1979 FILA Wrestling World Championships
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The 1979 FILA Wrestling World Championships
were held in San Diego, California
, United States
.
List of World and Olympic Champions in Greco-Roman wrestling
United States results in men's freestyle wrestling
FILA Wrestling World Championships
FILA Wrestling World Championships is the Amateur Wrestling World Championship organized by the International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles . The men's Greco-Roman tournament began in 1904...
were held in San Diego, California
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Medal table
1 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 16 | |
2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 | |
3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |
4 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 10 | |
5 | Bulgaria | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 |
6 | Romania | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||
9 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
10 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Freestyle
48 kg | Sergei Kornilayev | Bobby Weaver Bobby Weaver Robert Brooks Weaver, Sr. was a freestyle wrestler who won a gold medal at 48 kg at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles... |
Jan Falandys |
52 kg | Yuji Takada Yuji Takada (wrestler) is a Japanese wrestler and Olympic champion in Freestyle wrestling.-Olympics:Takada competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal where he received a gold medal in Freestyle wrestling, the light flyweight class... |
Jim Haines | Hartmut Reich |
57 kg | Hideaki Tomiyama Hideaki Tomiyama represented Japan in wrestling at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, and won the gold medal in the bantamweight division.... |
Sergey Beloglazov | Joe Corso |
62 kg | Vladimir Yumin Vladimir Yumin Vladimir Yumin is a former Soviet wrestler and Olympic champion in Freestyle wrestling.-Olympics:Yumin competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal where he received a gold medal in Freestyle wrestling, the bantamweight class.-References:... |
Miho Dukov | Andre Metzger |
68 kg | Mikhail Charatschura | Akira Miyahara | Eberhard Probst |
74 kg | Leroy Kemp Leroy Kemp Leroy P. Kemp, Jr. was a successful collegiate wrestler and three-time World Champion. He earned a berth on the 1980 Olympic team, but was unable to compete because of the U.S. boycott of the Olympics... |
Martin Knosp | Nikolai Petrenko |
82 kg | István Kovács | John Peterson John Peterson (wrestler) John Peterson is an American wrestler and Olympic champion in Freestyle wrestling.-Olympics:Peterson competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich where he received a silver medal in Freestyle wrestling, the middleweight class... |
Magomedkhan Aratsilov |
90 kg | Khasan Ortzev | Uwe Neupert | Ivan Ginov |
100 kg | Ilja Mate | Russell Hellickson Russell Hellickson Russell Owen "Russ" Hellickson is a former American wrestler who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics, for the United States.In 1976 he won the silver medal in the Freestyle Heavyweight competition.... |
Vasile Puscasu Vasile Puscasu Vasile Puşcaşu is a Romanian wrestler and Olympic champion in Freestyle wrestling.-Olympics:Puşcaşu competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul where he received a gold medal in Freestyle wrestling, the heavyweight class.... |
+100 kg | Salman Khasimikov | Roland Gehrke | Andrei Ianko |
Greco-Roman
48 kg | Constantin Alexandru | Aleksey Shumakov | Pavel Khristov |
52 kg | Lajos Racz | Kamil Fatkulin | Toshio Asakura |
57 kg | Shamil Serikov Shamil Serikov Shamil Serikov was a Soviet wrestler and Olympic Champion.He competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow where he won a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, the bantamweight class.-References:... |
Kivamu Kashiwagi | Antonio Caltabiano |
62 kg | István Tóth | Abdurrahim Kuzu | Lars Malmqvist |
68 kg | Andrzej Supron Andrzej Supron Andrzej Supron is an Polish wrestler .-References:***... |
Alexander Aliev | Erich Klaus |
74 kg | Ferenc Kocsis Ferenc Kocsis Ferenc Kocsis is a Hungarian wrestler and Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling.-Olympics:Kocsis competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow where he received a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, the welterweight class.-References:... |
Janko Shopov | Karl-Heinz Helbing |
82 kg | Gennadi Korban | Momir Petkovic Momir Petkovic Momir Petković is an Olympic wrestling champion.-Wrestling career:Momir Petković was a 1976 Olympic gold medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling in Montreal, competing for the former Yugoslavia at 82 kg. He also claimed three World silver medals and a World bronze medal during his career... |
Pavel Pavlov Pavel Pavlov (wrestler) Pavel Pavlov Strakhilov is a former Bulgarian Greco-Roman wrestler who competed in the middleweight category.... |
90 kg | Frank Andersson | Norbert Növényi Norbert Növényi Norbert Nottny Növényi is a Hungarian light heavyweight wrestling Olympic champion of the 1980 Summer Olympics, two times kick-boxing world champion and currently an actor in Hungary... |
Pedro Pawlidis |
100 kg | Nikolai Balboshin | Georgi Raikov | Brad Rheingans Brad Rheingans Brad Rheingans is a former Greco-Roman and professional wrestler.-Career:Rheingans was an NCAA champion in 1975 for North Dakota State University and wrestled in the 1976 Olympics, placing fourth... |
+100 kg | Aleksandar Tomov | Oleksander Kolchynsky | Bob Walker |
See also
List of World and Olympic Champions in men's freestyle wrestlingList of World and Olympic Champions in Greco-Roman wrestling
United States results in men's freestyle wrestling
United States results in men's freestyle wrestling
-List of Results by the United States in Men's Freestyle Wrestling at the Olympics and World Championships:Men's freestyle wrestling competition began in the Olympics in 1904...