1972 European Wrestling Championships
# 1972 European Wrestling Championships

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 |
| 7 | West Germany | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Finland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Hungary | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | Yugoslavia | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Totals (12 entries) | 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 |
