European wrestling championships 1980

The Ringer's European Championships in 1980 were from April 20 until April 27 in Prievidza in Czechoslovakia held. Wrestling was in the styles Greco-Roman (Greco) and men's freestyle , with the European champions in ten weight classes being sought in both styles.

Greco-Roman, men

Results

Category up to 48 kg

space	country	athlete
1	Poland	Roman Kierpacz
2	Soviet Union	Saksylik Ushkempirow
3	Bulgaria	Totijo ​​Andonov
4th	BR Germany	Markus Scherer
5	Sweden	Frank Andersson
6th	Hungary	Ferenc Seres
10	GDR	Uwe Baumann

Defending champion: Constantin Alexandru , Romania
Defending champion Constantin Alexandru was only ninth.

Category up to 52 kg

space	country	athlete
1	Soviet Union	Vakhtang Blagidze
2	BR Germany	Rolf Krauss
3	Bulgaria	Mladen Mladenow
4th	Czechoslovakia	Antonín Jelínek
5	Romania	Nicu Gângă
6th	Poland	Leszek Majkowski
8th	GDR	Heiko Röll

Defending champion: Vakhtang Blagidze , USSR

Category up to 57 kg

space	country	athlete
1	Soviet Union	Vitaly Konstantinov
2	Sweden	Benni Ljungbeck
3	Belgium	Julien Mewis
4th	BR Germany	Pasquale Passarelli
5	Hungary	Árpád Sipos
6th	France	Michel Mercader

Defending champion: Shamil Serikov , USSR

Category up to 62 kg

space	country	athlete
1	Soviet Union	Nelson Dawidjan
2	Poland	Ryszard Swierad
3	Romania	Ion Păun
4th	Czechoslovakia	Michal Vejsada
5	Yugoslavia	Ivan Frgić
6th	Bulgaria	Panayot Kirov
10	BR Germany	Thomas Passarelli

Defending champion: Stylianos Migiakis , Greece
Defending champion Stylianos Migiakis finished seventh. Nelson Dawidjan from Kiev won the European Championship, the last major international triumph of his career. The 30-year-old won two world and two European championships and won the silver medal at the 1976 Olympic Games.

Category up to 68 kg

space	country	athlete
1	Romania	Ștefan Rusu
2	Soviet Union	Anatoly Kravchenko
3	Finland	Tapio Sipilä
4th	Bulgaria	Ivan Atanasov
5	Austria	Reinhard Hartmann
6th	GDR	Peter Thätner
6th	BR Germany	Erich Klaus

Defending champion: Ștefan Rusu , Romania
Rusu won the European Championship for the third time in a row.

Category up to 74 kg

space	country	athlete
1	Bulgaria	Nedko Nedew
2	Finland	Mikko Huhtala
3	Soviet Union	Vyacheslav Mkrychev
4th	BR Germany	Karl-Heinz Helbing
5	Hungary	Attila Nadasi
5	Romania	Gheorghe Ciobotaru
12	GDR	Ronald Schulz
12	Austria	Franz Ransmayr

Defending champion: Ferenc Kocsis , Hungary

Category up to 82 kg

space	country	athlete
1	Soviet Union	Gennady Korban
2	Sweden	Leif Andersson
3	Bulgaria	Pavel Pavlov
4th	GDR	Detlef Kühn
5	Yugoslavia	Karolj Kopas
6th	Romania	Ion Draica
9	Austria	Peter Danner
9	BR Germany	Kurt Spaniol

Defending champion: Ion Draica , Romania

Category up to 90 kg

space	country	athlete
1	Soviet Union	Igor Kanygin
2	Sweden	Frank Andersson
3	Bulgaria	Stoyan Nikolov
4th	Romania	Petre Dicu
5	Finland	Keijo Manni
6th	Hungary	Janos Fodor
11	BR Germany	Pedro Pavlidis
12	Austria	Franz Pitschmann

Defending champion: Frank Andersson , Sweden

Category up to 100 kg

space	country	athlete
1	Bulgaria	Georgi Rajkov
2	Romania	Vasile Andrei
3	Hungary	József Farkas
4th	Poland	Roman Bierła
5	BR Germany	Hans-Günter Klein
6th	Czechoslovakia	Oldřich Dvořák
6th	Denmark	Svend Studsgaard

Defending champion: Nikolai Balboschin , USSR

Category over 100 kg

space	country	athlete
1	Bulgaria	Nikola Dinew
2	Soviet Union	Evgeni Artjuchin
3	Yugoslavia	Prvoslav Ilic
4th	Romania	Roman Codreanu
5	Poland	Marek Galiński
5	Italy	Antonio La Penna

Defending champion:

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze	Fourth	fifth	Sixth
1	Soviet Union	5	3	1	0	0	0
2	Bulgaria	3	0	4th	1	0	1
3	Romania	1	1	1	2	2	1
4th	Poland	1	1	0	1	1	1
5	Sweden	0	3	0	0	1	0
6th	Finland	0	1	1	0	1	0
7th	BR Germany	0	1	0	3	1	0
8th	Hungary	0	0	1	0	2	2
9	Yugoslavia	0	0	1	0	2	0
10	Belgium	0	0	1	0	0	0
11	Czechoslovakia	0	0	0	2	0	1
12	GDR	0	0	0	1	0	1
13	Austria	0	0	0	0	1	0
	Italy	0	0	0	0	1	0
15th	Denmark	0	0	0	0	0	1
	France	0	0	0	0	0	1

Freestyle, men

Results

Category up to 48 kg

space	country	athlete
1	Bulgaria	Rumen Jordanow
2	Soviet Union	Arshak Sanonjan
3	Poland	Wladyslaw Olejnik
4th	Italy	Claudio Pollio
5	Hungary	Laszlo Rasovan
6th	Romania	Romica Rasovan
6th	Czechoslovakia	Jan Hribik
6th	Turkey	Ömer Sakizi

Defending champion: Arshak Sanonjan , USSR

Category up to 52 kg

space	country	athlete
1	Bulgaria	Nermedin Selimov
2	Soviet Union	Iragi Shugayev
3	Poland	Wladyslaw Stecyk
4th	Hungary	Lajos Szabo
5	BR Germany	Fritz Niebler
6th	Turkey	Aslan Seyhanlı

Defending champion: Iragi Zhugayev , USSR

Category up to 57 kg

space	country	athlete
1	Soviet Union	Gurgen Bagdassarjan
2	Bulgaria	Ivan Sochev
3	Romania	Aurel Neagu
4th	Hungary	Sándor Németh
5	GDR	Bernd Bobrich
5	Poland	Marian Skubacz
8th	BR Germany	Hans Partsch
10	Switzerland	Bruno Kuratli

Defending champion: Sergei Beloglasow , USSR

Category up to 62 kg

space	country	athlete
1	Soviet Union	Magomet-Gassan Abushev
2	Bulgaria	Simeon Schterew
3	Hungary	Zoltan Szalontai
4th	Poland	Jan Szymański
5	Greece	Georgios Chatziioannidis
6th	Italy	Gianfranco Piroddu
8th	GDR	Erhard Pocher
12	Switzerland	Rene Neyer

Defending champion: Miho Dukow , Bulgaria

Category up to 68 kg

space	country	athlete
1	Soviet Union	Saipulla Absaidov
2	Bulgaria	Ivan Jankov
3	Poland	Stanislaw Chilinski
4th	Romania	Octavian Dusa
5	Finland	Pekka Rauhala
6th	GDR	Eberhard Probst
7th	BR Germany	Michael Kühn
12	Austria	Hubert Brötzner

Defending champion: Nikolai Petrenko , USSR

Category up to 74 kg

space	country	athlete
1	BR Germany	Martin Bud
2	GDR	Reinhold stone graves
3	Soviet Union	Georgi Makasarishvili
4th	Czechoslovakia	Dan Karabín
5	Bulgaria	Alexander Nenew
6th	Poland	Ryszard Szygalski
9	Switzerland	Rüdi Marro
10	Austria	Bartholomäus Brötzner

Defending champion: Musan Abdul-Muslimow , USSR

Category up to 82 kg

space	country	athlete
1	Bulgaria	Ismail Abilov
2	Soviet Union	Georgi Kaloyev
3	Austria	Günter Bussarello
4th	Romania	Vasile Tigonas
5	GDR	Peter Syring
6th	Sweden	Sören Claesson
12	Switzerland	Jimmy Martinetti
12	BR Germany	Adolf Seger

Defending champion: Oleg Alexejew , USSR

Category up to 90 kg

space	country	athlete
1	Soviet Union	Oganes Oganesjan
2	GDR	Uwe Neupert
3	France	Christophe Andanson
4th	Bulgaria	Ivan Ginov
5	Poland	Aleksander Cichoń
6th	BR Germany	Peter Neumair

Defending champion: Uwe Neupert , GDR

Category up to 100 kg

space	country	athlete
1	Soviet Union	Magomed Magomedov
2	Bulgaria	Slavcho Chervenkov
3	GDR	Harald Buettner
4th	Turkey	Sitki Kadiroglu
5	Romania	Vasile Puşcaşu
6th	Czechoslovakia	Julius Strnisko

Defending champion: Ilya Mate , USSR

Category over 100 kg

space	country	athlete
1	Bulgaria	Peter Ivanov
2	Soviet Union	Salman Hassimikov
3	Poland	Adam Sandurski
4th	Hungary	József Balla
5	Romania	Andrei Ianko
6th	GDR	Roland Gehrke
6th	Czechoslovakia	Oldřich Vlasák
6th	Turkey	Alaettin Yildirim

Defending champion: Salman Chassimikov , USSR

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze	Fourth	fifth	Sixth
1	Soviet Union	5	4th	1	0	0	0
2	Bulgaria	4th	4th	0	1	1	0
3	BR Germany	1	0	0	0	1	1
4th	GDR	0	2	1	0	2	2
5	Poland	0	0	4th	1	2	1
6th	Hungary	0	0	1	3	1	0
7th	Romania	0	0	1	2	2	1
8th	France	0	0	1	0	0	0
	Austria	0	0	1	0	0	0
10	Czechoslovakia	0	0	0	1	0	3
	Turkey	0	0	0	1	0	3
12	Italy	0	0	0	1	0	1
13	Greece	0	0	0	0	1	0
	Finland	0	0	0	0	1	0
15th	Sweden	0	0	0	0	0	1

Medal table (both styles)

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze	Fourth	fifth	Sixth
1	Soviet Union	10	7th	2	0	0	0
2	Bulgaria	7th	4th	4th	2	1	1
3	Poland	1	1	4th	2	3	2
4th	Romania	1	1	2	4th	4th	1
5	BR Germany	1	1	0	3	2	1
6th	Sweden	0	3	0	0	1	1
7th	GDR	0	2	1	1	2	3
8th	Finland	0	1	1	0	2	0
9	Hungary	0	0	2	3	3	2
10	Yugoslavia	0	0	1	0	2	0
11	Austria	0	0	1	0	1	0
12	France	0	0	1	0	0	1
13	Belgium	0	0	1	0	1	0
14th	Czechoslovakia	0	0	0	3	0	4th
15th	Italy	0	0	0	1	1	1
16	Turkey	0	0	0	1	0	3
17th	Greece	0	0	0	0	1	0
18th	Denmark	0	0	0	0	0	1

See also

• 1980 Summer Olympics / Wrestling