# 1981 World Wrestling Championships

The following is the final results of the 1981 World Wrestling Championships. Freestyle competition were held in Skopje, Yugoslavia (present-day North Macedonia) and Greco-Roman competition were held in Oslo, Norway.

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 12 | 0 | 4 | 16 |
| 2 | West Germany | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | Bulgaria | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 |
| 4 | Yugoslavia | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | Japan | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | United States | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | East Germany | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | Hungary | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | Finland | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 9 | Poland | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 11 | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Iran | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | South Korea | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Sweden | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Turkey | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Romania | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 17 | Austria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 17 | Mongolia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (18 entries) | Totals (18 entries) | 20 | 20 | 20 | 60 |

## Team ranking

| Rank | Men's freestyle | Men's freestyle | Men's Greco-Roman | Men's Greco-Roman |
| Rank | Team | Points | Team | Points |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 42 | Soviet Union | 49 |
| 2 | Bulgaria | 33 | Hungary | 23 |
| 3 | United States | 28 | Finland | 21 |
| 4 | East Germany | 17 | Bulgaria | 18 |
| 5 | Iran | 17 | Poland | 17 |
| 6 | Japan | 15 | Yugoslavia | 15 |

## Medal summary
### Men's freestyle

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 48 kg | Sergey Kornilayev Soviet Union | Son Gab-do South Korea | William Rosado United States |
| 52 kg | Toshio Asakura Japan | Hartmut Reich East Germany | Nanzadyn Büregdaa Mongolia |
| 57 kg | Sergey Beloglazov Soviet Union | Stefan Ivanov Bulgaria | Hideaki Tomiyama Japan |
| 62 kg | Simeon Shterev Bulgaria | Marian Skubacz Poland | Viktor Alekseev Soviet Union |
| 68 kg | Saypulla Absaidov Soviet Union | Šaban Sejdi Yugoslavia | Kamen Penev Bulgaria |
| 74 kg | Martin Knosp West Germany | Valentin Raychev Bulgaria | Leroy Kemp United States |
| 82 kg | Chris Campbell United States | Efraim Kamberov Bulgaria | Grigory Danko Soviet Union |
| 90 kg | Sanasar Oganisyan Soviet Union | Ivan Ginov Bulgaria | Uwe Neupert East Germany |
| 100 kg | Roland Gehrke East Germany | Greg Gibson United States | Ilya Mate Soviet Union |
| +100 kg | Salman Khasimikov Soviet Union | Reza Soukhtehsaraei Iran | Adam Sandurski Poland |

### Men's Greco-Roman

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 48 kg | Zhaksylyk Ushkempirov Soviet Union | Salih Bora Turkey | Fumikazu Sasaki Japan |
| 52 kg | Vakhtang Blagidze Soviet Union | Atsuji Miyahara Japan | Lajos Rácz Hungary |
| 57 kg | Pasquale Passarelli West Germany | Josef Krysta Czechoslovakia | Ilpo Seppälä Finland |
| 62 kg | István Tóth Hungary | Ryszard Świerad Poland | Pertti Ukkola Finland |
| 68 kg | Gennady Ermilov Soviet Union | Tapio Sipilä Finland | Ștefan Rusu Romania |
| 74 kg | Aleksandr Kudryavtsev Soviet Union | Mikko Huhtala Finland | Karolj Kasap Yugoslavia |
| 82 kg | Gennady Korban Soviet Union | Momir Petković Yugoslavia | Ion Draica Romania |
| 90 kg | Igor Kanygin Soviet Union | Frank Andersson Sweden | Franz Pitschmann Austria |
| 100 kg | Mikhail Saladze Soviet Union | Tamás Gáspár Hungary | Roman Wrocławski Poland |
| +100 kg | Refik Memišević Yugoslavia | Nikola Dinev Bulgaria | Evgeny Artyukhin Soviet Union |