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.[1]

Wrestling
at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
VenueAnaheim Convention Center
Dates30 July – 11 August
Competitors267 from 44 nations
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Medal summary

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Freestyle

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

Greco-Roman

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

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  United States (USA)93113
2  Japan (JPN)2529
3  South Korea (KOR)2147
4  Romania (ROU)2136
5  Yugoslavia (YUG)2125
6  West Germany (FRG)1203
7  Finland (FIN)1113
8  Italy (ITA)1001
9  Sweden (SWE)0224
10  Canada (CAN)0112
  Greece (GRE)0112
12  Mexico (MEX)0101
  Syria (SYR)0101
14  Great Britain (GBR)0011
  Switzerland (SUI)0011
  Turkey (TUR)0011
Totals (16 entries)20202060

Participating nations

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Wrestlers greet the crowd at a medal ceremony.

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

See also

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References

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

Sources

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