European wrestling championships 1947

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The European wrestling championships in 1947 were held in Prague . There was only one competition in the Greco-Roman style, held like last year in eight weight classes.

Results

class gold silver bronze
-52 kg SwedenSweden Bertil Sundin Egypt 1922Egypt Mohamed El Ward FinlandFinland Lennart Viitala
-57 kg Egypt 1922Egypt Ali Hassan NorwayNorway Reidar Merli SwedenSweden Lorentz Freij
-62 kg SwedenSweden Olle Anderberg Hungary 1946Hungary Ferenc Tóth CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Frantisek Kotrbaty
-67 kg SwedenSweden Gösta Jönsson-Frändfors Soviet Union 1923Soviet Union Armenak Yaltyrjan TurkeyTurkey Celal Atik
-73 kg TurkeyTurkey Yasar Dogu SwedenSweden Gosta Andersson Soviet Union 1923Soviet Union Nikolai Kocharsky
-79 kg Soviet Union 1923Soviet Union Nikolai Below TurkeyTurkey Muhlis Tayfur SwedenSweden Axel Groenberg
-87 kg Soviet Union 1923Soviet Union Konstantin Koberidze Hungary 1946Hungary Gyula Kovács SwedenSweden Karl-Johan Wong
+87 kg Soviet Union 1923Soviet Union Johannes Kotkas TurkeyTurkey Mustafa Çakmak FinlandFinland Pauli Riihimäki

Medal table

rank country gold silver bronze
1 SwedenSweden Sweden 3 1 3
2 Soviet Union 1923Soviet Union Soviet Union 3 1 1
3 TurkeyTurkey Turkey 1 2 1
4th Egypt 1922Egypt Egypt 1 1 0
5 Hungary 1946Hungary Hungary 0 2 0
6th FinlandFinland Finland 0 0 2