48.Strandja Memorial - Sofia, Bulgaria - February 19-24 1997
Semi-Finals (incomplete):
| 1997-02-22 | 67kg | Fathi Missaoui |
TUN |
Oleg Saitov | RUS | 10:5 |
Finals:
| 1997-02-23 | 48kg | Daniel Petrov | BUL | Valeriy Sidorenko | UKR | 9:1 |
| 1997-02-23 | 51kg | Vladimir Sidorenko | UKR | Yulian Strogov | BUL | 5:2 |
| 1997-02-23 | 54kg | Raimkul Malakhbekov | RUS | Gennadiy Ozarinski | UKR | 8:1 |
| 1997-02-23 | 57kg | Dimitar Shtilianov | BUL | Andrey Gonchar | UKR | 12:2 |
| 1997-02-23 | 60kg | Toncho Tonchev | BUL | Alexandr Maletin | RUS | 12:8 |
| 1997-02-23 | 63,5kg | Vyacheslav Senchenko | UKR | Radoslav Suslekov | BUL | 9:1 |
| 1997-02-23 | 67kg | Fathi Missaoui | TUN | Kamel Chater | TUN | 10:5 |
| 1997-02-23 | 71kg | Mohamed Salah Marmouri | TUN | Sergey Kostenko | UKR | 7:2 |
| 1997-02-23 | 75kg | Oleg Bukalo | UKR | Malik Beyleroglu | TUR | 8:3 |
| 1997-02-23 | 81kg | Tamer Erolov | BUL | Arsen Smirnov | UKR | 5:2 |
| 1997-02-23 | 91kg | Vassiliokos Kiparissos | GRE | A.Deroniche | TUN | 15:9 |
| 1997-02-23 | +91kg | Alexey Lezin | RUS | Alexander Ivanov | BUL | RSC 5 |