# Wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics

At the 1996 Summer Olympics, two different wrestling disciplines were contested: freestyle wrestling and Greco-Roman wrestling.

## Medalists
### Freestyle

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 48 kg details | Kim Il North Korea | Armen Mkrtchyan Armenia | Alexis Vila Cuba |
| 52 kg details | Valentin Yordanov Bulgaria | Namig Abdullayev Azerbaijan | Maulen Mamyrov Kazakhstan |
| 57 kg details | Kendall Cross United States | Guivi Sissaouri Canada | Ri Yong-sam North Korea |
| 62 kg details | Tom Brands United States | Jang Jae-sung South Korea | Elbrus Tedeyev Ukraine |
| 68 kg details | Vadim Bogiev Russia | Townsend Saunders United States | Zaza Zazirov Ukraine |
| 74 kg details | Buvaisar Saitiev Russia | Park Jang-soon South Korea | Takuya Ota Japan |
| 82 kg details | Khadzhimurad Magomedov Russia | Yang Hyung-mo South Korea | Amir Reza Khadem Iran |
| 90 kg details | Rasoul Khadem Iran | Makharbek Khadartsev Russia | Eldar Kurtanidze Georgia |
| 100 kg details | Kurt Angle United States | Abbas Jadidi Iran | Arawat Sabejew Germany |
| 130 kg details | Mahmut Demir Turkey | Aleksey Medvedev Belarus | Bruce Baumgartner United States |

### Greco-Roman

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 48 kg details | Sim Kwon-ho South Korea | Aleksandr Pavlov Belarus | Zafar Guliev Russia |
| 52 kg details | Armen Nazaryan Armenia | Brandon Paulson United States | Andriy Kalashnikov Ukraine |
| 57 kg details | Yuriy Melnichenko Kazakhstan | Dennis Hall United States | Sheng Zetian China |
| 62 kg details | Włodzimierz Zawadzki Poland | Juan Marén Cuba | Mehmet Akif Pirim Turkey |
| 68 kg details | Ryszard Wolny Poland | Ghani Yalouz France | Aleksandr Tretyakov Russia |
| 74 kg details | Filiberto Azcuy Cuba | Marko Asell Finland | Józef Tracz Poland |
| 82 kg details | Hamza Yerlikaya Turkey | Thomas Zander Germany | Valery Tsilent Belarus |
| 90 kg details | Vyacheslav Oliynyk Ukraine | Jacek Fafiński Poland | Maik Bullmann Germany |
| 100 kg details | Andrzej Wroński Poland | Sergey Lishtvan Belarus | Mikael Ljungberg Sweden |
| 130 kg details | Aleksandr Karelin Russia | Matt Ghaffari United States | Sergei Mureiko Moldova |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Russia (RUS) | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| 2 | United States (USA) | 3 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| 3 | Poland (POL) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 4 | Turkey (TUR) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | South Korea (KOR) | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 6 | Cuba (CUB) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Iran (IRI) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | Armenia (ARM) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | Ukraine (UKR) | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 10 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | North Korea (PRK) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Belarus (BLR) | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 14 | Germany (GER) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 15 | Azerbaijan (AZE) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | Canada (CAN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | Finland (FIN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | France (FRA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 19 | China (CHN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 19 | Georgia (GEO) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 19 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 19 | Moldova (MDA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 19 | Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (23 entries) | Totals (23 entries) | 20 | 20 | 20 | 60 |

## Participating nations

A total of 401 wrestlers from 75 nations competed at the Atlanta Games:
* Albania (1)
* Algeria (2)
* American Samoa (1)
* Argentina (1)
* Armenia (8)
* Australia (9)
* Azerbaijan (8)
* Belarus (16)
* Belgium (1)
* Bosnia and Herzegovina (1)
* Bulgaria (11)
* Cambodia (1)
* Cameroon (1)
* Canada (14)
* China (5)
* Colombia (3)
* Croatia (1)
* Cuba (15)
* Cyprus (1)
* Czech Republic (3)
* Dominican Republic (1)
* Egypt (1)
* Estonia (4)
* Finland (5)
* France (2)
* Georgia (8)
* Germany (11)
* Great Britain (1)
* Greece (10)
* Guam (1)
* Guatemala (1)
* Guinea-Bissau (1)
* Hungary (11)
* India (1)
* Iran (10)
* Israel (1)
* Italy (4)
* Japan (12)
* Kazakhstan (11)
* Kyrgyzstan (4)
* Latvia (1)
* Lithuania (3)
* Macedonia (3)
* Mexico (7)
* Moldova (6)
* Mongolia (4)
* Morocco (5)
* Nigeria (4)
* North Korea (3)
* Norway (1)
* Pakistan (1)
* Panama (1)
* Peru (5)
* Poland (11)
* Portugal (1)
* Puerto Rico (5)
* Romania (10)
* Russia (20)
* Senegal (2)
* Slovakia (4)
* South Africa (1)
* South Korea (15)
* Sweden (7)
* Switzerland (2)
* Syria (2)
* Tajikistan (1)
* Tunisia (3)
* Turkey (13)
* Turkmenistan (1)
* Ukraine (17)
* United States (20)
* Uzbekistan (10)
* Venezuela (6)
* Yemen (1)
* FR Yugoslavia (2)