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
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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]

Medal summary

Freestyle

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

Greco-Roman

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

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	9	3	1	13
2	Japan	2	5	2	9
3	South Korea	2	1	4	7
4	Romania	2	1	3	6
5	Yugoslavia	2	1	2	5
6	West Germany	1	2	0	3
7	Finland	1	1	1	3
8	Italy	1	0	0	1
9	Sweden	0	2	2	4
10	Canada	0	1	1	2
	Greece	0	1	1	2
12	Mexico	0	1	0	1
	Syria	0	1	0	1
14	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
	Turkey	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		20	20	20	60

Participating nations

Wrestlers greet the crowd at a medal ceremony.

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

•   Argentina  (3)
•   Australia  (3)
•   Austria  (7)
•   Bolivia  (1)
•   Cameroon  (5)
•   Canada  (13)
•   China  (7)
•   Chinese Taipei  (1)
•   Colombia  (1)
•   Dominican Republic  (1)
•   Ecuador  (1)
•   Egypt  (10)
•   El Salvador  (1)
•   Finland  (11)
•   France  (8)
•   Great Britain  (7)
•   Greece  (10)
•   India  (8)
•   Iraq  (3)
•   Italy  (7)
•   Japan  (20)
•   Lebanon  (1)
•   Malta  (2)
•   Mauritania  (2)
•   Mexico  (5)
•   Morocco  (5)
•   New Zealand  (3)
•   Nigeria  (3)
•   Norway  (5)
•   Pakistan  (2)
•   Panama  (1)
•   Peru  (2)
•   Puerto Rico  (3)
•   Romania  (10)
•   Senegal  (4)
•   South Korea  (14)
•   Spain  (3)
•   Sweden  (11)
•   Switzerland  (2)
•   Syria  (3)
•   Turkey  (16)
•   United States  (19)
•   West Germany  (14)
•   Yugoslavia  (9)

See also

• Wrestling at the Friendship Games

References

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

Sources

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee . Retrieved 1 January 2007.