1981 World Wrestling Championships

1981 World Wrestling Championships
Freestyle
Host city	Skopje, Yugoslavia
Dates	11–13 September 1981
Greco-Roman
Host city	Oslo, Norway
Dates	28–30 August 1981
Champions
Freestyle	Soviet Union
Greco-Roman	Soviet Union
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The following is the final results of the 1981 World Wrestling Championships . Freestyle competition were held in Skopje, Yugoslavia (present-day North Macedonia) and Greco-Roman competition were held in Oslo, Norway. ^[1]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	12	0	4	16
2	West Germany	2	0	0	2
3	Bulgaria	1	5	1	7
4	Yugoslavia	1	2	1	4
5	Japan	1	1	2	4
	United States	1	1	2	4
7	East Germany	1	1	1	3
	Hungary	1	1	1	3
9	Finland	0	2	2	4
	Poland	0	2	2	4
11	Czechoslovakia	0	1	0	1
	Iran	0	1	0	1
	South Korea	0	1	0	1
	Sweden	0	1	0	1
	Turkey	0	1	0	1
16	Romania	0	0	2	2
17	Austria	0	0	1	1
	Mongolia	0	0	1	1
Totals (18 entries)		20	20	20	60

Team ranking

Rank	Men's freestyle		Men's Greco-Roman
	Team	Points	Team	Points
1	Soviet Union	42	Soviet Union	49
2	Bulgaria	33	Hungary	23
3	United States	28	Finland	21
4	East Germany	17	Bulgaria	18
5	Iran	17	Poland	17
6	Japan	15	Yugoslavia	15

Medal summary

Freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Sergey Kornilaev   Soviet Union	Son Gab-do   South Korea	William Rosado   United States
52 kg	Toshio Asakura   Japan	Hartmut Reich   East Germany	Nanzadyn Büregdaa   Mongolia
57 kg	Sergey Beloglazov   Soviet Union	Stefan Ivanov   Bulgaria	Hideaki Tomiyama   Japan
62 kg	Simeon Shterev   Bulgaria	Marian Skubacz   Poland	Viktor Alekseev   Soviet Union
68 kg	Saypulla Absaidov   Soviet Union	Šaban Sejdiu   Yugoslavia	Kamen Penev   Bulgaria
74 kg	Martin Knosp   West Germany	Valentin Raychev   Bulgaria	Leroy Kemp   United States
82 kg	Chris Campbell   United States	Efraim Kamberov   Bulgaria	Grigory Danko   Soviet Union
90 kg	Sanasar Oganisyan   Soviet Union	Ivan Ginov   Bulgaria	Uwe Neupert   East Germany
100 kg	Roland Gehrke   East Germany	Greg Gibson   United States	Ilya Mate   Soviet Union
+100 kg	Salman Khasimikov   Soviet Union	Reza Soukhtehsaraei   Iran	Adam Sandurski   Poland

Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Zhaksylyk Ushkempirov   Soviet Union	Salih Bora   Turkey	Fumikazu Sasaki   Japan
52 kg	Vakhtang Blagidze   Soviet Union	Atsuji Miyahara   Japan	Lajos Rácz   Hungary
57 kg	Pasquale Passarelli   West Germany	Josef Krysta   Czechoslovakia	Ilpo Seppälä   Finland
62 kg	István Tóth   Hungary	Ryszard Świerad   Poland	Pertti Ukkola   Finland
68 kg	Gennady Ermilov   Soviet Union	Tapio Sipilä   Finland	Ștefan Rusu   Romania
74 kg	Aleksandr Kudryavtsev   Soviet Union	Mikko Huhtala   Finland	Karolj Kasap   Yugoslavia
82 kg	Gennady Korban   Soviet Union	Momir Petković   Yugoslavia	Ion Draica   Romania
90 kg	Igor Kanygin   Soviet Union	Frank Andersson   Sweden	Franz Pitschmann   Austria
100 kg	Mikhail Saladze   Soviet Union	Tamás Gáspár   Hungary	Roman Wrocławski   Poland
+100 kg	Refik Memišević   Yugoslavia	Nikola Dinev   Bulgaria	Evgeny Artyukhin   Soviet Union

References

1. "75 Years FILA" (PDF). FILA. p. 56. Retrieved 19 April 2025.

External links

• UWW Database