Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman featherweight

The men's Greco-Roman featherweight competition at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome took place from 26 to 31 August at the Basilica of Maxentius. Nations were limited to one competitor.

Competition format
This Greco-Roman 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.

Round 1

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Round 2
Mäkinen withdrew after his bout.


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Round 3

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Round 4
Mansour had beaten Penev in round 1, breaking the tie for 9th place.


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Round 5

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Round 6
Vyrupayev's head-to-head victory over Trippa was the tie-breaker between the two at 6 points for the bronze medal.


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Round 7
Sille defeated Polyák on points, bringing each of the two wrestlers to 6 points. Because of the head-to-head win, Sille took the gold medal.


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