Wrestling at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Wrestling at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Venue	Centre Pierre Charbonneau
Dates	20–31 July
Competitors	331 from 41 nations
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At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, 20 wrestling events were contested, all for men only. There were 10 weight classes in each of the freestyle wrestling and Greco-Roman wrestling disciplines. ^[1]

Medal summary

Freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg details	Hasan Isaev   Bulgaria	Roman Dmitriev   Soviet Union	Akira Kudo   Japan
52 kg details	Yuji Takada   Japan	Alexander Ivanov   Soviet Union	Jeon Hae-sup   South Korea
57 kg details	Vladimir Yumin   Soviet Union	Hans-Dieter Brüchert   East Germany	Masao Arai   Japan
62 kg details	Yang Jung-mo   South Korea	Zevegiin Oidov   Mongolia	Gene Davis   United States
68 kg details	Pavel Pinigin   Soviet Union	Lloyd Keaser   United States	Yasaburo Sugawara   Japan
74 kg details	Jiichiro Date   Japan	Mansour Barzegar   Iran	Stanley Dziedzic   United States
82 kg details	John Peterson   United States	Viktor Novozhilov   Soviet Union	Adolf Seger   West Germany
90 kg details	Levan Tediashvili   Soviet Union	Ben Peterson   United States	Stelică Morcov   Romania
100 kg details	Ivan Yarygin   Soviet Union	Russ Hellickson   United States	Dimo Kostov   Bulgaria
+100 kg details	Soslan Andiyev   Soviet Union	József Balla   Hungary	Ladislau Şimon   Romania

Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg details	Alexei Shumakov   Soviet Union	Gheorghe Berceanu   Romania	Stefan Angelov   Bulgaria
52 kg details	Vitali Konstantinov   Soviet Union	Nicu Gingă   Romania	Koichiro Hirayama   Japan
57 kg details	Pertti Ukkola   Finland	Ivan Frgić   Yugoslavia	Farhat Mustafin   Soviet Union
62 kg details	Kazimierz Lipień   Poland	Nelson Davidyan   Soviet Union	László Réczi   Hungary
68 kg details	Suren Nalbandyan   Soviet Union	Ștefan Rusu   Romania	Heinz-Helmut Wehling   East Germany
74 kg details	Anatoly Bykov   Soviet Union	Vítězslav Mácha   Czechoslovakia	Karl-Heinz Helbing   West Germany
82 kg details	Momir Petković   Yugoslavia	Vladimir Cheboksarov   Soviet Union	Ivan Kolev   Bulgaria
90 kg details	Valery Rezantsev   Soviet Union	Stoyan Nikolov   Bulgaria	Czesław Kwieciński   Poland
100 kg details	Nikolai Balboshin   Soviet Union	Kamen Goranov   Bulgaria	Andrzej Skrzydlewski   Poland
+100 kg details	Alexander Kolchinsky   Soviet Union	Aleksandar Tomov   Bulgaria	Roman Codreanu   Romania

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union  (URS)	12	5	1	18
2	Japan  (JPN)	2	0	4	6
3	Bulgaria  (BUL)	1	3	3	7
4	United States  (USA)	1	3	2	6
5	Yugoslavia  (YUG)	1	1	0	2
6	Poland  (POL)	1	0	2	3
7	South Korea  (KOR)	1	0	1	2
8	Finland  (FIN)	1	0	0	1
9	Romania  (ROM)	0	3	3	6
10	East Germany  (GDR)	0	1	1	2
	Hungary  (HUN)	0	1	1	2
12	Czechoslovakia  (TCH)	0	1	0	1
	Iran  (IRN)	0	1	0	1
	Mongolia  (MGL)	0	1	0	1
15	West Germany  (FRG)	0	0	2	2
Totals (15 entries)		20	20	20	60

Participating nations

A total of 330 wrestlers from 41 nations competed at the Montreal Games: ^[1]

Argentina  (3)   Australia  (3)   Austria  (2)   Belgium  (2)   Bulgaria  (20)   Canada  (15)   Cuba  (9)   Czechoslovakia  (5)   East Germany  (12)   Ecuador  (1)   Finland  (7)

France  (5)   Great Britain  (7)   Greece  (4)   Hungary  (18)   Iran  (17)   Israel  (1)   Italy  (8)   Japan  (20)   Lebanon  (1)   Mexico  (2)

Mongolia  (13)   Morocco  (4)   New Zealand  (2)   North Korea  (3)   Norway  (2)   Pakistan  (2)   Panama  (1)   Poland  (14)   Portugal  (3)   Puerto Rico  (5)

Romania  (19)   Senegal  (5)   South Korea  (11)   Soviet Union  (20)   Sweden  (8)   Turkey  (11)   United States  (20)   Virgin Islands  (4)   West Germany  (15)   Yugoslavia  (6)

References

1. "Wrestling at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 7 April 2019.

Sources

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee . Retrieved 29 September 2008.