Competitors for 1971 World Wrestling Championships - Greco Roman
| Athlete | Country | Sports | Date of birth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stefan Angelov |  BUL |
WRE | 7 January 1947 |
| Sreten Damjanović |  YUG |
WRE | 10 October 1946 |
| Kiril Dimitrov | BUL |
WRE | 8 December 1951 |
| József Doncsecz |  HUN |
WRE | 16 January 1950 |
| Hideo Fujimoto |  JPN |
WRE | 24 June 1944 |
| Petros Galaktopoulos |  GRE |
WRE | 7 June 1945 |
| Klaus-Peter Göpfert |  GDR |
WRE | 22 October 1948 |
| Csaba Hegedűs | HUN |
WRE | 6 September 1948 |
| Viktor Igumenov |  URS |
WRE | 10 March 1943 |
| Rustem Kazakov | URS |
WRE | 2 January 1947 |
| Momir Kecman | YUG |
WRE | 10 December 1940 |
| Petar Kirov | BUL |
WRE | 17 September 1942 |
| Petr Kment |  TCH |
WRE | 20 August 1942 |
| Marin Kolev | BUL |
WRE | |
| Kazimierz Lipień |  POL |
WRE | 6 February 1949 |
| Georgi Markov | BUL |
WRE | 5 April 1946 |
| Nicolae Martinescu |  ROU |
WRE | 24 February 1940 |
| Lothar Metz | GDR |
WRE | 16 January 1939 |
| Anatoly Nazarenko | URS |
WRE | 19 December 1948 |
| Stoyan Nikolov | BUL |
WRE | 2 April 1949 |
| Valery Rezantsev | URS |
WRE | 8 October 1946 |
| Anatoly Roshchin | URS |
WRE | 10 March 1932 |
| Hızır Sarı |  TUR |
WRE | 19 February 1951 |
| Gheorghe Stoiciu | ROU |
WRE | 3 September 1943 |
| Per Svensson |  SWE |
WRE | 6 February 1943 |
| Takashi Tanoue | JPN |
WRE | 30 April 1947 |
| Aleksandar Tomov | BUL |
WRE | 3 April 1949 |
| Hristo Traykov | BUL |
WRE | 24 September 1947 |
| János Varga | HUN |
WRE | 21 October 1939 |
| Vladimir Zubkov | URS |
WRE | 30 April 1948 |