1978 World Wrestling Championships

The 1978 FILA Wrestling World Championships were held in Mexico City, Mexico.

Medal table

1	Soviet Union	12	4	4	20
2	Romania	3	1	2	6
3	East Germany	2	1	1	4
4	Bulgaria	1	2	1	4
5	Japan	1	2	0	3
6	United States	1	0	1	2
7	Iran	0	2	2	4
8	Poland	0	2	1	3
	Yugoslavia	0	2	1	3
10	Sweden	0	1	1	2
	West Germany	0	1	1	2
12	Hungary	0	1	0	1
	South Korea	0	1	0	1
14	Cuba	0	0	2	2
15	Greece	0	0	1	1
	Mongolia	0	0	1	1
	Turkey	0	0	1	1

Medal summary

Men's events

Freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Sergei Kornilayev	Nobuo Fujisawa	Mohammad Bazmavar
52 kg	Anatoli Beloglazov	Hartmut Reich	Luis Ocana
57 kg	Hideaki Tomiyama	Busay Ibragimov	Dugarsürengiin Oyuunbold
62 kg	Vladimir Yumin	Yang Jung-Mo	Mohammad Rezaei
68 kg	Pavel Pinigin	Akira Miyahara	Ivan Jankov
74 kg	Leroy Kemp	Mohammad Hosein Mohebbi	Pyotr Marta
82 kg	Magomedkhan Aratsilov	Adolf Seger	John Peterson
90 kg	Uwe Neupert	Anatoli Prokopchuk	Ismail Temiz
100 kg	Harald Buettner	Levan Tediashvili	Barbaro Morgan
+100 kg	Soslan Andiyev	Reza Soukhteh Saraei	Roland Gehrke

Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Constantin Alexandru	Aleksey Shumakov	Roman Kierpacz
52 kg	Vakhtang Blagidze	Nicu Ginga	Haralambos Holidis
57 kg	Shamil Serikov	Ivan Frgic	Pasquale Passarelli
62 kg	Boris Kramorenko	Kazimierz Lipien	Lars Malmqvist
68 kg	Ştefan Rusu	Andrzej Supron	Alexander Aliev
74 kg	Arif Niftulaev	Ferenc Kocsis	Gheorghe Ciobotaru
82 kg	Ion Draica	Momir Petkovic	Vladimir Cheboksarov
90 kg	Stoyan Ivanov	Frank Andersson	Viktor Avdyshev
100 kg	Nikolai Balboshin	Georgi Raikov	Refik Memisevic
+100 kg	Oleksander Kolchynsky	Nikola Dinev	Roman Codreanu

See also

List of World and Olympic Champions in Men's Freestyle Wrestling

American Results in Men's Freestyle Wrestling

References

• FILA Database