World Wrestling Championships 1974
The 1974 wrestling world championships took place in different locations, separated by style. The wrestlers were divided into ten weight classes.
Greco-Roman
The Greco-Roman style competitions took place in Katowice from October 10-13, 1974 . The Soviet Union was able to celebrate athletes on the podium in all 10 competitions. The best Germans were Hans-Jürgen Veil in the -57 kg weight class and Lorenz Hecher in the +100 kg weight class, both of whom took fourth place.
Medalist
class | gold | silver | bronze |
---|---|---|---|
-48 kg | Vladimir Subkov | Constantin Alexandru | Georgi Georgiev |
-52 kg | Petar Kirov | Valery Arutjunov | Nicu Gângă |
-57 kg | Farchat Mustafin | Józef Lipień | Ivan Frgić |
-62 kg | Kazimierz Lipień | Anatoly Kawkayev | László Réczi |
-68 kg | Nelson Dawidjan | Heinz-Helmut Wehling | Andrzej Supron |
-74 kg | Vítězslav Mácha | Klaus-Peter Göpfert | Iossif Berishvili |
-82 kg | Anatoly Nasarenko | Dimitar Ivanov | Ion enache |
-90 kg | Valery Resanzew | Stoyan Nikolov | Dumitru Manea |
-100 kg | Nikolai Balboschin | Came Losanov Goranov | Nicolae Martinescu |
+100 kg | Alexandar Tomov | Shota Morschiladze | János Rovnyai |
Medal table
rank | country | gold | silver | bronze |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Soviet Union | 6th | 3 | 1 |
2 | Bulgaria | 2 | 3 | 1 |
3 | Poland | 1 | 1 | 1 |
4th | Czechoslovakia | 1 | 0 | 0 |
5 | German Democratic Republic | 0 | 2 | 0 |
6th | Romania | 0 | 1 | 4th |
7th | Hungary | 0 | 0 | 2 |
8th | Yugoslavia | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Freestyle
The free style competitions were held in Istanbul from August 29 to September 1, 1974 . The wrestlers from the Soviet Union secured medals in nine of the ten competitions. Only Batal Gadschijew could not place himself on the medal ranks with a fifth place in the weight class -62 kg. The best German wrestlers were the two fourth-placed Eduard Giray in the -62 kg weight class and Adolf Seger in the -74 kg weight class. In addition, Heinz Eichelbaum came in fifth in the +100 kg weight class, still in the top six.
Medalist
class | gold | silver | bronze |
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-48 kg | Hassan Issaew | Rafik Gajiev | Gordon Bertie |
-52 kg | Yūji Takada | Ali Rıza Alan | Roman Dimitriev |
-57 kg | Vladimir Jumin | Ramezan Kheder | Hans-Dieter Brüchert |
-62 kg | Dzewegiin Oidow | Docho Shekov | Vehbi Akdağ |
-68 kg | Nasrula Nasrualayev | Yasaburo Sugawara | Tsedendambyn Natsagdordsch |
-74 kg | Ruslan Ashuraliev | Jantscho Pavlov | Victor Zilberman |
-82 kg | Viktor Novoshilov | Mehmet Uzun | Vasile Iorga |
-90 kg | Levan Tediashvili | Ismail Abilov | Mehmet Güçlü |
-100 kg | Ivan Jarygin | Chorloogiin bayan monk | Harald Buettner |
+100 kg | Ladislau Șimon | Soslan Andiev | Bojan Boew |
Medal table
rank | country | gold | silver | bronze |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Soviet Union | 6th | 2 | 1 |
2 | Bulgaria | 1 | 3 | 1 |
3 | Mongolia | 1 | 1 | 1 |
4th | Japan | 1 | 1 | 0 |
5 | Romania | 1 | 0 | 1 |
6th | Turkey | 0 | 2 | 2 |
7th | Iran | 0 | 1 | 0 |
8th | German Democratic Republic | 0 | 0 | 2 |
9 | Israel | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Canada | 0 | 0 | 1 |