World Wrestling Championships 1969

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The World Wrestling Championships 1969 took place from March 3 to 10, 1969 in Mar del Plata . It was wrestled in both Greco-Roman and free styles . The wrestlers were divided into ten weight classes for the first time at world championships .

Greco-Roman

The Greco-Roman style competitions took place from March 3rd to 5th, 1969. The Soviet Union was able to celebrate athletes on the podium in all 10 competitions. The best Swiss was Siegfried Hell with a 6th place in the weight class -100 kg.

Medalist

class gold silver bronze
-48 kg Romania 1965Romania Gheorghe Berceanu Iran 1964Iran Rahim Aliabadi Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Wladislaw Kustow
-52 kg Iran 1964Iran Firouz Arlouzadeh Romania 1965Romania Cornel Turtrea Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Ivan Michailischin
-57 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Rustem Kazakov Korea SouthSouth Korea Young An Chang United StatesUnited States David Hazewinkel
-62 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Roman Rurua SwedenSweden Roland Svensson FinlandFinland Martti Laakso
-68 kg Romania 1965Romania Simion Popescu Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Sreten Damjanović Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Yuri Grigoryev
-74 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Viktor Igumenov FinlandFinland Eero Tapio SwedenSweden Matti Poikala
-82 kg Bulgaria 1967Bulgaria Petar Krumov Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Omar Bliadse Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Milan Nenadić
-90 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Alexander Yurkevich Bulgaria 1967Bulgaria Venko Tsintsarov Romania 1965Romania Nicolae Neguț
-100 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Nikolai Ivanovich Jakowenko Bulgaria 1967Bulgaria Stefan Petrow SwedenSweden Lennart Eriksson
+100 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Anatoly Roschtschin Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany Wilfried Dietrich Bulgaria 1967Bulgaria Petar Donew

Medal table

rank country gold silver bronze
1 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 6th 1 3
2 Romania 1965Romania Romania 2 1 1
3 Bulgaria 1967Bulgaria Bulgaria 1 2 1
4th Iran 1964Iran Iran 1 1 0
5 SwedenSweden Sweden 0 1 2
6th FinlandFinland Finland 0 1 1
Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Yugoslavia 0 1 1
8th Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany BR Germany 0 1 0
Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 0 1 0
10 United StatesUnited States United States 0 0 1

Freestyle

The freestyle competitions took place from March 8 to March 10, 1969. The best Swiss was Peter Jutzeler in fourth place in the -100 kg weight class. The best Germans were Rolf Lacour , Paul Neff , Werner Hettich and Adolf Seger , all of whom took 5th place in their weight class.

Medalist

class gold silver bronze
-48 kg Iran 1964Iran Ibrahim Javadi Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Roman Dmitriev JapanJapan Akihiko Umeda
-52 kg United StatesUnited States Richard Sanders Iran 1964Iran Mohammad Ghorbani Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Tariel Alibegashvili
-57 kg JapanJapan Tadamachi Tanaka United StatesUnited States Donald Behm Iran 1964Iran Aboutaleb Talebi
-62 kg JapanJapan Tekeo Morita Iran 1964Iran Shamseddin Seyed Abbasi Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Sagalw Abdulbekow
-68 kg Iran 1964Iran Abdollah Movahed Bulgaria 1967Bulgaria Enju Waltschew Dimov Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Nodar Hohashvili
-74 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Sarbeg Beriashvili United StatesUnited States Wayne Wells JapanJapan Seiji Yamagata
-82 kg United StatesUnited States Fred Fozzard JapanJapan Nojiri Shuichi Iran 1964Iran Majid Kazemi
-90 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Boris Gurevich Bulgaria 1967Bulgaria Russi Petrov United StatesUnited States Henk Schenk
-100 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Shota Lomidze United StatesUnited States Larry Kristoff Bulgaria 1967Bulgaria Wassil Todorow
+100 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Alexander Medved Bulgaria 1967Bulgaria Osman Duraliew Iran 1964Iran Abolfazl Anvari

Medal table

rank country gold silver bronze
1 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 4th 1 3
2 United StatesUnited States United States 2 3 1
3 Iran 1964Iran Iran 2 2 3
4th JapanJapan Japan 2 1 2
5 Bulgaria 1967Bulgaria Bulgaria 0 3 1

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