Wrestling at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Wrestling at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Venue	Institut Nacional d'Educació Física de Catalunya
Dates	26 July – 7 August
No. of events	20
Competitors	370 from 59 nations

At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, 20 wrestling events were contested, for men only. There were 10 weight classes in each of the freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling disciplines.

Medal summary

Freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Kim Il  North Korea	Kim Jong-shin  South Korea	Vugar Orujov  Unified Team
52 kg	Ri Hak-son  North Korea	Zeke Jones  United States	Valentin Yordanov  Bulgaria
57 kg	Alejandro Puerto  Cuba	Sergey Smal  Unified Team	Kim Yong-sik  North Korea
62 kg	John Smith  United States	Askari Mohammadian  Iran	Lázaro Reinoso  Cuba
68 kg	Arsen Fadzaev  Unified Team	Valentin Getsov  Bulgaria	Kosei Akaishi  Japan
74 kg	Park Jang-soon  South Korea	Kenny Monday  United States	Amir Reza Khadem  Iran
82 kg	Kevin Jackson  United States	Elmadi Zhabrailov  Unified Team	Rasoul Khadem  Iran
90 kg	Makharbek Khadartsev  Unified Team	Kenan Şimşek  Turkey	Chris Campbell  United States
100 kg	Leri Khabelov  Unified Team	Heiko Balz  Germany	Ali Kayalı  Turkey
130 kg	Bruce Baumgartner  United States	Jeff Thue  Canada	David Gobejishvili  Unified Team

Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Oleg Kucherenko  Unified Team	Vincenzo Maenza  Italy	Wilber Sánchez  Cuba
52 kg	Jon Rønningen  Norway	Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan  Unified Team	Min Kyung-gab  South Korea
57 kg	An Han-bong  South Korea	Rıfat Yıldız  Germany	Sheng Zetian  China
62 kg	Mehmet Akif Pirim  Turkey	Sergey Martynov  Unified Team	Juan Marén  Cuba
68 kg	Attila Repka  Hungary	Islam Dugushiev  Unified Team	Rodney Smith  United States
74 kg	Mnatsakan Iskandaryan  Unified Team	Józef Tracz  Poland	Torbjörn Kornbakk  Sweden
82 kg	Péter Farkas  Hungary	Piotr Stępień  Poland	Daulet Turlykhanov  Unified Team
90 kg	Maik Bullmann  Germany	Hakkı Başar  Turkey	Gogi Koguashvili  Unified Team
100 kg	Héctor Milián  Cuba	Dennis Koslowski  United States	Sergey Demyashkevich  Unified Team
130 kg	Aleksandr Karelin  Unified Team	Tomas Johansson  Sweden	Ioan Grigoraș  Romania

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Unified Team (EUN)	6	5	5	16
2	United States (USA)	3	3	2	8
3	South Korea (KOR)	2	1	1	4
4	Cuba (CUB)	2	0	3	5
5	North Korea (PRK)	2	0	1	3
6	Hungary (HUN)	2	0	0	2
7	Turkey (TUR)	1	2	1	4
8	Germany (GER)	1	2	0	3
9	Norway (NOR)	1	0	0	1
10	Poland (POL)	0	2	0	2
11	Iran (IRI)	0	1	2	3
12	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	1	2
	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	1	2
14	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	1	0	1
16	China (CHN)	0	0	1	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
	Romania (ROM)	0	0	1	1
Totals (18 entries)		20	20	20	60

Participating nations

A total of 370 wrestlers from 59 nations competed at the Barcelona Games:

•  Algeria (2)
•  Argentina (1)
•  Australia (2)
•  Austria (2)
•  Belgium (1)
•  Brazil (1)
•  Bulgaria (20)
•  Canada (13)
•  China (8)
•  Colombia (1)
•  Croatia (1)
•  Cuba (15)
•  Cyprus (1)
•  Czechoslovakia (7)
•  Dominican Republic (1)
•  Egypt (3)
•  Estonia (4)
•  Finland (7)
•  France (9)
•  Germany (17)
•  Great Britain (1)
•  Greece (11)
•  Guam (1)
•  Guatemala (1)
•  Hungary (17)
•  Independent Olympic Participants (9)
•  India (6)
•  Iran (16)
•  Israel (4)
•  Italy (5)
•  Japan (16)
•  Latvia (1)
•  Lithuania (1)
•  Mexico (2)
•  Mongolia (7)
•  Morocco (4)
•  New Zealand (2)
•  Nicaragua (1)
•  Nigeria (5)
•  North Korea (4)
•  Norway (2)
•  Pakistan (1)
•  Panama (2)
•  Poland (13)
•  Portugal (1)
•  Puerto Rico (4)
•  Romania (11)
•  Senegal (3)
•  South Africa (3)
•  South Korea (16)
•  Spain (10)
•  Sweden (8)
•  Switzerland (4)
•  Syria (3)
•  Tunisia (3)
•  Turkey (15)
•  Unified Team (20)
•  United States (20)
•  Venezuela (1)

Sources

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 1 January 2007.
• Official Olympic Report