Wrestling

• In Greco-Roman wrestling Ferenc Kocsis of Hungary was declared the winner of the 163 pound class when the Olympic and Soviet defending champion Anatoly Bykov was disqualified for passivity.

• 1980 witnessed the first ever "Graeco" to win a Greco-Roman title at an Olympics; Greece's Stilianos Migiakis took the gold in the featherweight division.

• In the 106 pound freestyle wrestling final Italy's Claudio Pollio put Soviet grappler and twice world champion Sergei Kornilaev to the mat to take an unexpected gold on point standings.

• None of the experts rated the Bulgarian welterweight freestyle wrestler Valentin Raitchev. He had no experience of international competition but won gold.

• The Soviet national head coach said that Nikolai Balboshin – the reigning Olympic champion from Montreal – was unbeatable in his heavyweight division. However Balboshin failed to win a medal.

Medal count

This is a list of all nations that won medals at the 1980 Games.

Rank	Nation	Gold		Silver		Bronze		Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)*	80		69		46		195
2	East Germany (GDR)	47		37		42		126
3	Bulgaria (BUL)	8		16		17		41
4	Cuba (CUB)	8		7		5		20
5	Italy (ITA)	8		3		4		15
6	Hungary (HUN)	7		10		15		32
7	Romania (ROU)	6		6		13		25
8	France (FRA)	6		5		3		14
9	Great Britain (GBR)	5		7		9		21
10	Poland (POL)	3		14		15		32
11	Sweden (SWE)	3		3		6		12
12	Finland (FIN)	3		1		4		8
13	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	2		3		9		14
14	Yugoslavia (YUG)	2		3		4		9
15	Australia (AUS)	2		2		5		9
16	Denmark (DEN)	2		1		2		5
17	Brazil (BRA)	2		0		2		4
	Ethiopia (ETH)	2		0		2		4
19	Switzerland (SUI)	2		0		0		2
20	Spain (ESP)	1		3		2		6
21	Austria (AUT)	1		2		1		4
22	Greece (GRE)	1		0		2		3
23	Belgium (BEL)	1		0		0		1
	India (IND)	1		0		0		1
	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	1		0		0		1
26	North Korea (PRK)	0		3		2		5
27	Mongolia (MGL)	0		2		2		4
28	Tanzania (TAN)	0		2		0		2
29	Mexico (MEX)	0		1		3		4
30	Netherlands (NED)	0		1		2		3
31	Ireland (IRL)	0		1		1		2
32	Uganda (UGA)	0		1		0		1
	Venezuela (VEN)	0		1		0		1
34	Jamaica (JAM)	0		0		3		3
35	Guyana (GUY)	0		0		1		1
	Lebanon (LIB)	0		0		1		1
Total (36 NOCs)			204		204		223		631