# Wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics

At the 1956 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 | Soviet Union (URS) | 6 | 2 | 5 | 13 |
| 2 | Turkey (TUR) | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 3 | Iran (IRI) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 4 | Japan (JPN) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | Finland (FIN) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 6 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 7 | Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 8 | Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | Italy (ITA) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | United States (USA) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 11 | Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | United Team of Germany (EUA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Romania (ROU) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (13 entries) | Totals (13 entries) | 16 | 16 | 16 | 48 |

## Medal summary
### Greco-Roman

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Flyweight details | Nikolai Solovyov Soviet Union | Ignazio Fabra Italy | Dursun Ali Egribas Turkey |
| Bantamweight details | Konstantin Vyrupayev Soviet Union | Edvin Vesterby Sweden | Francisc Horvat Romania |
| Featherweight details | Rauno Mäkinen Finland | Imre Polyák Hungary | Roman Dzeneladze Soviet Union |
| Lightweight details | Kyösti Lehtonen Finland | Riza Dogan Turkey | Gyula Tóth Hungary |
| Welterweight details | Mithat Bayrak Turkey | Vladimir Maneyev Soviet Union | Per Gunnar Berlin Sweden |
| Middleweight details | Givi Kartozia Soviet Union | Dimitar Dobrev Bulgaria | Rune Jansson Sweden |
| Light Heavyweight details | Valentin Nikolayev Soviet Union | Petko Sirakov Bulgaria | Karl-Erik Nilsson Sweden |
| Heavyweight details | Anatoli Parfenov Soviet Union | Wilfried Dietrich United Team of Germany | Adelmo Bulgarelli Italy |

### Freestyle

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Flyweight details | Mirian Tsalkalamanidze Soviet Union | M. Ali Khojastehpour Iran | Hüseyin Akbaş Turkey |
| Bantamweight details | Mustafa Dağıstanlı Turkey | Mehdi Yaghoubi Iran | Mikhail Shakhov Soviet Union |
| Featherweight details | Shozo Sasahara Japan | Joseph Mewis Belgium | Erkki Penttilä Finland |
| Lightweight details | Emam-Ali Habibi Iran | Shigeru Kasahara Japan | Alimbeg Bestayev Soviet Union |
| Welterweight details | Mitsuo Ikeda Japan | Ibrahim Zengin Turkey | Vakhtang Balavadze Soviet Union |
| Middleweight details | Nikola Stanchev Bulgaria | Danny Hodge United States | Georgi Skhirtladze Soviet Union |
| Light heavyweight details | Gholamreza Takhti Iran | Boris Kulayev Soviet Union | Peter Blair United States |
| Heavyweight details | Hamit Kaplan Turkey | Hussein Mehmedov Bulgaria | Taisto Kangasniemi Finland |

## Participating nations

A total of 173 wrestlers from 30 nations competed at the Melbourne Games:
* Argentina (2)
* Australia (15)
* Austria (4)
* Belgium (3)
* Bulgaria (8)
* Canada (2)
* Finland (10)
* France (2)
* United Team of Germany (5)
* Great Britain (4)
* Greece (2)
* Hungary (8)
* India (7)
* Iran (8)
* Ireland (1)
* Italy (5)
* Japan (8)
* South Korea (3)
* Mexico (1)
* New Zealand (1)
* Norway (1)
* Pakistan (6)
* Philippines (3)
* Romania (4)
* South Africa (4)
* Soviet Union (16)
* Sweden (10)
* Turkey (13)
* United States (15)
* Yugoslavia (2)