Wrestling at the 1981 Summer Universiade

The Wrestling competition in the 1981 Summer Universiade were held in Bucharest, Romania.

Medal summary

Freestyle

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

Greco-Roman

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

Medal table

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
	Yugoslavia	0	1	1	2
10	Canada	0	1	0	1
11	Mongolia	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		20	20	20	60