Wrestling at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Wrestling

at the Games of the XX Olympiad

Venue| Messegelände
Dates| 27 August – 10 September
Competitors| 388 from 49 nations

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Wrestling at the
1972 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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At the 1972 Summer Olympics, 20 wrestling events were contested, all for men. There were 10 weight classes in Greco-Roman wrestling and 10 classes in freestyle wrestling.[1]

## Medal summary

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### Freestyle

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Games  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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48 kg
details | Roman Dmitriyev
Soviet Union | Ognyan Nikolov
Bulgaria | Ebrahim Javadi
Iran
52 kg
details | Kiyomi Kato
Japan | Arsen Alakhverdiyev
Soviet Union | Kim Gwong-Hyong
North Korea
57 kg
details | Hideaki Yanagida
Japan | Richard Sanders
United States | László Klinga
Hungary
62 kg
details | Zagalav Abdulbekov
Soviet Union | Vehbi Akdağ
Turkey | Ivan Krastev
Bulgaria
68 kg
details | Dan Gable
United States | Kikuo Wada
Japan | Ruslan Ashuraliyev
Soviet Union
74 kg
details | Wayne Wells
United States | Jan Karlsson
Sweden | Adolf Seger
West Germany
82 kg
details | Levan Tediashvili
Soviet Union | John Peterson
United States | Vasile Iorga
Romania
90 kg
details | Ben Peterson
United States | Gennadi Strakhov
Soviet Union | Károly Bajkó
Hungary
100 kg
details | Ivan Yarygin
Soviet Union | Khorloogiin Bayanmönkh
Mongolia | József Csatári
Hungary
+100 kg
details | Aleksandr Medved
Soviet Union | Osman Duraliev
Bulgaria | Chris Taylor
United States

### Greco-Roman

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Games  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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48 kg
details | Gheorghe Berceanu
Romania | Rahim Aliabadi
Iran | Stefan Angelov
Bulgaria
52 kg
details | Petar Kirov
Bulgaria | Koichiro Hirayama
Japan | Giuseppe Bognanni
Italy
57 kg
details | Rustam Kazakov
Soviet Union | Hans-Jürgen Veil
West Germany | Risto Björlin
Finland
62 kg
details | Georgi Markov
Bulgaria | Heinz-Helmut Wehling
East Germany | Kazimierz Lipień
Poland
68 kg
details | Shamil Khisamutdinov
Soviet Union | Stoyan Apostolov
Bulgaria | Gian Matteo Ranzi
Italy
74 kg
details | Vítězslav Mácha
Czechoslovakia | Petros Galaktopoulos
Greece | Jan Karlsson
Sweden
82 kg
details | Csaba Hegedűs
Hungary | Anatoly Nazarenko
Soviet Union | Milan Nenadić
Yugoslavia
90 kg
details | Valery Rezantsev
Soviet Union | Josip Čorak
Yugoslavia | Czesław Kwieciński
Poland
100 kg
details | Nicolae Martinescu
Romania | Nikolay Yakovenko
Soviet Union | Ferenc Kiss
Hungary
+100 kg
details | Anatoly Roshchin
Soviet Union | Aleksandar Tomov
Bulgaria | Victor Dolipschi
Romania

## Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Soviet Union (URS)| 9| 4| 1| 14
2|  United States (USA)| 3| 2| 1| 6
3|  Bulgaria (BUL)| 2| 4| 2| 8
4|  Japan (JPN)| 2| 2| 0| 4
5|  Romania (ROU)| 2| 0| 2| 4
6|  Hungary (HUN)| 1| 0| 4| 5
7|  Czechoslovakia (TCH)| 1| 0| 0| 1
8|  Iran (IRI)| 0| 1| 1| 2
Sweden (SWE)| 0| 1| 1| 2
West Germany (FRG)| 0| 1| 1| 2
Yugoslavia (YUG)| 0| 1| 1| 2
12|  East Germany (GDR)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Greece (GRE)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Mongolia (MGL)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Turkey (TUR)| 0| 1| 0| 1
16|  Italy (ITA)| 0| 0| 2| 2
Poland (POL)| 0| 0| 2| 2
18|  Finland (FIN)| 0| 0| 1| 1
North Korea (PRK)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (19 entries)| 20| 20| 20| 60

## Participating nations

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A total of 388 wrestlers from 49 nations competed at the Munich Games:[1]

* Afghanistan (8)
* Argentina (3)
* Australia (3)
* Austria (4)
* Belgium (2)
* Bulgaria (20)
* Canada (9)
* Cuba (7)
* Czechoslovakia (10)
* Denmark (3)
* East Germany (17)
* Egypt (4)
* Finland (10)

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* France (5)
* Great Britain (6)
* Greece (9)
* Guatemala (4)
* Hungary (18)
* India (8)
* Iran (14)
* Israel (2)
* Italy (7)
* Japan (20)
* Lebanon (2)
* Mexico (9)
* Mongolia (13)

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* Morocco (3)
* Netherlands (1)
* New Zealand (1)
* North Korea (2)
* Norway (5)
* Pakistan (2)
* Panama (2)
* Peru (4)
* Philippines (3)
* Poland (18)
* Portugal (3)
* Republic of China (1)

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* Romania (20)
* Senegal (4)
* South Korea (4)
* Soviet Union (20)
* Sweden (7)
* Switzerland (9)
* Syria (2)
* Tunisia (2)
* Turkey (16)
* United States (19)
* West Germany (17)
* Yugoslavia (10)

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## See also

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* List of World and Olympic Champions in men's freestyle wrestling
* List of World and Olympic Champions in Greco-Roman wrestling

## References

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1. ^ a b "Wrestling at the 1972 Munich Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 6 April 2019.

## Sources

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* "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2008-10-29.

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