1970 World Wrestling Championships

1970 World Wrestling Championships
Host city	Edmonton, Canada
Dates	4–11 July 1970
Champions
Freestyle	Soviet Union
Greco-Roman	Soviet Union
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The 1970 World Wrestling Championships were held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada from 4 to 11 July 1970. ^[1]

Medal table

Medal winners of freestyle 68 kg. From left to right, Ismail Yuseinov, Abdollah Movahed and Bobby Douglas

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	9	1	3	13
2	Iran	3	1	1	5
3	Japan	2	4	2	8
4	Bulgaria	1	4	3	8
5	United States	1	3	2	6
6	Hungary	1	2	0	3
7	Romania	1	1	2	4
8	Turkey	1	0	1	2
9	Sweden	1	0	0	1
10	Yugoslavia	0	1	2	3
11	Poland	0	1	1	2
12	South Korea	0	1	0	1
	West Germany	0	1	0	1
14	East Germany	0	0	1	1
	Greece	0	0	1	1
	Mongolia	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		20	20	20	60

Team ranking

Rank	Men's freestyle		Men's Greco-Roman
	Team	Points	Team	Points
1	Soviet Union	40	Soviet Union	43
2	United States	31.5	Bulgaria	27.5
3	Iran	27.5	Yugoslavia	22
4	Japan	27	Hungary	19.5
5	Bulgaria	25.83	Romania	19.5
6	Turkey	16.5	Japan	17

Medal summary

Freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Ebrahim Javadi   Iran	Akihiko Umeda   Japan	Roman Dmitriev   Soviet Union
52 kg	Ali Rıza Alan   Turkey	Bayu Baev   Bulgaria	Mohammad Ghorbani   Iran
57 kg	Hideaki Yanagida   Japan	An Jae-won   South Korea	Yancho Patrikov   Bulgaria
62 kg	Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi   Iran	Kiyoshi Abe   Japan	Mike Young   United States
68 kg	Abdollah Movahed   Iran	Ismail Yuseinov   Bulgaria	Bobby Douglas   United States
74 kg	Wayne Wells   United States	Mohammad Farhangdoust   Iran	Danzandarjaagiin Sereeter   Mongolia
82 kg	Yury Shakhmuradov   Soviet Union	Tatsuo Sasaki   Japan	Vasile Iorga   Romania
90 kg	Gennady Strakhov   Soviet Union	Bill Harlow   United States	Makoto Kamada   Japan
100 kg	Vladimir Gulyutkin   Soviet Union	Larry Kristoff   United States	Gıyasettin Yılmaz   Turkey
+100 kg	Aleksandr Medved   Soviet Union	Osman Duraliev   Bulgaria	Peter Germer   East Germany

Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Gheorghe Berceanu   Romania	Vladimir Zubkov   Soviet Union	Bernard Szczepański   Poland
52 kg	Petar Kirov   Bulgaria	Saburo Sugiyama   Japan	Boško Marinko   Yugoslavia
57 kg	János Varga   Hungary	David Hazewinkel   United States	Rustam Kazakov   Soviet Union
62 kg	Hideo Fujimoto   Japan	Slavko Koletić   Yugoslavia	Georgi Markov   Bulgaria
68 kg	Roman Rurua   Soviet Union	Simion Popescu   Romania	Takashi Tanoue   Japan
74 kg	Viktor Igumenov   Soviet Union	Werner Schröter   West Germany	Petros Galaktopoulos   Greece
82 kg	Anatoly Nazarenko   Soviet Union	Petar Krumov   Bulgaria	Milan Nenadić   Yugoslavia
90 kg	Valery Rezantsev   Soviet Union	Czesław Kwieciński   Poland	Venko Tsintsarov   Bulgaria
100 kg	Pelle Svensson   Sweden	Ferenc Kiss   Hungary	Nikolay Yakovenko   Soviet Union
+100 kg	Anatoly Roshchin   Soviet Union	József Csatári   Hungary	Nicolae Martinescu   Romania

References

1. "75 Years FILA" (PDF). FILA. p. 56. Retrieved 18 April 2025.

External links

• UWW Database
• Page 30