Wrestling at the 1979 Mediterranean Games

Wrestling at the 1979 Mediterranean Games
Dates	September 1979

The wrestling tournament at the 1979 Mediterranean Games was held in Split, Yugoslavia.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Yugoslavia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Yugoslavia	11	1	2	14
2	Turkey	5	4	5	14
3	Italy	2	6	5	13
4	Greece	1	4	4	9
5	Spain	1	0	0	1
6	France	0	2	2	4
7	Egypt	0	1	1	2
8	Lebanon	0	1	0	1
	Morocco	0	1	0	1
10	Algeria	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		20	20	20	60

Medalists

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Claudio Pollio  Italy	Ömer Sakızcı  Turkey	Mirko Dimčevski  Yugoslavia
52 kg	Koce Efremov  Yugoslavia	Muhammed Oruç  Turkey	Aldo Bova  Italy
57 kg	Risto Darlev  Yugoslavia	Antonio La Bruna  Italy	Diego Lo Brutto  France
62 kg	Nurettin Kurt  Turkey	Georgios Khatziioannidis  Greece	Šaip Bajrami  Yugoslavia
68 kg	Shaban Sejdiu  Yugoslavia	Didier Nicolas  France	Hüseyin Yalın  Turkey
74 kg	Kiro Ristov  Yugoslavia	Riccardo Niccolini  Italy	Osman Uzun  Turkey
82 kg	Şenol Tenekecioğlu  Turkey	Luciano Ortelli  Italy	Mohamed El-Ashram  Egypt
90 kg	Halil Aras  Turkey	Michele Azzola  Italy	Christophe Andanson  France
100 kg	Santiago Morales  Spain	Messias Vitsaras  Greece	Mehmet Donbay  Turkey
+100 kg	Hüseyin Çokal  Turkey	Hassan Bechara  Lebanon	Dimitris Spyridopoulos  Greece

Men's Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Salih Bora  Turkey	Vincenzo Maenza  Italy	Sotiris Ventas  Greece
52 kg	Babis Kholidis  Greece	Slavko Skušek  Yugoslavia	Giuseppe Caltabiano  Italy
57 kg	Antonino Caltabiano  Italy	Ali Lachkar  Morocco	Mehmet Karadağ  Turkey
62 kg	Ivan Frgić  Yugoslavia	Stelios Mygiakis  Greece	Djamel Benaceur  Algeria
68 kg	Ferenc Čaba  Yugoslavia	Lionel Lacaze  France	Domenico Giuffrida  Italy
74 kg	Karolj Kasap  Yugoslavia	Erol Mutlu  Turkey	Feliciano Marotto  Italy
82 kg	Momir Petković  Yugoslavia	Mohamed El-Ashram  Egypt	Dimitrios Thanopoulos  Greece
90 kg	Darko Nišavić  Yugoslavia	Georgios Pozidis  Greece	Polat Aydın  Turkey
100 kg	Refik Memišević  Yugoslavia	Remo Ricciardelli  Italy	Georgios Poikilidis  Greece
+100 kg	Prvoslav Ilić  Yugoslavia	Kenan Ege  Turkey	Antonio La Penna  Italy

References

• 1979 Mediterranean Games report at the International Committee of Mediterranean Games (CIJM) website
• List of Olympians who won medals at the Mediterranean Games at Olympedia.org