European wrestling championships 1969

The European wrestling championships in 1969 were held in Greco-Roman style in June in Modena, Italy and in September in Sofia, Bulgaria, in freestyle.

Greco-Roman

The Greco-Roman style tournament in Modena was held without the participation of wrestlers from the Eastern Bloc countries. The Italian organizers did not want to fly the flag of the GDR, so the GDR, the USSR, Hungary and other countries stayed away from the tournament.

Results

class	gold	silver	bronze
-48 kg	Rolf Lacour	Lorenzo Calafiore	Muzaffer Can
-52 kg	Boski Marinko	Sefik Namli	Fritz Huber
-57 kg	Risto Björlin	Karlo Covic	Giuseppe Bognanni
-62 kg	Metin Alakoc	Werner Hettich	Michele Toma
-68 kg	Sreten Damjanović	Vahap Pehlivan	Matti Poikala
-74 kg	Eero Tapio	Momir Kecman	Jan Karlsson
-82 kg	Milan Nenadić	Jan Kårström	Matti Laakso
-90 kg	Josip Čorak	Gates Hem	Roland Andersson
-100 kg	Per Svensson	Aimo Muchtenpää	Alfons Hecher
+100 kg	Ömer Topuz	Arne Robertsson	Giuseppe Marcucci

Medal table (Greco-Roman)

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Yugoslavia	4th	2	0
2	Turkey	2	2	1
3	Finland	2	1	1
4th	Sweden	1	2	3
5	BR Germany	1	1	2

Freestyle

Results

class	gold	silver	bronze
-48 kg	Roman Dmitriev	Ognyan Nikolov	Sefer Baygin
-52 kg	Baju Baew	Aminula Nasrulayev	Petre Ciarnau
-57 kg	Jancho Patrikow	Pavel Maljan	Mehmet Esenceli
-62 kg	Enju Todorov	Petre Coman	Sagalaw Abdulbekow
-68 kg	Enju Waltschew-Dimov	Nodar Kokashvili	Joseph Engel
-74 kg	Yuri Gusow	Wolfgang Nitschke	Adolf Seger
-82 kg	Yuri Shachmuradov	Károly Bajkó	Ivan Iliev
-90 kg	Gennady Strachow	Attila Balogh	Roland Andersson
-100 kg	Vladimir Gulyutkin	Wasil Todorov	Peter Germer
+100 kg	Shota Lomidze	Osman Duraliew	Ömer Topuz

Medal Tally (Freestyle)

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Soviet Union	6th	3	1
2	Bulgaria	4th	3	1
3	Romania	0	2	1
4th	German Democratic Republic	0	1	1
5	Hungary	0	1	0
6th	Turkey	0	0	3
7th	BR Germany	0	0	1
	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1
	Sweden	0	0	1

Worth mentioning

The Luxembourg Josef dim finished fourth in the super heavyweight Greco-Roman style. Schummer is so far the only male wrestler for Luxembourg.