1979 European Wrestling Championships
| Host City |
București |
| Country |
 ROU |
| Held |
16 – 21 April 1979 |
| Competitors |
60 |
| Countries |
11 |
Events
Medal table
| Pos |
Country |
🥇 Gold |
🥈 Silver |
🥉 Bronze |
Total |
| 1 |
Soviet Union |
 URS |
11 |
2 |
2 |
15 |
| 2 |
Romania |
ROU |
3 |
3 |
4 |
10 |
| 3 |
Bulgaria |
 BUL |
2 |
4 |
4 |
10 |
| 4 |
Hungary |
 HUN |
1 |
3 |
1 |
5 |
| 5 |
East Germany |
 GDR |
1 |
2 |
1 |
4 |
| 6 |
Greece |
 GRE |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| = |
Sweden |
 SWE |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| 8 |
Poland |
 POL |
0 |
3 |
5 |
8 |
| 9 |
Germany |
 GER |
0 |
3 |
1 |
4 |
| 10 |
Czechoslovakia |
 TCH |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
| = |
Turkey |
 TUR |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
Medal winners
| Event |
🥇 Gold |
|
🥈 Silver |
|
🥉 Bronze |
|
| Greco-Roman -48 kg, Men |
Constantin Alexandru
|
ROU
|
Pavel Hristov
|
BUL
|
Anatoly Bozin
|
URS
|
| Greco-Roman -52 kg, Men |
Robert Nersesyan
|
URS
|
Nicu Gingă
|
ROU
|
Lajos Rácz
|
HUN
|
| Greco-Roman -57 kg, Men |
Shamil Serikov
|
URS
|
Pasquale Passarelli
|
GER
|
Josef Krysta
|
TCH
|
| Greco-Roman -62 kg, Men |
Stelios Mygiakis
|
GRE
|
Tamás Tóth
|
HUN
|
Kazimierz Lipień
|
POL
|
| Greco-Roman -68 kg, Men |
Ștefan Rusu
|
ROU
|
Ivan Saikov
|
BUL
|
Andrzej Supron
|
POL
|
| Greco-Roman -74 kg, Men |
Ferenc Kocsis
|
HUN
|
Vyacheslav Mkrtychev
|
URS
|
Nedelcho Nedev
|
BUL
|
| Greco-Roman -82 kg, Men |
Ion Draica
|
ROU
|
Jan Dołgowicz
|
POL
|
Teymuraz Apkhazava
|
URS
|
| Greco-Roman -90 kg, Men |
Frank Andersson
|
SWE
|
Norbert Növényi
|
HUN
|
Petre Dicu
|
ROU
|
| Greco-Roman +100 kg, Men |
Aleksandar Tomov
|
BUL
|
Roman Codreanu
|
ROU
|
Kenan Ege
|
TUR
|
| Greco-Roman -100 kg, Men |
Nikolay Balboshin
|
URS
|
Roman Bierła
|
POL
|
Vasile Andrei
|
ROU
|
| Freestyle -48 kg, Men |
Arshak Sanoyan
|
URS
|
Jan Falandys
|
POL
|
Aurel Rentea
|
ROU
|
| Freestyle -52 kg, Men |
Iragi Shugayev
|
URS
|
Hartmut Reich
|
GDR
|
Andrzej Kudelski
|
POL
|
| Freestyle -57 kg, Men |
Sergey Beloglazov
|
URS
|
Aurel Neagu
|
ROU
|
Ivan Tsochev
|
BUL
|
| Freestyle -62 kg, Men |
Miho Dukov
|
BUL
|
Eduard Giray
|
GER
|
Jan Szymański
|
POL
|
| Freestyle -68 kg, Men |
Nikolay Petrenko
|
URS
|
Ivan Yankov
|
BUL
|
Eberhard Probst
|
GDR
|
| Freestyle -74 kg, Men |
Musan Abdul-Muslimov
|
URS
|
Martin Knosp
|
GER
|
Aleksandar Nanev
|
BUL
|
| Freestyle -82 kg, Men |
Oleg Alekseyev
|
URS
|
István Kovács
|
HUN
|
Adolf Seger
|
GER
|
| Freestyle -90 kg, Men |
Uwe Neupert
|
GDR
|
Alash Daudov
|
URS
|
Ivan Ginov
|
BUL
|
| Freestyle -100 kg, Men |
Ilya Mate
|
URS
|
Slavcho Chervenkov
|
BUL
|
Vasile Pușcașu
|
ROU
|
| Freestyle +100 kg, Men |
Salman Khasimikov
|
URS
|
Roland Gehrke
|
GDR
|
Adam Sandurski
|
POL
|