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Host City: Moskva, Soviet Union
Venue(s): Athletics Fieldhouse, CSKA Sports Complex, Moskva
Date Started: July 22, 1980
Date Finished: July 24, 1980
Format: Scoring by negative points, with negative points given for any result short of a fall. Accumulation of 6 negative points eliminated the wrestler.
| Gold: | Ştefan Rusu |
| Silver: | Andrzej Supron |
| Bronze: | Lars-Erik Skiöld |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | Medal | RE | BP | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ştefan Rusu | 24 | Romania | ROU | Gold | |||
| 2 | Andrzej Supron | 27 | Poland | POL | Silver | |||
| 3 | Lars-Erik Skiöld | 28 | Sweden | SWE | Bronze | |||
| 4 | Suren Nalbandyan | 24 | Soviet Union | URS | ||||
| 5 | Buyandelgeriin Bold | 19 | Mongolia | MGL | ||||
| 6 | Ivan Atanasov | 22 | Bulgaria | BUL | ||||
| 7 | Reinhard Hartmann | 26 | Austria | AUT | ||||
| 8 | Károly Gaál | 26 | Hungary | HUN | ||||
| AC | Lionel Lacaze | 25 | France | FRA | Eliminated r3/6 | 8,0 | ||
| AC | Khaled El-Khaled | 29 | Syria | SYR | Eliminated r3/6 | 8,0 | ||
| AC | Ferenc Čaba | 26 | Yugoslavia | YUG | Eliminated r3/6 | 11,0 | ||
| AC | Mohammed Moustafa Mahmoud | Iraq | IRQ | Eliminated r2/6 | 7,0 | |||
| AC | Sakhidad Hamidi | 27 | Afghanistan | AFG | Eliminated r2/6 | 8,0 | ||
| AC | Mohamed Moualek | 23 | Algeria | ALG | Eliminated r2/6 | 8,0 | ||
| AC | Tapio Sipilä | 21 | Finland | FIN | Eliminated r2/6 | 8,0 |