1972 European Wrestling Championships

1972 European Wrestling Championships
Host city	Poland , Katowice
Dates	24 – 30 May 1972
Stadium	Spodek Arena
Champions
Freestyle	Soviet Union
Greco-Roman	Soviet Union
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The 1972 European Wrestling Championships was held from 24 to 30 May 1972 in Katowice, Poland. ^{[1] [2]}

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	9	6	1	16
2	Bulgaria	5	7	3	15
3	Romania	1	2	6	9
4	Poland	1	1	4	6
5	East Germany	1	1	2	4
6	Turkey	1	1	0	2
7	Greece	1	0	0	1
	West Germany	1	0	0	1
9	Finland	0	1	0	1
	Hungary	0	1	0	1
11	Czechoslovakia	0	0	2	2
	Yugoslavia	0	0	2	2
Totals (12 entries)		20	20	20	60

Medal summary

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Sefer Baygın   Turkey	Jürgen Möbius   East Germany	Ognyan Nikolov   Bulgaria
52 kg	Arsen Alakhverdiyev   Soviet Union	Bayu Baev   Bulgaria	Emil Butu   Romania
57 kg	Ivan Kuleshov   Soviet Union	Ivan Shavov   Bulgaria	Zbigniew Żedzicki   Poland
62 kg	Ruslan Pliyev   Soviet Union	Mehmet Sarı   Turkey	Petre Coman   Romania
68 kg	Ismail Yuseinov   Bulgaria	Petre Poalelungi   Romania	Šefer Saliovski   Yugoslavia
74 kg	Adolf Seger   West Germany	Roman Marsaguishvili   Soviet Union	Yancho Pavlov   Bulgaria
82 kg	Vasili Siulzhin   Soviet Union	Ivan Iliev   Bulgaria	Wolfgang Nitschke   East Germany
90 kg	Gennady Strakhov   Soviet Union	Rusi Petrov   Bulgaria	Paweł Kurczewski   Poland
100 kg	Ivan Yarygin   Soviet Union	Vasil Todorov   Bulgaria	Gerd Bachmann   East Germany
+100 kg	Aleksandr Medved   Soviet Union	Osman Duraliev   Bulgaria	Ștefan Stîngu   Romania

Men's Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Gheorghe Berceanu   Romania	Stefan Angelov   Bulgaria	Vladimir Zubkov   Soviet Union
52 kg	Jan Michalik   Poland	Vitaly Konstantinov   Soviet Union	Petar Kirov   Bulgaria
57 kg	Jristo Traikov   Bulgaria	Yuri Sokolov   Soviet Union	Ion Baciu   Romania
62 kg	Georgi Markov   Bulgaria	Martti Laakso   Finland	Kazimierz Lipień   Poland
68 kg	Jürgen Hähnel   East Germany	Antal Steer   Hungary	Andrzej Supron   Poland
74 kg	Petros Galaktopoulos   Greece	Kasim Djalilov   Soviet Union	Vítězslav Mácha   Czechoslovakia
82 kg	Anatoly Nazarenko   Soviet Union	Ion Gabor   Romania	Miroslav Janota   Czechoslovakia
90 kg	Stoyan Nikolov   Bulgaria	Omar Bliadze   Soviet Union	Darko Nišavić   Yugoslavia
100 kg	Nikolay Yakovenko   Soviet Union	Nicolae Martinescu   Romania	Andrzej Skrzydlewski   Poland
+100 kg	Aleksandar Tomov   Bulgaria	Anatoly Kochnev   Soviet Union	Victor Dolipschi   Romania

References

1. "International Wrestling Database".
2. "Athletes & Results".

External links

• Fila's official championship website