1959 World Wrestling Championships

1959 World Championships
Host city	Tehran, Iran
Dates	October 1–5
Champions
Freestyle	Soviet Union

The 1959 World Freestyle Wrestling Championship were held in Tehran, Iran.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	3	1	2	6
2	Turkey	2	2	2	6
3	Iran	2	0	0	2
4	Bulgaria	1	3	0	4
5	Finland	0	1	0	1
	Hungary	0	1	0	1
7	Pakistan	0	0	2	2
8	East Germany	0	0	1	1
	France	0	0	1	1
Total		8	8	8	24

Team ranking

Rank	Men's freestyle
	Team	Points
1	Soviet Union	36
2	Turkey	33
3	Bulgaria	22
4	Iran	20

Medal summary

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight 52 kg	Ali Aliyev  Soviet Union (URS)	Ahmet Bilek  Turkey (TUR)	Muhammad Niaz  Pakistan (PAK)
Bantamweight 57 kg	Hüseyin Akbaş  Turkey (TUR)	Tauno Jaskari  Finland (FIN)	Vladimir Arsenyan  Soviet Union (URS)
Featherweight 62 kg	Mustafa Dağıstanlı  Turkey (TUR)	Stancho Ivanov  Bulgaria (BUL)	Muhammad Akhtar  Pakistan (PAK)
Lightweight 67 kg	Vladimir Sinyavsky  Soviet Union (URS)	Enyu Valchev  Bulgaria (BUL)	Hayrullah Şahin  Turkey (TUR)
Welterweight 73 kg	Emam-Ali Habibi  Iran (IRI)	Vakhtang Balavadze  Soviet Union (URS)	İsmail Ogan  Turkey (TUR)
Middleweight 79 kg	Georgy Skhirtladze  Soviet Union (URS)	Géza Hollósi  Hungary (HUN)	Lothar Lippa  East Germany (GDR)
Light heavyweight 87 kg	Gholamreza Takhti  Iran (IRI)	Petko Sirakov  Bulgaria (BUL)	Maurice Jacquel  France (FRA)
Heavyweight +87 kg	Lyutvi Ahmedov  Bulgaria (BUL)	Hamit Kaplan  Turkey (TUR)	Savkuds Dzarasov  Soviet Union (URS)

References

• FILA Database