1973 World Wrestling Championships

The 1973 World Wrestling Championships were held in Tehran, Iran. For the first and subsequently the last time Sambo wrestling was included as part of the World Wrestling Championships programme.^[1] U.S. National Team included Buck Deadrich, David Pruzansky and Wayne Baughman. Deadrich and Pruzansky both captured bronze medals^[2][3][4]

Medal winners of freestyle 74 kg. From left to right, Ruslan Ashuraliev, Mansour Barzegar and Jan Karlsson

Medal winners of freestyle 52 kg. From left to right, Arsen Alakhverdiev, Ebrahim Javadi and Yuji Takada

Medal winners of freestyle 57 kg. From left to right, Megdiin Khoilogdorj, Mohsen Farahvashi and Vladimir Yumin

Medal winners of freestyle 62 kg. From left to right, Heinz Stahr, Zagalav Abdulbekov and Mohammad Reza Navaei

1973 World Wrestling Championships
Host city	Tehran, Iran
Dates	6–14 September 1973
Stadium	Nassiri Stadium
Champions
Freestyle	Soviet Union
Greco-Roman	Soviet Union
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Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	11	5	2	18
2	Iran	3	0	2	5
3	Bulgaria	2	3	4	9
4	Poland	2	3	1	6
5	Romania	1	1	1	3
6	United States	1	0	1	2
7	East Germany	0	2	2	4
8	Yugoslavia	0	2	0	2
9	Hungary	0	1	3	4
10	Czechoslovakia	0	1	1	2
	Mongolia	0	1	1	2
	Sweden	0	1	1	2
13	Japan	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		20	20	20	60

Team ranking

Rank	Men's freestyle		Men's Greco-Roman
	Team	Points	Team	Points
1	Soviet Union	55	Soviet Union	47
2	Iran	28	Poland	35
3	Bulgaria	28	Bulgaria	30
4	Mongolia	18	Romania	16.5
5	United States	16	Yugoslavia	16
6	Romania	11	Hungary	13

Medal summary

Freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Roman Dmitriev  Soviet Union	Hasan Isaev  Bulgaria	Ochirdolgoryn Enkhtaivan  Mongolia
52 kg	Ebrahim Javadi  Iran	Arsen Alakhverdiev  Soviet Union	Yuji Takada  Japan
57 kg	Mohsen Farahvashi  Iran	Megdiin Khoilogdorj  Mongolia	Vladimir Yumin  Soviet Union
62 kg	Zagalav Abdulbekov  Soviet Union	Heinz Stahr  East Germany	Mohammad Reza Navaei  Iran
68 kg	Lloyd Keaser  United States	Nasrula Nasrulaev  Soviet Union	János Kocsis  Hungary
74 kg	Mansour Barzegar  Iran	Ruslan Ashuraliev  Soviet Union	Jan Karlsson  Sweden
82 kg	Vasily Syulshin  Soviet Union	Vasile Iorga  Romania	Ismail Abilov  Bulgaria
90 kg	Levan Tediashvili  Soviet Union	Horst Stottmeister  East Germany	Ben Peterson  United States
100 kg	Ivan Yarygin  Soviet Union	József Csatári  Hungary	Dimitar Nekov  Bulgaria
+100 kg	Soslan Andiyev  Soviet Union	Boyan Boev  Bulgaria	Ladislau Șimon  Romania

Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Vladimir Zubkov  Soviet Union	Ryszard Świerad  Poland	Ferenc Seres  Hungary
52 kg	Nicu Gingă  Romania	Jan Michalik  Poland	Rahim Aliabadi  Iran
57 kg	Józef Lipień  Poland	Rustam Kazakov  Soviet Union	Hristo Traykov  Bulgaria
62 kg	Kazimierz Lipień  Poland	Anatoly Kavkaev  Soviet Union	László Réczi  Hungary
68 kg	Shamil Khisamutdinov  Soviet Union	Sreten Damjanović  Yugoslavia	Heinz-Helmut Wehling  East Germany
74 kg	Ivan Kolev  Bulgaria	Jan Karlsson  Sweden	Klaus-Peter Göpfert  East Germany
82 kg	Leonid Liberman  Soviet Union	Milan Nenadić  Yugoslavia	Miroslav Janota  Czechoslovakia
90 kg	Valery Rezantsev  Soviet Union	Czesław Kwieciński  Poland	Stoyan Nikolov  Bulgaria
100 kg	Nikolay Balboshin  Soviet Union	Kamen Goranov  Bulgaria	Andrzej Skrzydlewski  Poland
+100 kg	Aleksandar Tomov  Bulgaria	Petr Kment  Czechoslovakia	Shota Morchiladze  Soviet Union

See also

• 1973 World Sambo Championships