1978 World Wrestling Championships - Greco Roman

Host City Ciudad de México
Country MEX
Held 20 – 23 August 1978
Competitors 30
Countries 9

Events

Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
Greco-Roman -48 kg Men — Medal 3 3
Greco-Roman -52 kg Men — Medal 3 3
Greco-Roman -57 kg Men — Medal 3 3
Greco-Roman -62 kg Men — Medal 3 3
Greco-Roman -68 kg Men — Medal 3 3
Greco-Roman -74 kg Men — Medal 3 3
Greco-Roman -82 kg Men — Medal 3 3
Greco-Roman -90 kg Men — Medal 3 3
Greco-Roman -100 kg Men — Medal 3 3
Greco-Roman +100 kg Men — Medal 3 3

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze Total
1 Soviet Union URS 6 1 3 10
2 Romania ROU 3 1 2 6
3 Bulgaria BUL 1 2 0 3
4 Poland POL 0 2 1 3
= Yugoslavia YUG 0 2 1 3
6 Sweden SWE 0 1 1 2
7 Hungary HUN 0 1 0 1
8 Germany GER 0 0 1 1
= Greece GRE 0 0 1 1

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
Greco-Roman -48 kg, Men Constantin Alexandru ROU Aleksey Shumakov URS Roman Kierpacz POL
Greco-Roman -52 kg, Men Vakht'ang Blagidze URS Nicu Gingă ROU Babis Cholidis GRE
Greco-Roman -57 kg, Men Shamil Serikov URS Ivica Frgić YUG Pasquale Passarelli GER
Greco-Roman -62 kg, Men Boris Kramarenko URS Kazimierz Lipień POL Lars Malmkvist SWE
Greco-Roman -68 kg, Men Ștefan Rusu ROU Andrzej Supron POL Aleksandr Aliyev URS
Greco-Roman -74 kg, Men Arif Niftullayev URS Ferenc Kocsis HUN Gheorghe Ciobotaru ROU
Greco-Roman -82 kg, Men Ion Draica ROU Momir Petković YUG Vladimir Cheboksarov URS
Greco-Roman -90 kg, Men Stoyan Nikolov BUL Frank Andersson SWE Viktor Avdyshev URS
Greco-Roman +100 kg, Men Aleksandr Kolchinsky URS Nikola Dinev BUL Roman Codreanu ROU
Greco-Roman -100 kg, Men Nikolay Balboshin URS Georgi Raykov BUL Refik Memišević YUG