Wrestling at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue	Georgia World Congress Center
Dates	20 July – 2 August 1996
No. of events	20
Competitors	401 from 75 nations
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Wrestling at the 1996 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
	130 kg	130 kg
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At the 1996 Summer Olympics, two different wrestling disciplines were contested: freestyle wrestling and Greco-Roman wrestling.^[1]

Medalists

Freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg details	Kim Il  North Korea	Armen Mkrtchyan  Armenia	Alexis Vila  Cuba
52 kg details	Valentin Yordanov  Bulgaria	Namig Abdullayev  Azerbaijan	Maulen Mamyrov  Kazakhstan
57 kg details	Kendall Cross  United States	Guivi Sissaouri  Canada	Ri Yong-sam  North Korea
62 kg details	Tom Brands  United States	Jang Jae-sung  South Korea	Elbrus Tedeyev  Ukraine
68 kg details	Vadim Bogiev  Russia	Townsend Saunders  United States	Zaza Zazirov  Ukraine
74 kg details	Buvaisar Saitiev  Russia	Park Jang-soon  South Korea	Takuya Ota  Japan
82 kg details	Khadzhimurad Magomedov  Russia	Yang Hyung-mo  South Korea	Amir Reza Khadem  Iran
90 kg details	Rasoul Khadem  Iran	Makharbek Khadartsev  Russia	Eldar Kurtanidze  Georgia
100 kg details	Kurt Angle  United States	Abbas Jadidi  Iran	Arawat Sabejew  Germany
130 kg details	Mahmut Demir  Turkey	Aleksey Medvedev  Belarus	Bruce Baumgartner  United States

Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg details	Sim Kwon-ho  South Korea	Aleksandr Pavlov  Belarus	Zafar Guliev  Russia
52 kg details	Armen Nazaryan  Armenia	Brandon Paulson  United States	Andriy Kalashnikov  Ukraine
57 kg details	Yuriy Melnichenko  Kazakhstan	Dennis Hall  United States	Sheng Zetian  China
62 kg details	Włodzimierz Zawadzki  Poland	Juan Marén  Cuba	Mehmet Akif Pirim  Turkey
68 kg details	Ryszard Wolny  Poland	Ghani Yalouz  France	Aleksandr Tretyakov  Russia
74 kg details	Filiberto Azcuy  Cuba	Marko Asell  Finland	Józef Tracz  Poland
82 kg details	Hamza Yerlikaya  Turkey	Thomas Zander  Germany	Valery Tsilent  Belarus
90 kg details	Vyacheslav Oliynyk  Ukraine	Jacek Fafiński  Poland	Maik Bullmann  Germany
100 kg details	Andrzej Wroński  Poland	Sergey Lishtvan  Belarus	Mikael Ljungberg  Sweden
130 kg details	Aleksandr Karelin  Russia	Matt Ghaffari  United States	Sergei Mureiko  Moldova

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	4	1	2	7
2	United States (USA)	3	4	1	8
3	Poland (POL)	3	1	1	5
4	Turkey (TUR)	2	0	1	3
5	South Korea (KOR)	1	3	0	4
6	Cuba (CUB)	1	1	1	3
	Iran (IRI)	1	1	1	3
8	Armenia (ARM)	1	1	0	2
9	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	3	4
10	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	0	1	2
	North Korea (PRK)	1	0	1	2
12	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	0	0	1
13	Belarus (BLR)	0	3	1	4
14	Germany (GER)	0	1	2	3
15	Azerbaijan (AZE)	0	1	0	1
	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	1	0	1
	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
19	China (CHN)	0	0	1	1
	Georgia (GEO)	0	0	1	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
	Moldova (MDA)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (23 entries)		20	20	20	60

Participating nations

A total of 401 wrestlers from 75 nations competed at the Atlanta Games:^[1]