European wrestling championships 1968
The 1968 European wrestling championships took place in June in Greco-Roman style in Västerås, Sweden, and in July in freestyle in Skopje in what was then Yugoslavia. The Summer Olympics in Mexico took place in October that same year.
1968 was the last time wrestling in eight weight classes at the European wrestling championships . In 1969 two more weight classes were introduced. In 1997 the weight class system was changed back to eight classes.
Greco-Roman
Results
class | gold | silver | bronze |
---|---|---|---|
-52 kg | Ivan Kochergin | Petar Kirov | Jussi Vesterinen |
-57 kg | Christo Traikow | Janos Varga | Risto Björlin |
-63 kg | Yuri Grigoryev | Jiří Švec | Ilhan Topsakal |
-70 kg | Vladimir Novochato | Matti Poikala | Antal Steer |
-78 kg | Sırrı Acar | Milan Nenadić | Vladislav Ivlev |
-87 kg | Omar Bliadse | Petar Krumov | Jiří Kormaník |
-97 kg | Ferenc Kiss | Bojan Radew | Per Svensson |
+97 kg | Petr Kment | István Kozma | Ragnar Svensson |
Medal table (Greco-Roman)
rank | country | gold | silver | bronze |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Soviet Union | 4th | 0 | 1 |
2 | Bulgaria | 1 | 3 | 0 |
3 | Hungary | 1 | 2 | 1 |
4th | Czechoslovakia | 1 | 1 | 1 |
5 | Turkey | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Four wrestlers from the GDR achieved placements among the top six: Klaus Pohl was fourth in the class up to 70 kg, Rudolf Vesper up to 78 kg, fifth, Jürgen Klinge up to 97 kg and Roland Bock fifth in the class over 97 kg.
The best wrestler from West Germany was Heinz Kiehl with his sixth place in the class up to 97 kg.
Freestyle
Results
class | gold | silver | bronze |
---|---|---|---|
-52 kg | Baju Baew | Paul Neff | Mehmet Esenceli |
-57 kg | Ali Aliyev | Ivan Shavov | Zbigniew Żedzicki |
-63 kg | Enju Todorov | Petre Coman | Hans-Jürgen Luczak |
-70 kg | Enju Waltschew Dimov | Yuri Gussow | Jan Karlsson |
-78 kg | Daniel Robin | Károly Bajkó | Guliko Sagaradze |
-87 kg | Andrei Chovrebow | Prodan Gardschew | Francisc Balla |
-97 kg | Vladimir Gulyutkin | Wasil Todorov | Ryszard Dlugosz |
+97 kg | Alexander Medved | Osman Duraliew | László Nyers |
Medal Tally (Freestyle)
rank | country | gold | silver | bronze |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Soviet Union | 4th | 1 | 1 |
2 | Bulgaria | 3 | 4th | 0 |
3 | France | 1 | 0 | 0 |
4th | Hungary | 0 | 1 | 1 |
5 | Romania | 0 | 1 | 1 |
6th | BR Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 |
8th | Turkey | 0 | 0 | 1 |
German Democratic Republic | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Sweden | 0 | 0 | 1 |
For the GDR, Horst Mayer (5th place, up to 57 kg), Martin Heinze (5th place, up to 78 kg), Peter Döring (4th place, up to 87 kg) and Roland Bock (6th place, over 97 kg) were below the first six.