1958 Wrestling World Cup

The 1958 Wrestling World Cup was held from June 20 to 22 in Sofia, Bulgaria. The second freestyle Wrestling World Cup drew 76 wrestlers from 14 countries. This was the second World Cup organized by FILA. As during the first edition in each weight category, a separate individual tournament was held, and the winning team was determined by the total number of the points gained by each of its participants. As during the previous edition, the winner of the World Cup was the USSR National Team, which scored 38 points. This time, Greco-Roman wrestling event has not been contested. Roger Coulon, President of the International Wrestling Federation, visited Bulgaria for the World Cup, he called the event "an example of sports organization."^[1]

Final ranking[]

#	Team
1	Soviet Union
2	Turkey
3	People's Republic of Bulgaria
4	Iran
5	Italy
6	East Germany
7	Hungarian People's Republic
8	Polish People's Republic
9	Japan
10	Socialist Republic of Romania
11	West Germany

Medal summary[]

Event	1st place	2nd place	3rd place
Flyweight 52 kg	Georgy Sayadov  Soviet Union	Mohammad Ali Khojastehpour  Iran	Bulgaria
Bantamweight 57 kg	Hüseyin Akbaş  Turkey	Enyu Valchev  Bulgaria	Mikhail Shakhov  Soviet Union
Featherweight 62 kg	Norayr Musheghyan  Soviet Union	Mustafa Dağıstanlı  Turkey	Stancho Kolev  Bulgaria
Lightweight 67 kg	Vladimir Sinyavsky  Soviet Union	Bulgaria	Gyula Tóth  Hungary
Welterweight 73 kg	İsmail Ogan  Turkey	Jahanbakht Tofigh  Iran	Garibaldo Nizzola  Italy
Middleweight 79 kg	Hasan Güngör  Turkey	Georgy Skhirtladze  Soviet Union	East Germany
Light heavyweight 87 kg	Anatoly Albul  Soviet Union	Gholamreza Takhti  Iran	Turkey
Heavyweight +87 kg	Lyutvi Ahmedov  Bulgaria	Soviet Union	Hamit Kaplan  Turkey

Commemoration[]

Bulgarian painter Vesselin Tomov made designs for a series of commemorative postage stamps "1958 World Cup Wrestling Championship," which were published later that year by the Bulgarian Post Office.^[2][3]

References[]

Sources[]

News[]

• Associated Press (June 24, 1958). "Two Russian wrestlers won four of eight titles in the World Cup team prize". Democrat and Chronicle. Rochester, New York: 18.
• Associated Press (June 24, 1958). "Russian Wrestlers Capture World Cup". The Daily Oklahoman: 37.
• Reuters (6 June 1958). "World Cup Wrestling". Singapore Standard. 8 (338): 12.
• "An Example of Sports Organization". Bulgaria Today. Sofia Press Agency. 7: 61. 1958.
• "World's Strongest Wrestlers Compete". Bulgaria. State Printing House: 40, 123. 1958.
• "The Strongest Man in the World". Bulgaria Today. Sofia Press Agency. 9: 39. 1960.

Web[]

• World Cup, Freestyle Seniors, 1958-06-20 Sofia (BUL). Institut für Angewandte Trainingswissenschaft Ringen Datenbanken (Wrestling Database).