Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Flyweight details Hasan Gemici ( TUR ) Yushu Kitano ( JPN ) Mahmoud Mollaghasemi ( IRI )
Bantamweight details Shohachi Ishii ( JPN ) Rashid Mammadbeyov ( URS ) Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav ( IND )
Featherweight details Bayram Sit ( TUR ) Nasser Givehchi ( IRI ) Josiah Henson ( USA )
Lightweight details Olle Anderberg ( SWE ) Jay Thomas Evans ( USA ) Jahanbakht Tofigh ( IRI )
Welterweight details William Smith ( USA ) Per Berlin ( SWE ) Abdollah Mojtabavi ( IRI )
Middleweight details David Tsimakuridze ( URS ) Gholamreza Takhti ( IRI ) György Gurics ( HUN )
Light heavyweight details Viking Palm ( SWE ) Henry Wittenberg ( USA ) Adil Atan ( TUR )
Heavyweight details Arsen Mekokishvili ( URS ) Bertil Antonsson ( SWE ) Kenneth Richmond ( GBR )
Medal summary -- Freestyle
At the 1952 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 events were held at Messuhalli.