The Sports Almanac

Summer Olympics
Wrestling - Greco-Roman Lightweight

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

FINLAND - 11 Medals

SWEDEN - 7 Medals

SOVIET UNION - 6 Medals

Greco-Roman Lightweight
Greco-Roman Featherweight
Greco-Roman Bantamweight
Greco-Roman Welterweight Greco-Roman Middleweight Greco-Roman Heavyweight
Greco-Roman SuperHeavyweight Greco-Roman Discontinued
Freestyle Flyweight
Freestyle Bantamweight Freestyle Featherweight Freestyle Lightweight
Freestyle Welterweight Freestyle Middleweight Freestyle Light Heavyweight
Freestyle Heavyweight Freestyle SuperHeavyweight Freestyle Discontinued

Medal Total
Through 2024 Paris Games

YEAR
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
1908
Enrico Porro - Italy
Nikolay Orlav - Russia
Arvo Linden - Finland
1912
Emil Vare - Finland
Gustaf Malmstrom - Sweden
Edvin Mattiasson - Sweden
1920
Emil Vare - Finland
Taavi Tamminen - Finland
Frithjof Anderson - Norway
1924
Oskari Friman - Finland
Lajos Keresztes - Hungary
Kalle Westerlund - Finland
1928
Lajos Keresztes - Hungary Eduard Sperling - Germany
Edvard Westerlund - Finland
1932
Erik Malmberg - Sweden
Abraham Kurland - Denmark
Eduard Sperling - Germany
1936
Lauri Koskela - Finland
Jozef Herda - Czechoslovakia
Voldemar Vali - Estonia
1948
Gustav Freij - Sweden
Aage Eriksen - Norway
Karoly Ferencz - Hungary
1952
Shazam Safin - Soviet Union
Gustav Freij - Sweden
Mikulas Athanasov - Czechoslovakia
1956
Kyosti Lehtonen - Finland
Riza Dogen - Turkey
Gyula Toth - Hungary
1960
Avtandil Koridze - Soviet Union
Branislav Martinovic - Yugoslavia
Gustav Freij - Sweden
1964
Kazim Ayvaz - Turkey
Valeriu Bularca - Romania
David Gvantseladze - Soviet Union
1968
Muneji Munemura - Japan
Stevan Horvat - Yugoslavia
Petros Galaktopoulos - Greece
1972
Shamil Khisamutdinov - Soviet Union
Stoyan Apostolov - Bulgaria
Glan-Matteo Ranzi - Italy
1976
Suren Nalbandyan - Soviet Union
Stefan Rusu - Romania
Heinz-Helmut Wehling - East Germany
1980
Stefan Rusu - Romania
Andrzej Supron - Poland
Lars-Erik Skiold - Sweden
1984
Vlado Lisjak - Yugoslavia
Tapio Sipila - Finland
James Martines - United States
1988
Levon Julfalakyan - Soviet Union
Kim Sung-moon - South Korea
Tapio Sipila - Finland
1992
Attila Repka - Hungary
Islam Dugushiev - Unified Team
Rodney Smith - United States
1996
Ryszard Wolny - Poland
Ghani Yalouz - France
Aleksandr Tretyakov - Russia
2000
Filiberto Azcuy - Cuba
Katsuhiko Nagata - Japan
Aleksey Glushkov - Russia
2004
Farid Mansurov - Azerbaijan
Şeref Eroğlu - Turkey
Mkhitar Manukyan - Kazakhstan
2008
Steeve Guenot - France
Kanatbek Begaliev - Kyrgyzstan
Armen Vardanyan - Ukraine
Mikhail Siamionau - Belarus
2012
Kim Hyeon-woo - South Korea
Tamás Lőrincz - Hungary
Manuchar Tskhadaia - Georgia
Steeve Guénot - France
2016
Davor Štefanek - Serbia
Migran Arutyunyan - Armenia
Shmagi Bolkvadze - Georgia
Rasul Chunayev - Azerbaijan
2020
Mohammad Reza Geraei - Iran Parviz Nasibov - Ukraine Frank Stäbler - Germany
Mohamed Ibrahim El-Sayed - Egypt
2024
Saeid Esmaeili - Iran
Parviz Nasibov - Ukraine Hasrat Jafarov - Azerbaijan
Luis Orta - Cuba


Medal Total
RANK
COUNTRY
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
TOTAL
1
Finland
5
2
4
11
2
Sweden
2
2
3
7
3
Soviet Union
5
0
1
6
4
Hungary
2
2
2
6
5
Turkey
1
2
0
3
6
Romania
1
2
0
3
7
Yugoslavia
1
2
0
3
8
France
1
1
1
3
9
Azerbaijan 1
0
2
3
10
Ukraine 0
2
1
3
11
Russia
0
1
2
3
12
Germany 0
1
2
3
13
Iran 2
0
0
2
14
Japan
1
1
0
2
15
Poland
1
1
0
2
16
South Korea
1
1
0
2
17
Italy
1
0
1
2
18
Cuba 1
0
1
2
19
Norway
0
1
1
2
20
Czechoslovakia
0
1
1
2
21
United States
0
0
2
2
22
Georgia
0
0
2
2
23
Serbia
1
0
0
1
24
Denmark
0
1
0
1
25
Bulgaria
0
1
0
1
26
Kyrgyzstan
0
1
0
1
27
Armenia
0
1
0
1
28
Unified Team
0
1
0
1
29
Estonia
0
0
1
1
30
Greece
0
0
1
1
31
Kazakhstan
0
0
1
1
32
Belarus
0
0
1
1
33
Egypt
0
0
1
1
34
East Germany
0
0
1
1