Wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Wrestling at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue	Georgia World Congress Center
Dates	20 July – 2 August 1996
No. of events	20
Competitors	401 from 75 nations
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At the 1996 Summer Olympics , two different wrestling disciplines were contested: freestyle wrestling and Greco-Roman wrestling. ^[1]

Medalists

Freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg details	Kim Il   North Korea	Armen Mkrtchyan   Armenia	Alexis Vila   Cuba
52 kg details	Valentin Yordanov   Bulgaria	Namig Abdullayev   Azerbaijan	Maulen Mamyrov   Kazakhstan
57 kg details	Kendall Cross   United States	Guivi Sissaouri   Canada	Ri Yong-sam   North Korea
62 kg details	Tom Brands   United States	Jang Jae-sung   South Korea	Elbrus Tedeyev   Ukraine
68 kg details	Vadim Bogiev   Russia	Townsend Saunders   United States	Zaza Zazirov   Ukraine
74 kg details	Buvaisar Saitiev   Russia	Park Jang-soon   South Korea	Takuya Ota   Japan
82 kg details	Khadzhimurad Magomedov   Russia	Yang Hyung-mo   South Korea	Amir Reza Khadem   Iran
90 kg details	Rasoul Khadem   Iran	Makharbek Khadartsev   Russia	Eldar Kurtanidze   Georgia
100 kg details	Kurt Angle   United States	Abbas Jadidi   Iran	Arawat Sabejew   Germany
130 kg details	Mahmut Demir   Turkey	Aleksey Medvedev   Belarus	Bruce Baumgartner   United States

Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg details	Sim Kwon-ho   South Korea	Aleksandr Pavlov   Belarus	Zafar Guliev   Russia
52 kg details	Armen Nazaryan   Armenia	Brandon Paulson   United States	Andriy Kalashnikov   Ukraine
57 kg details	Yuriy Melnichenko   Kazakhstan	Dennis Hall   United States	Sheng Zetian   China
62 kg details	Włodzimierz Zawadzki   Poland	Juan Marén   Cuba	Mehmet Akif Pirim   Turkey
68 kg details	Ryszard Wolny   Poland	Ghani Yalouz   France	Aleksandr Tretyakov   Russia
74 kg details	Filiberto Azcuy   Cuba	Marko Asell   Finland	Józef Tracz   Poland
82 kg details	Hamza Yerlikaya   Turkey	Thomas Zander   Germany	Valery Tsilent   Belarus
90 kg details	Vyacheslav Oliynyk   Ukraine	Jacek Fafiński   Poland	Maik Bullmann   Germany
100 kg details	Andrzej Wroński   Poland	Sergey Lishtvan   Belarus	Mikael Ljungberg   Sweden
130 kg details	Aleksandr Karelin   Russia	Matt Ghaffari   United States	Sergei Mureiko   Moldova

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	4	1	2	7
2	United States	3	4	1	8
3	Poland	3	1	1	5
4	Turkey	2	0	1	3
5	South Korea	1	3	0	4
6	Cuba	1	1	1	3
	Iran	1	1	1	3
8	Armenia	1	1	0	2
9	Ukraine	1	0	3	4
10	Kazakhstan	1	0	1	2
	North Korea	1	0	1	2
12	Bulgaria	1	0	0	1
13	Belarus	0	3	1	4
14	Germany	0	1	2	3
15	Azerbaijan	0	1	0	1
	Canada	0	1	0	1
	Finland	0	1	0	1
	France	0	1	0	1
19	China	0	0	1	1
	Georgia	0	0	1	1
	Japan	0	0	1	1
	Moldova	0	0	1	1
	Sweden	0	0	1	1
Totals (23 entries)		20	20	20	60

Participating nations

A total of 401 wrestlers from 75 nations competed at the Atlanta Games: ^[1]

•   Albania  (1)
•   Algeria  (2)
•   American Samoa  (1)
•   Argentina  (1)
•   Armenia  (8)
•   Australia  (9)
•   Azerbaijan  (8)
•   Belarus  (16)
•   Belgium  (1)
•   Bosnia and Herzegovina  (1)
•   Bulgaria  (11)
•   Cambodia  (1)
•   Cameroon  (1)
•   Canada  (14)
•   China  (5)
•   Colombia  (3)
•   Croatia  (1)
•   Cuba  (15)
•   Cyprus  (1)
•   Czech Republic  (3)
•   Dominican Republic  (1)
•   Egypt  (1)
•   Estonia  (4)
•   Finland  (5)
•   France  (2)
•   Georgia  (8)
•   Germany  (11)
•   Great Britain  (1)
•   Greece  (10)
•   Guam  (1)
•   Guatemala  (1)
•   Guinea-Bissau  (1)
•   Hungary  (11)
•   India  (1)
•   Iran  (10)
•   Israel  (1)
•   Italy  (4)
•   Japan  (12)
•   Kazakhstan  (11)
•   Kyrgyzstan  (4)
•   Latvia  (1)
•   Lithuania  (3)
•   Macedonia  (3)
•   Mexico  (7)
•   Moldova  (6)
•   Mongolia  (4)
•   Morocco  (5)
•   Nigeria  (4)
•   North Korea  (3)
•   Norway  (1)
•   Pakistan  (1)
•   Panama  (1)
•   Peru  (5)
•   Poland  (11)
•   Portugal  (1)
•   Puerto Rico  (5)
•   Romania  (10)
•   Russia  (20)
•   Senegal  (2)
•   Slovakia  (4)
•   South Africa  (1)
•   South Korea  (15)
•   Sweden  (7)
•   Switzerland  (2)
•   Syria  (2)
•   Tajikistan  (1)
•   Tunisia  (3)
•   Turkey  (13)
•   Turkmenistan  (1)
•   Ukraine  (17)
•   United States  (20)
•   Uzbekistan  (10)
•   Venezuela  (6)
•   Yemen  (1)
•   FR Yugoslavia  (2)

References

1. "Wrestling at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 1 May 2019.

External links

• International Olympic Committee results database