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1972 European Wrestling Championships
Host city	Poland, Katowice
Dates	24 – 30 May 1972
Stadium	Spodek Arena
Champions
Freestyle	Soviet Union
Greco-Roman	Soviet Union
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The 1972 European Wrestling Championships was held from 24 to 30 May 1972 in Katowice, Poland.

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
	West Germany	1	0	0	1
9	Finland	0	1	0	1
	Hungary	0	1	0	1
11	Czechoslovakia	0	0	2	2
	Yugoslavia	0	0	2	2
Totals (12 entries)		20	20	20	60

Medal summary

Men's freestyle

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

Men's Greco-Roman

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

References

1. "International Wrestling Database".
2. "Athletes & Results".

External links

• Fila's official championship website

• 1972 in sport wrestling
• 1972 in Poland
• European Wrestling Championships
• Sports competitions in Katowice
• 1972 in European sport