| | Event type
Heavyweight, Freestyle (≤100 kilograms), Men
| Date | 9 – 11 August 1984 — 12:00-15:00-18:00-20:30 (all days) | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California, USA | |
| Participants | 11 from 11 countries | |
| Format | Two groups of competitors. Placement within each group decided by a series of matches with positive points awarded for each result, from 4.0 for victory by fall, to 0.0 for defeat by fall. When three wrestlers remained within a group, they wrestled a round-robin series to determine the top three placements within the group. The winners of each group then wrestled for 1st and 2nd place. Runners-up in each group wrestled for 3rd and 4th place. Third-place finishers within each group wrestled for 5th and 6th place.. | |
The best American wrestler in this class had been Greg Gibson, who won two silvers and one bronze medal at the 1981-83 World Championships, as well as the 1983 Pan American title. Gibson was beaten in the US Trials by Lou Banach, so Gibson elected to compete in Greco-Roman, winning a silver medal in that style at Los Angeles. Two days before this competition Banach’s brother, Ed, had won the gold medal in the light-heavyweight division. Lou Banach easily won all his matches in Group B, and then met Syrian Joseph Atiyeh for the gold medal. That was not much of a match as Banach pinned Atiyeh in 1:01, but the silver medal Atiyeh won was the first ever for Syria at the Olympics.
| Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | RE | CP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lou Banach |  USA | – | – | Gold | ||
| 2 | Joseph Atiyeh |  SYR | – | – | Silver | ||
| 3 | Vasile Pușcașu |  ROU | – | – | Bronze | ||
| 4 | Hayri Sezgin |  TUR | – | – | |||
| 5 | Tamon Honda |  JPN | – | – | |||
| 6 | Georgios Poikilidis |  GRE | – | – | |||
| 7 | Kartar Dhillon Singh |  IND | – | – | |||
| 8 | Wayne Brightwell |  CAN | – | – | |||
| Karl-Johan Gustavsson |  SWE | Eliminated r2/3 Group A | 0.0 | ||||
| Oumar Samba Sy |  MTN | Withdrew r2/3 Group A | 0.0 | ||||
| Ambroise Sarr |  SEN | Eliminated r2/3 Group B | 0.0 |
Group A - Round One (9 August 1984)
| Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | CP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| =1 | Kartar Dhillon Singh | IND | 4.0 | |||
| =1 | Joseph Atiyeh | SYR | 4.0 | |||
| 3 | Georgios Poikilidis | GRE | 3.0 | |||
| =4 | Oumar Samba Sy | MTN | 0.0 | |||
| =4 | Vasile Pușcașu | ROU | 0.0 | |||
| =4 | Karl-Johan Gustavsson | SWE | 0.0 |
| Match #1 | Kartar Dhillon Singh | IND | decision (15-2) (5:08) | Karl-Johan Gustavsson | SWE |
| Match #2 | Georgios Poikilidis | GRE | passivity (4:57) | Oumar Samba Sy | MTN |
| Match #3 | Joseph Atiyeh | SYR | fall (4:42) | Vasile Pușcașu | ROU |
Group A - Round Two (9 August 1984)
| Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | CP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joseph Atiyeh | SYR | 8.0 | |||
| 2 | Georgios Poikilidis | GRE | 7.0 | |||
| 3 | Kartar Dhillon Singh | IND | 4.0 | |||
| =4 | Vasile Pușcașu | ROU | 0.0 | |||
| =4 | Karl-Johan Gustavsson | SWE | 0.0 | eliminated |
| Match #1 | Georgios Poikilidis | GRE | decision (12-0) (5:06) | Karl-Johan Gustavsson | SWE |
| Match #2 | Joseph Atiyeh | SYR | fall (0:33) | Kartar Dhillon Singh | IND |
| Match #3 | Vasile Pușcașu | ROU | bye |
Group A - Round Three (9 August 1984)
| Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | CP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joseph Atiyeh | SYR | 12.0 | |||
| 2 | Georgios Poikilidis | GRE | 7.0 | |||
| 3 | Kartar Dhillon Singh | IND | 5.0 | |||
| 4 | Vasile Pușcașu | ROU | 3.0 |
| Match #1 | Vasile Pușcașu | ROU | decision (6-5) | Kartar Dhillon Singh | IND |
| Match #2 | Joseph Atiyeh | SYR | injury (0:27) | Georgios Poikilidis | GRE |
Group A - Final (10 August 1984)
| Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | CP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joseph Atiyeh | SYR | 8.0 | |||
| 2 | Vasile Pușcașu | ROU | 4.0 | |||
| 3 | Georgios Poikilidis | GRE | 0.0 |
| Match #1 | Vasile Pușcașu | ROU | walkover | ||
| Match #2 | Joseph Atiyeh | SYR | fall (4:42) | Vasile Pușcașu | ROU |
| Match #3 | Joseph Atiyeh | SYR | injury (0:27) | Georgios Poikilidis | GRE |
Group B - Round One (9 August 1984)
| Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | CP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| =1 | Tamon Honda | JPN | 4.0 | |||
| =1 | Lou Banach | USA | 4.0 | |||
| =3 | Wayne Brightwell | CAN | 0.0 | |||
| =3 | Ambroise Sarr | SEN | 0.0 | |||
| =3 | Hayri Sezgin | TUR | 0.0 |
| Match #1 | Lou Banach | USA | fall (1:14) | Hayri Sezgin | TUR |
| Match #2 | Tamon Honda | JPN | fall (3:52) | Ambroise Sarr | SEN |
| Match #3 | Wayne Brightwell | CAN | bye |
Group B - Round Two (9 August 1984)
| Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | CP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lou Banach | USA | 8.0 | |||
| 2 | Tamon Honda | JPN | 4.0 | |||
| 3 | Hayri Sezgin | TUR | 3.0 | |||
| 4 | Wayne Brightwell | CAN | 1.0 | |||
| 5 | Ambroise Sarr | SEN | 0.0 | eliminated |
| Match #1 | Hayri Sezgin | TUR | decision (6-5) | Wayne Brightwell | CAN |
| Match #2 | Lou Banach | USA | fall (1:45) | Ambroise Sarr | SEN |
| Match #3 | Tamon Honda | JPN | bye |
Group B - Round Three (9 August 1984)
| Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | CP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lou Banach | USA | 11.5 | |||
| 2 | Hayri Sezgin | TUR | 6.0 | |||
| 3 | Tamon Honda | JPN | 5.0 | |||
| 4 | Wayne Brightwell | CAN | 1.5 | eliminated |
| Match #1 | Hayri Sezgin | TUR | decision (9-4) | Tamon Honda | JPN |
| Match #2 | Lou Banach | USA | decision (11-1) | Wayne Brightwell | CAN |
Group B - Final (10 August 1984)
| Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | CP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lou Banach | USA | 8.0 | |||
| 2 | Hayri Sezgin | TUR | 3.0 | |||
| 3 | Tamon Honda | JPN | 1.0 |
| Match #1 | Hayri Sezgin | TUR | Tamon Honda | JPN | |
| Match #2 | Lou Banach | USA | fall (1:56) | Tamon Honda | JPN |
| Match #3 | Lou Banach | USA | Hayri Sezgin | TUR |
Final Round (11 August 1984)
| Match 1/2 | Lou Banach | USA | fall (1:01) | Joseph Atiyeh | SYR |
| Match 3/4 | Vasile Pușcașu | ROU | decision (4-3) | Hayri Sezgin | TUR |
| Match 5/6 | Tamon Honda | JPN | walkover |