Men's freestyle 82 kg at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venue	Central Sports Club of the Army
Dates	29–31 July
Competitors	14 from 14 nations
Medalists
Ismail Abilov  Bulgaria Magomedkhan Aratsilov  Soviet Union István Kovács  Hungary
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Wrestling at the 1980 Summer Olympics
	Freestyle	Greco-Roman
	48 kg	48 kg
	52 kg	52 kg
	57 kg	57 kg
	62 kg	62 kg
	68 kg	68 kg
	74 kg	74 kg
	82 kg	82 kg
	90 kg	90 kg
	100 kg	100 kg
	+100 kg	+100 kg
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The Men's Freestyle 82 kg at the 1980 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program were held at the Athletics Fieldhouse, Central Sports Club of the Army.^[1]

Gold	Ismail Abilov  Bulgaria
Silver	Magomedkhan Aratsilov  Soviet Union
Bronze	István Kovács  Hungary

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

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
1	1	István Kovács (HUN)	3 - 3	Günter Busarello (AUT)	3	3
4	4	Zachée N'Dock (CMR)	TF / 4:21	Mohammad El-Oulabi (SYR)	0	0
4	4	Sören Claeson (SWE)	TF / 4:01	Ismail Abilov (BUL)	0	0
4	4	Ahmadjan Khashan (AFG)	DQ / 7:59	Henryk Mazur (POL)	0	0
4	4	Vasile Ţigănaş (ROU)	TF / 1:43	Zevegiin Düvchin (MGL)	0	0
4	4	Armin Weier (GDR)	TF / 5:04	Magomedkhan Aratsilov (URS)	0	0
4	4	Abdul Rahman Mohammed (IRQ)	TF / 7:31	Abdula Memedi (YUG)	0	0

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
1	0	István Kovács (HUN)	TF / 4:48	Zachée N'Dock (CMR)	4	8
3	0	Günter Busarello (AUT)	DQ / 6:58	Mohammad El-Oulabi (SYR)	4	4
7	3	Sören Claeson (SWE)	5 - 11	Henryk Mazur (POL)	1	1
0	0	Ismail Abilov (BUL)	TF / 0:46	Vasile Ţigănaş (ROU)	4	8
1	1	Zevegiin Düvchin (MGL)	14 - 11	Armin Weier (GDR)	3	7
0	0	Magomedkhan Aratsilov (URS)	TF / 1:48	Abdulrahman Mohammed (IRQ)	4	8
0		Abdula Memedi (YUG)		Bye
4		Ahmadjan Khashan (AFG)		DNA

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
3	3	Abdula Memedi (YUG)	3 - 4	István Kovács (HUN)	1	2
7	4	Günter Busarello (AUT)	DQ / 7:25	Ismail Abilov (BUL)	0	0
7.5	3.5	Mohammad El-Oulabi (SYR)	6 - 15	Henryk Mazur (POL)	0.5	1.5
5	4	Zevegiin Düvchin (MGL)	DQ / 5:49	Magomedkhan Aratsilov (URS)	0	0

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
7	4	Abdula Memedi (YUG)	TF / 4:19	Ismail Abilov (BUL)	0	0
3	1	István Kovács (HUN)	6 - 4	Zevegiin Düvchin (MGL)	3	8
5.5	4	Henryk Mazur (POL)	TF / 5:49	Magomedkhan Aratsilov (URS)	0	0

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
4	1	István Kovács (HUN)	7 - 4	Henryk Mazur (POL)	3	8.5
1	1	Ismail Abilov (BUL)	8 - 4	Magomedkhan Aratsilov (URS)	3	3

Results from the preliminary round are carried forward into the final (shown in yellow).

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
	1	Ismail Abilov (BUL)	8 - 4	Magomedkhan Aratsilov (URS)	3
	4	István Kovács (HUN)	TF / 1:48	Ismail Abilov (BUL)	0	1
3	0	Magomedkhan Aratsilov (URS)	18 - 1	István Kovács (HUN)	4	8

1.  Ismail Abilov (BUL)
2.  Magomedkhan Aratsilov (URS)
3.  István Kovács (HUN)
4.  Henryk Mazur (POL)
5.  Abdula Memedi (YUG)
6.  Zevegiin Düvchin (MGL)
7.  Günter Busarello (AUT)
8.  Mohammad El-Oulabi (SYR)

• Official Report