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Wrestling competition

Wrestling at the 1959 Mediterranean Games

Dates	October 1959
← 1955 1963 →

The wrestling tournament at the 1959 Mediterranean Games was held in Beirut, Lebanon.

Medal table

* Host nation (Lebanon)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Turkey	12	2	1	15
2	United Arab Republic	2	6	5	13
3	Lebanon	1	2	4	7
4	Yugoslavia	1	1	0	2
5	France	0	5	3	8
6	Greece	0	0	2	2
7	Spain	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		16	16	16	48

Medalists

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
52 kg	Mehmet Kartal Turkey	André Zoéte France	Hussein Khamis Abbas United Arab Republic
57 kg	Bayram Uysal Turkey	Hani Ibrahim Mounteche Lebanon	Ibrahim Ahmed Abdelatif United Arab Republic
62 kg	Mehmet Kocur Turkey	Georges Ballery France	Mohamed Ahmed El Dib United Arab Republic
67 kg	Hilmi Gezici Turkey	Roger Bielle France	Ioannis Manganas Greece
73 kg	Mahmut Atalay Turkey	Hassan El Sayed United Arab Republic	René Schiermeyer France
79 kg	Ziya Doğan Turkey	Mohamed Raafat Wahdan United Arab Republic	André Saade Lebanon
87 kg	Bekir Büke Turkey	Mohamed Gamal El Eidaross United Arab Republic	Maurice Jacquel France
+7 kg	Hamit Kaplan Turkey	Mohamed Mahmoud El Sharkawi United Arab Republic	Abbas Moussoulman Lebanon

Men's Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
52 kg	Dursun Ali Eğribaş Turkey	Borivoj Vukov Yugoslavia	Mohamed Eid United Arab Republic
57 kg	Kamel El-Sayed United Arab Republic	Michel Nakouzi Lebanon	Mikhail Theodoropoulos Greece
62 kg	Elie Naasan Lebanon	Moustafa Hamid Mansour United Arab Republic	Niyazi Tanelli Turkey
67 kg	Rıza Doğan Turkey	Roger Bielle France	Kamal Bilaba' United Arab Republic
73 kg	Stevan Horvat Yugoslavia	Mithat Bayrak Turkey	René Schiermeyer France
79 kg	Ziya Doğan Turkey	Mohamed Raafat Wahdan United Arab Republic	Yacoub Romanos Lebanon
87 kg	Tevfik Kış Turkey	Maurice Jacquel France	Jean Saade Lebanon
+87 kg	Ibrahim El Husseyni United Arab Republic	Süleyman Baştimur Turkey	Diego Ariel Spain

References

1959 Mediterranean Games report at the International Committee of Mediterranean Games (CIJM) website
List of Olympians who won medals at the Mediterranean Games at Olympedia.org

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