1972 European Wrestling Championships
| Host City |
Katowice |
| Country |
 POL |
| Held |
24 – 30 May 1972 |
| Competitors |
60 |
| Countries |
12 |
Events
Medal table
| Pos |
Country |
🥇 Gold |
🥈 Silver |
🥉 Bronze |
Total |
| 1 |
Soviet Union |
 URS |
9 |
6 |
1 |
16 |
| 2 |
Bulgaria |
 BUL |
5 |
7 |
3 |
15 |
| 3 |
Romania |
 ROU |
1 |
2 |
6 |
9 |
| 4 |
Poland |
POL |
1 |
1 |
4 |
6 |
| 5 |
East Germany |
 GDR |
1 |
1 |
2 |
4 |
| 6 |
Turkey |
 TUR |
1 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
| 7 |
Germany |
 GER |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| = |
Greece |
 GRE |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| 9 |
Finland |
 FIN |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| = |
Hungary |
 HUN |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| 11 |
Czechoslovakia |
 TCH |
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
| = |
Yugoslavia |
 YUG |
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
Medal winners
| Event |
🥇 Gold |
|
🥈 Silver |
|
🥉 Bronze |
|
| Greco-Roman -48 kg, Men |
Gheorghe Berceanu
|
ROU
|
Stefan Angelov
|
BUL
|
Vladimir Zubkov
|
URS
|
| Greco-Roman -52 kg, Men |
Jan Michalik
|
POL
|
Vitaly Konstantinov
|
URS
|
Petar Kirov
|
BUL
|
| Greco-Roman -57 kg, Men |
Hristo Traykov
|
BUL
|
Yury Sokolov
|
URS
|
Ion Baciu
|
ROU
|
| Greco-Roman -62 kg, Men |
Georgi Markov
|
BUL
|
Martti Laakso
|
FIN
|
Kazimierz Lipień
|
POL
|
| Greco-Roman -68 kg, Men |
Jürgen Hähnel
|
GDR
|
Antal Steer
|
HUN
|
Andrzej Supron
|
POL
|
| Greco-Roman -74 kg, Men |
Petros Galaktopoulos
|
GRE
|
Kasym Khayilov
|
URS
|
Vítězslav Mácha
|
TCH
|
| Greco-Roman -82 kg, Men |
Anatoly Nazarenko
|
URS
|
Ion Gabor
|
ROU
|
Miroslav Janota
|
TCH
|
| Greco-Roman -90 kg, Men |
Stoyan Nikolov
|
BUL
|
Omar Bliadze
|
URS
|
Darko Nišavić
|
YUG
|
| Greco-Roman +100 kg, Men |
Aleksandar Tomov
|
BUL
|
Anatoly Kochnev
|
URS
|
Victor Dolipschi
|
ROU
|
| Greco-Roman -100 kg, Men |
Nikolay Yakovenko
|
URS
|
Andrzej Skrzydlewski
|
POL
|
Nicolae Martinescu
|
ROU
|
| Freestyle -48 kg, Men |
Sefer Baygın
|
TUR
|
Jürgen Möbius
|
GDR
|
Ognyan Nikolov
|
BUL
|
| Freestyle -52 kg, Men |
Arsen Alakhverdiyev
|
URS
|
Bayo Baev
|
BUL
|
Emil Butu
|
ROU
|
| Freestyle -57 kg, Men |
Ivan Kuleshov
|
URS
|
Ivan Shavov
|
BUL
|
Zbigniew Żedzicki
|
POL
|
| Freestyle -62 kg, Men |
Ruslan Pliyev
|
URS
|
Mehmet Sarı
|
TUR
|
Petre Coman
|
ROU
|
| Freestyle -68 kg, Men |
Ismail Yuseinov
|
BUL
|
Petre Poalelungi
|
ROU
|
Safer Sali
|
YUG
|
| Freestyle -74 kg, Men |
Adolf Seger
|
GER
|
Roman Marsagishvili
|
URS
|
Yancho Pavlov
|
BUL
|
| Freestyle -82 kg, Men |
Vasily Syulshin
|
URS
|
Ivan Iliev
|
BUL
|
Wolfgang Nitschke
|
GDR
|
| Freestyle -90 kg, Men |
Gennady Strakhov
|
URS
|
Rusi Petrov
|
BUL
|
Paweł Kurczewski
|
POL
|
| Freestyle -100 kg, Men |
Ivan Yarygin
|
URS
|
Vasil Todorov
|
BUL
|
Gerd Bachmann
|
GDR
|
| Freestyle +100 kg, Men |
Aliaksandr Miadved
|
URS
|
Osman Duraliev
|
BUL
|
Ștefan Stîngu
|
ROU
|