Wrestling at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Venue	Centre Pierre Charbonneau
Dates	20–31 July
Competitors	331 from 41 nations
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Wrestling at the 1976 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
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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.^[1]

Medal summary

Freestyle

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg details	Hasan Isaev  Bulgaria	Roman Dmitriyev  Soviet Union	Akira Kudo  Japan
52 kg details	Yuji Takada  Japan	Alexander Ivanov  Soviet Union	Jeon Hae-Sup  South Korea
57 kg details	Vladimir Yumin  Soviet Union	Hans-Dieter Brüchert  East Germany	Masao Arai  Japan
62 kg details	Yang Jung-Mo  South Korea	Zevegiin Oidov  Mongolia	Gene Davis  United States
68 kg details	Pavel Pinigin  Soviet Union	Lloyd Keaser  United States	Yasaburo Sugawara  Japan
74 kg details	Jiichiro Date  Japan	Mansour Barzegar  Iran	Stanley Dziedzic  United States
82 kg details	John Peterson  United States	Viktor Novozhilov  Soviet Union	Adolf Seger  West Germany
90 kg details	Levan Tediashvili  Soviet Union	Ben Peterson  United States	Stelică Morcov  Romania
100 kg details	Ivan Yarygin  Soviet Union	Russell Hellickson  United States	Dimo Kostov  Bulgaria
+100 kg details	Soslan Andiyev  Soviet Union	József Balla  Hungary	Ladislau Şimon  Romania

Greco-Roman

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg details	Alexei Shumakov  Soviet Union	Gheorghe Berceanu  Romania	Stefan Angelov  Bulgaria
52 kg details	Vitali Konstantinov  Soviet Union	Nicu Gingă  Romania	Koichiro Hirayama  Japan
57 kg details	Pertti Ukkola  Finland	Ivan Frgić  Yugoslavia	Farhat Mustafin  Soviet Union
62 kg details	Kazimierz Lipień  Poland	Nelson Davidyan  Soviet Union	László Réczi  Hungary
68 kg details	Suren Nalbandyan  Soviet Union	Ștefan Rusu  Romania	Heinz-Helmut Wehling  East Germany
74 kg details	Anatoly Bykov  Soviet Union	Vítězslav Mácha  Czechoslovakia	Karl-Heinz Helbing  West Germany
82 kg details	Momir Petković  Yugoslavia	Vladimir Cheboksarov  Soviet Union	Ivan Kolev  Bulgaria
90 kg details	Valery Rezantsev  Soviet Union	Stoyan Ivanov  Bulgaria	Czesław Kwieciński  Poland
100 kg details	Nikolai Balboshin  Soviet Union	Kamen Goranov  Bulgaria	Andrzej Skrzydlewski  Poland
+100 kg details	Alexander Kolchinsky  Soviet Union	Aleksandar Tomov  Bulgaria	Roman Codreanu  Romania

Medal table

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	East Germany (GDR)	0	1	1	2
	Hungary (HUN)	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
Totals (15 entries)		20	20	20	60

Participating nations

A total of 330 wrestlers from 41 nations competed at the Montreal Games:^[1]