Wrestling at the 1976 Summer Olympics

At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, 20 wrestling events were contested, all for men only. There were 10 weight classes in each of the freestyle wrestling and Greco-Roman wrestling disciplines.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Hasan Isaev (BUL)	Roman Dmitriyev (URS)	Akira Kudo (JPN)
52 kg	Yuji Takada (JPN)	Alexander Ivanov (URS)	Jeon Hae-Sup (KOR)
57 kg	Vladimir Yumin (URS)	Hans-Dieter Brüchert (GDR)	Masao Arai (JPN)
62 kg	Yang Jung-Mo (KOR)	Zevegiin Oidov (MGL)	Gene Davis (USA)
68 kg	Pavel Pinigin (URS)	Lloyd Keaser (USA)	Yasaburo Sugawara (JPN)
74 kg	Jiichiro Date (JPN)	Mansour Barzegar (IRI)	Stanley Dziedzic (USA)
82 kg	John Peterson (USA)	Viktor Novozhilov (URS)	Adolf Seger (FRG)
90 kg	Levan Tediashvili (URS)	Ben Peterson (USA)	Stelică Morcov (ROU)
100 kg	Ivan Yarygin (URS)	Russell Hellickson (USA)	Dimo Kostov (BUL)
+100 kg	Soslan Andiyev (URS)	József Balla (HUN)	Ladislau Şimon (ROU)

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Alexei Shumakov (URS)	Gheorghe Berceanu (ROU)	Stefan Angelov (BUL)
52 kg	Vitali Konstantinov (URS)	Nicu Gingă (ROU)	Koichiro Hirayama (JPN)
57 kg	Pertti Ukkola (FIN)	Ivan Frgić (YUG)	Farhat Mustafin (URS)
62 kg	Kazimierz Lipień (POL)	Nelson Davidyan (URS)	László Réczi (HUN)
68 kg	Suren Nalbandyan (URS)	Ştefan Rusu (ROU)	Heinz-Helmut Wehling (GDR)
74 kg	Anatoly Bykov (URS)	Vítězslav Mácha (TCH)	Karl-Heinz Helbing (FRG)
82 kg	Momir Petković (YUG)	Vladimir Cheboksarov (URS)	Ivan Kolev (BUL)
90 kg	Valery Rezantsev (URS)	Stoyan Ivanov (BUL)	Czesław Kwieciński (POL)
100 kg	Nikolai Balboshin (URS)	Kamen Goranov (BUL)	Andrzej Skrzydlewski (POL)
+100 kg	Alexander Kolchinsky (URS)	Aleksandar Tomov (BUL)	Roman Codreanu (ROU)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	12	5	1	18
2	Japan (JPN)	2	0	4	6
3	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	3	3	7
4	United States (USA)	1	3	2	6
5	Yugoslavia (YUG)	1	1	0	2
6	Poland (POL)	1	0	2	3
7	South Korea (KOR)	1	0	1	2
8	Finland (FIN)	1	0	0	1
9	Romania (ROU)	0	3	3	6
10	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	1	2
10	East Germany (GDR)	0	1	1	2
12	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	1	0	1
	Iran (IRI)	0	1	0	1
	Mongolia (MGL)	0	1	0	1
15	West Germany (FRG)	0	0	2	2

A total of 331 wrestlers from 41 nations competed at the Montreal Games:

Events at the 1976 Summer Olympics (Montreal)

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