Wrestling at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Wrestling; at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Venue	Anaheim Convention Center
Dates	30 July – 11 August
Competitors	267 from 44 nations

At the 1984 Summer Olympics, 20 wrestling events were contested. There were 10 weight classes in each of the freestyle wrestling and Greco-Roman wrestling disciplines. Competition took place at the arena at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California.[1]

Background

The dominant Soviet Union that won 12 gold wrestling gold medals in Montreal 1976 was notably absent due to the boycott.[2]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Bobby Weaver United States	Takashi Irie Japan	Son Gab-Do South Korea
52 kg	Šaban Trstena Yugoslavia	Kim Jong-kyu South Korea	Yuji Takada Japan
57 kg	Hideaki Tomiyama Japan	Barry Davis United States	Kim Eui-Kon South Korea
62 kg	Randall Lewis United States	Kosei Akaishi Japan	Lee Jung-Keun South Korea
68 kg	You In-Tak South Korea	Andrew Rein United States	Jukka Rauhala Finland
74 kg	Dave Schultz United States	Martin Knosp West Germany	Šaban Sejdi Yugoslavia
82 kg	Mark Schultz United States	Hideyuki Nagashima Japan	Christopher Rinke Canada
90 kg	Ed Banach United States	Akira Ota Japan	Noel Loban Great Britain
100 kg	Lou Banach United States	Joseph Atiyeh Syria	Vasile Pușcașu Romania
+100 kg	Bruce Baumgartner United States	Robert Molle Canada	Ayhan Taşkin Turkey

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Vincenzo Maenza Italy	Markus Scherer West Germany	Ikuzo Saito Japan
52 kg	Atsuji Miyahara Japan	Daniel Aceves Mexico	Bang Dae-Du South Korea
57 kg	Pasquale Passarelli West Germany	Masaki Eto Japan	Charalambos Cholidis Greece
62 kg	Kim Weon-Kee South Korea	Kent-Olle Johansson Sweden	Hugo Dietsche Switzerland
68 kg	Vlado Lisjak Yugoslavia	Tapio Sipilä Finland	James Martinez United States
74 kg	Jouko Salomäki Finland	Roger Tallroth Sweden	Ștefan Rusu Romania
82 kg	Ion Draica Romania	Dimitrios Thanopoulos Greece	Sören Claeson Sweden
90 kg	Steve Fraser United States	Ilie Matei Romania	Frank Andersson Sweden
100 kg	Vasile Andrei Romania	Greg Gibson United States	Jožef Tertei Yugoslavia
+100 kg	Jeff Blatnick United States	Refik Memišević Yugoslavia	Victor Dolipschi Romania


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	9	3	1	13
2	Japan (JPN)	2	5	2	9
3	South Korea (KOR)	2	1	4	7
4	Romania (ROU)	2	1	3	6
5	Yugoslavia (YUG)	2	1	2	5
6	West Germany (FRG)	1	2	0	3
7	Finland (FIN)	1	1	1	3
8	Italy (ITA)	1	0	0	1
9	Sweden (SWE)	0	2	2	4
10	Canada (CAN)	0	1	1	2
10	Greece (GRE)	0	1	1	2
12	Mexico (MEX)	0	1	0	1
12	Syria (SYR)	0	1	0	1
14	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
	Turkey (TUR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 nations)		20	20	20	60

Wrestlers greet the crowd at a medal ceremony.

A total of 267 wrestlers from 44 nations competed at the Los Angeles Games:[1]

"Wrestling at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
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