Wrestling at the 1980 Summer Olympics

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 20 and 31 July.[1]

Wrestling at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venue	CSKA Sports Complex
Dates	20–31 July
Competitors	266 from 35 nations

Medal summary

Freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Claudio Pollio  Italy	Jang Se-Hong  North Korea	Sergei Kornilayev  Soviet Union
52 kg	Anatoli Beloglazov  Soviet Union	Władysław Stecyk  Poland	Nermedin Selimov  Bulgaria
57 kg	Sergei Beloglazov  Soviet Union	Li Ho-Pyong  North Korea	Dugarsürengiin Oyuunbold  Mongolia
62 kg	Magomedgasan Abushev  Soviet Union	Miho Dukov  Bulgaria	Georgios Hatziioannidis  Greece
68 kg	Saipulla Absaidov  Soviet Union	Ivan Yankov  Bulgaria	Šaban Sejdi  Yugoslavia
74 kg	Valentin Raychev  Bulgaria	Jamtsyn Davaajav  Mongolia	Dan Karabin  Czechoslovakia
82 kg	Ismail Abilov  Bulgaria	Magomedkhan Aratsilov  Soviet Union	István Kovács  Hungary
90 kg	Sanasar Oganisyan  Soviet Union	Uwe Neupert  East Germany	Aleksander Cichoń  Poland
100 kg	Illya Mate  Soviet Union	Slavcho Chervenkov  Bulgaria	Július Strnisko  Czechoslovakia
+100 kg	Soslan Andiyev  Soviet Union	József Balla  Hungary	Adam Sandurski  Poland

Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Zhaqsylyq Üshkempirov  Soviet Union	Constantin Alexandru  Romania	Ferenc Seres  Hungary
52 kg	Vakhtang Blagidze  Soviet Union	Lajos Rácz  Hungary	Mladen Mladenov  Bulgaria
57 kg	Shamil Serikov  Soviet Union	Józef Lipień  Poland	Benni Ljungbeck  Sweden
62 kg	Stelios Mygiakis  Greece	István Tóth  Hungary	Boris Kramarenko  Soviet Union
68 kg	Ștefan Rusu  Romania	Andrzej Supron  Poland	Lars-Erik Skiöld  Sweden
74 kg	Ferenc Kocsis  Hungary	Anatoly Bykov  Soviet Union	Mikko Huhtala  Finland
82 kg	Gennadi Korban  Soviet Union	Jan Dołgowicz  Poland	Pavel Pavlov  Bulgaria
90 kg	Norbert Növényi  Hungary	Ihar Kanyhin  Soviet Union	Petre Dicu  Romania
100 kg	Georgi Raikov  Bulgaria	Roman Bierła  Poland	Vasile Andrei  Romania
+100 kg	Oleksandr Kolchynskyy  Soviet Union	Aleksandar Tomov  Bulgaria	Hassan Bechara  Lebanon

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

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

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
Totals (15 nations)		20	20	20	60

Participating nations

A total of 266 wrestlers from 35 nations competed at the Moscow Games:[1]

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

1. "Wrestling at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 12 April 2019.

Sources

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