Wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics

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At the 1996 Summer Olympics, 2 different wrestling disciplines were contested: freestyle wrestling and Greco-Roman wrestling. The freestyle category was notable as it featured the gold medal performance of Kurt Angle, who later became a notable professional wrestler.

Wrestling

Contents

[edit] Medal summary

[edit] Freestyle

Event Gold Silver Bronze
48 kg
details
North Korea Kim Il
North Korea (PRK)
Armenia Armen Mkertchian
Armenia (ARM)
Cuba Alexis Vila
Cuba (CUB)
52 kg
details
Bulgaria Valentin Jordanov
Bulgaria (BUL)
Azerbaijan Namig Abdullayev
Azerbaijan (AZE)
Kazakhstan Maulen Mamyrov
Kazakhstan (KAZ)
57 kg
details
United States Kendall Cross
United States (USA)
Canada Guivi Sissaouri
Canada (CAN)
North Korea Ri Yong-Sam
North Korea (PRK)
62 kg
details
United States Tom Brands
United States (USA)
South Korea Jang Jae-Sung
South Korea (KOR)
Ukraine Elbrus Tedeyev
Ukraine (UKR)
68 kg
details
Russia Vadim Bogiyev
Russia (RUS)
United States Townsend Saunders
United States (USA)
Ukraine Zaza Zazirov
Ukraine (UKR)
74 kg
details
Russia Buvaisar Saitiev
Russia (RUS)
South Korea Park Jang-Soon
South Korea (KOR)
Japan Takuya Ota
Japan (JPN)
82 kg
details
Russia Khadzhimurad Magomedov
Russia (RUS)
South Korea Yang Hyun-Mo
South Korea (KOR)
Iran Amir Reza Khadem
Iran (IRI)
90 kg
details
Iran Rasoul Khadem
Iran (IRI)
Russia Makharbek Khadartsev
Russia (RUS)
Georgia Eldar Kurtanidze
Georgia (GEO)
100 kg
details
United States Kurt Angle
United States (USA)
Iran Abbas Jadidi
Iran (IRI)
Germany Arawat Sabejew
Germany (GER)
130 kg
details
Turkey Mahmut Demir
Turkey (TUR)
Belarus Aleksei Medvedev
Belarus (BLR)
United States Bruce Baumgartner
United States (USA)

[edit] Greco-Roman

Event Gold Silver Bronze
48 kg
details
South Korea Sim Kwon-Ho
South Korea (KOR)
Belarus Aleksandr Pavlov
Belarus (BLR)
Russia Zafar Guliyev
Russia (RUS)
52 kg
details
Armenia Armen Nazarian
Armenia (ARM)
United States Brandon Paulson
United States (USA)
Ukraine Andriy Kalashnikov
Ukraine (UKR)
57 kg
details
Kazakhstan Yuriy Melnichenko
Kazakhstan (KAZ)
United States Dennis Hall
United States (USA)
China Sheng Zetian
China (CHN)
62 kg
details
Poland Włodzimierz Zawadzki
Poland (POL)
Cuba Juan Marén
Cuba (CUB)
Turkey Mehmet Akif Pirim
Turkey (TUR)
68 kg
details
Poland Ryszard Wolny
Poland (POL)
France Ghani Yalouz
France (FRA)
Russia Alexander Tretyakov
Russia (RUS)
74 kg
details
Cuba Filiberto Azcuy
Cuba (CUB)
Finland Marko Asell
Finland (FIN)
Poland Józef Tracz
Poland (POL)
82 kg
details
Turkey Hamza Yerlikaya
Turkey (TUR)
Germany Thomas Zander
Germany (GER)
Belarus Valeriy Tsilent
Belarus (BLR)
90 kg
details
Ukraine Vyacheslav Oleynyk
Ukraine (UKR)
Poland Jacek Fafiński
Poland (POL)
Germany Maik Bullmann
Germany (GER)
100 kg
details
Poland Andrzej Wroński
Poland (POL)
Belarus Sergey Lishtvan
Belarus (BLR)
Sweden Mikael Ljungberg
Sweden (SWE)
130 kg
details
Russia Alexander Karelin
Russia (RUS)
United States Matt Ghaffari
United States (USA)
Moldova Sergei Mureiko
Moldova (MDA)

[edit] Medal Table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Russia Russia (RUS) 4 1 2 7
2 United States United States (USA) 3 4 1 8
3 Poland Poland (POL) 3 1 1 5
4 Turkey Turkey (TUR) 2 0 1 3
5 South Korea South Korea (KOR) 1 3 0 4
6 Iran Iran (IRI) 1 1 1 3
Cuba Cuba (CUB) 1 1 1 3
8 Armenia Armenia (ARM) 1 1 0 2
9 Ukraine Ukraine (UKR) 1 0 3 4
10 North Korea North Korea (PRK) 1 0 1 2
Kazakhstan Kazakhstan (KAZ) 1 0 1 2
12 Bulgaria Bulgaria (BUL) 1 0 0 1
13 Belarus Belarus (BLR) 0 3 1 4
14 Germany Germany (GER) 0 1 2 3
15 Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (AZE) 0 1 0 1
Canada Canada (CAN) 0 1 0 1
France France (FRA) 0 1 0 1
Finland Finland (FIN) 0 1 0 1
19 Japan Japan (JPN) 0 0 1 1
Georgia Georgia (GEO) 0 0 1 1
China China (CHN) 0 0 1 1
Sweden Sweden (SWE) 0 0 1 1
Moldova Moldova (MDA) 0 0 1 1

[edit] Participating nations

A total of 401 wrestlers from 75 nations competed at the Atlanta Games:

[edit] References