Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle featherweight explained

Event:	Men's freestyle featherweight
Games:	1960 Summer
Venue:	Basilica of Maxentius
Dates:	1–6 September
Competitors:	25
Nations:	25
Gold:	Mustafa Dağıstanlı
Goldnoc:	TUR
Silver:	Stancho Ivanov
Silvernoc:	BUL
Bronze:	Vladimer Rubashvili
Bronzenoc:	URS
Prev:	1956
Next:	1964

The men's freestyle featherweight competition at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome took place from 1 to 6 September at the Basilica of Maxentius. Nations were limited to one competitor.^[1]

Competition format

This freestyle wrestling competition continued to use the "bad points" elimination system introduced at the 1928 Summer Olympics for Greco-Roman and at the 1932 Summer Olympics for freestyle wrestling, though adjusted the point values slightly. Wins by fall continued to be worth 0 points and wins by decision continued to be worth 1 point. Losses by fall, however, were now worth 4 points (up from 3). Losses by decision were worth 3 points (consistent with most prior years, though in some losses by split decision had been worth only 2 points). Ties were now allowed, worth 2 points for each wrestler. The elimination threshold was also increased from 5 points to 6 points. The medal round concept, used in 1952 and 1956 requiring a round-robin amongst the medalists even if one or more finished a round with enough points for elimination, was used only if exactly three wrestlers remained after a round—if two competitors remained, they faced off head-to-head; if only one, he was the gold medalist.^[2] ^[1]

Results

Round 1

Parker and Shiam withdrew after their bouts.

Bouts

Winner	Nation	Victory Type	Loser	Nation
		Fall
		Decision
		Decision
		Fall
		Fall
		Fall
		Fall
Ahmed Sayed Kasim		Tie	Roberto Vallejo
		Fall
		Decision
		Fall
		Fall
		Bye	N/A	N/A

Points

Rank	Wrestler	Nation	Start	Earned	Total
1			0	0	0
1			0	0	0
1			0	0	0
1			0	0	0
1			0	0	0
1			0	0	0
1			0	0	0
1			0	0	0
1			0	0	0
10			0	1	1
10			0	1	1
10			0	1	1
13			0	2	2
13			0	2	2
15			0	3	3
15			0	3	3
17			0	4	4
17			0	4	4
17			0	4	4
17			0	4	4
17			0	4	4
17			0	4	4
17			0	4	4
24			0	3	3*
25			0	4	4*

Round 2

Ioannidis withdrew after his bout.

Bouts

Winner	Nation	Victory Type	Loser	Nation
		Decision
		Fall
		Decision
		Fall
		Fall
		Decision
		Decision
		Decision
		Decision
		Decision
Bert Aspen		Tie	Christian Luschnig
		Bye	N/A	N/A

Points

Rank	Wrestler	Nation	Start	Earned	Total
1			0	0	0
1			0	0	0
3			1	0	1
3			0	1	1
5			1	1	2
6			0	3	3
6			0	3	3
6			0	3	3
6			0	3	3
6			2	1	3
6			2	1	3
12			0	4	4
12			4	0	4
12			3	1	4
12			3	1	4
16			4	1	5
16			1	4	5
18			0	3	3*
19			4	2	6
19			4	2	6
21			4	3	7
21			4	3	7
23			4	4	8

Round 3

Giani withdrew after his bout.

Bouts

Winner	Nation	Victory Type	Loser	Nation
		Decision
		Fall
		Fall
		Fall
		Fall
		Decision
		Fall
		Decision
		Bye	N/A	N/A

Points

Rank	Wrestler	Nation	Start	Earned	Total
1			0	0	0
2			1	0	1
2			0	1	1
2			1	0	1
5			2	0	2
6			3	0	3
7			3	1	4
7			4	0	4
9			4	1	5*
10			3	3	6
10			3	3	6
12			3	4	7
12			3	4	7
12			4	3	7
15			4	4	8
16			5	4	9
16			5	4	9

Round 4

Bouts

Winner	Nation	Victory Type	Loser	Nation
		Decision
		Decision
		Decision
		Fall

Points

Rank	Wrestler	Nation	Start	Earned	Total
1			1	1	2
1			1	1	2
1			2	0	2
4			0	3	3
5			1	3	4
6			4	1	5
7			3	3	6
8			4	4	8

Round 5

Bouts

Winner	Nation	Victory Type	Loser	Nation
		Fall
		Fall
		Decision

Points

Rank	Wrestler	Nation	Start	Earned	Total
1			2	0	2
1			2	0	2
3			3	1	4
4			2	3	5
5			4	4	8
6			5	4	9

Round 6

Rubashvili's head-to-head victory over Sato in round 5 was the tie-breaker for the bronze medal.

Bouts

Winner	Nation	Victory Type	Loser	Nation
		Decision
Mustafa Dağıstanlı		Tie	Tamiji Sato

Points

Rank	Wrestler	Nation	Start	Earned	Total
1			2	1	3
2			2	2	4
			4	3	7
4			5	2	7

Round 7

Bouts

Winner	Nation	Victory Type	Loser	Nation
		Decision

Points

Rank	Wrestler	Nation	Start	Earned	Total
			4	1	5
			3	3	6

Notes and References

Web site: Wrestling at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Men's Freestyle Featherweight . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418130415/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1960/WRE/mens-featherweight-freestyle.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 22 March 2019.
Official Report, p. 511.