81 kg 1972-2016
uomini

dal 1896 al 1968 non disputato

1972
(70 kg)
1 Toyokazu Nomura JPN
2 Antoni Zajkowski POL
3 Dietmar Hoetger GDR
3 Anatoly Novikov URS
5 Engelbert Doerbandt RFG
5 Antal Hetényi HUN
7 Wang Jong-she TPE
7 Reto Zinsli SUI

1976
(70 kg)
1 Vladimir Nevzorov URS
2 Koji Kuramoto JPN
3 Patrick Vial FRA
3 Marian Talaj POL
5 Lee Chang-sun KOR
5 Vaccinuf Morrison GBR
7 Juan Carlos Rodriguez ESP
7 John Van Hoek AUS

1980
1 Shota Khabareli URS
2 Juan Ferrer La Hera CUB
3 Harald Heinke GDR
3 Bernard Tchoullouyan FRA
5 Mircea Frãtiçã ROU
5 Ignacio Sanz Paz ESP
7 Georgi Petrov BUL
7 Slavko Sikiric YUG

1984
1 Frank Wieneke RFG
2 A. Neil Adams GBR
3 Michel Nowak FRA
3 Mircea Frãtiçã ROU
5 Filip Lascak YUG
5 Hiromitsu Takano JPN

1988
1 Waldemar Liegen POL
2 Frank Wieneke RFG
3 Torsten Brechot GDR
3 Bashir Varayev URS
5 Kevin Doherty CAN
5 Pascal Tayot FRA

1992
1 Hidehiko Yoshida JPN
2 Jason Morris USA
3 Bertrand Damaisin FRA
3 Kim Byung-Joo KOR
5 Joahn Laats BEL
5 Lars Adolfsson SWE
7 Alexandru Ciupe ROU
7 Bashir Varayev RUS

1996
1 Djamel Bouras FRA
2 Toshihiko Koga JPN
3 Cho In-Chul KOR
3 Soso Liparteliani GEO
5 Stefan Dott GEO
5 Dario Garcia ARG
7 Flavio Canto BRA
7 Irakli Uznadze TUR

2000
1 Makoto Takimoto JPN
2 Cho In-Chul KOR
3 Nuno Delgado POR
3 Aleksei Budolin EST
5 Alvaro Paseyro URU
5 Djamel Bouras FRA
7 Kwak Ok Chol PRK
7 Kazem Sarikhani IRI
9 Francesco Lepre ITA

2004
1 Ilias Iliadis GRE
2 Roman Gontyuk UKR
3 Dmitri Nossov RUS
3 Flavio Canto BRA
5 Mehman Azizov AZE
5 Robert Krawczyk POL
7 Florian Wanner GER
7 Young Woo Kwon KOR
Ottavi: Roberto Meloni ITA

2008
1 Ole Bischof GER
2 Jaenum Kim KOR
3 Tiago Camilo BRA
3 Roman Gontiuk UKR
5 Guillaume Elmont NED
5 Nyamkhuu Damdinsuren MGL
7 Euan Burton GBR
7 Robert Krawczyk POL
Ottavi: Giuseppe Maddaloni ITA

2012
1 Jae-Bum Kim KOR
2 Ole Bischof GER
3 Antoine Valois-Fortier CAN
3 Ivan Nifontov RUS
5 Takahiro Nakai JPN
5 Travis Stevens USA
7 Emmanuel Lucenti ARG
7 Leandro Guilheiro BRA
17 Antonio Ciano ITA 

2016
1 Khasan Khalmurzaev RUS
2 Travis Stevens USA
3 Sergiu Toma UAE
3 Takanori Nagase JPN
5 Matteo Marconcini ITA
5 Avtandili Tchrikishvili GEO
7 Ivaylo Ivanov BUL
7 Antoine Valois-Fortier CAN

Legenda
Ottavi: elieminato agli ottavi