1979 World Wrestling Championships - Greco Roman

Host City	San Diego
Country	USA
Held	21 – 24 August 1979
Competitors	30
Countries	11

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	URS	3	4	0	7
2	Hungary	HUN	3	1	0	4
3	Bulgaria	BUL	2	1	2	5
4	Sweden	SWE	1	0	1	2
5	Poland	POL	1	0	0	1
=	Romania	ROU	1	0	0	1
7	United States	USA	0	1	2	3
8	Japan	JPN	0	1	1	2
9	Yugoslavia	YUG	0	1	0	1
10	Germany	GER	0	0	3	3
11	Italy	ITA	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
Greco-Roman -48 kg, Men	Constantin Alexandru	ROU	Aleksey Shumakov	URS	Pavel Hristov	BUL
Greco-Roman -52 kg, Men	Lajos Rácz	HUN	Kamil Fatkulin	URS	Toshio Asakura	JPN
Greco-Roman -57 kg, Men	Shamil Serikov	URS	Kiwamu Kashiwagi	JPN	Antonino Caltabiano	ITA
Greco-Roman -62 kg, Men	István Tóth	HUN	Abdurrahim Kuzu	USA	Lars Malmkvist	SWE
Greco-Roman -68 kg, Men	Andrzej Supron	POL	Aleksandr Aliyev	URS	Erich Klaus	GER
Greco-Roman -74 kg, Men	Yanko Shopov Ferenc Kocsis	BUL HUN			Karl-Heinz Helbing	GER
Greco-Roman -82 kg, Men	Gennady Korban	URS	Momir Petković	YUG	Pavel Pavlov	BUL
Greco-Roman -90 kg, Men	Frank Andersson	SWE	Norbert Növényi	HUN	Petro Pawlidis	GER
Greco-Roman -+100 kg, Men	Aleksandar Tomov	BUL	Aleksandr Kolchinsky	URS	Bobby Walker	USA
Greco-Roman -100 kg, Men	Nikolay Balboshin	URS	Georgi Raykov	BUL	Brad Rheingans	USA