaaki Kaneko Japan | Enyu Todorov Bulgaria | Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi Iran |
| 70 kg details | Abdollah Movahed Iran | Enyu Valchev Bulgaria | Danzandarjaagiin Sereeter Mongolia |
| 78 kg details | Mahmut Atalay Turkey | Daniel Robin France | Tömöriin Artag Mongolia |
| 87 kg details | Boris Michail Gurevich Soviet Union | Jigjidiin Mönkhbat Mongolia | Prodan Gardzhev Bulgaria |
| 97 kg details | Ahmet Ayık Turkey | Shota Lomidze Soviet Union | József Csatári Hungary |
| +97 kg details | Aleksandr Medved Soviet Union | Osman Duraliev Bulgaria | Wilfried Dietrich West Germany |

### Greco-Roman

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 52 kg details | Petar Kirov Bulgaria | Vladimir Bakulin Soviet Union | Miroslav Zeman Czechoslovakia |
| 57 kg details | János Varga Hungary | Ion Baciu Romania | Ivan Kochergin Soviet Union |
| 63 kg details | Roman Rurua Soviet Union | Hideo Fujimoto Japan | Simion Popescu Romania |
| 70 kg details | Muneji Munemura Japan | Stevan Horvat Yugoslavia | Petros Galaktopoulos Greece |
| 78 kg details | Rudolf Vesper East Germany | Daniel Robin France | Károly Bajkó Hungary |
| 87 kg details | Lothar Metz East Germany | Valentin Oleynik Soviet Union | Branislav Simić Yugoslavia |
| 97 kg details | Boyan Radev Bulgaria | Nikolai Yakovenko Soviet Union | Nicolae Martinescu Romania |
| +97 kg details | István Kozma Hungary | Anatoly Roshchin Soviet Union | Petr Kment Czechoslovakia |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Japan (JPN) | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 2 | Soviet Union (URS) | 3 | 5 | 1 | 9 |
| 3 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| 4 | Hungary (HUN) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | East Germany (GDR) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | Turkey (TUR) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Iran (IRI) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 8 | France (FRA) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | United States (USA) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | Mongolia (MGL) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 11 | Romania (ROU) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 12 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 13 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 14 | Greece (GRE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 14 | West Germany (FRG) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (15 entries) | Totals (15 entries) | 16 | 16 | 16 | 48 |

## Participating nations

A total of 297 wrestlers from 46 nations competed at the Mexico City Games:
* Afghanistan (5)
* Argentina (3)
* Australia (3)
* Austria (1)
* Belgium (2)
* Bulgaria (16)
* Canada (7)
* Cuba (3)
* Czechoslovakia (6)
* Denmark (3)
* Dominican Republic (2)
* Ecuador (2)
* Egypt (4)
* Finland (9)
* France (4)
* East Germany (10)
* West Germany (11)
* Great Britain (4)
* Greece (8)
* Guatemala (5)
* Hungary (13)
* India (4)
* Iran (9)
* Iraq (1)
* Italy (5)
* Japan (15)
* Lebanon (2)
* South Korea (8)
* Mexico (12)
* Mongolia (8)
* Morocco (4)
* Norway (3)
* Pakistan (2)
* Panama (2)
* Philippines (4)
* Poland (12)
* Portugal (4)
* Romania (12)
* Soviet Union (16)
* Sweden (7)
* Switzerland (3)
* Syria (2)
* Turkey (16)
* United States (16)
* Yugoslavia (8)