| | Event type
Heavyweight, Greco-Roman (≤100 kilograms), Men
| Date | 1 – 3 August 1984 — 12:00-15:00-18:00-20:30 (all days) | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California, USA | |
| Participants | 8 from 8 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.. | |
American Greg Gibson had won two silvers and a bronze at the 1981-83 World Championships, but in freestyle. When he was upset by Lou Banach at the US Freestyle Trials, Gibson opted to try for the US team in Greco-Roman and succeeded. Banach would win the gold medal in freestyle heavyweight. The favorite in this class was Romanian Vasile Andrei, silver medalist at the 1982 World Championships. With only eight wrestlers in the division, Gibson and Andrei won Groups A and B, respectively, and met for the gold medal. Andrei dominated Gibson, who was new to the style, winning on technical superiority, 12-0, at 4:16 of the match.
| Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | RE | CP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vasile Andrei |  ROU | – | – | Gold | ||
| 2 | Greg Gibson |  USA | – | – | Silver | ||
| 3 | Jožef Tertei |  YUG | – | – | Bronze | ||
| 4 | Georgios Poikilidis |  GRE | – | – | |||
| 5 | Franz Pitschmann |  AUT | – | – | |||
| 6 | Fritz Gerdsmeier |  FRG | – | – | |||
| =7 | Karl-Johan Gustavsson |  SWE | – | – | |||
| =7 | Yoshihiro Fujita |  JPN | – | – |
Group A - Round One (1 August 1984)
| Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | CP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vasile Andrei | ROU | 4.0 | |||
| 2 | Georgios Poikilidis | GRE | 3.0 | |||
| 3 | Franz Pitschmann | AUT | 1.0 | |||
| 4 | Karl-Johan Gustavsson | SWE | 0.0 |
| Match #1 | Georgios Poikilidis | GRE | decision (7-1) | Franz Pitschmann | AUT |
| Match #2 | Vasile Andrei | ROU | decision (13-0) (3:41) | Karl-Johan Gustavsson | SWE |
Group A - Round Two (1 August 1984)
| Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | CP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vasile Andrei | ROU | 8.0 | |||
| 2 | Georgios Poikilidis | GRE | 7.0 | |||
| 3 | Franz Pitschmann | AUT | 1.0 | |||
| 4 | Karl-Johan Gustavsson | SWE | 0.0 |
| Match #1 | Georgios Poikilidis | GRE | decision (16-1) (4:18) | Karl-Johan Gustavsson | SWE |
| Match #2 | Vasile Andrei | ROU | decision (15-2) (2:45) | Franz Pitschmann | AUT |
Group A - Final (2 August 1984)
| Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | CP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Georgios Poikilidis | GRE | 3.5 | |||
| 2 | Vasile Andrei | ROU | 0.0 |
| Match #1 | Vasile Andrei | ROU | passivity (4:05) | Georgios Poikilidis | GRE |
Group B - Round One (1 August 1984)
| Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | CP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| =1 | Greg Gibson | USA | 4.0 | |||
| =1 | Jožef Tertei | YUG | 4.0 | |||
| =3 | Fritz Gerdsmeier | FRG | 0.0 | |||
| =3 | Yoshihiro Fujita | JPN | 0.0 |
| Match #1 | Jožef Tertei | YUG | fall (5:39) | Fritz Gerdsmeier | FRG |
| Match #2 | Greg Gibson | USA | decision (14-1) (3:39) | Yoshihiro Fujita | JPN |
Group B - Round Two (1 August 1984)
| Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | CP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| =1 | Greg Gibson | USA | 7.0 | |||
| =1 | Jožef Tertei | YUG | 7.0 | |||
| 3 | Fritz Gerdsmeier | FRG | 1.0 | |||
| 4 | Yoshihiro Fujita | JPN | 0.0 |
| Match #1 | Greg Gibson | USA | decision (6-1) | Fritz Gerdsmeier | FRG |
| Match #2 | Jožef Tertei | YUG | decision (4-0) | Yoshihiro Fujita | JPN |
Group B - Final (2 August 1984)
| Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | CP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Greg Gibson | USA | 3.0 | |||
| 2 | Jožef Tertei | YUG | 1.0 |
| Match #1 | Greg Gibson | USA | decision (3-2) | Jožef Tertei | YUG |
Final Round (3 August 1984)
| Match 1/2 | Vasile Andrei | ROU | grand superiority (4:16) | Greg Gibson | USA |
| Match 3/4 | Jožef Tertei | YUG | decision (3-0) | Georgios Poikilidis | GRE |
| Match 5/6 | Fritz Gerdsmeier | FRG | decision (7-5) | Franz Pitschmann | AUT |