Wrestling at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman 68 kg

The Men's Greco-Roman 68 kg at the 1980 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program were held at the Athletics Fieldhouse, Central Sports Club of the Army.

Medalists

Gold	Ștefan Rusu  Romania
Silver	Andrzej Supron  Poland
Bronze	Lars-Erik Skiöld  Sweden

Tournament results

The competition used a form of negative points tournament, with negative points given for any result short of a fall. Accumulation of 6 negative points eliminated the loser wrestler. When only three wrestlers remain, a special final round is used to determine the order of the medals.

Legend

• TF — Won by Fall
• IN — Won by Opponent Injury
• DQ — Won by Passivity
• D1 — Won by Passivity, the winner is passive too
• D2 — Both wrestlers lost by Passivity
• FF — Won by Forfeit
• DNA — Did not appear
• TPP — Total penalty points
• MPP — Match penalty points

Penalties

• 0 — Won by Fall, Technical Superiority, Passivity, Injury and Forfeit
• 0.5 — Won by Points, 8-11 points difference
• 1 — Won by Points, 1-7 points difference
• 2 — Won by Passivity, the winner is passive too
• 3 — Lost by Points, 1-7 points difference
• 3.5 — Lost by Points, 8-11 points difference
• 4 — Lost by Fall, Technical Superiority, Passivity, Injury and Forfeit

Round 1

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
4	4	Lionel Lacaze (FRA)	DQ / 5:25	Ferenc Čaba (YUG)	0	0
4	4	Ivan Atanasov (BUL)	TF / 5:35	Ștefan Rusu (ROU)	0	0
4	4	Tapio Sipilä (FIN)	DQ / 5:16	Suren Nalbandyan (URS)	0	0
4	4	Mohamed Moualek (ALG)	TF / 0:58	Károly Gaál (HUN)	0	0
0	0	Andrzej Supron (POL)	DQ / 5:28	Sakhidad Hamidi (AFG)	4	4
1	1	Buyandelgeriin Bold (MGL)	18 - 15	Mohammed Mahmoud (IRQ)	3	3
0	0	Lars-Erik Skiöld (SWE)	TF / 4:01	Reinhard Hartmann (AUT)	4	4
0		Khaled El-Khaled (SYR)		Bye

Round 2

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
4	4	Khaled El-Khaled (SYR)	DQ / 4:26	Lionel Lacaze (FRA)	0	4
3	3	Ferenc Čaba (YUG)	2 - 7	Ivan Atanasov (BUL)	1	5
0	0	Ștefan Rusu (ROU)	TF / 3:48	Tapio Sipilä (FIN)	4	8
0	0	Suren Nalbandyan (URS)	DQ / 4:56	Mohamed Moualek (ALG)	4	8
4	4	Károly Gaál (HUN)	DQ / 8:27	Andrzej Supron (POL)	0	0
8	4	Sakhidad Hamidi (AFG)	DQ / 5:47	Buyandelgeriin Bold (MGL)	0	1
7	4	Mohammed Mahmoud (IRQ)	DQ / 5:07	Lars-Erik Skiöld (SWE)	0	0
4		Reinhard Hartmann (AUT)		Bye

Round 3

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
4	0	Reinhard Hartmann (AUT)	DQ / 6:46	Khaled El-Khaled (SYR)	4	8
8	4	Lionel Lacaze (FRA)	DQ / 8:36	Ivan Atanasov (BUL)	0	5
7	4	Ferenc Čaba (YUG)	TF / 7:30	Ștefan Rusu (ROU)	0	0
1	1	Suren Nalbandyan (URS)	4 - 2	Károly Gaál (HUN)	3	7
0	0	Andrzej Supron (POL)	TF / 7:10	Buyandelgeriin Bold (MGL)	4	5
0		Lars-Erik Skiöld (SWE)		Bye

Round 4

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
1	1	Lars-Erik Skiöld (SWE)	10 - 10	Ivan Atanasov (BUL)	3	8
8	4	Reinhard Hartmann (AUT)	TF / 3:37	Ștefan Rusu (ROU)	0	0
4	3	Suren Nalbandyan (URS)	2 - 4	Andrzej Supron (POL)	1	1
5		Buyandelgeriin Bold (MGL)		Bye

Round 5

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
9	4	Buyandelgeriin Bold (MGL)	TF / 3:34	Lars-Erik Skiöld (SWE)	0	0
4	4	Ștefan Rusu (ROU)	D2 / 7:09	Suren Nalbandyan (URS)	4	8
1		Andrzej Supron (POL)		Bye

Final

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
	0	Andrzej Supron (POL)	TF / 3:08	Lars-Erik Skiöld (SWE)	4
	1	Ștefan Rusu (ROU)	3 - 2	Andrzej Supron (POL)	3	3
7	3	Lars-Erik Skiöld (SWE)	1 - 5	Ștefan Rusu (ROU)	1	2

Final standings

1.  Ștefan Rusu (ROU)
2.  Andrzej Supron (POL)
3.  Lars-Erik Skiöld (SWE)
4.  Suren Nalbandyan (URS)
5.  Buyandelgeriin Bold (MGL)
6.  Ivan Atanasov (BUL)
7.  Reinhard Hartmann (AUT)
8.  Károly Gaál (HUN)

References

• Official Report