World Wrestling Championships 1978

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The Wrestling World Championships 1978 took place from August 20 to 27, 1978 in Mexico City . It was wrestled in both Greco-Roman and free styles . The wrestlers were divided into ten weight classes. The Soviet Union celebrated athletes on the podium in all 20 competitions.

Greco-Roman

The Greco-Roman style competitions took place from August 20 to 23, 1978. In addition to the medal winners Pasquale Passarelli came for Germany still Erich Klaus kg in fifth place in the weight category -68, Kurt Spaniol kg in fifth place in the weight category -82, Hans-Günter Klein kg in fifth place in the weight category -100 and Rolf Krauss sixth in the Weight class -52 kg under the best six. The GDR had with Dietmar Hinz kg in fifth place in the weight category -48 and Heinz-Helmut Wehling sixth in the weight category -68 kg two athletes among the top six.

Medalist

class gold silver bronze
-48 kg Romania 1965Romania Constantin Alexandru Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Alexei Shumakov Poland 1944Poland Roman Kierpacz
-52 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Vakhtang Blagidze Romania 1965Romania Nicu Gângă Greece 1975Greece Haralambos Holidis
-57 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Shamil Serikov Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Ivan Frgić Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany Pasquale Passarelli
-62 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Boris Kramarenko Poland 1944Poland Kazimierz Lipień SwedenSweden Lars Malmkvist
-68 kg Romania 1965Romania Ștefan Rusu Poland 1944Poland Andrzej Supron Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Alexander Aliyev
-74 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Arif Niftualew Hungary 1957Hungary Ferenc Kocsis Romania 1965Romania Gheorghe Ciobotaru
-82 kg Romania 1965Romania Ion Draica Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Momir Petković Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Vladimir Cheboksarov
-90 kg Bulgaria 1971Bulgaria Stoyan Nikolov SwedenSweden Frank Andersson Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Viktor Avdyshev
-100 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Nikolai Balboschin Bulgaria 1971Bulgaria Georgi Rajkov Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Refik Memišević
+100 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Oleksandr Kolchynskyi Bulgaria 1971Bulgaria Nikola Dinew Romania 1965Romania Roman Codreanu

Medal table

rank country gold silver bronze
1 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 6th 1 3
2 Romania 1965Romania Romania 3 1 2
3 Bulgaria 1971Bulgaria Bulgaria 1 2 0
4th Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Yugoslavia 0 2 1
Poland 1944Poland Poland 0 2 1
6th SwedenSweden Sweden 0 1 1
7th Hungary 1957Hungary Hungary 0 1 0
8th Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany BR Germany 0 0 1
Greece 1975Greece Greece 0 0 1

Freestyle

The freestyle competitions took place from August 24th to 27th, 1978. In addition to the medalist Adolf Seger , the German wrestler Peter Neumair placed fourth in the -90 kg weight class and Martin Knosp placed sixth in the -74 kg weight class among the top six.

Medalist

class gold silver bronze
-48 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Sergei Kornilayev JapanJapan Nobuo Fujisawa Iran 1964Iran Mohammad Bazamavar
-52 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Anatoly Beloglasov Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR Hartmut Reich CubaCuba Luis Ocaña Zulueta
-57 kg JapanJapan Hideaki Tomiyama Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Busay Ibragimov Mongolia People's Republic 1949Mongolian People's Republic Dugasuren Ouinbold
-62 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Vladimir Jumin Korea SouthSouth Korea Jung-Mo Yang Iran 1964Iran Mohammadreza Navaei
-68 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Pavel Pinigin JapanJapan Akira Miyahara Bulgaria 1971Bulgaria Ivan Jankov
-74 kg United StatesUnited States Leroy Kemp Iran 1964Iran Mohammad Mohebi Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Pyotr Marta
-82 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Magomed Arazilov Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany Adolf Seger United StatesUnited States John Peterson
-90 kg Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR Uwe Neupert Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Anatoly Prokopchuk TurkeyTurkey İsmail Temiz
-100 kg Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR Harald Buettner Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Levan Tediashvili CubaCuba Barbaro Morgan
+100 kg Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soslan Andiev Iran 1964Iran Reza Soukhtesaraei Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR Roland Gehrke

Medal table

rank country gold silver bronze
1 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 6th 3 1
2 Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR German Democratic Republic 2 1 1
3 JapanJapan Japan 1 2 0
4th United StatesUnited States United States 1 0 1
5 Iran 1964Iran Iran 0 2 2
6th Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany BR Germany 0 1 0
Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 0 1 0
8th CubaCuba Cuba 0 0 2
9 Bulgaria 1971Bulgaria Bulgaria 0 0 1
Mongolia People's Republic 1949Mongolian People's Republic Mongolia 0 0 1
TurkeyTurkey Turkey 0 0 1

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