1984 Summer Olympics / Wrestling

Wrestling at the XXIII. Summer Olympics
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venue	Anaheim
Competition venue	Anaheim Convention Center
Nations	44
Athletes	267 (267 men)
date	July 30 - August 11, 1984
decisions	20th
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At the XXIII. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles , 20 wrestling competitions were held, ten each in freestyle and ten in Greco-Roman style. The venue was the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim .

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	United States	9	3	1	13
2	Japan	2	5	2	9
3	South Korea	2	1	4th	7th
4th	Romania	2	1	3	6th
5	Yugoslavia	2	1	2	5
6th	BR Germany	1	2	-	3
7th	Finland	1	1	1	3
8th	Italy	1	-	-	1
9	Sweden	-	2	2	4th
10	Greece	-	1	1	2
	Greece	-	1	1	2
12	Mexico	-	1	-	1
	Syria	-	1	-	1
14th	Switzerland	-	-	1	1
	Turkey	-	-	1	1
	Great Britain	-	-	1	1

Medalist

Freestyle competitor gold silver bronze Paper weight Robert Weaver Takashi Irie Son Gab-do Flyweight Saban Trstena Kim Jong-kyu Yūji Takada Bantamweight Hideaki Tomiyama Barry Davis Kim Eui-kon Featherweight Randy Lewis Kōsei Akaishi Lee Jung-keun lightweight You in-tak Andrew Rein Jukka Rauhala Welterweight David Schultz Martin Bud Saban Sejdi medium weight Mark Schultz Hideyuki Nagashima Chris Rinke Light heavyweight Ed Banach Akira Ōta Noel Loban Heavyweight Lou Banach Joseph Atiyeh Vasile Puşcaşu Super heavyweight Bruce Baumgartner Robert Molle Ayhan Taşkın

Greco-Roman style competitor gold silver bronze Paper weight Vincenzo Maenza Markus Scherer Ikuzo Saito Flyweight Atsuji Miyahara Daniel Aceves Bang Dae-you Bantamweight Pasquale Passarelli Masaki Eto Haralambos Holidis Featherweight Kim Weon-kee Kent-Olle Johansson Hugo Dietsche lightweight Vlado Lisjak Tapio Sipilä James Martinez Welterweight Jouko Salomäki Roger Tallroth Ștefan Rusu medium weight Ion Draica Dimitrios Thanopoulos Sören Claesson Light heavyweight Steve Fraser Ilie Matei Frank Andersson Heavyweight Vasile Andrei Greg Gibson Josef Tertelj Super heavyweight Jeffrey Blatnick Refik Memišević Victor Dolipschi

Results freestyle

Paper weight (up to 48 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	United States	Robert Weaver
2	JPN	Takashi Irie
3	COR	Son Gab-do
4th	CHN	Gao Wenhe
5	FRG	Pure pitchfork
6th	SWE	Kent Andersson
7th	IND	Sunil Dutt

Date: 7th to 9th August 1984
7 participants from 7 countries

Flyweight (up to 52 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	YUG	Saban Trstena
2	COR	Kim Jong-kyu
3	JPN	Yūji Takada
4th	CAN	Ray Takahashi
5	DOOR	Aslan Seyhanlı
6th	IND	Mahabir Singh
7th	FRG	Fritz Niebler
8th	CHN	Liang Dejin

Date: August 8-10, 1984
17 participants from 17 countries

Bantam weight (up to 57 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	JPN	Hideaki Tomiyama
2	United States	Barry Davis
3	COR	Kim Eui-kon
4th	PURE	Orlando Cáceres
5	IND	Rohtas Dahiya Singh
6th	YUG	Zoran Šorov
7th	CHN	Guan Bunima
8th	DOOR	İbrahim Akgül

Date: August 9-11, 1984
16 participants from 16 countries

Feather weight (up to 62 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	United States	Randy Lewis
2	JPN	Kōsei Akaishi
3	COR	Lee Jung-keun
4th	OUT	Cris Brown
5	FRG	Martin Herbster
6th	ITA	Antonio La Bruna
7th	DOOR	Selman Kaygusuz
8th	FRA	Gérard Santoro

Date: August 7th to 9th, 1984
16 participants from 16 countries

Lightweight (up to 68 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	COR	You in-tak
2	United States	Andrew Rein
3	FIN	Jukka Rauhala
4th	JPN	Masakazu Kamimura
5	OUT	Zsigmond Kelevitz
6th	DOOR	Fevzi Şeker
7th	FRG	Erwin Bud
8th	SUI	René Neyer

Date: August 9-11, 1984
22 participants from 22 countries

Welter weight (up to 74 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	United States	David Schultz
2	FRG	Martin Bud
3	YUG	Saban Sejdi
4th	IND	Rajinder Singh
5	JPN	Naomi Higuchi
6th	COR	Han Myung-woo
7th	CAN	Marc Mongeon
8th	FIN	Pekka Rauhala

Date: August 8-10, 1984
22 participants from 22 countries

Middle weight (up to 82 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	United States	Mark Schultz
2	JPN	Hideyuki Nagashima
3	CAN	Chris Rinke
4th	FRG	Pure Trik
5	COR	Kim Tae-woo
6th	NZL	Kenneth Reinsfield
7th	GRE	Iraklis Deskoulidis
8th	ITA	Luciano Ortelli

Date: August 9-11, 1984
16 participants from 16 countries

Light heavyweight (up to 90 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	United States	Ed Banach
2	JPN	Akira Ōta
3	GBR	Noel Loban
4th	CAN	Clark Davis
5	NGR	Macauley Appah
6th	DOOR	smail Temiz
7th	PAH	Abdul Majeed Maruwala
8th	ITA	Michele Azzola
10	AUT	Edwin Lins
13	FRG	Bodo Lukowski

Date: August 7th to 9th, 1984
16 participants from 16 countries

Heavy weight (up to 100 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	United States	Lou Banach
2	SYR	Joseph Atiyeh
3	ROME	Vasile Puşcaşu
4th	DOOR	Hayri Sezgin
5	JPN	Tamon Honda
6th	GRE	Georgios Pikilidis
7th	IND	Kartar Singh
8th	CAN	Wayne Brightwell

Award ceremony (from left to right: Atiyeh, Banach, Pușcașu)

Date: August
9-11 , 1984 11 participants from 11 countries

Super heavyweight (over 100 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	United States	Bruce Baumgartner
2	CAN	Robert Molle
3	DOOR	Ayhan Taşkın
4th	EGY	Hassan El-Hadad
5	SEN	Mamadou Sakho
6th	ROME	Vasile Andrei
7th	JPN	Koichi Ishimori
8th	GRE	Panagiotis Poikilidis

Date: August 8-10, 1984
8 participants from 8 countries

Results Greco-Roman style

Paper weight (up to 48 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	ITA	Vincenzo Maenza
2	FRG	Markus Scherer
3	JPN	Ikuzo Saito
4th	DOOR	Salih Bora
5	SWE	Kent Andersson
6th	COR	Jun Dae-je
7th	CHN	Li Haisheng
8th	United States	Mark Fuller

Date: July 30th to August 1st, 1984
12 participants from 12 countries

Flyweight (up to 52 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	JPN	Atsuji Miyahara
2	MEX	Daniel Aceves
3	COR	Bang Dae-you
4th	CHN	Hu Richa
5	NOR	Jon Rønningen
6th	FIN	Taisto halons
7th	DOOR	Erol Kemah
8th	ROME	Mihai Cişmaş

Date: July 31 to August 2, 1984
12 participants from 12 countries

Bantam weight (up to 57 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	FRG	Pasquale Passarelli
2	JPN	Masaki Eto
3	GRE	Haralambos Holidis
4th	ROME	Nicolae Zamfir
5	United States	Frank Famiano
6th	SWE	Benni Ljungbeck
7th	DOOR	Mehmet Karadağ
8th	COR	Park Byung-hyo

Date: 1st to 3rd August 1984
16 participants from 16 countries

Feather weight (up to 62 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	COR	Kim Weon-kee
2	SWE	Kent-Olle Johansson
3	SUI	Hugo Dietsche
4th	SUI	Abdurrahim Kuzu
5	CAN	Douglas Yeats
6th	EGY	Salem Bekhit
7th	FRG	Bernd Gabriel
8th	JPN	Seiichi Osanai
11	AUT	Herbert Nigsch

Date: July 30th to August 1st 1984
20 participants from 20 countries

Lightweight (up to 68 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	YUG	Vlado Lisjak
2	FIN	Tapio Sipilä
3	United States	James Martinez
4th	ROME	Ștefan Negrișan
5	AUT	Dietmar Streitler
6th	SYR	Mohamed Al-Nakdali
7th	EGY	Shaban Ibrahim
8th	DOOR	Sumer Koçak

Date: 1st to 3rd August 1984
14 participants from 14 countries

Welter weight (up to 74 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	FIN	Jouko Salomäki
2	SWE	Roger Tallroth
3	ROME	Ștefan Rusu
4th	COR	Kim Young-nam
5	YUG	Karoly Kasap
6th	FRA	Martial Mischler
7th	United States	Christopher Catalfo
8th	EGY	Mohamed Hamad
10	FRG	Karl-Heinz Helbing

Date: July 31 to August 2, 1984
17 participants from 17 countries

Middle weight (up to 82 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	ROME	Ion Draica
2	GRE	Dimitrios Thanopoulos
3	SWE	Sören Claesson
4th	YUG	Momir Petković
5	SWE	Jarmo Övermark
6th	EGY	Mohamed El Ashram
7th	CAN	Louis Santerre
8th	COR	Kim Sang-kyu
12	AUT	Georg Marchl
	FRG	Siegfried Seibold

Date: 1st to 3rd August 1984
15 participants from 15 countries

Light heavyweight (up to 90 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	United States	Steve Fraser
2	ROME	Ilie Matei
3	SWE	Frank Andersson
4th	FRG	Uwe Sachs
5	FRA	Jean-François Court
6th	GRE	Georgios Pozidis
7th	FIN	Toni Hannula
8th	YUG	Karolj Kopas

Date: July 30th to August 1st, 1984
13 participants from 13 countries

Heavy weight (up to 100 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	ROME	Vasile Andrei
2	United States	Greg Gibson
3	YUG	Josef Tertelj
4th	GRE	Georgios Pikilidis
5	AUT	Franz Pitschmann
6th	FRG	Fritz Gerdsmeier
7th	JPN	Yoshihiro Fujita
	SWE	Karl-Johan Gustavsson

Greg Gibson (right) versus Yoshihiro Fujita (right)

Date: 1st to 3rd August 1984
8 participants from 8 countries

Super heavyweight (over 100 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	United States	Jeffrey Blatnick
2	YUG	Refik Memišević
3	ROME	Victor Dolipschi
4th	GRE	Panagiotis Poikilidis
5	EGY	Hassan El-Hadad
6th	JPN	Masaya Andō
	ITA	Antonio La Penna

Date: July 31 to August 2, 1984
8 participants from 8 countries

The original runner-up Tomas Johansson (SWE) was subsequently disqualified for doping .

Web links

Commons : Wrestling at the 1984 Summer Olympics  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Wrestling at the 1984 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official results of the 1984 Summer Games (PDF, 11.4 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games - Chronicle III: Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984 . Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 , p. 1080 .