1976 European Wrestling Championships
| Host City |
Leningrad |
| Country |
 RUS |
| Held |
16 – 21 April 1976 |
| Competitors |
60 |
| Countries |
12 |
Events
Medal table
| Pos |
Country |
🥇 Gold |
🥈 Silver |
🥉 Bronze |
Total |
| 1 |
Soviet Union |
 URS |
9 |
5 |
4 |
18 |
| 2 |
Bulgaria |
 BUL |
3 |
4 |
2 |
9 |
| 3 |
Hungary |
 HUN |
2 |
3 |
2 |
7 |
| 4 |
Sweden |
 SWE |
2 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
| 5 |
Romania |
 ROU |
1 |
6 |
1 |
8 |
| 6 |
Germany |
 GER |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
| 7 |
Czechoslovakia |
 TCH |
1 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
| 8 |
Poland |
 POL |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| 9 |
East Germany |
 GDR |
0 |
1 |
5 |
6 |
| 10 |
Greece |
 GRE |
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
| 11 |
Norway |
 NOR |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
| = |
Turkey |
 TUR |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
Medal winners
| Event |
🥇 Gold |
|
🥈 Silver |
|
🥉 Bronze |
|
| Greco-Roman -48 kg, Men |
Aleksey Shumakov
|
URS
|
Constantin Alexandru
|
ROU
|
Ferenc Seres
|
HUN
|
| Greco-Roman -52 kg, Men |
Petar Kirov
|
BUL
|
Vladimir Shatunov
|
URS
|
Babis Cholidis
|
GRE
|
| Greco-Roman -57 kg, Men |
Farkhat Mustafin
|
URS
|
Mihai Boțilă
|
ROU
|
Josef Krysta
|
TCH
|
| Greco-Roman -62 kg, Men |
Kazimierz Lipień
|
POL
|
Ion Păun
|
ROU
|
Suren Nalbandyan
|
URS
|
| Greco-Roman -68 kg, Men |
Lars-Erik Skiöld
|
SWE
|
Ștefan Rusu
|
ROU
|
Shamil Khisamutdinov
|
URS
|
| Greco-Roman -74 kg, Men |
Yanko Shopov
|
BUL
|
Iosif Berishvili
|
URS
|
Petros Galaktopoulos
|
GRE
|
| Greco-Roman -82 kg, Men |
Csaba Hegedűs
|
HUN
|
Vladimir Cheboksarov
|
URS
|
Ivan Kolev
|
BUL
|
| Greco-Roman -90 kg, Men |
Frank Andersson
|
SWE
|
Stoyan Nikolov
|
BUL
|
Fred Theobald
|
GER
|
| Greco-Roman +100 kg, Men |
Aleksandar Tomov
|
BUL
|
Aleksandr Kolchinsky
|
URS
|
József Nagy
|
HUN
|
| Greco-Roman -100 kg, Men |
Nikolay Balboshin
|
URS
|
József Farkas
|
HUN
|
Tore Hem
|
NOR
|
| Freestyle -48 kg, Men |
Anatoly Beloglazov
|
URS
|
Mihály Gyulai
|
HUN
|
Jürgen Möbius
|
GDR
|
| Freestyle -52 kg, Men |
Henrik Gál
|
HUN
|
Arsen Alakhverdiyev
|
URS
|
Hartmut Reich
|
GDR
|
| Freestyle -57 kg, Men |
Vladimir Yumin
|
URS
|
László Klinga
|
HUN
|
Hans-Dieter Brüchert
|
GDR
|
| Freestyle -62 kg, Men |
Sergey Timofeyev
|
URS
|
Petre Coman
|
ROU
|
Ivan Yankov
|
BUL
|
| Freestyle -68 kg, Men |
Aleksandr Matveyev
|
URS
|
Ismail Yuseinov
|
BUL
|
Eberhard Probst
|
GDR
|
| Freestyle -74 kg, Men |
Dan Karabin
|
TCH
|
Marin Pîrcălabu
|
ROU
|
Fred Hempel
|
GDR
|
| Freestyle -82 kg, Men |
Adolf Seger
|
GER
|
Ismail Abilov
|
BUL
|
Viktor Novozhilov
|
URS
|
| Freestyle -90 kg, Men |
Levan Tediashvili
|
URS
|
Peter Neumair
|
GER
|
Stelica Morcov
|
ROU
|
| Freestyle -100 kg, Men |
Ivan Yarygin
|
URS
|
Dimo Kostov
|
BUL
|
Mehmet Güçlü
|
TUR
|
| Freestyle +100 kg, Men |
Ladislau Șimon
|
ROU
|
Roland Gehrke
|
GDR
|
Boris Bigayev
|
URS
|