World Wrestling Championships 1981
The wrestling world championships in 1981 took place separately at different locations according to style. The wrestlers were divided into ten weight classes.
Greco-Roman
The Greco-Roman style competitions took place in Oslo from August 28-30, 1981 .
Medalist
class | gold | silver | bronze |
---|---|---|---|
-48 kg | Saksylik Ushkempirow | Salih Bora | Fumikazu Sasaki |
-52 kg | Vakhtang Blagidze | Atsuji Miyahara | Lajos Rácz |
-57 kg | Pasquale Passarelli | Josef Krysta | Ilpo Seppälä |
-62 kg | István Tóth | Ryszard Świerad | Pertti Ukkola |
-68 kg | Gennady Ermilow | Tapio Sipilä | Ștefan Rusu |
-74 kg | Alexander Platonowitsch Kudryavzew | Mikko Huhtala | Karoly Kasap |
-82 kg | Gennady Korban | Momir Petković | Ion Draica |
-90 kg | Igor Kanygin | Frank Andersson | Franz Pitschmann |
-100 kg | Mikhail Saladze | Tamás Gáspár | Roman Wrocławski |
+100 kg | Refik Memišević | Nikola Dinew | Evgeni Artyuchkin |
Medal table
rank | country | gold | silver | bronze |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Soviet Union | 7th | 0 | 1 |
2 | Yugoslavia | 1 | 1 | 1 |
3 | Hungary | 1 | 1 | 1 |
4th | BR Germany | 1 | 0 | 0 |
5 | Finland | 0 | 2 | 2 |
6th | Japan | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Poland | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
8th | Bulgaria | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Sweden | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Czechoslovakia | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Turkey | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
12 | Romania | 0 | 0 | 2 |
13 | Austria | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Freestyle
The free style competitions took place in Skopje from September 11-14, 1981 .
Medalist
class | gold | silver | bronze |
---|---|---|---|
-48 kg | Sergei Kornilayev | Gab-Thu Sun | Bill Rosaro |
-52 kg | Toshio Asakura | Hartmut Reich | Nandsadyn Bürgedaa |
-57 kg | Sergei Beloglasov | Stefan Ivanov | Hideaki Tomiyama |
-62 kg | Simeon Schterew | Marian Skubacz | Viktor Alexeyev |
-68 kg | Saipulla Absaidov | Saban Sejdi | Came Penew |
-74 kg | Martin Bud | Valentin Rajchev | Leroy Kemp |
-82 kg | Christopher Campbell | Efraim Kamberow | Grigori Danko |
-90 kg | Sanasar Oganessian | Ivan Ginov | Uwe Neupert |
-100 kg | Roland Gehrke | Gregory Gibson | Ilya Mate |
+100 kg | Salman Hassimikov | Reza Sookhte-Sarayee | Adam Sandurski |
Medal table
rank | country | gold | silver | bronze |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Soviet Union | 5 | 0 | 3 |
2 | Bulgaria | 1 | 4th | 1 |
3 | United States | 1 | 1 | 2 |
4th | German Democratic Republic | 1 | 1 | 1 |
5 | Japan | 1 | 0 | 1 |
6th | BR Germany | 1 | 0 | 0 |
7th | Poland | 0 | 1 | 1 |
8th | Iran | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Yugoslavia | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
South Korea | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
11 | Mongolia | 0 | 0 | 1 |