European wrestling championships 1968

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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 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Ivan Kochergin Bulgaria 1967Bulgaria Petar Kirov FinlandFinland Jussi Vesterinen
-57 kg Bulgaria 1967Bulgaria Christo Traikow Hungary 1957Hungary Janos Varga FinlandFinland Risto Björlin
-63 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Yuri Grigoryev CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Jiří Švec TurkeyTurkey Ilhan Topsakal
-70 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Vladimir Novochato SwedenSweden Matti Poikala Hungary 1957Hungary Antal Steer
-78 kg TurkeyTurkey Sırrı Acar Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Milan Nenadić Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Vladislav Ivlev
-87 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Omar Bliadse Bulgaria 1967Bulgaria Petar Krumov CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Jiří Kormaník
-97 kg Hungary 1957Hungary Ferenc Kiss Bulgaria 1967Bulgaria Bojan Radew SwedenSweden Per Svensson
+97 kg CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Petr Kment Hungary 1957Hungary István Kozma SwedenSweden Ragnar Svensson

Medal table (Greco-Roman)

rank country gold silver bronze
1 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 4th 0 1
2 Bulgaria 1967Bulgaria Bulgaria 1 3 0
3 Hungary 1957Hungary Hungary 1 2 1
4th CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 1 1 1
5 TurkeyTurkey 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 Bulgaria 1967Bulgaria Baju Baew Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany Paul Neff TurkeyTurkey Mehmet Esenceli
-57 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Ali Aliyev Bulgaria 1967Bulgaria Ivan Shavov Poland 1944Poland Zbigniew Żedzicki
-63 kg Bulgaria 1967Bulgaria Enju Todorov Romania 1965Romania Petre Coman Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR Hans-Jürgen Luczak
-70 kg Bulgaria 1967Bulgaria Enju Waltschew Dimov Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Yuri Gussow SwedenSweden Jan Karlsson
-78 kg FranceFrance Daniel Robin Hungary 1957Hungary Károly Bajkó Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Guliko Sagaradze
-87 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Andrei Chovrebow Bulgaria 1967Bulgaria Prodan Gardschew Romania 1965Romania Francisc Balla
-97 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Vladimir Gulyutkin Bulgaria 1967Bulgaria Wasil Todorov Poland 1944Poland Ryszard Dlugosz
+97 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Alexander Medved Bulgaria 1967Bulgaria Osman Duraliew Hungary 1957Hungary László Nyers

Medal Tally (Freestyle)

rank country gold silver bronze
1 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 4th 1 1
2 Bulgaria 1967Bulgaria Bulgaria 3 4th 0
3 FranceFrance France 1 0 0
4th Hungary 1957Hungary Hungary 0 1 1
5 Romania 1965Romania Romania 0 1 1
6th Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany BR Germany 0 1 0
8th TurkeyTurkey Turkey 0 0 1
Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR German Democratic Republic 0 0 1
SwedenSweden 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.