Wrestling at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman 68 kg

Wrestling at the 1980 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

The Men's Greco-Roman 68 kg at the 1980 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program were held at the Athletics Fieldhouse, Central Sports Club of the Army.

Contents 1 Medalists 2 Tournament results 2.1 Round 1 2.2 Round 2 2.3 Round 3 2.4 Round 4 2.5 Round 5 2.6 Final 3 Final standings 4 References

Medalists

Gold	Ştefan Rusu Romania (ROU)
Silver	Andrzej Supron Poland (POL)
Bronze	Lars-Erik Skiöld Sweden (SWE)

Tournament results

The competition used a form of negative points tournament, with negative points given for any result short of a fall. Accumulation of 6 negative points eliminated the loser wrestler. When only three wrestlers remain, a special final round is used to determine the order of the medals.

Legend

• TF — Won by Fall
• IN — Won by Opponent Injury
• DQ — Won by Passivity
• D1 — Won by Passivity, the winner is passive too
• D2 — Both wrestlers lost by Passivity
• FF — Won by Forfeit
• DNA — Did not appear
• TPP — Total penalty points
• MPP — Match penalty points

Penalties

• 0 — Won by Fall, Technical Superiority, Passivity, Injury and Forfeit
• 0.5 — Won by Points, 8-11 points difference
• 1 — Won by Points, 1-7 points difference
• 2 — Won by Passivity, the winner is passive too
• 3 — Lost by Points, 1-7 points difference
• 3.5 — Lost by Points, 8-11 points difference
• 4 — Lost by Fall, Technical Superiority, Passivity, Injury and Forfeit

Round 1

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
4	4	Lionel Lacaze (FRA)	DQ / 5:25	Ferenc Čaba (YUG)	0	0
4	4	Ivan Atanasov (BUL)	TF / 5:35	Ştefan Rusu (ROU)	0	0
4	4	Tapio Sipilä (FIN)	DQ / 5:16	Suren Nalbandian (URS)	0	0
4	4	Mohamed Moualek (ALG)	TF / 0:58	Károly Gaál (HUN)	0	0
0	0	Andrzej Supron (POL)	DQ / 5:28	Sakhidad Hamidi (AFG)	4	4
1	1	Buyandelgeriin Bold (MGL)	18 - 15	Mohammed Mahmoud (IRQ)	3	3
0	0	Lars-Erik Skiöld (SWE)	TF / 4:01	Reinhard Hartmann (AUT)	4	4
0		Khaled El-Khaled (SYR)		Bye

Round 2

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
4	4	Khaled El-Khaled (SYR)	DQ / 4:26	Lionel Lacaze (FRA)	0	4
3	3	Ferenc Čaba (YUG)	2 - 7	Ivan Atanasov (BUL)	1	5
0	0	Ştefan Rusu (ROU)	TF / 3:48	Tapio Sipilä (FIN)	4	8
0	0	Suren Nalbandian (URS)	DQ / 4:56	Mohamed Moualek (ALG)	4	8
4	4	Károly Gaál (HUN)	DQ / 8:27	Andrzej Supron (POL)	0	0
8	4	Sakhidad Hamidi (AFG)	DQ / 5:47	Buyandelgeriin Bold (MGL)	0	1
7	4	Mohammed Mahmoud (IRQ)	DQ / 5:07	Lars-Erik Skiöld (SWE)	0	0
4		Reinhard Hartmann (AUT)		Bye

Round 3

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
4	0	Reinhard Hartmann (AUT)	DQ / 6:46	Khaled El-Khaled (SYR)	4	8
8	4	Lionel Lacaze (FRA)	DQ / 8:36	Ivan Atanasov (BUL)	0	5
7	4	Ferenc Čaba (YUG)	TF / 7:30	Ştefan Rusu (ROU)	0	0
1	1	Suren Nalbandian (URS)	4 - 2	Károly Gaál (HUN)	3	7
0	0	Andrzej Supron (POL)	TF / 7:10	Buyandelgeriin Bold (MGL)	4	5
0		Lars-Erik Skiöld (SWE)		Bye

Round 4

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
1	1	Lars-Erik Skiöld (SWE)	10 - 10	Ivan Atanasov (BUL)	3	8
8	4	Reinhard Hartmann (AUT)	TF / 3:37	Ştefan Rusu (ROU)	0	0
4	3	Suren Nalbandian (URS)	2 - 4	Andrzej Supron (POL)	1	1
5		Buyandelgeriin Bold (MGL)		Bye

Round 5

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
9	4	Buyandelgeriin Bold (MGL)	TF / 3:34	Lars-Erik Skiöld (SWE)	0	0
4	4	Ştefan Rusu (ROU)	D2 / 7:09	Suren Nalbandian (URS)	4	8
1		Andrzej Supron (POL)		Bye

Final

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
	0	Andrzej Supron (POL)	TF / 3:08	Lars-Erik Skiöld (SWE)	4
	1	Ştefan Rusu (ROU)	3 - 2	Andrzej Supron (POL)	3	3
7	3	Lars-Erik Skiöld (SWE)	1 - 5	Ştefan Rusu (ROU)	1	2

Final standings

1.  Ştefan Rusu (ROU)
2.  Andrzej Supron (POL)
3.  Lars-Erik Skiöld (SWE)
4.  Suren Nalbandian (URS)
5.  Buyandelgeriin Bold (MGL)
6.  Ivan Atanasov (BUL)
7.  Reinhard Hartmann (AUT)
8.  Károly Gaál (HUN)

References

• Official Report