1971 World Wrestling Championships

Wrestling event

1971 World Wrestling Championships
Host city	Sofia, Bulgaria
Dates	27 August – 5 September 1971
Stadium	Vasil Levski National Stadium
Champions
Freestyle	Soviet Union
Greco-Roman	Bulgaria

The 1971 World Wrestling Championships were held in Sofia, Bulgaria from 27 August to 5 September 1971.^[1]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	9	3	1	13
2	Bulgaria	4	4	6	14
3	Iran	2	2	0	4
4	United States	1	1	1	3
5	Yugoslavia	1	1	0	2
6	Japan	1	0	3	4
7	Hungary	1	0	2	3
8	Sweden	1	0	0	1
9	Romania	0	2	2	4
10	East Germany	0	2	1	3
	Mongolia	0	2	1	3
	Poland	0	2	1	3
13	Turkey	0	1	0	1
14	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
	Greece	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 entries)		20	20	20	60

Team ranking

Rank	Men's freestyle		Men's Greco-Roman
	Team	Points	Team	Points
1	Soviet Union	42.5	Bulgaria	46
2	Iran	31	Soviet Union	39.5
3	Bulgaria	31	Hungary	23
4	Japan	20	Yugoslavia	18
5	Mongolia	19.5	Romania	16
6	United States	19	Poland	14.5

Medal summary

Freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Ebrahim Javadi  Iran	Bazarragchaagiin Jamsran  Mongolia	Ognyan Nikolov  Bulgaria
52 kg	Mohammad Ghorbani  Iran	Bayu Baev  Bulgaria	Aminula Nasrulaev  Soviet Union
57 kg	Hideaki Yanagida  Japan	Donald Behm  United States	Megdiin Khoilogdorj  Mongolia
62 kg	Zagalav Abdulbekov  Soviet Union	Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi  Iran	Kiyoshi Abe  Japan
68 kg	Dan Gable  United States	Vasily Kazakhov  Soviet Union	Ismail Yuseinov  Bulgaria
74 kg	Yury Gusov  Soviet Union	Mohammad Farhangdoust  Iran	Ludovic Ambruș  Romania
82 kg	Levan Tediashvili  Soviet Union	Horst Stottmeister  East Germany	Vasile Iorga  Romania
90 kg	Rusi Petrov  Bulgaria	Paweł Kurczewski  Poland	Russ Hellickson  United States
100 kg	Shota Lomidze  Soviet Union	Khorloogiin Bayanmönkh  Mongolia	Vasil Todorov  Bulgaria
+100 kg	Aleksandr Medved  Soviet Union	Osman Duraliev  Bulgaria	Stanisław Makowiecki  Poland

Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Vladimir Zubkov  Soviet Union	Hızır Sarı  Turkey	Stefan Angelov  Bulgaria
52 kg	Petar Kirov  Bulgaria	Gheorghe Stoiciu  Romania	József Doncsecz  Hungary
57 kg	Rustam Kazakov  Soviet Union	Hristo Traykov  Bulgaria	János Varga  Hungary
62 kg	Georgi Markov  Bulgaria	Kazimierz Lipień  Poland	Hideo Fujimoto  Japan
68 kg	Sreten Damjanović  Yugoslavia	Klaus-Peter Göpfert  East Germany	Takashi Tanoue  Japan
74 kg	Viktor Igumenov  Soviet Union	Momir Kecman  Yugoslavia	Petros Galaktopoulos  Greece
82 kg	Csaba Hegedűs  Hungary	Anatoly Nazarenko  Soviet Union	Kiril Dimitrov  Bulgaria
90 kg	Valery Rezantsev  Soviet Union	Stoyan Nikolov  Bulgaria	Lothar Metz  East Germany
100 kg	Pelle Svensson  Sweden	Nicolae Martinescu  Romania	Marin Kolev  Bulgaria
+100 kg	Aleksandar Tomov  Bulgaria	Anatoly Roshchin  Soviet Union	Petr Kment  Czechoslovakia

References

1. "75 Years FILA" (PDF). FILA. p. 56. Retrieved 18 April 2025.

External links

• UWW Database

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