World Wrestling Championships 1979

The 1979 World Wrestling Championships were held from August 21 to 28, 1979 in San Diego . It was wrestled in both Greco-Roman and free styles . The wrestlers were divided into ten weight classes.

Greco-Roman

The Greco-Roman style competitions took place from August 21 to 24, 1979. There were two world champions in the -74 kg weight class: Ferenc Kocsis from Hungary and the Bulgarian Janko Schopow shared first place. Both wrestlers had previously been disqualified for being passive. Silver was not awarded in this weight class. In addition to the three bronze medal winners, two other Germans made it into the top six. In the -57 kg weight class, Pasquale Passarelli came fourth and Rolf Krauss came fifth in the -52 kg weight class.

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-48 kg	Constantin Alexandru	Alexei Shumakov	Pavel Christov
-52 kg	Lajos Rácz	Kamil Fatkulin	Toshio Asakura
-57 kg	Shamil Serikov	Kivamu Kashiwagi	Antonio Caltabiano
-62 kg	István Tóth	Abdurrahim Kuzu	Lars Malmkvist
-68 kg	Andrzej Supron	Alexander Aliyev	Erich Klaus
-74 kg	Janko Schopow Ferenc Kocsis		Karl-Heinz Helbing
-82 kg	Gennady Korban	Momir Petković	Pavel Pavlov
-90 kg	Frank Andersson	Norbert Növényi	Pedro Pavlidis
-100 kg	Nikolai Balboschin	Georgi Rajkov	Brad Rheingans
+100 kg	Alexandar Tomov	Oleksandr Kolchynskyi	Bob Walker

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Soviet Union	3	4th	0
2	Hungary	3	1	0
3	Bulgaria	2	1	2
4th	Sweden	1	0	1
5	Poland	1	0	0
	Romania	1	0	0
7th	United States	0	1	2
8th	Japan	0	1	1
9	Yugoslavia	0	1	0
10	BR Germany	0	0	3
11	Italy	0	0	1

Freestyle

The freestyle competitions took place from August 25 to 28, 1979. The wrestlers from the Soviet Union secured medals in nine of the ten competitions. Only defending champion Anatoli Beloglasow could not place in the medal ranks with a sixth place in the weight class -52 kg. In addition to the medal winners of the GDR , Harald Büttner came fourth in the -100 kg weight class. For Germany , Adolf Seger placed fifth in the -82 kg weight class and Eduard Giray placed sixth in the -62 kg weight class among the top six.

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-48 kg	Sergei Kornilayev	Robert Weaver	Jan Falandys
-52 kg	Yūji Takada	Jim Haines	Hartmut Reich
-57 kg	Hideaki Tomiyama	Sergei Beloglasov	Joe Corso
-62 kg	Vladimir Jumin	Micho Dukow	Andre Metzger
-68 kg	Mikhail Tscharachura	Akira Miyahara	Eberhard Probst
-74 kg	Leroy Kemp	Martin Bud	Nikolai Petrenko
-82 kg	István Kovács	John Peterson	Magomed Arakilov
-90 kg	Chasan Ortzew	Uwe Neupert	Ivan Ginov
-100 kg	Ilya Mate	Owen Russell	Vasile Puşcaşu
+100 kg	Salman Hassimikov	Roland Gehrke	Andrei Ianko

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Soviet Union	6th	1	2
2	Japan	2	1	0
3	United States	1	4th	2
4th	Hungary	1	0	0
5	German Democratic Republic	0	2	2
6th	Bulgaria	0	1	1
7th	BR Germany	0	1	0
8th	Romania	0	0	2
9	Poland	0	0	1

Web links

• Complete medal table (Greco-Roman men ) at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Complete medal table (freestyle men ) at the Institute for Applied Training Science