1969 World Wrestling Championships

1969 World Championships
Host city	Mar del Plata, Argentina
Dates	3–10 March
Champions
Freestyle	Soviet Union
Greco-Roman	Soviet Union

The 1969 World Wrestling Championships were held in Mar del Plata, Argentina.

Medal winners of freestyle 68 kg. From left to right, Enyu Valchev, Abdollah Movahed and Nodar Khokhashvili

Medal winners of Greco-Roman 48 kg. From left to right, Rahim Aliabadi, Gheorghe Berceanu and Vladislav Kustov

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	10	2	6	18
2	Iran	3	3	2	8
3	United States	2	3	2	7
4	Romania	2	1	1	4
5	Japan	2	0	2	4
6	Bulgaria	1	5	2	8
7	Sweden	0	1	2	3
8	Finland	0	1	1	2
	Yugoslavia	0	1	1	2
10	South Korea	0	1	0	1
	West Germany	0	1	0	1
Totals (11 entries)		20	19	19	58

Team ranking

Rank	Men's freestyle		Men's Greco-Roman
	Team	Points	Team	Points
1	Soviet Union	44	Soviet Union	53
2	United States	38	Bulgaria	26
3	Iran	37	Romania	23
4	Bulgaria	27	Sweden	20
5	Japan	25	Finland	12.5
6	Mongolia	10	West Germany	12.5

Medal summary

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Ebrahim Javadi   Iran	Roman Dmitriyev   Soviet Union	Akihiko Umeda   Japan
52 kg	Rick Sanders   United States	Mohammad Ghorbani   Iran	Tariel Alibegashvili   Soviet Union
57 kg	Tadamichi Tanaka   Japan	Donald Behm   United States	Aboutaleb Talebi   Iran
62 kg	Takeo Morita   Japan	Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi   Iran	Zagalav Abdulbekov   Soviet Union
68 kg	Abdollah Movahed   Iran	Enyu Valchev   Bulgaria	Nodar Khokhashvili   Soviet Union
74 kg	Zarbeg Beriashvili   Soviet Union	Wayne Wells   United States	Seiji Yamagata   Japan
82 kg	Fred Fozzard   United States	None awarded	None awarded
90 kg	Boris Gurevich   Soviet Union	Rusi Petrov   Bulgaria	Henk Schenk   United States
100 kg	Shota Lomidze   Soviet Union	Larry Kristoff   United States	Vasil Todorov   Bulgaria
+100 kg	Aleksandr Medved   Soviet Union	Osman Duraliev   Bulgaria	Abolfazl Anvari   Iran

Men's Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Gheorghe Berceanu   Romania	Rahim Aliabadi   Iran	Vladislav Kustov   Soviet Union
52 kg	Firouz Alizadeh   Iran	Cornel Turturea   Romania	Ivan Mikhailishin   Soviet Union
57 kg	Rustam Kazakov   Soviet Union	An Chun-young   South Korea	David Hazewinkel   United States
62 kg	Roman Rurua   Soviet Union	Roland Svensson   Sweden	Martti Laakso   Finland
68 kg	Simion Popescu   Romania	Sreten Damjanović   Yugoslavia	Yury Grigoriev   Soviet Union
74 kg	Viktor Igumenov   Soviet Union	Eero Tapio   Finland	Matti Poikala   Sweden
82 kg	Petar Krumov   Bulgaria	Omar Bliadze   Soviet Union	Milan Nenadić   Yugoslavia
90 kg	Aleksandr Yurkevich   Soviet Union	Venko Tsintsarov   Bulgaria	Nicolae Neguț   Romania
100 kg	Nikolay Yakovenko   Soviet Union	Stefan Petrov   Bulgaria	Lennart Eriksson   Sweden
+100 kg	Anatoly Roshchin   Soviet Union	Wilfried Dietrich   West Germany	Petar Donev   Bulgaria

References

• FILA Database