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Freestyle Wrestling

Class 
Light-Flyweight (-105 3/4 lb)Roman Dimitriyev, URS
 Ognian Nikolov, BUL
 Ebrahim Javadpour, IRN
Flyweight (-114 1/2 lb)Kiyomi Kato, JPN
 Arsen Alakhverdiev, URS
 Hyong Kim Gwong, PRK
Bantamweight (-125 3/4 lb)Hideaki Yanagida, JPN
 Richard Sanders, USA
 László Klinga, HUN
Featherweight (-136 1/2 lb)Zagalav Abdulbekov, URS
 Vehbi Akdag, TUR
 Ivan Krastev, BUL
Lightweight (-149 3/4 lb)Daniel Mack Gable, USA
 Kikuo Wada, JPN
 Wayne Turner Wells, USA
Welterweight (-163 lb)Wayne Wells, USA
 Jan Karlsson, SWE
 Adolf Seger, FRG
Middleweight (-180 3/4 lb)Levan Tediashvili, URS
 John Peterson, USA
 Vasile Jorga, ROM
Light-Heavyweight (-198 1/4 lb)Ben Peterson, USA
 Gennadiy Strakhov, URS
 Karoly Bajko, HUN
Heavyweight (-220 1/4 lb)Ivan Yarygin, URS
 Khorloo Baianmunkh, MGL
 Jószef Csatári, HUN
Super-Heavyweight (+220 1/4 lb)Alexander Medved, URS
 Osman Duraliev, BUL
 Chris Taylor, USA

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