1970 World Championships
Host city	Edmonton, Canada
Dates	4–11 July
Champions
Freestyle	Soviet Union
Greco-Roman	Soviet Union

The 1970 World Wrestling Championships were held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	9	1	3	13
2	Iran	3	1	1	5
3	Japan	2	4	2	8
4	Bulgaria	1	4	3	8
5	United States	1	3	2	6
6	Hungary	1	2	0	3
7	Romania	1	1	2	4
8	Turkey	1	0	1	2
9	Sweden	1	0	0	1
10	Yugoslavia	0	1	2	3
11	Poland	0	1	1	2
12	South Korea	0	1	0	1
	West Germany	0	1	0	1
14	East Germany	0	0	1	1
	Greece	0	0	1	1
	Mongolia	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		20	20	20	60

Team ranking

Rank	Men's freestyle		Men's Greco-Roman
	Team	Points	Team	Points
1	Soviet Union	40	Soviet Union	43
2	United States	31.5	Bulgaria	27.5
3	Iran	27.5	Yugoslavia	22
4	Japan	27	Hungary	19.5
5	Bulgaria	25.83	Romania	19.5
6	Turkey	16.5	Japan	17

Medal summary

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Ebrahim Javadi  Iran	Akihiko Umeda  Japan	Roman Dmitriyev  Soviet Union
52 kg	Ali Rıza Alan  Turkey	Bayu Baev  Bulgaria	Mohammad Ghorbani  Iran
57 kg	Hideaki Yanagida  Japan	An Jae-won  South Korea	Yancho Patrikov  Bulgaria
62 kg	Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi  Iran	Kiyoshi Abe  Japan	Michael Young  United States
68 kg	Abdollah Movahed  Iran	Ismail Yuseinov  Bulgaria	Bobby Douglas  United States
74 kg	Wayne Wells  United States	Mohammad Farhangdoust  Iran	Danzandarjaagiin Sereeter  Mongolia
82 kg	Yury Shakhmuradov  Soviet Union	Tatsuo Sasaki  Japan	Vasile Iorga  Romania
90 kg	Gennady Strakhov  Soviet Union	Bill Harlow  United States	Makoto Kamada  Japan
100 kg	Vladimir Gulyutkin  Soviet Union	Larry Kristoff  United States	Gıyasettin Yılmaz  Turkey
+100 kg	Aleksandr Medved  Soviet Union	Osman Duraliev  Bulgaria	Peter Germer  East Germany

Men's Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Gheorghe Berceanu  Romania	Vladimir Zubkov  Soviet Union	Bernard Szczepański  Poland
52 kg	Petar Kirov  Bulgaria	Saburo Sugiyama  Japan	Boško Marinko  Yugoslavia
57 kg	János Varga  Hungary	David Hazewinkel  United States	Rustam Kazakov  Soviet Union
62 kg	Hideo Fujimoto  Japan	Slavko Koletić  Yugoslavia	Georgi Markov  Bulgaria
68 kg	Roman Rurua  Soviet Union	Simion Popescu  Romania	Takashi Tanoue  Japan
74 kg	Viktor Igumenov  Soviet Union	Werner Schröter  West Germany	Petros Galaktopoulos  Greece
82 kg	Anatoly Nazarenko  Soviet Union	Petar Krumov  Bulgaria	Milan Nenadić  Yugoslavia
90 kg	Valery Rezantsev  Soviet Union	Czesław Kwieciński  Poland	Venko Tsintsarov  Bulgaria
100 kg	Pelle Svensson  Sweden	Ferenc Kiss  Hungary	Nikolay Yakovenko  Soviet Union
+100 kg	Anatoly Roshchin  Soviet Union	József Csatári  Hungary	Nicolae Martinescu  Romania