1969 World Wrestling Championships

Wrestling event

1969 World Championships

Host city|  Mar del Plata, Argentina
Dates| 3–10 March
Champions
Freestyle|  Soviet Union
Greco-Roman|  Soviet Union

The 1969 World Wrestling Championships were held in Mar del Plata, Argentina.

Medal winners of freestyle 68 kg. From left to right, Enyu Valchev, Abdollah Movahed and Nodar Khokhashvili Medal winners of Greco-Roman 48 kg. From left to right, Rahim Aliabadi, Gheorghe Berceanu and Vladislav Kustov

## Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Soviet Union| 10| 2| 6| 18
2|  Iran| 3| 3| 2| 8
3|  United States| 2| 3| 2| 7
4|  Romania| 2| 1| 1| 4
5|  Japan| 2| 0| 2| 4
6|  Bulgaria| 1| 5| 2| 8
7|  Sweden| 0| 1| 2| 3
8|  Finland| 0| 1| 1| 2
Yugoslavia| 0| 1| 1| 2
10|  South Korea| 0| 1| 0| 1
West Germany| 0| 1| 0| 1
Totals (11 entries)| 20| 19| 19| 58

## Team ranking

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Rank  | Men's freestyle  | Men's Greco-Roman

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Team  | Points  | Team  | Points
1  |  Soviet Union | 44 |  Soviet Union | 53
2  |  United States | 38 |  Bulgaria | 26
3  |  Iran | 37 |  Romania | 23
4  |  Bulgaria | 27 |  Sweden | 20
5  |  Japan | 25 |  Finland | 12.5
6  |  Mongolia | 10 |  West Germany | 12.5

## Medal summary

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### Men's freestyle

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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48 kg  | Ebrahim Javadi
Iran | Roman Dmitriyev
Soviet Union | Akihiko Umeda
Japan
52 kg  | Rick Sanders
United States | Mohammad Ghorbani
Iran | Tariel Alibegashvili
Soviet Union
57 kg  | Tadamichi Tanaka
Japan | Donald Behm
United States | Aboutaleb Talebi
Iran
62 kg  | Takeo Morita
Japan | Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi
Iran | Zagalav Abdulbekov
Soviet Union
68 kg  | Abdollah Movahed
Iran | Enyu Valchev
Bulgaria | Nodar Khokhashvili
Soviet Union
74 kg  | Zarbeg Beriashvili
Soviet Union | Wayne Wells
United States | Seiji Yamagata
Japan
82 kg  | Fred Fozzard
United States | None awarded | None awarded
90 kg  | Boris Gurevich
Soviet Union | Rusi Petrov
Bulgaria | Henk Schenk
United States
100 kg  | Shota Lomidze
Soviet Union | Larry Kristoff
United States | Vasil Todorov
Bulgaria
+100 kg  | Aleksandr Medved
Soviet Union | Osman Duraliev
Bulgaria | Abolfazl Anvari
Iran

### Men's Greco-Roman

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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48 kg  | Gheorghe Berceanu
Romania | Rahim Aliabadi
Iran | Vladislav Kustov
Soviet Union
52 kg  | Firouz Alizadeh
Iran | Cornel Turturea
Romania | Ivan Mikhailishin
Soviet Union
57 kg  | Rustam Kazakov
Soviet Union | An Chun-young
South Korea | David Hazewinkel
United States
62 kg  | Roman Rurua
Soviet Union | Roland Svensson
Sweden | Martti Laakso
Finland
68 kg  | Simion Popescu
Romania | Sreten Damjanović
Yugoslavia | Yury Grigoriev
Soviet Union
74 kg  | Viktor Igumenov
Soviet Union | Eero Tapio
Finland | Matti Poikala
Sweden
82 kg  | Petar Krumov
Bulgaria | Omar Bliadze
Soviet Union | Milan Nenadić
Yugoslavia
90 kg  | Aleksandr Yurkevich
Soviet Union | Venko Tsintsarov
Bulgaria | Nicolae Neguț
Romania
100 kg  | Nikolay Yakovenko
Soviet Union | Stefan Petrov
Bulgaria | Lennart Eriksson
Sweden
+100 kg  | Anatoly Roshchin
Soviet Union | Wilfried Dietrich
West Germany | Petar Donev
Bulgaria

## References

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* FILA Database

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