| $Greco-Roman | | Men Light-Flyweight 48kg, Greco-Roman | | 1. Alexei Shumakov |  URS | | 2. Gheorghe Berceanu |  ROU | | 3. Stefan Angelov |  BUL | | Men Flyweight 52kg, Greco-Roman | | 1. Vitali Konstantinov | URS | | 2. Nicu Gingă | ROU | | 3. Koichiro Hirayama |  JPN | | Men Bantamweight 57kg, Greco-Roman | | 1. Pertti Ukkola |  FIN | | 2. Ivan Frgić |  YUG | | 3. Farhat Mustafin | URS | | Men Featherweight 62kg, Greco-Roman | | 1. Kazimierz Lipień |  POL | | 2. Nelson Davidyan | URS | | 3. László Réczi |  HUN | | Men Lightweight 68kg, Greco-Roman | | 1. Suren Nalbandyan | URS | | 2. Ştefan Rusu | ROU | | 3. Heinz-Helmut Wehling |  GDR | | Men Welterweight 74kg, Greco-Roman | | 1. Anatoly Bykov | URS | | 2. Vítězslav Mácha |  TCH | | 3. Karl-Heinz Helbing |  FRG | | Men Middleweight 82kg, Greco-Roman | | 1. Momir Petković | YUG | | 2. Vladimir Cheboksarov | URS | | 3. Ivan Kolev | BUL | | Men Light-Heavyweight 90kg, Greco-Roman | | 1. Valery Rezantsev | URS | | 2. Stoyan Ivanov | BUL | | 3. Czesław Kwieciński | POL | | Men Heavyweight 110kg, Greco-Roman | | 1. Nikolai Balboshin | URS | | 2. Kamen Goranov | BUL | | 3. Andrzej Skrzydlewski | POL | | Men Super-Heavyweight over 100kg, Greco-Roman | | 1. Alexander Kolchinsky | URS | 2. Aleksandar Tomov | BUL | 3. Roman Codreanu | ROU |
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| 1. Soviet Union | URS | 12 | 5 | 1 | 18 | | 2. Japan | JPN | 2 | | 4 | 6 | | 3. Bulgaria | BUL | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | | 4. United States |  USA | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | | 5. Yugoslavia | YUG | 1 | 1 | | 2 | | 6. Poland | POL | 1 | | 2 | 3 | | 7. South Korea |  KOR | 1 | | 1 | 2 | | 8. Finland | FIN | 1 | | | 1 | | 9. Romania | ROU | | 3 | 3 | 6 | | 10.East Germany | GDR | | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 10.Hungary | HUN | | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 12.Czechoslovakia | TCH | | 1 | | 1 | | 12.Iran |  IRI | | 1 | | 1 | | 12.Mongolia |  MGL | | 1 | | 1 | | 15.West Germany | FRG | | | 2 | 2 | | Total | 15 nat | 20 | 20 | 20 | 60 |
| 331 wrestlers from 41 nations | | Argentina | 3) | Australia | 3) | | Austria | 2) | Belgium | 2) | | Bulgaria | 20) | Canada | 15) | | Cuba | 9) | Czechoslovakia | 5) | | East Germany | 12) | Ecuador | 1) | | Finland | 7) | France | 5) | | Great Britain | 7) | Greece | 4) | | Hungary | 18) | Iran | 17) | | Israel | 1) | Italy | 8) | | Japan | 20) | Lebanon | 1) | | Mexico | 2) | Mongolia | 13) | | Morocco | 4) | New Zealand | 2) | | North Korea | 3) | Norway | 2) | | Pakistan | 2) | Panama | 1) | | Poland | 14) | Portugal | 3) | | Puerto Rico | 5) | Romania | 19) | | Senegal | 5) | South Korea | 11) | | Soviet Union | 20) | Sweden | 8) | | Turkey | 11) | United States | 20) | | Virgin Islands | 4) | West Germany | 15) | | Yugoslavia | 6) |
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| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | | Men Light-Flyweight 48kg, Freestyle | | 1. Hasan Isaev | BUL | | 2. Roman Dmitriyev | URS | | 3. Akira Kudo | JPN | | Men Flyweight 52kg, Freestyle | | 1. Yuji Takada | JPN | | 2. Alexander Ivanov | URS | | 3. Jeon Hae-Sup | KOR | | Men Bantamweight 57kg, Freestyle | | 1. Vladimir Yumin | URS | | 2. Hans-Dieter Brüchert | GDR | | 3. Masao Arai | JPN | | Men Featherweight 62kg, Freestyle | | 1. Yang Jung-Mo | KOR | | 2. Zevegiin Oidov | MGL | | 3. Gene Davis | USA | | Men Lightweight 68kg, Freestyle | | 1. Pavel Pinigin | URS | | 2. Lloyd Keaser | USA | | 3. Yasaburo Sugawara | JPN | | Men Welterweight 74kg, Freestyle | | 1. Jiichiro Date | JPN | | 2. Mansour Barzegar |  IRN | | 3. Stanley Dziedzic | USA | | Men Middleweight 82kg, Freestyle | | 1. John Peterson | USA | | 2. Viktor Novozhilov | URS | | 3. Adolf Seger | FRG | | Men Light-Heavyweight 90kg, Freestyle | | 1. Levan Tediashvili | URS | | 2. Ben Peterson | USA | | 3. Stelică Morcov | ROU | | Men Heavyweight 100kg, Freestyle | | 1. Ivan Yarygin | URS | | 2. Russell Hellickson | USA | | 3. Dimo Kostov | BUL | | Men Super-Heavyweight over 100kg, Freestyle | | 1. Soslan Andiyev | URS | | 2. József Balla | HUN | | 3. Ladislau Şimon | ROU |
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