Wrestling at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Wrestling at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Freestyle			Greco-Roman
	48 kg			48 kg
	52 kg			52 kg
	57 kg			57 kg
	62 kg			62 kg
	68 kg			68 kg
	74 kg			74 kg
	82 kg			82 kg
	90 kg			90 kg
	100 kg			100 kg
	+100 kg			+100 kg

Wrestling at the 1980 Summer Olympics was represented by twenty events (all — men's individual). They were split into two disciplines (ten events each): Freestyle and Greco-Roman. All events were held in the Wrestling hall of the Sports Complex of the Central Sports Club of the Army (north-western part of Moscow) between July 20 and July 31.

Medal summary

Illya Mate (USSR, in red) and Július Strnisko (Czechoslovakia, in blue) at the 1980 Summer Olympics. RIAN photo.

Freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Claudio Pollio (ITA)	Jang Se-Hong (PRK)	Sergei Kornilayev (URS)
52 kg	Anatoli Beloglazov (URS)	Władysław Stecyk (POL)	Nermedin Selimov (BUL)
57 kg	Sergei Beloglazov (URS)	Li Ho-Pyong (PRK)	Dugarsürengiin Oyuunbold (MGL)
62 kg	Magomedgasan Abushev (URS)	Miho Dukov (BUL)	Georgios Hatziioannidis (GRE)
68 kg	Saipulla Absaidov (URS)	Ivan Yankov (BUL)	Šaban Sejdi (YUG)
74 kg	Valentin Raychev (BUL)	Jamtsyn Davaajav (MGL)	Dan Karabin (TCH)
82 kg	Ismail Abilov (BUL)	Magomedkhan Aratsilov (URS)	István Kovács (HUN)
90 kg	Sanasar Oganisyan (URS)	Uwe Neupert (GDR)	Aleksander Cichoń (POL)
100 kg	Illya Mate (URS)	Slavcho Chervenkov (BUL)	Július Strnisko (TCH)
+100 kg	Soslan Andiyev (URS)	József Balla (HUN)	Adam Sandurski (POL)

Zhaksylyk Ushkempirov (USSR, in red) and Pavel Hristov (Bulgaria, in blue) at the 1980 Summer Olympics. RIAN photo.

Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Zhaqsylyq Üshkempirov (URS)	Constantin Alexandru (ROU)	Ferenc Seres (HUN)
52 kg	Vakhtang Blagidze (URS)	Lajos Rácz (HUN)	Mladen Mladenov (BUL)
57 kg	Shamil Serikov (URS)	Józef Lipień (POL)	Benni Ljungbeck (SWE)
62 kg	Stelios Mygiakis (GRE)	István Tóth (HUN)	Boris Kramarenko (URS)
68 kg	Ştefan Rusu (ROU)	Andrzej Supron (POL)	Lars-Erik Skiöld (SWE)
74 kg	Ferenc Kocsis (HUN)	Anatoly Bykov (URS)	Mikko Huhtala (FIN)
82 kg	Gennadi Korban (URS)	Jan Dołgowicz (POL)	Pavel Pavlov (BUL)
90 kg	Norbert Növényi (HUN)	Ihar Kanyhin (URS)	Petre Dicu (ROU)
100 kg	Georgi Raikov (BUL)	Roman Bierła (POL)	Vasile Andrei (ROU)
+100 kg	Oleksandr Kolchynskyy (URS)	Aleksandar Tomov (BUL)	Hassan Bechara (LIB)

Medals

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	12	3	2	17
2	Bulgaria (BUL)	3	4	3	10
3	Hungary (HUN)	2	3	2	7
4	Romania (ROU)	1	1	2	4
5	Greece (GRE)	1	0	1	2
6	Italy (ITA)	1	0	0	1
7	Poland (POL)	0	5	2	7
8	North Korea (PRK)	0	2	0	2
9	Mongolia (MGL)	0	1	1	2
10	East Germany (GDR)	0	1	0	1
11	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	0	2	2
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	2	2
13	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	Lebanon (LIB)	0	0	1	1
	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	0	1	1

Participating nations

A total of 266 wrestlers from 35 nations competed at the Moscow Games:

Afghanistan (8) Algeria (3) Australia (3) Austria (5) Belgium (3) Bulgaria (20) Cameroon (6) Cuba (10) Czechoslovakia (8)

Denmark (2) East Germany (9) Finland (8) France (2) Great Britain (6) Greece (5) Hungary (19) India (6) Iraq (9)

Italy (6) Lebanon (1) Mexico (2) Mongolia (13) Nigeria (1) North Korea (3) Peru (2) Poland (20) Romania (20)

Senegal (3) Soviet Union (20) Spain (2) Sweden (8) Switzerland (1) Syria (17) Vietnam (5) Yugoslavia (10)

See also

• List of World and Olympic Champions in men's freestyle wrestling
• List of World and Olympic Champions in Greco-Roman wrestling

References

"Wrestling" (pdf). Olympic Review (Lausanne: International Olympic Committee) (154): 436–438. August 1980. Retrieved 2008-02-20.