# Wrestling at the 1976 Summer Olympics

At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, 20 wrestling events were contested, all for men only. There were 10 weight classes in each of the freestyle wrestling and Greco-Roman wrestling disciplines.

## Medal summary
### Freestyle

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 48 kg details | Hasan Isaev Bulgaria | Roman Dmitriyev Soviet Union | Akira Kudo Japan |
| 52 kg details | Yuji Takada Japan | Alexander Ivanov Soviet Union | Jeon Hae-Sup South Korea |
| 57 kg details | Vladimir Yumin Soviet Union | Hans-Dieter Brüchert East Germany | Masao Arai Japan |
| 62 kg details | Yang Jung-Mo South Korea | Zevegiin Oidov Mongolia | Gene Davis United States |
| 68 kg details | Pavel Pinigin Soviet Union | Lloyd Keaser United States | Yasaburo Sugawara Japan |
| 74 kg details | Jiichiro Date Japan | Mansour Barzegar Iran | Stanley Dziedzic United States |
| 82 kg details | John Peterson United States | Viktor Novozhilov Soviet Union | Adolf Seger West Germany |
| 90 kg details | Levan Tediashvili Soviet Union | Ben Peterson United States | Stelică Morcov Romania |
| 100 kg details | Ivan Yarygin Soviet Union | Russell Hellickson United States | Dimo Kostov Bulgaria |
| +100 kg details | Soslan Andiyev Soviet Union | József Balla Hungary | Ladislau Şimon Romania |

### Greco-Roman

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 48 kg details | Alexei Shumakov Soviet Union | Gheorghe Berceanu Romania | Stefan Angelov Bulgaria |
| 52 kg details | Vitali Konstantinov Soviet Union | Nicu Gingă Romania | Koichiro Hirayama Japan |
| 57 kg details | Pertti Ukkola Finland | Ivan Frgić Yugoslavia | Farhat Mustafin Soviet Union |
| 62 kg details | Kazimierz Lipień Poland | Nelson Davidyan Soviet Union | László Réczi Hungary |
| 68 kg details | Suren Nalbandyan Soviet Union | Ștefan Rusu Romania | Heinz-Helmut Wehling East Germany |
| 74 kg details | Anatoly Bykov Soviet Union | Vítězslav Mácha Czechoslovakia | Karl-Heinz Helbing West Germany |
| 82 kg details | Momir Petković Yugoslavia | Vladimir Cheboksarov Soviet Union | Ivan Kolev Bulgaria |
| 90 kg details | Valery Rezantsev Soviet Union | Stoyan Nikolov Bulgaria | Czesław Kwieciński Poland |
| 100 kg details | Nikolai Balboshin Soviet Union | Kamen Goranov Bulgaria | Andrzej Skrzydlewski Poland |
| +100 kg details | Alexander Kolchinsky Soviet Union | Aleksandar Tomov Bulgaria | Roman Codreanu Romania |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 12 | 5 | 1 | 18 |
| 2 | Japan (JPN) | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 3 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 |
| 4 | United States (USA) | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 5 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | Poland (POL) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | South Korea (KOR) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | Finland (FIN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Romania (ROU) | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 10 | East Germany (GDR) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Iran (IRI) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Mongolia (MGL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | West Germany (FRG) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Totals (15 entries) | Totals (15 entries) | 20 | 20 | 20 | 60 |

## Participating nations

A total of 330 wrestlers from 41 nations competed at the Montreal Games:
| Argentina (3)  Australia (3)  Austria (2)  Belgium (2)  Bulgaria (20)  Canada (15)  Cuba (9)  Czechoslovakia (5)  East Germany (12)  Ecuador (1)  Finland (7) | France (5)  Great Britain (7)  Greece (4)  Hungary (18)  Iran (17)  Israel (1)  Italy (8)  Japan (20)  Lebanon (1)  Mexico (2) | Mongolia (13)  Morocco (4)  New Zealand (2)  North Korea (3)  Norway (2)  Pakistan (2)  Panama (1)  Poland (14)  Portugal (3)  Puerto Rico (5) | Romania (19)  Senegal (5)  South Korea (11)  Soviet Union (20)  Sweden (8)  Turkey (11)  United States (20)  Virgin Islands (4)  West Germany (15)  Yugoslavia (6) |