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Host City: Tokyo, Japan
Venue(s): Komazawa Gymnasium, Komazawa Olympic Park, Tokyo
Date Started: October 11, 1964
Date Finished: October 14, 1964
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.
| Gold: | Aleksandr Ivanitsky |
| Silver: | Lyutvi Akhmedov |
| Bronze: | Hamit Kaplan |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | Medal | RE | BP | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aleksandr Ivanitsky | 27 | Soviet Union | URS | Gold | |||
| 2 | Lyutvi Akhmedov | 34 | Bulgaria | BUL | Silver | |||
| 3 | Hamit Kaplan | 30 | Turkey | TUR | Bronze | |||
| 4 | Bohumil Kubát | 29 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | ||||
| 5 | Denis McNamara | 38 | Great Britain | GBR | ||||
| 6 | Ştefan Stîngu | 23 | Romania | ROU | ||||
| AC | Wilfried Dietrich | 30 | Germany | GER | Eliminated r3/5 | 6 | ||
| AC | Masanori Saito | 22 | Japan | JPN | Eliminated r3/5 | 6 | ||
| AC | Larry Kristoff | 21 | United States | USA | Eliminated r3/5 | 6 | ||
| AC | János Reznák | 33 | Hungary | HUN | Eliminated r3/5 | 7 | ||
| AC | Arne Robertsson | 22 | Sweden | SWE | Eliminated r3/5 | 8 | ||
| AC | Ganpat Andhalkar | 29 | India | IND | Eliminated r3/5 | 9 | ||
| AC | Tserendonoin Sanjaa | 27 | Mongolia | MGL | Eliminated r2/5 | 8 |