1972 European Wrestling Championships

1972 European Wrestling Championships
1972 European Wrestling Championships
Host city	Poland, Katowice
Dates	24 – 30 May 1972
Stadium	Spodek Arena
Champions
Freestyle	Soviet Union
Greco-Roman	Soviet Union
	← 1970 1973 →

The 1972 European Wrestling Championships was held from 24 to 30 May 1972 in Katowice, Poland.^[1]^[2]

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	9	6	1	16
2	Bulgaria	5	7	3	15
3	Romania	1	2	6	9
4	Poland	1	1	4	6
5	East Germany	1	1	2	4
6	Turkey	1	1	0	2
7	Greece	1	0	0	1
7	West Germany	1	0	0	1
9	Finland	0	1	0	1
9	Hungary	0	1	0	1
11	Czechoslovakia	0	0	2	2
11	Yugoslavia	0	0	2	2
Totals (12 entries)		20	20	20	60

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Sefer Baygın Turkey	Jürgen Möbius East Germany	Ognyan Nikolov Bulgaria
52 kg	Arsen Alakhverdiyev Soviet Union	Bayu Baev Bulgaria	Emil Butu Romania
57 kg	Ivan Kuleshov Soviet Union	Ivan Shavov Bulgaria	Zbigniew Żedzicki Poland
62 kg	Ruslan Pliyev Soviet Union	Mehmet Sarı Turkey	Petre Coman Romania
68 kg	Ismail Yuseinov Bulgaria	Petre Poalelungi Romania	Šefer Saliovski Yugoslavia
74 kg	Adolf Seger West Germany	Roman Marsaguishvili Soviet Union	Yancho Pavlov Bulgaria
82 kg	Vasili Siulzhin Soviet Union	Ivan Iliev Bulgaria	Wolfgang Nitschke East Germany
90 kg	Gennady Strakhov Soviet Union	Rusi Petrov Bulgaria	Paweł Kurczewski Poland
100 kg	Ivan Yarygin Soviet Union	Vasil Todorov Bulgaria	Gerd Bachmann East Germany
+100 kg	Aleksandr Medved Soviet Union	Osman Duraliev Bulgaria	Ștefan Stîngu Romania

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Gheorghe Berceanu Romania	Stefan Angelov Bulgaria	Vladimir Zubkov Soviet Union
52 kg	Jan Michalik Poland	Vitaly Konstantinov Soviet Union	Petar Kirov Bulgaria
57 kg	Jristo Traikov Bulgaria	Yuri Sokolov Soviet Union	Ion Baciu Romania
62 kg	Georgi Markov Bulgaria	Martti Laakso Finland	Kazimierz Lipień Poland
68 kg	Jürgen Hähnel East Germany	Antal Steer Hungary	Andrzej Supron Poland
74 kg	Petros Galaktopoulos Greece	Kasim Djalilov Soviet Union	Vítězslav Mácha Czechoslovakia
82 kg	Anatoly Nazarenko Soviet Union	Ion Gabor Romania	Miroslav Janota Czechoslovakia
90 kg	Stoyan Nikolov Bulgaria	Omar Bliadze Soviet Union	Darko Nišavić Yugoslavia
100 kg	Nikolay Yakovenko Soviet Union	Nicolae Martinescu Romania	Andrzej Skrzydlewski Poland
+100 kg	Aleksandar Tomov Bulgaria	Anatoly Kochnev Soviet Union	Victor Dolipschi Romania

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