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

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.

Medal summary

Freestyle

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

Greco-Roman

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

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
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

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

See also

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

Sources

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