# Wrestling at the 1948 Summer Olympics

At the 1948 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. The freestyle competitions were held from July 29 to July 31, 1948 and the Greco-Roman events were held from August 3 to August 6, 1948.

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Turkey (TUR) | 6 | 4 | 1 | 11 |
| 2 | Sweden (SWE) | 5 | 5 | 3 | 13 |
| 3 | United States (USA) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 | Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | Finland (FIN) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Italy (ITA) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 8 | Australia (AUS) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | Egypt (EGY) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | Norway (NOR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Denmark (DEN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | France (FRA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (12 entries) | Totals (12 entries) | 16 | 16 | 16 | 48 |

## Medal summary
### Freestyle

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Flyweight details | Lenni Viitala Finland | Halit Balamir Turkey | Thure Johansson Sweden |
| Bantamweight details | Nasuh Akar Turkey | Gerald Leeman United States | Charles Kouyos France |
| Featherweight details | Gazanfer Bilge Turkey | Ivar Sjölin Sweden | Adolf Müller Switzerland |
| Lightweight details | Celal Atik Turkey | Gösta Frändfors Sweden | Hermann Baumann Switzerland |
| Welterweight details | Yaşar Doğu Turkey | Dick Garrard Australia | Leland Merrill United States |
| Middleweight details | Glen Brand United States | Adil Candemir Turkey | Erik Lindén Sweden |
| Light Heavyweight details | Henry Wittenberg United States | Fritz Stöckli Switzerland | Bengt Fahlqvist Sweden |
| Heavyweight details | Gyula Bóbis Hungary | Bertil Antonsson Sweden | Joseph Armstrong Australia |

### Greco-Roman

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Flyweight details | Pietro Lombardi Italy | Kenan Olcay Turkey | Reino Kangasmäki Finland |
| Bantamweight details | Kurt Pettersén Sweden | Mahmoud Hassan Egypt | Halil Kaya Turkey |
| Featherweight details | Mehmet Oktav Turkey | Olle Anderberg Sweden | Ferenc Tóth Hungary |
| Lightweight details | Gustav Freij Sweden | Aage Eriksen Norway | Károly Ferencz Hungary |
| Welterweight details | Gösta Andersson Sweden | Miklós Szilvási Hungary | Henrik Hansen Denmark |
| Middleweight details | Axel Grönberg Sweden | Muhlis Tayfur Turkey | Ercole Gallegati Italy |
| Light Heavyweight details | Karl-Erik Nilsson Sweden | Kelpo Gröndahl Finland | Ibrahim Orabi Egypt |
| Heavyweight details | Ahmet Kireççi Turkey | Tor Nilsson Sweden | Guido Fantoni Italy |

## Participating nations

A total of 219 wrestlers from 29 nations competed at the London Games:
* Argentina (8)
* Australia (4)
* Austria (5)
* Belgium (9)
* Canada (6)
* Cuba (3)
* Czechoslovakia (3)
* Denmark (5)
* Egypt (13)
* Finland (15)
* France (11)
* Great Britain (16)
* Greece (5)
* Hungary (12)
* India (6)
* Italy (11)
* South Korea (4)
* Lebanon (5)
* Luxembourg (2)
* Mexico (4)
* Netherlands (4)
* Norway (6)
* Philippines (1)
* South Africa (3)
* Sweden (16)
* Switzerland (12)
* Turkey (16)
* United States (8)
N.B. - Pakistan sent four wrestlers, but they could not compete as they had been mistakenly entered for the Greco-Roman style and not freestyle.