World Wrestling Championships 1966

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The 1966 World Wrestling Championships took place in Toledo from June 16-22, 1966 . It was wrestled in both Greco-Roman and free styles . The wrestlers were divided into eight weight classes.

Greco-Roman

The Greco-Roman style competitions took place from June 20-22, 1966. The wrestlers from the Soviet Union secured medals in seven of the eight competitions. Only Wladlen Trostjanski could not place himself on the medal ranks with a fifth place in the weight class -57 kg.

Medalist

class gold silver bronze
-52 kg Bulgaria 1948Bulgaria Angel Keresow Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Sergei Rybalko Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany Rolf Lacour
-57 kg Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany Fritz Stange JapanJapan Kōji Sakurama TurkeyTurkey Uenver Besergil
-63 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Roman Rurua SwedenSweden Leif Freij Iran 1964Iran Iraj Khorshidfar
-70 kg Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Stevan Horvat Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Gennady Sapunov FinlandFinland Eero Tapio
-78 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Viktor Igumenov Romania 1965Romania Florea Ciorcilă Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany Peter Nettekoven
-87 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Valentin Olenik TurkeyTurkey Tevfik Kış AustriaAustria Franz Potsch
-97 kg Bulgaria 1948Bulgaria Bojan Radew Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Valery Anissimov Romania 1965Romania Nicolae Martinescu
+97 kg Hungary 1957Hungary István Kozma Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Nikolai Shmakov CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Petr Kment

Medal table

rank country gold silver bronze
1 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 3 4th 0
2 Bulgaria 1948Bulgaria Bulgaria 2 0 0
3 Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany BR Germany 1 0 2
4th Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Yugoslavia 1 0 0
Hungary 1957Hungary Hungary 1 0 0
6th Romania 1965Romania Romania 0 1 1
TurkeyTurkey Turkey 0 1 1
8th JapanJapan Japan 0 1 0
SwedenSweden Sweden 0 1 0
10 FinlandFinland Finland 0 0 1
Iran 1964Iran Iran 0 0 1
AustriaAustria Austria 0 0 1
CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 0 0 1

Freestyle

The freestyle competitions took place from June 16-18, 1966.

Medalist

class gold silver bronze
-52 kg Korea SouthSouth Korea Chang-Sun Chang JapanJapan Yasuo Katsumura United StatesUnited States Richard Sanders
-57 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Ali Aliyev TurkeyTurkey Hasan Sevinc Iran 1964Iran Aboutaleb Talebi
-63 kg JapanJapan Masaaki Kaneko United StatesUnited States Bobby Douglas TurkeyTurkey Nihat Kabanli
-70 kg Iran 1964Iran Abdollah Movahed JapanJapan Iwao Horiuchi TurkeyTurkey Seyit Ahmet Ağralı
-78 kg TurkeyTurkey Mahmut Atalay Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Guliko Sagaradze Iran 1964Iran Hassan Tahami
-87 kg Bulgaria 1948Bulgaria Prodan Gardschew TurkeyTurkey Hasan Güngör CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Josef Urban
-97 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Alexander Medved TurkeyTurkey Ahmet Ayık Bulgaria 1948Bulgaria Said Mustafow
+97 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Alexander Ivanitsky United StatesUnited States Larry Kristoff Iran 1964Iran Mohamed Anvari

Medal table

rank country gold silver bronze
1 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 3 1 0
2 TurkeyTurkey Turkey 1 3 2
3 JapanJapan Japan 1 2 0
4th Iran 1964Iran Iran 1 0 3
5 Bulgaria 1948Bulgaria Bulgaria 1 0 1
6th Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 1 0 0
7th United StatesUnited States United States 0 2 1
8th CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 0 0 1

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