World Wrestling Championships 1967
The wrestling world championships in 1967 took place separately in different locations according to style. The wrestlers were divided into eight weight classes.
Greco-Roman
The Greco-Roman style competitions took place from September 1st to 3rd, 1967 in Bucharest .
Medalist
class | gold | silver | bronze |
---|---|---|---|
-52 kg | Vladimir Bakulin | Cornel Turturea | Imre Alker |
-57 kg | Ion Baciu | Janos Varga | Tsutomu Hanahara |
-63 kg | Roman Rurua | Simion Popescu | Hideo Fujimoto |
-70 kg | Eero Tapio | Antal Steer | Vahap Pehlivan |
-78 kg | Viktor Igumenov | Rudolf Vesper | Jan Kårström |
-87 kg | László Sillai | Valentin Olenik | Wacław Orłowski |
-97 kg | Nikolai Yakovenko | Bojan Radew | Nicolae Martinescu |
+97 kg | István Kozma | Anatoly Roschtschin | Petr Kment |
Medal table
rank | country | gold | silver | bronze |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Soviet Union | 4th | 2 | 0 |
2 | Hungary | 2 | 2 | 1 |
3 | Romania | 1 | 2 | 1 |
4th | Finland | 1 | 0 | 0 |
5 | Bulgaria | 0 | 1 | 0 |
6th | German Democratic Republic | 0 | 1 | 0 |
7th | Japan | 0 | 0 | 2 |
8th | Poland | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Sweden | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Czechoslovakia | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Turkey | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Freestyle
The free style competitions were held from November 12-14, 1967 in New Delhi . The wrestlers from the Soviet Union secured medals in seven of the eight competitions. Only Nasar Albarjan could not place in the medal ranks with a fourth place in the weight class -52 kg.
Medalist
class | gold | silver | bronze |
---|---|---|---|
-52 kg | Shigeo Nakata | Richard Sanders | Jung-Yong Oh |
-57 kg | Ali Aliyev | Ali Singh | Aboutaleb Talebi |
-63 kg | Masaaki Kaneko | Elkan Tedeew | Michael Young |
-70 kg | Abdollah Movahed | Sarbeg Beriashvili | Enju Waltschew Dimov |
-78 kg | Daniel Robin | Guliko Sagaradze | Tatsuo Sasaki |
-87 kg | Boris Gurevich | Francisc Balla | Jigdzhidyn Monk Bath |
-97 kg | Ahmet Ayık | Shota Lomidze | Said Mustafow |
+97 kg | Alexander Medved | Osman Duraliew | Larry Kristoff |
Medal table
rank | country | gold | silver | bronze |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Soviet Union | 3 | 4th | 0 |
2 | Japan | 2 | 0 | 1 |
3 | Iran | 1 | 0 | 1 |
4th | Turkey | 1 | 0 | 0 |
5 | France | 1 | 0 | 0 |
6th | Bulgaria | 0 | 1 | 2 |
United States | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
8th | India | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Romania | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
10 | South Korea | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Mongolia | 0 | 0 | 1 |