Date | 1 – 6 September 1960 | |
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Status | Olympic | |
Location | Basilica di Massenzio, Roma | |
Participants | 19 from 19 countries | |
Format | Scoring by negative points, with negative points given for any result short of a fall. Accumulation of 6 negative points eliminated the wrestler. When three or fewer wrestlers remained, they advanced to a final round, with preliminary results carried forward. |
Turkey’s Hüseyin Akbaş had won the World Championships in 1957 and 1959 and came in as the favorite, but he drew his first round match and then lost his next two matches, and was eliminated, placing only 14th. The final round competitors turned out to be Bulgaria’s Nezhdet Zalev, Poland’s Tadeusz Trojanowski, and American Terry McCann, who had barely made it as the last qualifier. McCann, however, won two decisions over the other finalists to secure the gold medal, with Zalev’s fifth-round victory over Trojanowski bringing him the silver medal. McCann was a multiple AAU and NCAA Champion in the United States, but had no previous international record, and retired from competition after the 1960 Olympics.
Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | Bad Points | |||
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=1 | Muhammad Siraj-ud-din | ![]() | 0 | |||
=1 | Nezhdet Zalev | ![]() | 0 | |||
=1 | Dermot Dunne | ![]() | 0 | |||
=1 | Tadashi Asai | ![]() | 0 | |||
=1 | Tadeusz Trojanowski | ![]() | 0 | |||
=6 | Fred Kämmerer | ![]() | 1 | |||
=6 | Luigi Chinazzo | ![]() | 1 | |||
=6 | Terry McCann | ![]() | 1 | |||
=9 | Tauno Jaskari | ![]() | 2 | |||
=9 | Mohamed Mehdi Yaghoubi | ![]() | 2 | |||
=9 | Hüseyin Akbaş | ![]() | 2 | |||
=9 | Mikhail Shakhov | ![]() | 2 | |||
=13 | Im Gwang-Jae | ![]() | 3 | |||
=13 | Eduardo Campbell | ![]() | 3 | |||
=13 | Edvin Vesterby | ![]() | 3 | |||
=16 | Geoffrey Jameson | ![]() | 4 | |||
=16 | Walter Pilling | ![]() | 4 | |||
=16 | Vittorio Mancini | ![]() | 4 | |||
=16 | Paul Hänni | ![]() | 4 |
Match #1 | Luigi Chinazzo | ![]() | decision | Im Gwang-Jae | ![]() |
Match #2 | Dermot Dunne | ![]() | fall (8:03) | Vittorio Mancini | ![]() |
Match #3 | Mohamed Mehdi Yaghoubi | ![]() | draw | Hüseyin Akbaş | ![]() |
Match #4 | Mikhail Shakhov | ![]() | draw | Tauno Jaskari | ![]() |
Match #5 | Muhammad Siraj-ud-din | ![]() | fall (2:50) | Walter Pilling | ![]() |
Match #6 | Fred Kämmerer | ![]() | decision | Eduardo Campbell | ![]() |
Match #7 | Terry McCann | ![]() | decision | Edvin Vesterby | ![]() |
Match #8 | Tadeusz Trojanowski | ![]() | fall (4:24) | Paul Hänni | ![]() |
Match #9 | Nezhdet Zalev | ![]() | fall (2:31) | Geoffrey Jameson | ![]() |
Match #10 | Tadashi Asai | ![]() | bye |
Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | Bad Points | |||
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=1 | Nezhdet Zalev | ![]() | 0 | |||
=1 | Tadashi Asai | ![]() | 0 | |||
=1 | Tadeusz Trojanowski | ![]() | 0 | |||
4 | Terry McCann | ![]() | 1 | |||
=5 | Fred Kämmerer | ![]() | 2 | |||
=5 | Mohamed Mehdi Yaghoubi | ![]() | 2 | |||
=7 | Muhammad Siraj-ud-din | ![]() | 3 | |||
=7 | Tauno Jaskari | ![]() | 3 | |||
=7 | Im Gwang-Jae | ![]() | 3 | |||
=7 | Eduardo Campbell | ![]() | 3 | |||
=7 | Mikhail Shakhov | ![]() | 3 | |||
12 | Dermot Dunne | ![]() | 4 | |||
=13 | Luigi Chinazzo | ![]() | 5 | |||
=13 | Hüseyin Akbaş | ![]() | 5 | |||
15 | Edvin Vesterby | ![]() | 6 | eliminated | ||
=16 | Geoffrey Jameson | ![]() | 8 | eliminated | ||
=16 | Walter Pilling | ![]() | 8 | eliminated | ||
=16 | Vittorio Mancini | ![]() | 8 | eliminated | ||
=16 | Paul Hänni | ![]() | 8 | eliminated |
Match #1 | Tadashi Asai | ![]() | fall (3:14) | Luigi Chinazzo | ![]() |
Match #2 | Im Gwang-Jae | ![]() | fall (2:45) | Dermot Dunne | ![]() |
Match #3 | Mohamed Mehdi Yaghoubi | ![]() | fall (0:17) | Vittorio Mancini | ![]() |
Match #4 | Mikhail Shakhov | ![]() | decision | Hüseyin Akbaş | ![]() |
Match #5 | Tauno Jaskari | ![]() | decision | Muhammad Siraj-ud-din | ![]() |
Match #6 | Eduardo Campbell | ![]() | fall (4:57) | Walter Pilling | ![]() |
Match #7 | Fred Kämmerer | ![]() | decision | Edvin Vesterby | ![]() |
Match #8 | Terry McCann | ![]() | fall (1:40) | Paul Hänni | ![]() |
Match #9 | Tadeusz Trojanowski | ![]() | fall (4:25) | Geoffrey Jameson | ![]() |
Match #10 | Nezhdet Zalev | ![]() | bye |
Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | Bad Points | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Nezhdet Zalev | ![]() | 0 | |||
2 | Tadeusz Trojanowski | ![]() | 1 | |||
3 | Terry McCann | ![]() | 2 | |||
=4 | Tauno Jaskari | ![]() | 3 | |||
=4 | Mohamed Mehdi Yaghoubi | ![]() | 3 | |||
=6 | Tadashi Asai | ![]() | 4 | |||
=6 | Mikhail Shakhov | ![]() | 4 | |||
=8 | Fred Kämmerer | ![]() | 5 | |||
=8 | Luigi Chinazzo | ![]() | 5 | |||
=10 | Muhammad Siraj-ud-din | ![]() | 6 | eliminated | ||
=10 | Im Gwang-Jae | ![]() | 6 | eliminated | ||
=10 | Eduardo Campbell | ![]() | 6 | eliminated | ||
13 | Dermot Dunne | ![]() | 8 | eliminated | ||
14 | Hüseyin Akbaş | ![]() | 9 | eliminated |
Match #1 | Nezhdet Zalev | ![]() | fall (3:45) | Tadashi Asai | ![]() |
Match #2 | Luigi Chinazzo | ![]() | fall (2:21) | Dermot Dunne | ![]() |
Match #3 | Mohamed Mehdi Yaghoubi | ![]() | decision | Im Gwang-Jae | ![]() |
Match #4 | Tauno Jaskari | ![]() | fall (11:05) | Hüseyin Akbaş | ![]() |
Match #5 | Mikhail Shakhov | ![]() | decision | Muhammad Siraj-ud-din | ![]() |
Match #6 | Terry McCann | ![]() | decision | Eduardo Campbell | ![]() |
Match #7 | Tadeusz Trojanowski | ![]() | decision | Fred Kämmerer | ![]() |
Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | Bad Points | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
=1 | Nezhdet Zalev | ![]() | 1 | |||
=1 | Tadeusz Trojanowski | ![]() | 1 | |||
=3 | Tauno Jaskari | ![]() | 4 | |||
=3 | Mikhail Shakhov | ![]() | 4 | |||
=5 | Tadashi Asai | ![]() | 5 | |||
=5 | Terry McCann | ![]() | 5 | |||
7 | Mohamed Mehdi Yaghoubi | ![]() | 6 | eliminated | ||
8 | Luigi Chinazzo | ![]() | 8 | eliminated | ||
9 | Fred Kämmerer | ![]() | 9 | eliminated |
Match #1 | Nezhdet Zalev | ![]() | decision | Luigi Chinazzo | ![]() |
Match #2 | Tadashi Asai | ![]() | decision | Mohamed Mehdi Yaghoubi | ![]() |
Match #3 | Mikhail Shakhov | ![]() | fall (7:15) | Fred Kämmerer | ![]() |
Match #4 | Tauno Jaskari | ![]() | decision | Terry McCann | ![]() |
Match #5 | Tadeusz Trojanowski | ![]() | bye |
Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | Bad Points | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Nezhdet Zalev | ![]() | 2 | |||
2 | Tadeusz Trojanowski | ![]() | 4 | |||
3 | Terry McCann | ![]() | 5 | |||
4 | Tadashi Asai | ![]() | 6 | eliminated | ||
5 | Tauno Jaskari | ![]() | 7 | eliminated | ||
6 | Mikhail Shakhov | ![]() | 8 | eliminated |
Match #1 | Nezhdet Zalev | ![]() | decision | Tadeusz Trojanowski | ![]() |
Match #2 | Tadashi Asai | ![]() | decision | Tauno Jaskari | ![]() |
Match #3 | Terry McCann | ![]() | fall (0:48) | Mikhail Shakhov | ![]() |
Match #1 | Terry McCann | ![]() | decision | Tadeusz Trojanowski | ![]() |
Match #2 | Terry McCann | ![]() | decision | Nezhdet Zalev | ![]() |