1970 World Wrestling Championships

1970 World Championships
Host city	Edmonton, Canada
Dates	July 4–11
Champions
Freestyle	Soviet Union
Greco-Roman	Soviet Union

The 1970 FILA Wrestling World Championships were held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	9	1	3	13
2	Iran	3	1	1	5
3	Japan	2	4	2	8
4	Bulgaria	1	4	3	8
5	United States	1	3	2	6
6	Hungary	1	2	0	3
7	Romania	1	1	2	4
8	Turkey	1	0	1	2
9	Sweden	1	0	0	1
10	Yugoslavia	0	1	2	3
11	Poland	0	1	1	2
12	South Korea	0	1	0	1
	West Germany	0	1	0	1
14	East Germany	0	0	1	1
	Greece	0	0	1	1
	Mongolia	0	0	1	1
Total		20	20	20	60

Team ranking

Rank	Men's freestyle		Men's Greco-Roman
	Team	Points	Team	Points
1	Soviet Union	40	Soviet Union	43
2	United States	31.5	Bulgaria	27.5
3	Iran	27.5	Yugoslavia	22
4	Japan	27	Hungary	19.5
5	Bulgaria	25.83	Romania	19.5
6	Turkey	16.5	Japan	17

Medal summary

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Ebrahim Javadi Iran (IRI)	Akihiko Umeda Japan (JPN)	Roman Dmitriyev Soviet Union (URS)
52 kg	Ali Rıza Alan Turkey (TUR)	Bayu Baev Bulgaria (BUL)	Mohammad Ghorbani Iran (IRI)
57 kg	Hideaki Yanagida Japan (JPN)	An Jae-woon South Korea (KOR)	Yancho Patrikov Bulgaria (BUL)
62 kg	Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi Iran (IRI)	Kiyoshi Abe Japan (JPN)	Michael Young United States (USA)
68 kg	Abdollah Movahed Iran (IRI)	Ismail Yuseinov Bulgaria (BUL)	Bobby Douglas United States (USA)
74 kg	Wayne Wells United States (USA)	Mohammad Farhangdoust Iran (IRI)	Danzandarjaagiin Sereeter Mongolia (MGL)
82 kg	Yury Shakhmuradov Soviet Union (URS)	Tatsuo Sasaki Japan (JPN)	Vasile Iorga Romania (ROU)
90 kg	Gennady Strakhov Soviet Union (URS)	Bill Harlow United States (USA)	Makoto Kamada Japan (JPN)
100 kg	Vladimir Gulyutkin Soviet Union (URS)	Larry Kristoff United States (USA)	Gıyasettin Yılmaz Turkey (TUR)
+100 kg	Aleksandr Medved Soviet Union (URS)	Osman Duraliev Bulgaria (BUL)	Peter Germer East Germany (GDR)

Men's Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Gheorghe Berceanu Romania (ROU)	Vladimir Zubkov Soviet Union (URS)	Bernard Szczepański Poland (POL)
52 kg	Petar Kirov Bulgaria (BUL)	Saburo Sugiyama Japan (JPN)	Boško Marinko Yugoslavia (YUG)
57 kg	János Varga Hungary (HUN)	David Hazewinkel United States (USA)	Rustam Kazakov Soviet Union (URS)
62 kg	Hideo Fujimoto Japan (JPN)	Slavko Koletić Yugoslavia (YUG)	Georgi Markov Bulgaria (BUL)
68 kg	Roman Rurua Soviet Union (URS)	Simion Popescu Romania (ROU)	Takashi Tanoue Japan (JPN)
74 kg	Viktor Igumenov Soviet Union (URS)	Werner Schröter West Germany (FRG)	Petros Galaktopoulos Greece (GRE)
82 kg	Anatoly Nazarenko Soviet Union (URS)	Petar Krumov Bulgaria (BUL)	Milan Nenadić Yugoslavia (YUG)
90 kg	Valery Rezantsev Soviet Union (URS)	Czesław Kwieciński Poland (POL)	Venko Tsintsarov Bulgaria (BUL)
100 kg	Pelle Svensson Sweden (SWE)	Ferenc Kiss Hungary (HUN)	Nikolay Yakovenko Soviet Union (URS)
+100 kg	Anatoly Roshchin Soviet Union (URS)	József Csatári Hungary (HUN)	Nicolae Martinescu Romania (ROU)

References

• FILA Database
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