1981 World Wrestling Championships

1981 World Freestyle Championships
Host city	Skopje, Yugoslavia
Dates	11–14 September
Champions
Freestyle	Soviet Union

1981 World Greco-Roman Championships
Host city	Oslo, Norway
Dates	28–30 August
Champions
Greco-Roman	Soviet Union

The following is the final results of the 1981 World Wrestling Championships. Freestyle competition were held in Skopje, Yugoslavia (present-day North Macedonia) and Greco-Roman competition were held in Oslo, Norway.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	12	0	4	16
2	West Germany	2	0	0	2
3	Bulgaria	1	5	1	7
4	Yugoslavia	1	2	1	4
5	Japan	1	1	2	4
	United States	1	1	2	4
7	East Germany	1	1	1	3
	Hungary	1	1	1	3
9	Finland	0	2	2	4
	Poland	0	2	2	4
11	Czechoslovakia	0	1	0	1
	Iran	0	1	0	1
	South Korea	0	1	0	1
	Sweden	0	1	0	1
	Turkey	0	1	0	1
16	Romania	0	0	2	2
17	Austria	0	0	1	1
	Mongolia	0	0	1	1
Totals (18 entries)		20	20	20	60

Team ranking

Rank	Men's freestyle		Men's Greco-Roman
	Team	Points	Team	Points
1	Soviet Union	42	Soviet Union	49
2	Bulgaria	33	Hungary	23
3	United States	28	Finland	21
4	East Germany	17	Bulgaria	18
5	Iran	17	Poland	17
6	Japan	15	Yugoslavia	15

Medal summary

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Sergey Kornilayev Soviet Union	Son Gab-do South Korea	William Rosado United States
52 kg	Toshio Asakura Japan	Hartmut Reich East Germany	Nanzadyn Büregdaa Mongolia
57 kg	Sergey Beloglazov Soviet Union	Stefan Ivanov Bulgaria	Hideaki Tomiyama Japan
62 kg	Simeon Shterev Bulgaria	Marian Skubacz Poland	Viktor Alekseev Soviet Union
68 kg	Saypulla Absaidov Soviet Union	Šaban Sejdi Yugoslavia	Kamen Penev Bulgaria
74 kg	Martin Knosp West Germany	Valentin Raychev Bulgaria	Leroy Kemp United States
82 kg	Chris Campbell United States	Efraim Kamberov Bulgaria	Grigory Danko Soviet Union
90 kg	Sanasar Oganisyan Soviet Union	Ivan Ginov Bulgaria	Uwe Neupert East Germany
100 kg	Roland Gehrke East Germany	Greg Gibson United States	Ilya Mate Soviet Union
+100 kg	Salman Khasimikov Soviet Union	Reza Soukhtehsaraei Iran	Adam Sandurski Poland

Men's Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Zhaksylyk Ushkempirov Soviet Union	Salih Bora Turkey	Fumikazu Sasaki Japan
52 kg	Vakhtang Blagidze Soviet Union	Atsuji Miyahara Japan	Lajos Rácz Hungary
57 kg	Pasquale Passarelli West Germany	Josef Krysta Czechoslovakia	Ilpo Seppälä Finland
62 kg	István Tóth Hungary	Ryszard Świerad Poland	Pertti Ukkola Finland
68 kg	Gennady Ermilov Soviet Union	Tapio Sipilä Finland	Ștefan Rusu Romania
74 kg	Aleksandr Kudryavtsev Soviet Union	Mikko Huhtala Finland	Karolj Kasap Yugoslavia
82 kg	Gennady Korban Soviet Union	Momir Petković Yugoslavia	Ion Draica Romania
90 kg	Igor Kanygin Soviet Union	Frank Andersson Sweden	Franz Pitschmann Austria
100 kg	Mikhail Saladze Soviet Union	Tamás Gáspár Hungary	Roman Wrocławski Poland
+100 kg	Refik Memišević Yugoslavia	Nikola Dinev Bulgaria	Evgeny Artyukhin Soviet Union

References

• FILA Database