The following is the final results of the 1982 World Wrestling Championships. Freestyle competition were held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and Greco-Roman competition were held in Katowice, Poland.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	11	2	4	17
2	Poland	3	2	1	6
3	East Germany	2	0	2	4
4	Bulgaria	1	6	4	11
5	Romania	1	3	1	5
6	United States	1	0	3	4
7	Sweden	1	0	0	1
8	Yugoslavia	0	1	2	3
9	Cuba	0	1	1	2
	Hungary	0	1	1	2
11	Canada	0	1	0	1
	Czechoslovakia	0	1	0	1
	Japan	0	1	0	1
	Turkey	0	1	0	1
15	South Korea	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 entries)		20	20	20	60

Rank	Men's freestyle		Men's Greco-Roman
	Team	Points	Team	Points
1	Soviet Union	55	Soviet Union	46
2	United States	28	Poland	31
3	Bulgaria	25	Romania	30
4	East Germany	23	Bulgaria	30
5	Japan	12	Yugoslavia	17
6	Iran	12	Hungary	13

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Sergey Kornilayev  Soviet Union	Ali Mehmedov  Bulgaria	Šaban Trstena  Yugoslavia
52 kg	Hartmut Reich  East Germany	Osman Efendiev  Soviet Union	Joe Gonzales  United States
57 kg	Anatoly Beloglazov  Soviet Union	Hideaki Tomiyama  Japan	Stefan Ivanov  Bulgaria
62 kg	Sergey Beloglazov  Soviet Union	Simeon Shterev  Bulgaria	József Orbán  Hungary
68 kg	Mikhail Charachura  Soviet Union	Raúl Cascaret  Cuba	Eberhard Probst  East Germany
74 kg	Leroy Kemp  United States	Dan Karabin  Czechoslovakia	Yury Vorobiev  Soviet Union
82 kg	Taymuraz Dzgoev  Soviet Union	Efraim Kamberov  Bulgaria	Dave Schultz  United States
90 kg	Uwe Neupert  East Germany	Clark Davis  Canada	Vladimir Batnia  Soviet Union
100 kg	Ilya Mate  Soviet Union	Slavcho Chervenkov  Bulgaria	Greg Gibson  United States
+100 kg	Salman Khasimikov  Soviet Union	Adam Sandurski  Poland	Andreas Schröder  East Germany

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Temo Kasarashvili  Soviet Union	Salih Bora  Turkey	Bratan Tsenov  Bulgaria
52 kg	Benur Pashayan  Soviet Union	Lyubomir Zekov  Bulgaria	Bang Dae-du  South Korea
57 kg	Piotr Michalik  Poland	Niculae Zamfir  Romania	Vasily Fomin  Soviet Union
62 kg	Ryszard Świerad  Poland	Roman Nasibulov  Soviet Union	Panayot Kirov  Bulgaria
68 kg	Gennady Ermilov  Soviet Union	István Péter  Hungary	Ștefan Negrișan  Romania
74 kg	Ștefan Rusu  Romania	Andrzej Supron  Poland	Karolj Kasap  Yugoslavia
82 kg	Taymuraz Apkhazava  Soviet Union	Ion Draica  Romania	Jan Dołgowicz  Poland
90 kg	Frank Andersson  Sweden	Atanas Komchev  Bulgaria	Igor Kanygin  Soviet Union
100 kg	Roman Wrocławski  Poland	Vasile Andrei  Romania	Andrey Dimitrov  Bulgaria
+100 kg	Nikola Dinev  Bulgaria	Refik Memišević  Yugoslavia	Cándido Mesa  Cuba

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