Wrestling at the 1948 Summer Olympics

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Olle Anderberg of Sweden wrestling Ferenc Tóth of Hungary in the Featherweight event

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 summary

Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight	Pietro Lombardi  Italy	Kenan Olcay  Turkey	Reino Kangasmäki  Finland
Bantamweight	Kurt Pettersén  Sweden	Mahmoud Hassan 23x15px Egypt	Halil Kaya  Turkey
Featherweight	Mehmet Oktav  Turkey	Olle Anderberg  Sweden	Ferenc Tóth  Hungary
Lightweight	Gustav Freij  Sweden	Aage Eriksen  Norway	Károly Ferencz  Hungary
Welterweight	Gösta Andersson  Sweden	Miklós Szilvási  Hungary	Henrik Hansen  Denmark
Middleweight	Axel Grönberg  Sweden	Muhlis Tayfur  Turkey	Ercole Gallegati  Italy
Light Heavyweight	Karl-Erik Nilsson  Sweden	Kelpo Gröndahl  Finland	Ibrahim Orabi 23x15px Egypt
Heavyweight	Ahmet Kireççi  Turkey	Tor Nilsson  Sweden	Guido Fantoni  Italy

Freestyle

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

Participating nations

•  Australia (4)
•  Austria (5)
•  Belgium (9)
• 23x15px Canada (6)
•  Cuba (3)
•  Czechoslovakia (3)
•  Denmark (5)
• 23x15px Egypt (13)
•  Finland (15)
•  France (11)
•  Great Britain (16)
•  Greece (5)
•  Hungary (12)
•  India (6)
•  Italy (11)

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	Egypt Egypt (EGY)	0	1	1	2
	Australia (AUS)	0	1	1	2
10	Norway (NOR)	0	1	0	1
11	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	1	1
	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1

See also

List of World and Olympic Champions in men's freestyle wrestling

List of World and Olympic Champions in Greco-Roman wrestling

United States results in men's freestyle wrestling