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Wrestling — Flyweight, Freestyle, Men (discontinued)

Wrestling — Flyweight, Freestyle, Men (discontinued)

Times held	14
Total participants	220
Total countries	68

Participants

Year	Event	Status	Participants	NOCs
1904	Flyweight, Freestyle (≤115 lbs [52 kg]), Men	Olympic	3	1
1948	Flyweight, Freestyle (≤52 kg), Men	Olympic	11	11
1952	Flyweight, Freestyle (≤52 kg), Men	Olympic	16	16
1956	Flyweight, Freestyle (≤52 kg), Men	Olympic	11	11
1960	Flyweight, Freestyle (≤52 kg), Men	Olympic	17	17
1964	Flyweight, Freestyle (≤52 kg), Men	Olympic	22	22
1968	Flyweight, Freestyle (≤52 kg), Men	Olympic	23	23
1972	Flyweight, Freestyle (≤52 kg), Men	Olympic	24	24
1976	Flyweight, Freestyle (≤52 kg), Men	Olympic	19	19
1980	Flyweight, Freestyle (≤52 kg), Men	Olympic	16	16
1984	Flyweight, Freestyle (≤52 kg), Men	Olympic	17	17
1988	Flyweight, Freestyle (≤52 kg), Men	Olympic	30	30
1992	Flyweight, Freestyle (≤52 kg), Men	Olympic	18	18
1996	Flyweight, Freestyle (≤52 kg), Men	Olympic	19	19

Medal winners

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1904	George Mehnert	👁 Image USA	Gustav Bauer	👁 Image USA	William Nelson	👁 Image USA
1948	Lenni Viitala	👁 Image FIN	Halit Balamir	👁 Image TUR	Thure Johansson	👁 Image SWE
1952	Hasan Gemici	👁 Image TUR	Yushu Kitano	👁 Image JPN	Mahmoud Mollaghasemi	👁 Image IRI
1956	Mirian Tsalkalamanidze	👁 Image URS	Mohamed Ali Khojastehpour	👁 Image IRI	Hüseyin Akbaş	👁 Image TUR
1960	Ahmet Bilek	👁 Image TUR	Masayuki Matsubara	👁 Image JPN	Ibrahim Seifpour	👁 Image IRI
1964	Yoshikatsu Yoshida	👁 Image JPN	Jang Chang-Seon	👁 Image KOR	Sayed Ali Akbar Haydari	👁 Image IRI
1968	Shigeo Nakata	👁 Image JPN	Rich Sanders	👁 Image USA	Chimedbazaryn Damdinsharav	👁 Image MGL
1972	Kiyomi Kato	👁 Image JPN	Arsen Alakhverdiyev	👁 Image URS	Kim Gwong-Hyong	👁 Image PRK
1976	Yuji Takada	👁 Image JPN	Aleksandr Ivanov	👁 Image URS	Jeon Hae-Seop	👁 Image KOR
1980	Anatoly Beloglazov	👁 Image URS	Władysław Stecyk	👁 Image POL	Nermedin Selimov	👁 Image BUL
1984	Šaban Trstena	👁 Image YUG	Kim Jong-Gyu	👁 Image KOR	Yuji Takada	👁 Image JPN
1988	Mitsuru Sato	👁 Image JPN	Šaban Trstena	👁 Image YUG	Volodymyr Tohuzov	👁 Image URS
1992	Li Hak-Son	👁 Image PRK	Zeke Jones	👁 Image USA	Valentin Yordanov	👁 Image BUL
1996	Valentin Yordanov	👁 Image BUL	Namiq Abdullayev	👁 Image AZE	Maulen Mamyrov	👁 Image KAZ

Medals by country

NOC		Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Japan	👁 Image JPN	5	2	1	8
Soviet Union	👁 Image URS	2	2	1	5
Türkiye	👁 Image TUR	2	1	1	4
United States	👁 Image USA	1	3	1	5
Yugoslavia	👁 Image YUG	1	1	0	2
Bulgaria	👁 Image BUL	1	0	2	3
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	👁 Image PRK	1	0	1	2
Finland	👁 Image FIN	1	0	0	1
Republic of Korea	👁 Image KOR	0	2	1	3
Islamic Republic of Iran	👁 Image IRI	0	1	3	4
Azerbaijan	👁 Image AZE	0	1	0	1
Poland	👁 Image POL	0	1	0	1
Kazakhstan	👁 Image KAZ	0	0	1	1
Mongolia	👁 Image MGL	0	0	1	1
Sweden	👁 Image SWE	0	0	1	1

Top medallists

Athlete	Nat	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Šaban Trstena	👁 Image MKD 👁 Image YUG	1	1	0	2
Valentin Yordanov	👁 Image BUL	1	0	1	2
Yuji Takada	👁 Image JPN	1	0	1	2
Lenni Viitala	👁 Image FIN	1	0	0	1
Kiyomi Kato	👁 Image JPN	1	0	0	1
Shigeo Nakata	👁 Image JPN	1	0	0	1
Mitsuru Sato	👁 Image JPN	1	0	0	1
Yoshikatsu Yoshida	👁 Image JPN	1	0	0	1
Li Hak-Son	👁 Image PRK	1	0	0	1
Ahmet Bilek	👁 Image TUR	1	0	0	1
Hasan Gemici	👁 Image TUR	1	0	0	1
Anatoly Beloglazov	👁 Image RUS 👁 Image URS	1	0	0	1
Mirian Tsalkalamanidze	👁 Image GEO 👁 Image URS	1	0	0	1
George Mehnert	👁 Image USA	1	0	0	1

Best performance by country

Olympic and Intercalated results only.

Country		Games	Athlete/Team	Placement
Afghanistan	👁 Image AFG	1960 Summer Olympics	Faiz Mohammad Khakshar	=13	See all
Algeria	👁 Image ALG	1996 Summer Olympics	Omar Kedjaouer	14	See all
Australia	👁 Image AUS	1960 Summer Olympics	Dieter Gröning	=13	See all
Azerbaijan	👁 Image AZE	1996 Summer Olympics	Namiq Abdullayev	2	Silver	See all
Belgium	👁 Image BEL	1948 Summer Olympics	Adolphe Lamot	AC	See all
1952 Summer Olympics	Maurice Mewis	AC
1976 Summer Olympics	Julien Mewis	AC
Bulgaria	👁 Image BUL	1996 Summer Olympics	Valentin Yordanov	1	Gold	See all
Canada	👁 Image CAN	1984 Summer Olympics	Ray Takahashi	4	See all
Chinese Taipei	👁 Image TPE	1984 Summer Olympics	Lou Wie-Ki	AC	See all
1988 Summer Olympics	Lo Chao-Cheng	AC
Colombia	👁 Image COL	1988 Summer Olympics	Óscar Muñoz	AC	See all
Cuba	👁 Image CUB	1976 Summer Olympics	Eloy Abreu	8	See all
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	👁 Image PRK	1992 Summer Olympics	Li Hak-Son	1	Gold	See all
Dominican Republic	👁 Image DOM	1968 Summer Olympics	José Defran	AC	See all
East Germany	👁 Image GDR	1980 Summer Olympics	Hartmut Reich	8	See all
Ecuador	👁 Image ECU	1968 Summer Olympics	César Solari	AC	See all
1984 Summer Olympics	Iván Garcés	AC
Egypt	👁 Image EGY	1948 Summer Olympics	Mohamed Abdel Hamid	AC	See all
1952 Summer Olympics	Mohamed Abdel Hamid	AC
1968 Summer Olympics	Mohamed Salem	AC
1984 Summer Olympics	Farag Abdulmun'im	AC
Finland	👁 Image FIN	1948 Summer Olympics	Lenni Viitala	1	Gold	See all
France	👁 Image FRA	1964 Summer Olympics	André Zoéte	=4	See all
Germany	👁 Image GER	1960 Summer Olympics	Paul Neff	4	See all
Great Britain	👁 Image GBR	1948 Summer Olympics	Harry Parker	AC	See all
1952 Summer Olympics	Leslie Cheetham	AC
1980 Summer Olympics	Mark Dunbar	AC
1984 Summer Olympics	Gary Moores	AC
Greece	👁 Image GRE	1996 Summer Olympics	Amiran Kardanov	16	See all
Guatemala	👁 Image GUA	1968 Summer Olympics	Gustavo Ramírez	AC	See all
1972 Summer Olympics	Pedro Piñeda	AC
1988 Summer Olympics	Edvin Eduardo Vázquez	AC
Guinea	👁 Image GUI	1988 Summer Olympics	Ousmane Diallo	AC	See all
Hungary	👁 Image HUN	1976 Summer Olympics	Henrik Gál	4	See all
1980 Summer Olympics	Lajos Szabó	4
1988 Summer Olympics	László Bíró	4
India	👁 Image IND	1972 Summer Olympics	Sudesh Kumar	4	See all
Indonesia	👁 Image INA	1988 Summer Olympics	Surya Saputra	AC	See all
Iraq	👁 Image IRQ	1988 Summer Olympics	Fayadh Minati	AC	See all
Ireland	👁 Image IRL	1960 Summer Olympics	Seán O'Connor	=13	See all
Islamic Republic of Iran	👁 Image IRI	1956 Summer Olympics	Mohamed Ali Khojastehpour	2	Silver	See all
Italy	👁 Image ITA	1968 Summer Olympics	Vincenzo Grassi	5	See all
Japan	👁 Image JPN	1964 Summer Olympics	Yoshikatsu Yoshida	1	Gold	See all
1968 Summer Olympics	Shigeo Nakata	1	Gold
1972 Summer Olympics	Kiyomi Kato	1	Gold
1976 Summer Olympics	Yuji Takada	1	Gold
1988 Summer Olympics	Mitsuru Sato	1	Gold
Jordan	👁 Image JOR	1988 Summer Olympics	Jihad Sharif	AC	See all
Kazakhstan	👁 Image KAZ	1996 Summer Olympics	Maulen Mamyrov	3	Bronze	See all
Kenya	👁 Image KEN	1988 Summer Olympics	Lamachi Elimu	AC	See all
Malaysia	👁 Image MAS	1964 Summer Olympics	Liang Soon Hin	AC	See all
Malta	👁 Image MLT	1984 Summer Olympics	Jesmond Giordimaina	AC	See all
Mexico	👁 Image MEX	1960 Summer Olympics	Jorge Rosado	12	See all
Mongolia	👁 Image MGL	1968 Summer Olympics	Chimedbazaryn Damdinsharav	3	Bronze	See all
New Zealand	👁 Image NZL	1992 Summer Olympics	Shane Stannett	AC	See all
Nigeria	👁 Image NGR	1988 Summer Olympics	Garba Lame	AC	See all
1992 Summer Olympics	Joe Oziti	AC
Pakistan	👁 Image PAK	1960 Summer Olympics	Din Nawab	9	See all
Panama	👁 Image PAN	1964 Summer Olympics	Eduardo Campbell	AC	See all
1968 Summer Olympics	Wanelge Castillo	AC
1972 Summer Olympics	Wanelge Castillo	AC
People's Republic of China	👁 Image CHN	1984 Summer Olympics	Liang Dejin	8	See all
Peru	👁 Image PER	1972 Summer Olympics	Javier León	AC	See all
Philippines	👁 Image PHI	1988 Summer Olympics	Florentino Tirante	AC	See all
Poland	👁 Image POL	1980 Summer Olympics	Władysław Stecyk	2	Silver	See all
Puerto Rico	👁 Image PUR	1988 Summer Olympics	Carlos Negrón	AC	See all
Republic of Korea	👁 Image KOR	1964 Summer Olympics	Jang Chang-Seon	2	Silver	See all
1984 Summer Olympics	Kim Jong-Gyu	2	Silver
Romania	👁 Image ROU	1972 Summer Olympics	Petre Ciarnău	5	See all
Russian Federation	👁 Image RUS	1996 Summer Olympics	Chechen-Ool Mongush	4	See all
Senegal	👁 Image SEN	1984 Summer Olympics	Talla Diaw	AC	See all
Slovakia	👁 Image SVK	1996 Summer Olympics	Roman Kollar	13	See all
South Africa	👁 Image RSA	1952 Summer Olympics	Louis Baise	6	See all
Soviet Union	👁 Image URS	1956 Summer Olympics	Mirian Tsalkalamanidze	1	Gold	See all
1980 Summer Olympics	Anatoly Beloglazov	1	Gold
Spain	👁 Image ESP	1992 Summer Olympics	Laureano Atanes	AC	See all
Sri Lanka	👁 Image SRI	1964 Summer Olympics	Ernest Fernando	AC	See all
Sweden	👁 Image SWE	1948 Summer Olympics	Thure Johansson	3	Bronze	See all
Switzerland	👁 Image SUI	1948 Summer Olympics	Arthur Schürch	DNS	See all
Syrian Arab Republic	👁 Image SYR	1980 Summer Olympics	Ahmad Dahrouj	AC	See all
Tunisia	👁 Image TUN	1992 Summer Olympics	Chokri Boudchiche	AC	See all
Türkiye	👁 Image TUR	1952 Summer Olympics	Hasan Gemici	1	Gold	See all
1960 Summer Olympics	Ahmet Bilek	1	Gold
Ukraine	👁 Image UKR	1996 Summer Olympics	Volodymyr Tohuzov	10	See all
Unified Team	👁 Image EUN	1992 Summer Olympics	Volodymyr Tohuzov	AC	See all
United States	👁 Image USA	1904 Summer Olympics	George Mehnert	1	Gold	See all
United States Virgin Islands	👁 Image ISV	1976 Summer Olympics	Emille Kitnurse	AC	See all
Uzbekistan	👁 Image UZB	1996 Summer Olympics	Adkhamdzhon Akhilov	7	See all
Vietnam	👁 Image VIE	1980 Summer Olympics	Nguyễn Kim Thiềng	AC	See all
1988 Summer Olympics	Nguyễn Kim Hương	AC
West Germany	👁 Image FRG	1984 Summer Olympics	Fritz Niebler	7	See all
Yugoslavia	👁 Image YUG	1984 Summer Olympics	Šaban Trstena	1	Gold	See all

URL: https://www.olympedia.org/event_names/669

⇱ Olympedia – Wrestling — Flyweight, Freestyle, Men (discontinued)

Wrestling — Flyweight, Freestyle, Men (discontinued)

Participants

Medal winners

Medals by country

Top medallists

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