Participating Nations
A total of 431 wrestlers from 69 nations competed at the Seoul Games:
- Afghanistan (5)
- American Samoa (1)
- Argentina (2)
- Australia (3)
- Austria (5)
- Belgium (1)
- Brazil (2)
- Bulgaria (20)
- Cameroon (4)
- Canada (11)
- China (11)
- Chinese Taipei (4)
- Colombia (4)
- Czechoslovakia (9)
- East Germany (8)
- Egypt (5)
- El Salvador (1)
- Finland (12)
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- France (9)
- Gambia (3)
- Great Britain (7)
- Greece (5)
- Guam (1)
- Guatemala (1)
- Guinea (2)
- Hungary (18)
- India (7)
- Indonesia (2)
- Iran (15)
- Iraq (5)
- Ireland (1)
- Israel (2)
- Italy (4)
- Japan (20)
- Jordan (2)
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- Kenya (4)
- Lebanon (1)
- Malta (2)
- Mauritania (4)
- Mauritius (1)
- Mexico (4)
- Mongolia (9)
- Morocco (5)
- New Zealand (2)
- Nigeria (6)
- North Yemen (3)
- Norway (5)
- Pakistan (3)
- Panama (2)
- Peru (1)
- Philippines (2)
- Poland (18)
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- Portugal (1)
- Puerto Rico (2)
- Romania (4)
- Samoa (2)
- Senegal (4)
- South Korea (19)
- Soviet Union (20)
- Spain (9)
- Sweden (10)
- Switzerland (4)
- Syria (8)
- Tunisia (3)
- Turkey (13)
- United States (20)
- Vietnam (1)
- West Germany (17)
- Yugoslavia (10)
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