1969 World Wrestling Championships

The 1969 World Wrestling Championships were held in Mar del Plata, Argentina from 3 to 10 March 1969.^[1]

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

1969 World Wrestling Championships
Host city	Mar del Plata, Argentina
Dates	3–10 March 1969
Champions
Freestyle	Soviet Union
Greco-Roman	Soviet Union
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Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
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

Rank	Men's freestyle		Men's Greco-Roman
	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

Freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Ebrahim Javadi  Iran	Roman Dmitriev  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

Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
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