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

Wrestling at the 1984 Summer Olympics
	Freestyle	Greco-Roman
	48 kg	48 kg
	52 kg	52 kg
	57 kg	57 kg
	62 kg	62 kg
	68 kg	68 kg
	74 kg	74 kg
	82 kg	82 kg
	90 kg	90 kg
	100 kg	100 kg
	+100 kg	+100 kg

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]

Background

The dominant Soviet Union which won 12 gold wrestling gold medals in Montreal 1976 was notably absent due to the boycott.^[2]

Medal summary

Freestyle

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

Greco-Roman

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

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	9	3	1	13
2	Japan (JPN)	2	5	2	9
3	South Korea (KOR)	2	1	4	7
4	Romania (ROU)	2	1	3	6
5	Yugoslavia (YUG)	2	1	2	5
6	West Germany (FRG)	1	2	0	3
7	Finland (FIN)	1	1	1	3
8	Italy (ITA)	1	0	0	1
9	Sweden (SWE)	0	2	2	4
10	Canada (CAN)	0	1	1	2
	Greece (GRE)	0	1	1	2
12	Mexico (MEX)	0	1	0	1
	Syria (SYR)	0	1	0	1
14	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
	Turkey (TUR)	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]

See also

• Wrestling at the Friendship Games

References

Sources

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