1979 World Wrestling Championships

1979 World Championships
Host city	San Diego, United States
Dates	21–28 August
Stadium	San Diego State University
Champions
Freestyle	Soviet Union
Greco-Roman	Soviet Union

The 1979 World Wrestling Championships were held in San Diego, California, United States. As during the 1973 edition, the venue, San Diego State University Arena hosted the Pan American Sambo Championships very next day after the freestyle event finale.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	9	5	2	16
2	Hungary	4	1	0	5
3	Bulgaria	2	2	3	7
4	Japan	2	2	1	5
5	United States	1	5	4	10
6	Romania	1	0	2	3
7	Poland	1	0	1	2
	Sweden	1	0	1	2
9	East Germany	0	2	2	4
10	West Germany	0	1	3	4
11	Yugoslavia	0	1	0	1
12	Italy	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		21	19	20	60

Team ranking

Rank	Men's freestyle		Men's Greco-Roman
	Team	Points	Team	Points
1	Soviet Union	50	Soviet Union	43
2	United States	35	Hungary	30
3	East Germany	21	Bulgaria	27
4	Japan	19.25	United States	17
5	Bulgaria	19	West Germany	17
6	Poland	13.5	Romania	15

Medal summary

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Sergey Kornilaev   Soviet Union	Bobby Weaver   United States	Jan Falandys   Poland
52 kg	Yuji Takada   Japan	James Haines   United States	Hartmut Reich   East Germany
57 kg	Hideaki Tomiyama   Japan	Sergey Beloglazov   Soviet Union	Joe Corso   United States
62 kg	Vladimir Yumin   Soviet Union	Miho Dukov   Bulgaria	Andre Metzger   United States
68 kg	Mikhail Charachura   Soviet Union	Akira Miyahara   Japan	Eberhard Probst   East Germany
74 kg	Leroy Kemp   United States	Martin Knosp   West Germany	Nikolay Petrenko   Soviet Union
82 kg	István Kovács   Hungary	John Peterson   United States	Magomedkhan Aratsilov   Soviet Union
90 kg	Khasan Ortzev   Soviet Union	Uwe Neupert   East Germany	Ivan Ginov   Bulgaria
100 kg	Ilya Mate   Soviet Union	Russ Hellickson   United States	Vasile Pușcașu   Romania
+100 kg	Salman Khasimikov   Soviet Union	Roland Gehrke   East Germany	Andrei Ianko   Romania

Men's Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Constantin Alexandru   Romania	Aleksey Shumakov   Soviet Union	Pavel Hristov   Bulgaria
52 kg	Lajos Rácz   Hungary	Kamil Fatkulin   Soviet Union	Toshio Asakura   Japan
57 kg	Shamil Serikov   Soviet Union	Kiwamu Kashiwagi   Japan	Antonino Caltabiano   Italy
62 kg	István Tóth   Hungary	Abdurrahim Kuzu   United States	Lars Malmkvist   Sweden
68 kg	Andrzej Supron   Poland	Aleksandr Aliyev   Soviet Union	Erich Klaus   West Germany
74 kg	Yanko Shopov   Bulgaria	Shared gold	Karl-Heinz Helbing   West Germany
	Ferenc Kocsis   Hungary
82 kg	Gennady Korban   Soviet Union	Momir Petković   Yugoslavia	Pavel Pavlov   Bulgaria
90 kg	Frank Andersson   Sweden	Norbert Növényi   Hungary	Pedro Pawlidis   West Germany
100 kg	Nikolay Balboshin   Soviet Union	Georgi Raykov   Bulgaria	Brad Rheingans   United States
+100 kg	Aleksandar Tomov   Bulgaria	Aleksandr Kolchinsky   Soviet Union	Bob Walker   United States

References

• FILA Database
• Page 48–49