1978 World Wrestling Championships

1978 World Championships
Host city	Mexico City, Mexico
Dates	August 20–27
Champions
Freestyle	Soviet Union
Greco-Roman	Soviet Union

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

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
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
Total		20	20	20	60

Team ranking

Rank	Men's freestyle		Men's Greco-Roman
	Team	Points	Team	Points
1	Soviet Union	55	Soviet Union	53
2	East Germany	21	Romania	36
3	Iran	19	Bulgaria	30
4	Japan	18	Poland	24
5	United States	17.5	Yugoslavia	15.5
6	Bulgaria	17.5	West Germany	12

Medal summary

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Sergey Kornilayev  Soviet Union	Nobuo Fujisawa  Japan	Mohammad Bazmavar  Iran
52 kg	Anatoly Beloglazov  Soviet Union	Hartmut Reich  East Germany	Luis Ocaña  Cuba
57 kg	Hideaki Tomiyama  Japan	Busay Ibragimov  Soviet Union	Dugarsürengiin Oyuunbold  Mongolia
62 kg	Vladimir Yumin  Soviet Union	Yang Jung-mo  South Korea	Mohammad Rezaei  Iran
68 kg	Pavel Pinigin  Soviet Union	Akira Miyahara  Japan	Ivan Yankov  Bulgaria
74 kg	Leroy Kemp  United States	Mohammad Hossein Mohebbi  Iran	Pyotr Marta  Soviet Union
82 kg	Magomedkhan Aratsilov  Soviet Union	Adolf Seger  West Germany	John Peterson  United States
90 kg	Uwe Neupert  East Germany	Anatoly Prokopchuk  Soviet Union	İsmail Temiz  Turkey
100 kg	Harald Büttner  East Germany	Levan Tediashvili  Soviet Union	Bárbaro Morgan  Cuba
+100 kg	Soslan Andiyev  Soviet Union	Reza Soukhteh-Saraei  Iran	Roland Gehrke  East Germany

Men's Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Constantin Alexandru  Romania	Aleksey Shumakov  Soviet Union	Roman Kierpacz  Poland
52 kg	Vakhtang Blagidze  Soviet Union	Nicu Gingă  Romania	Charalambos Cholidis  Greece
57 kg	Shamil Serikov  Soviet Union	Ivan Frgić  Yugoslavia	Pasquale Passarelli  West Germany
62 kg	Boris Kramarenko  Soviet Union	Kazimierz Lipień  Poland	Lars Malmkvist  Sweden
68 kg	Ştefan Rusu  Romania	Andrzej Supron  Poland	Aleksandr Aliyev  Soviet Union
74 kg	Arif Niftullayev  Soviet Union	Ferenc Kocsis  Hungary	Gheorghe Ciobotaru  Romania
82 kg	Ion Draica  Romania	Momir Petković  Yugoslavia	Vladimir Cheboksarov  Soviet Union
90 kg	Stoyan Nikolov  Bulgaria	Frank Andersson  Sweden	Viktor Avdyshev  Soviet Union
100 kg	Nikolay Balboshin  Soviet Union	Georgi Raykov  Bulgaria	Refik Memišević  Yugoslavia
+100 kg	Aleksandr Kolchinsky  Soviet Union	Nikola Dinev  Bulgaria	Roman Codreanu  Romania

References

• FILA Database – Select 1978, World Championship Freestyle Seniors 1978-08-24 and World Championship Greco Roman Seniors 1978-08-20