1970 World Wrestling Championships

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

The 1970 World Wrestling Championships were held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada from 4 to 11 July 1970.

Medal table

Medal winners of freestyle 68 kg. From left to right, Ismail Yuseinov, Abdollah Movahed and Bobby Douglas

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
Totals (16 entries)		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	Akihiko Umeda Japan	Roman Dmitriyev Soviet Union
52 kg	Ali Rıza Alan Turkey	Bayu Baev Bulgaria	Mohammad Ghorbani Iran
57 kg	Hideaki Yanagida Japan	An Jae-won South Korea	Yancho Patrikov Bulgaria
62 kg	Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi Iran	Kiyoshi Abe Japan	Michael Young United States
68 kg	Abdollah Movahed Iran	Ismail Yuseinov Bulgaria	Bobby Douglas United States
74 kg	Wayne Wells United States	Mohammad Farhangdoust Iran	Danzandarjaagiin Sereeter Mongolia
82 kg	Yury Shakhmuradov Soviet Union	Tatsuo Sasaki Japan	Vasile Iorga Romania
90 kg	Gennady Strakhov Soviet Union	Bill Harlow United States	Makoto Kamada Japan
100 kg	Vladimir Gulyutkin Soviet Union	Larry Kristoff United States	Gıyasettin Yılmaz Turkey
+100 kg	Aleksandr Medved Soviet Union	Osman Duraliev Bulgaria	Peter Germer East Germany

Men's Greco-Roman

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

References

• FILA Database
• Page 30