1979 FILA Wrestling World Championships
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The 1979 FILA Wrestling World Championships
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
California
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, United States
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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 wrestling

List 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...

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