1972 European Sambo Championships
# 1972 European Sambo Championships

The 1972 European Sambo Championships was the first International Sambo competition of its kind and it was held in Riga, Latvia.

## Medal overview

| men | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| -58kg | [] (MGL) | Parvan Parvanov (BUL) | [] (BUL) |
| -62kg | [] $(URS)^{RUS}$ | [] (BUL) | K. Saito (JPN) |
| -66kg | [] $(URS)^{RUS}$ | [] (MGL) | (BUL) |
| -70kg | Vladimir Nevzorov $(URS)^{RUS}$ | [] (MGL) | [] (BUL) |
| -75kg | [] (MGL) | Koji Kuramoto (JPN) | [] (BUL) |
| -80kg | Česlovas Jezerskas $(URS)^{RUS}$ | [] (MGL) | (JPN) |
| -86kg | [] (ESP) | [] (BUL) | [] (USA) |
| -90kg | Nobuyuki Sato (JPN) | Valery Rukhledev (URS) | (BUL) |
| -100kg | Serhiy Novikov $(URS)^{RUS}$ | Miguel Tejera (ESP) | [] (BUL) |
| +100kg | Vitali Kuznetsov $(URS)^{RUS}$ | [] (BUL) | [] (USA) |
