The 1963 World Wrestling Championship was held separately: freestyle wrestling competitions were held from May 31 to June 2 in Sofia ( Bulgaria ), and Greco-Roman wrestling competitions were held from July 1 to 3 in Helsingborg ( Sweden ).
| World Wrestling Championship 1963 | |
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| Medals | 16 sets |
| Opening | May 31 / July 1 |
| Closing | June 2 / July 3 |
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Content
Overall medal standings
| A place | A country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| one | the USSR | eight | four | one | 13 |
| 2 | Japan | 2 | one | 0 | 3 |
| Yugoslavia | 2 | one | 0 | 3 | |
| four | Turkey | 2 | 0 | 3 | five |
| five | Bulgaria | one | 3 | five | 9 |
| 6 | Hungary | one | one | 2 | four |
| 7 | Iran | 0 | one | one | 2 |
| Sweden | 0 | one | one | 2 | |
| 9 | Czechoslovakia | 0 | one | 0 | one |
| GDR | 0 | one | 0 | one | |
| Italy | 0 | one | 0 | one | |
| Romania | 0 | one | 0 | one | |
| 13 | USA | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 14 | Germany | 0 | 0 | one | one |
| Total | sixteen | sixteen | sixteen | 48 | |
Medalists
Freestyle Wrestling (Men)
| Weight | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Up to 52 kg | Jemal Yanylmaz | Ali Aliyev | Resistant Malov |
| Up to 57 kg | Aydin Ibragimov | Hiroshi Ikeda | Mladen Georgiev |
| Up to 63 kg | Osamu Watanabe | Ebrahim Seifpur | Stancho Kolev |
| Up to 70 kg | Iwao Horiuchi | Zarbeg Beriashvili | Gregory Routh |
| Up to 78 kg | Guram Sagaradze | Petko Dermendzhiev | Ismail Ogan |
| Up to 87 kg | Sold Gardzhev | Anatoly Albul | Mansour Mehdizade |
| Up to 97 kg | Alexander Medved | Valko Kostov | Hamit Kaplan |
| Over 97 kg | Alexander Ivanitsky | Lutvi Akhmedov | Janos Reznak |
Greco-Roman Wrestling (Men)
| Weight | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Up to 52 kg | Borova Vukov | Ignazio Fabra | Sergey Rybalko |
| Up to 57 kg | Janos Varga | Jiri Shvets | Dinko Petrov |
| Up to 63 kg | Gennady Sapunov | Imre Poyak | Ivan Ivanov |
| Up to 70 kg | Stevan Horvath | David Gvanceladze | Klaus Rost |
| Up to 78 kg | Anatoly Kolesov | Rudolph Wesper | Bertil Nyustrom |
| Up to 87 kg | Tevfik Kysh | Branislav Simic | Gyorgy Gurich |
| Up to 97 kg | Rostom Abashidze | Nicolae Martinescu | Hamit Kaplan |
| Over 97 kg | Anatoly Roshchin | Ragnar Svensson | James Raschke |