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Wrestling — Lightweight, Greco-Roman, Men (discontinued)

Times held 25
Total participants 433
Total countries 75

Participants

Year Event Status Participants NOCs
1906 Lightweight, Greco-Roman (≤75 kilograms), Men Intercalated 12 8
1908 Lightweight, Greco-Roman (≤66.6 kilograms), Men Olympic 25 10
1912 Lightweight, Greco-Roman (≤67.5 kilograms), Men Olympic 48 13
1920 Lightweight, Greco-Roman (≤67.5 kilograms), Men Olympic 22 12
1924 Lightweight, Greco-Roman (≤67.5 kilograms), Men Olympic 28 18
1928 Lightweight, Greco-Roman (≤67.5 kilograms), Men Olympic 19 19
1932 Lightweight, Greco-Roman (≤66 kilograms), Men Olympic 6 6
1936 Lightweight, Greco-Roman (≤66 kilograms), Men Olympic 18 18
1948 Lightweight, Greco-Roman (≤67 kilograms), Men Olympic 17 17
1952 Lightweight, Greco-Roman (≤67 kilograms), Men Olympic 19 19
1956 Lightweight, Greco-Roman (≤67 kilograms), Men Olympic 10 10
1960 Lightweight, Greco-Roman (≤67 kilograms), Men Olympic 23 23
1964 Lightweight, Greco-Roman (≤70 kilograms), Men Olympic 19 19
1968 Lightweight, Greco-Roman (≤70 kilograms), Men Olympic 26 26
1972 Lightweight, Greco-Roman (≤68 kilograms), Men Olympic 23 23
1976 Lightweight, Greco-Roman (≤68 kilograms), Men Olympic 21 21
1980 Lightweight, Greco-Roman (≤68 kilograms), Men Olympic 15 15
1984 Lightweight, Greco-Roman (≤68 kilograms), Men Olympic 14 14
1988 Lightweight, Greco-Roman (≤68 kilograms), Men Olympic 31 31
1992 Lightweight, Greco-Roman (≤68 kilograms), Men Olympic 19 19
1996 Lightweight, Greco-Roman (≤68 kilograms), Men Olympic 22 22
2000 Lightweight, Greco-Roman (≤63 kilograms), Men Olympic 20 20
2004 Lightweight, Greco-Roman (≤60 kilograms), Men Olympic 22 22
2008 Lightweight, Greco-Roman (≤60 kilograms), Men Olympic 20 20
2012 Lightweight, Greco-Roman (≤60 kilograms), Men Olympic 19 19

Medal winners

Year Gold Silver Bronze
1906 Rudolf WatzlAUT Carl CarlsenDEN Ferenc HolubánHUN
1908 Enrico PorroITA Nikolay OrlovRUS Arvo LindénFIN
1912 Emil VäreFIN Gustaf MalmströmSWE Edvin MathiassonSWE
1920 Emil VäreFIN Taavi TamminenFIN Frithjof AndersenNOR
1924 Oskari FrimanFIN Lajos KeresztesHUN Kalle WesterlundFIN
1928 Lajos KeresztesHUN Ede SperlingGER Edvard WesterlundFIN
1932 Erik MalmbergSWE Abraham KurlandDEN Ede SperlingGER
1936 Lauri KoskelaFIN Jozef HerdaTCH Voldemar VäliEST
1948 Gustav FreijSWE Aage EriksenNOR Károly FerenczHUN
1952 Shazam SafinURS Gustav FreijSWE Mikuláš AthanasovTCH
1956 Kyösti LehtonenFIN Rıza DoğanTUR Gyula TóthHUN
1960 Avtandil KoridzeURS Branko MartinovićYUG Gustav FreijSWE
1964 Kazım AyvazTUR Valeriu BularcăROU Davit GvantseladzeURS
1968 Muneji MunemuraJPN Stevan HorvatYUG Petros GalaktopoulosGRE
1972 Shamil KhisamutdinovURS Stoyan ApostolovBUL Gian Matteo RanziITA
1976 Suren NalbandyanURS Ștefan RusuROU Heinz-Helmut WehlingGDR
1980 Ștefan RusuROU Andrzej SupronPOL Lars-Erik SkiöldSWE
1984 Vlado LisjakYUG Tapio SipiläFIN Jim MartinezUSA
1988 Levon JulfalakyanURS Kim Seong-MunKOR Tapio SipiläFIN
1992 Attila RepkaHUN İslam DuquçiyevEUN Rodney SmithUSA
1996 Ryszard WolnyPOL Ghani YalouzFRA Aleksandr TretyakovRUS
2000 Varteres SamurgashevRUS Juan Luis MarénCUB Ak'ak'i ChachuaGEO
2004 Jeong Ji-HyeonKOR Roberto MonzónCUB Armen NazaryanBUL
2008 Islam-Beka AlbiyevRUS Nurbakyt TengizbayevKAZ Sheng Jiang
Ruslan Tyumenbayev		CHN
KGZ
2012 Omid NorouziIRI Revaz LashkhiGEO Ryutaro Matsumoto
Zaur Kuramagomedov		JPN
RUS

Medals by country

NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
Finland FIN 5 2 4 11
Soviet Union URS 5 0 1 6
Sweden SWE 2 2 3 7
Hungary HUN 2 1 3 6
Russian Federation RUS 2 1 2 5
Romania ROU 1 2 0 3
Yugoslavia YUG 1 2 0 3
Poland POL 1 1 0 2
Republic of Korea KOR 1 1 0 2
Türkiye TUR 1 1 0 2
Italy ITA 1 0 1 2
Japan JPN 1 0 1 2
Austria AUT 1 0 0 1
Islamic Republic of Iran IRI 1 0 0 1
Cuba CUB 0 2 0 2
Denmark DEN 0 2 0 2
Bulgaria BUL 0 1 1 2
Czechoslovakia TCH 0 1 1 2
Georgia GEO 0 1 1 2
Germany GER 0 1 1 2
Norway NOR 0 1 1 2
France FRA 0 1 0 1
Kazakhstan KAZ 0 1 0 1
Unified Team EUN 0 1 0 1
United States USA 0 0 2 2
East Germany GDR 0 0 1 1
Estonia EST 0 0 1 1
Greece GRE 0 0 1 1
Kyrgyzstan KGZ 0 0 1 1
People's Republic of China CHN 0 0 1 1

Top medallists

Athlete Nat Gold Silver Bronze Total
Emil Väre FIN 2 0 0 2
Gustav Freij SWE 1 1 1 3
Lajos Keresztes HUN 1 1 0 2
Ștefan Rusu ROU 1 1 0 2
Oskari Friman FIN 1 0 0 1
Lauri Koskela FIN 1 0 0 1
Kyösti Lehtonen FIN 1 0 0 1
Attila Repka HUN 1 0 0 1
Enrico Porro ITA 1 0 0 1
Muneji Munemura JPN 1 0 0 1
Ryszard Wolny POL 1 0 0 1
Erik Malmberg SWE 1 0 0 1
Kazım Ayvaz TUR 1 0 0 1
Levon Julfalakyan ARM
URS		 1 0 0 1
Shamil Khisamutdinov RUS
URS		 1 0 0 1
Avtandil Koridze GEO
URS		 1 0 0 1
Suren Nalbandyan RUS
URS		 1 0 0 1
Shazam Safin RUS
URS		 1 0 0 1
Vlado Lisjak CRO
YUG		 1 0 0 1
Rudolf Watzl AUT 1 0 0 1
Varteres Samurgashev RUS 1 0 0 1
Jeong Ji-Hyeon KOR 1 0 0 1
Islam-Beka Albiyev RUS 1 0 0 1
Omid Norouzi IRI 1 0 0 1