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

* Ștefan Rusu (ROU)
* Andrzej Supron (POL)
* Lars-Erik Skiöld (SWE)
* Suren Nalbandyan (URS)
* Buyandelgeriin Bold (MGL)
* Ivan Atanasov (BUL)
* Reinhard Hartmann (AUT)
* Károly Gaál (HUN)
