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

Freestyle

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
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

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
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	Rubik Ghazaryan   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

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: ^[1]

See also

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

References

Sources

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