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Wrestling

Games: 25 games in 18 countries
Events: 28

Sports:

Participants: 4,296 (4,246 men and 50 women) from 123 countries
Youngest Participant: IND Mahabir Singh (15 years, 330 days), 1980 Summer Games
Oldest Participant: ROU Gheorghe Ciobotaru (48 years, 262 days), 1976 Summer Games
Top Athlete Medalist(s): GER FRG Wilfried Dietrich (5 medals)
Top Country Medalist(s): USA United States (118 medals)

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Country Medal Leaders

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Rk Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 United States 47 42 29 118
2 Soviet Union 62 31 23 116
3 Finland 27 29 29 85
4 Sweden 28 27 27 82
5 Bulgaria 16 30 17 63
6 Turkey 27 16 12 55
7 Hungary 19 14 18 51
8 Japan 22 15 13 50
9 South Korea 10 11 12 33
10 Germany 5 17 11 33
11 Romania 7 8 17 32
12 Iran 5 12 14 31
13 Russia 15 8 6 29
14 Poland 5 9 9 23
15 Italy 6 4 9 19
16 Great Britain 3 4 10 17
17 Unified Team 6 5 5 16
18 Cuba 5 5 6 16
19 Yugoslavia 4 6 6 16
20 Switzerland 4 4 7 15
21 Czechoslovakia 1 7 7 15
22 France 3 4 7 14
23 Denmark 2 3 7 12
24 Canada 1 6 5 12
25 Greece 1 3 7 11
26 Estonia 5 1 4 10
27 North Korea 3 2 4 9
28 West Germany 1 4 4 9
29 Ukraine 3 2 3 8
30 Mongolia 0 4 4 8
31 Norway 4 2 1 7
32 East Germany 2 3 2 7
33 Kazakhstan 1 3 2 6
34 Austria 1 2 3 6
35 Belarus 0 3 3 6
36 Egypt 2 1 2 5
37 Georgia 0 1 4 5
38 Uzbekistan 2 2 0 4
39 China 1 0 3 4
40 Belgium 0 3 1 4
41 Azerbaijan 2 1 0 3
42 Lebanon 0 1 2 3
43 Australia 0 1 2 3
44 Armenia 1 1 0 2
45 Latvia 0 1 0 1
46 United Arab Republic 0 1 0 1
47 Syria 0 1 0 1
48 Mexico 0 1 0 1
49 India 0 0 1 1
50 Macedonia 0 0 1 1
51 Moldova 0 0 1 1
52 Pakistan 0 0 1 1

Athlete Medal Leaders

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Rk Athlete Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Wilfried Dietrich (FRG, GER) 1 2 2 5
2 Aleksandr Karelin (URS, EUN, RUS) 3 1 0 4
3 Rudolf Svensson (SWE) 2 2 0 4
4 Bruce Baumgartner (USA) 2 1 1 4
5 Søren Jensen (DEN) 2 0 2 4
6 Imre Polyák (HUN) 1 3 0 4
7 Eino Leino (FIN) 1 1 2 4
8 Aleksandr Medved (URS) 3 0 0 3
9 Ivar Johansson (SWE) 3 0 0 3
10 Carl Westergren (SWE) 3 0 0 3
11 Kustaa Pihlajamäki (FIN) 2 1 0 3
12 Vincenzo Maenza (ITA) 2 1 0 3
13 Makharbek Khardartsev (URS, EUN, RUS) 2 1 0 3
14 Verner Weckman (FIN) 2 1 0 3
15 Armen Nazaryan (BUL, ARM) 2 0 1 3
16 Anatoly Roshchin (URS) 1 2 0 3
17 Gholam Reza Takhti (IRI) 1 2 0 3
18 Park Jang-Sun (KOR) 1 2 0 3
19 Erik Malmberg (SWE) 1 1 1 3
20 Lothar Metz (GER, GDR) 1 1 1 3
21 Enyu Valchev (BUL) 1 1 1 3
22 Gustav Freij (SWE) 1 1 1 3
23 Hamit Kaplan (TUR) 1 1 1 3
24 Ştefan Rusu (ROU) 1 1 1 3
25 Karl-Erik Nilsson (SWE) 1 0 2 3
26 Aleksandar Tomov (BUL) 0 3 0 3
27 Juan Luis Marén (CUB) 0 2 1 3
28 Onni Pellinen (FIN) 0 1 2 3
29 Józef Tracz (POL) 0 1 2 3
30 Sheng Zetian (CHN) 0 0 3 3

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