Wrestling at the 1981 Summer Universiade

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Toshiaki Ishikawa Japan	Arshak Sanonyan Soviet Union	Son Gab-do South Korea
52 kg	Mitsuru Sato Japan	Gheorghe Bîrcu Romania	Kim Jong-kyu South Korea
57 kg	Anatoly Beloglazov Soviet Union	Hideaki Tomiyama Japan	Aurel Neagu Romania
62 kg	Viktor Alekseev Soviet Union	Mike Land United States	Dugarsürengiin Oyuunbold Mongolia
68 kg	Raúl Cascaret Cuba	You In-tak South Korea	Boris Budayev Soviet Union
74 kg	Georgy Makasarashvili Soviet Union	Dave Schultz United States	Kiro Ristov Yugoslavia
82 kg	Vagab Kazibekov Soviet Union	Ivan Yorgov Bulgaria	Gheorghe Fodore Romania
90 kg	Vladimir Batnia Soviet Union	Clark Davis Canada	Mitch Hull United States
100 kg	Ilya Mate Soviet Union	Venelin Atanasov Bulgaria	Luis Miranda Cuba
+100 kg	Bruce Baumgartner United States	Sergey Stoychev Bulgaria	Nikolay Skripkin Soviet Union

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Temo Kasarashvili Soviet Union	Constantin Alexandru Romania	Hidekazu Okawa Japan
52 kg	Benur Pashayan Soviet Union	Nicu Gingă Romania	Bang Dae-du South Korea
57 kg	Niculae Zamfir Romania	Kamil Fatkulin Soviet Union	Petar Balov Bulgaria
62 kg	Ion Păun Romania	Gyrom Micharashvili Soviet Union	Stefan Mikhailov Bulgaria
68 kg	Ștefan Rusu Romania	Mikhail Prokudin Soviet Union	Nikolay Dimov Bulgaria
74 kg	Aleksandr Kudryavtsev Soviet Union	Gheorghe Ciobotaru Romania	Peter Thätner East Germany
82 kg	Ion Draica Romania	Taymuraz Apkhazava Soviet Union	Evgeni Stamov Bulgaria
90 kg	Ilie Matei Romania	Thomas Horschel East Germany	Aleksandr Dubrovsky Soviet Union
100 kg	Mikhail Saladze Soviet Union	Vasile Andrei Romania	Roman Wrocławski Poland
+100 kg	Victor Dolipschi Romania	Refik Memišević Yugoslavia	Ivan Karapetyan Soviet Union

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	10	5	4	19
2	Romania	6	5	2	13
3	Japan	2	1	1	4
4	United States	1	2	1	4
5	Cuba	1	0	1	2
6	Bulgaria	0	3	4	7
7	South Korea	0	1	3	4
8	East Germany	0	1	1	2
8	Yugoslavia	0	1	1	2
10	Canada	0	1	0	1
11	Mongolia	0	0	1	1
11	Poland	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		20	20	20	60

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