1972 European Sambo Championships

Sambo competitions 1972 European Sambo Championships Riga, Latvia 1974 The 1972 European Sambo Championships was the first International Sambo competition of its kind and it was held in Riga, Latvia.https://books.google.com/books?id=bNgDAAAAMBAJ&q=European+Sambo+Championships+riga&pg=PA53 Black Belt 53 June 3, 1973https://books.google.com/books?id=FaTfuuIlmqcC&q=European+Sambo+Championships+riga+1972&pg=PA512 Martial Arts of the World: An Encyclopedia of History and Innovation Thomas A. Green Joseph R. Svinth 512 September 3, 2010 Bloomsbury Academic 9781598842432http://www.insidethegames.biz/timelines/10 Sambo History Insidethegames.biz 3 September 2019 29 July 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190729131121/https://www.insidethegames.biz/timelines/10 dead Medal overview men Gold Silver Bronze -58kg MGL (MGL) BUL Parvan Parvanov (BUL) BUL 1971) (BUL) -62kg URS (URS)RUS BUL 1971) (BUL) JPN K. Saito (JPN) -66kg URS (URS)RUS MGL (MGL) BUL 1971) (BUL) -70kg URS Vladimir Nevzorov (URS)RUS MGL (MGL) BUL 1971) (BUL) -75kg MGL (MGL) JPN Koji Kuramoto (JPN) BUL 1971) (BUL) -80kg URS Česlovas Jezerskas (URS)RUS MGL (MGL) JPN (JPN) -86kg ESP (ESP) BUL 1971) (BUL) USA (USA) -90kg JPN Nobuyuki Sato (JPN) URS Valery Rukhledev (URS) BUL 1971) (BUL) -100kg URS Serhiy Novikov (URS)RUS ESP Miguel Tejera (ESP) BUL 1971) (BUL) +100kg URS Vitali Kuznetsov (URS)RUS BUL 1971) (BUL) USA (USA) References Category:European Sambo Championships Category:1972 in sambo (martial art) Category:International sports competitions hosted by Latvia Category:Sports competitions in Riga