1979 World Championships
Host city	San Diego, United States
Dates	21–28 August
Stadium	San Diego State University
Champions
Freestyle	Soviet Union
Greco-Roman	Soviet Union

The 1979 World Wrestling Championships were held in San Diego, California, United States. As during the 1973 edition, the venue, San Diego State University Arena hosted the Pan American Sambo Championships very next day after the freestyle event finale.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	9	5	2	16
2	Hungary	4	1	0	5
3	Bulgaria	2	2	3	7
4	Japan	2	2	1	5
5	United States	1	5	4	10
6	Romania	1	0	2	3
7	Poland	1	0	1	2
	Sweden	1	0	1	2
9	East Germany	0	2	2	4
10	West Germany	0	1	3	4
11	Yugoslavia	0	1	0	1
12	Italy	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		21	19	20	60

Team ranking

Rank	Men's freestyle		Men's Greco-Roman
	Team	Points	Team	Points
1	Soviet Union	50	Soviet Union	43
2	United States	35	Hungary	30
3	East Germany	21	Bulgaria	27
4	Japan	19.25	United States	17
5	Bulgaria	19	West Germany	17
6	Poland	13.5	Romania	15

Medal summary

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Sergey Kornilayev  Soviet Union	Bobby Weaver  United States	Jan Falandys  Poland
52 kg	Yuji Takada  Japan	James Haines  United States	Hartmut Reich  East Germany
57 kg	Hideaki Tomiyama  Japan	Sergey Beloglazov  Soviet Union	Joe Corso  United States
62 kg	Vladimir Yumin  Soviet Union	Miho Dukov  Bulgaria	Andre Metzger  United States
68 kg	Mikhail Charachura  Soviet Union	Akira Miyahara  Japan	Eberhard Probst  East Germany
74 kg	Leroy Kemp  United States	Martin Knosp  West Germany	Nikolay Petrenko  Soviet Union
82 kg	István Kovács  Hungary	John Peterson  United States	Magomedkhan Aratsilov  Soviet Union
90 kg	Khasan Ortzev  Soviet Union	Uwe Neupert  East Germany	Ivan Ginov  Bulgaria
100 kg	Ilya Mate  Soviet Union	Russ Hellickson  United States	Vasile Pușcașu  Romania
+100 kg	Salman Khasimikov  Soviet Union	Roland Gehrke  East Germany	Andrei Ianko  Romania

Men's Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Constantin Alexandru  Romania	Aleksey Shumakov  Soviet Union	Pavel Hristov  Bulgaria
52 kg	Lajos Rácz  Hungary	Kamil Fatkulin  Soviet Union	Toshio Asakura  Japan
57 kg	Shamil Serikov  Soviet Union	Kiwamu Kashiwagi  Japan	Antonino Caltabiano  Italy
62 kg	István Tóth  Hungary	Abdurrahim Kuzu  United States	Lars Malmkvist  Sweden
68 kg	Andrzej Supron  Poland	Aleksandr Aliyev  Soviet Union	Erich Klaus  West Germany
74 kg	Yanko Shopov  Bulgaria	Shared gold	Karl-Heinz Helbing  West Germany
	Ferenc Kocsis  Hungary
82 kg	Gennady Korban  Soviet Union	Momir Petković  Yugoslavia	Pavel Pavlov  Bulgaria
90 kg	Frank Andersson  Sweden	Norbert Növényi  Hungary	Pedro Pawlidis  West Germany
100 kg	Nikolay Balboshin  Soviet Union	Georgi Raykov  Bulgaria	Brad Rheingans  United States
+100 kg	Aleksandar Tomov  Bulgaria	Aleksandr Kolchinsky  Soviet Union	Bob Walker  United States

References

• FILA Database
• Page 48–49