1971 World Wrestling Championships

1971 World Championships
Host city	Sofia, Bulgaria
Dates	27 August – 5 September
Champions
Freestyle	Soviet Union
Greco-Roman	Bulgaria

The 1971 World Wrestling Championships were held in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	9	3	1	13
2	Bulgaria	4	4	6	14
3	Iran	2	2	0	4
4	United States	1	1	1	3
5	Yugoslavia	1	1	0	2
6	Japan	1	0	3	4
7	Hungary	1	0	2	3
8	Sweden	1	0	0	1
9	Romania	0	2	2	4
10	East Germany	0	2	1	3
	Mongolia	0	2	1	3
	Poland	0	2	1	3
13	Turkey	0	1	0	1
14	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
	Greece	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 entries)		20	20	20	60

Team ranking

Rank	Men's freestyle		Men's Greco-Roman
	Team	Points	Team	Points
1	Soviet Union	42.5	Bulgaria	46
2	Iran	31	Soviet Union	39.5
3	Bulgaria	31	Hungary	23
4	Japan	20	Yugoslavia	18
5	Mongolia	19.5	Romania	16
6	United States	19	Poland	14.5

Medal summary

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Ebrahim Javadi   Iran	Bazarragchaagiin Jamsran   Mongolia	Ognyan Nikolov   Bulgaria
52 kg	Mohammad Ghorbani   Iran	Bayu Baev   Bulgaria	Aminulla Nasrullayev   Soviet Union
57 kg	Hideaki Yanagida   Japan	Donald Behm   United States	Megdiin Khoilogdorj   Mongolia
62 kg	Zagalav Abdulbekov   Soviet Union	Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi   Iran	Kiyoshi Abe   Japan
68 kg	Dan Gable   United States	Vasily Kazakov   Soviet Union	Ismail Yuseinov   Bulgaria
74 kg	Yury Gusov   Soviet Union	Mohammad Farhangdoust   Iran	Ludovic Ambruș   Romania
82 kg	Levan Tediashvili   Soviet Union	Horst Stottmeister   East Germany	Vasile Iorga   Romania
90 kg	Rusi Petrov   Bulgaria	Paweł Kurczewski   Poland	Russ Hellickson   United States
100 kg	Shota Lomidze   Soviet Union	Khorloogiin Bayanmönkh   Mongolia	Vasil Todorov   Bulgaria
+100 kg	Aleksandr Medved   Soviet Union	Osman Duraliev   Bulgaria	Stanisław Makowiecki   Poland

Men's Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Vladimir Zubkov   Soviet Union	Hızır Sarı   Turkey	Stefan Angelov   Bulgaria
52 kg	Petar Kirov   Bulgaria	Gheorghe Stoiciu   Romania	József Doncsecz   Hungary
57 kg	Rustam Kazakov   Soviet Union	Hristo Traykov   Bulgaria	János Varga   Hungary
62 kg	Georgi Markov   Bulgaria	Kazimierz Lipień   Poland	Hideo Fujimoto   Japan
68 kg	Sreten Damjanović   Yugoslavia	Klaus-Peter Göpfert   East Germany	Takashi Tanoue   Japan
74 kg	Viktor Igumenov   Soviet Union	Momir Kecman   Yugoslavia	Petros Galaktopoulos   Greece
82 kg	Csaba Hegedűs   Hungary	Anatoly Nazarenko   Soviet Union	Kiril Dimitrov   Bulgaria
90 kg	Valery Rezantsev   Soviet Union	Stoyan Nikolov   Bulgaria	Lothar Metz   East Germany
100 kg	Pelle Svensson   Sweden	Nicolae Martinescu   Romania	Marin Kolev   Bulgaria
+100 kg	Aleksandar Tomov   Bulgaria	Anatoly Roshchin   Soviet Union	Petr Kment   Czechoslovakia

References

• FILA Database