Wrestling at the 1984 Summer Olympics

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.

Wrestling at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Venue	Anaheim Convention Center
Dates	30 July – 11 August
Competitors	267 from 44 nations
← 1980 1988 →

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

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

•  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

Sources

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