Wrestling at the 1966 Asian Games

Wrestling at the 1966 Asian Games
Dates	10–13 December 1966

Wrestling was one of the sports which was held at the 1966 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand between 10 and 13 December 1966. The competition included only men's freestyle events.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (52 kg)	Shigeo Nakata  Japan	Ali Akbar Heidari  Iran	Shamrao Sable  India
Bantamweight (57 kg)	Tadamichi Tanaka  Japan	Mohammad Ali Farrokhian  Iran	Bishambar Singh  India
Featherweight (63 kg)	Masaaki Kaneko  Japan	Ebrahim Seifpour  Iran	Chang Kyung-mu  South Korea
Lightweight (70 kg)	Abdollah Movahed  Iran	Yoshiharu Tobita  Japan	Udey Chand  India
Welterweight (78 kg)	Muhammad Bashir  Pakistan	Hossein Tahami  Iran	Suh Young-suk  South Korea
Middleweight (87 kg)	Tatsuo Sasaki  Japan	Mahmoud Moezzipour  Iran	Sajjan Singh  India
Light heavyweight (97 kg)	Mansour Mehdizadeh  Iran	Bishwanath Singh  India	Shunichi Kawano  Japan
Heavyweight (+97 kg)	Moslem Eskandar-Filabi  Iran	Muhammad Saeed  Pakistan	Bhim Singh  India

Medal table

Medal winners of freestyle 97 kg. From right to left, Bishwanath Singh, Mansour Mehdizadeh and Shunichi Kawano

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	4	1	1	6
2	Iran (IRN)	3	5	0	8
3	Pakistan (PAK)	1	1	0	2
4	India (IND)	0	1	5	6
5	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	2	2
Totals (5 entries)		8	8	8	24

References

• Freestyle result
• Archived freestyle result
• The Straits Times, 15 December 1966, Page 22

External links

• UWW Database