1972 Summer Olympics / Wrestling

Wrestling at the XX. Summer Olympics
information
venue	Munich
Competition venue	Judo and wrestling hall, Theresienhöhe Exhibition Center
Nations	49
Athletes	388 (388 men)
date	August 27 - September 10, 1972
decisions	20th
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At the XX. At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich , 20 wrestling competitions were held, ten each in freestyle and ten in Greco-Roman style. The venue was the judo and wrestling hall on the Theresienhöhe exhibition center . On the program were two weight classes more than before. The fighting time was limited to three times three minutes. A wrestler stayed in the tournament until he was burdened with six minus points, the tournament winner was the athlete with the lowest number of missing points.

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Soviet Union	9	4th	1	14th
2	United States	3	2	1	6th
3	Bulgaria	2	4th	2	8th
4th	Japan	2	2	-	4th
5	Romania	2	-	2	4th
6th	Hungary	1	-	4th	5
7th	Czechoslovakia	1	-	-	1
8th	BR Germany	-	1	1	2
	Iran	-	1	1	2
	Sweden	-	1	1	2
	Yugoslavia	-	1	1	2
12	GDR	-	1	-	1
	Greece	-	1	-	1
	Mongolia	-	1	-	1
	Turkey	-	1	-	1
16	Italy	-	-	2	2
	Poland	-	-	2	2
18th	Finland	-	-	1	1
	North Korea	-	-	1	1

Medalist

Freestyle competitor gold silver bronze Paper weight Roman Dmitriev Ognyan Nikolov Ibrahim Javadi Flyweight Kiyomi Kato Arsen Alachwerdiev Kim Gwong-hyong Bantamweight Hideaki Yanagida Richard Sanders László Klinga Featherweight Sagalaw Abdulbekow Vehbi Akdağ Ivan Krastew lightweight Dan Gable Kikuo Wada Ruslan Ashuraliev Welterweight Wayne Wells Jan Karlsson Adolf Seger medium weight Levan Tediashvili John Peterson Vasile Iorga Light heavyweight Benjamin Peterson Gennady Strachow Károly Bajkó Heavyweight Ivan Jarygin Chorloogiin bayan monk József Csatári Super heavyweight Alexander Medved Osman Duraliew Chris Taylor

Greco-Roman style competitor gold silver bronze Paper weight Gheorghe Berceanu Rahim Aliabadi Stefan Angelow Flyweight Petar Kirov Koichiro Hirayama Giuseppe Bognanni Bantamweight Rustem Kazakov Hans-Jürgen Veil Risto Björlin Featherweight Georgi Markov Heinz-Helmut Wehling Kazimierz Lipień lightweight Shamil Chissamutdinov Stoyan Apostolov Gian-Matteo Ranzi Welterweight Vítězslav Mácha Petros Galaktopoulos Jan Karlsson medium weight Csaba Hegedűs Anatoly Nasarenko Milan Nenadić Light heavyweight Valery Resanzew Josip Čorak Czesław Kwieciński Heavyweight Nicolae Martinescu Nikolai Yakovenko Ferenc Kiss Super heavyweight Anatoly Roschtschin Alexandar Tomov Victor Dolipschi

Time schedule

1

Round 1

2

round 2

3

Round 3

4th

Round 4

5

Round 5

Round 5 or 6 and final

final

Competitions		August September
Freestyle		27.	28.	29	30th	31.	01.	02.	03.	04th	05.	06th	07th	08th.	09.	10.
Paper weight	up to 48 kg	1	2	3	4th
Flyweight	up to 52 kg	1	2	3	4/5
Bantamweight	up to 57 kg	1	2	3	4/5
Featherweight	up to 62 kg	1	2	3	4/5
lightweight	up to 68 kg	1	2	3	4/5
Welterweight	up to 74 kg	1	2	3	4/5
medium weight	up to 82 kg	1	2	3	4/5
Light heavyweight	up to 90 kg	1	2	3	4/5
Heavyweight	up to 100 kg	1	2	3	4th
Super heavyweight	over 100 kg	1	2	3	4th
Greco-Roman		27.	28.	29	30th	31.	01.	02.	03.	04th	05.	06th	07th	08th.	09.	10.
Paper weight	up to 48 kg										1		2	3	4/5
Flyweight	up to 52 kg										1		2	3	4/5
Bantamweight	up to 57 kg										1		2	3	4/5
Featherweight	up to 62 kg										1		2	3	4/5
lightweight	up to 68 kg										1		2	3	4/5
Welterweight	up to 74 kg											1	2	3	4/5
medium weight	up to 82 kg											1	2	3	4/5
Light heavyweight	up to 90 kg											1	2	3	4/5
Heavyweight	up to 100 kg											1	2	3	4th
Super heavyweight	over 100 kg											1	2	3	4th

Results freestyle

Paper weight (up to 48 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	URS	Roman Dmitriev
2	BUL	Ognyan Nikolov
3	IRN	Ibrahim Javadi
4th	DOOR	Sefer Baygin
5	ROME	Ion Arapu
6th	JPN	Masahiko Umeda
7th	FRG	Rolf Lacour
	GDR	Jürgen Möbius

Award ceremony (from left to right: Nikolow, Dmitrijew, Javadi)

Date: August 27th to 31st, 1972
14 participants from 14 countries

Flyweight (up to 52 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	JPN	Kiyomi Kato
2	URS	Arsen Alachwerdiev
3	PRK	Kim Gwong-hyong
4th	IND	Sudesh Kumar
5	ROME	Petre Ciarnau
6th	CAN	Gordon Bertie
17th	GDR	Willi Bock
	FRG	Mario Sabatini

Date: August 27th to 31st, 1972
24 participants from 24 countries

Bantam weight (up to 57 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	JPN	Hideaki Yanagida
2	United States	Richard Sanders
3	HUN	László Klinga
4th	IND	Prem Nath
5	BUL	Ivan Shavov
6th	GDR	Horst Mayer
20th	AUT	Serious hack

Date: August 27th to 31st, 1972
28 participants from 28 countries

Feather weight (up to 62 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	URS	Sagalaw Abdulbekow
2	DOOR	Vehbi Akdağ
3	BUL	Ivan Krastew
4th	JPN	Kiyoshi Abe
5	IRN	Shamseddin Seyyed Abbasi
6th	ROME	Petre Coman
8th	FRG	Gerhard Weisenberger
18th	SUI	Jakob Tanner

Date: August 27th to 31st, 1972
26 participants from 26 countries

Lightweight (up to 68 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	United States	Dan Gable
2	JPN	Kikuo Wada
3	URS	Ruslan Ashuraliev
4th	DOOR	Ali Şahin
5	MGL	Tsedendambyn Natsagdordsch
6th	GDR	Udo Schröder
13	GER	Klaus Rost
19th	SUI	André Chardonnens

Date: August 27th to 31st, 1972
25 participants from 25 countries

Welter weight (up to 74 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	United States	Wayne Wells
2	SWE	Jan Karlsson
3	FRG	Adolf Seger
4th	BUL	Jancho Pavlov
5	IRN	Mansour Barzegar
	GDR	Wolfgang Nitschke
	FRA	Daniel Robin
8th	SUI	Robert Blaser
18th	AUT	Bruno Hartmann

Date: August 27th to 31st, 1972
25 participants from 25 countries

Middle weight (up to 82 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	URS	Levan Tediashvili
2	United States	John Peterson
3	ROME	Vasile Iorga
4th	GDR	Horst Stottmeister
5	JPN	Tatsuo Sasaki
6th	FRG	Peter Neumair
7th	SUI	Jimmy Martinetti

Date: August 27th to 31st, 1972
25 participants from 25 countries

Light heavyweight (up to 90 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	United States	Benjamin Peterson
2	URS	Gennady Strachow
3	HUN	Károly Bajkó
4th	BUL	Rusi Petrov
5	IRN	Reza Hoseinikhorami
	CUB	Bárbaro Morgan
7th	GDR	Günter Spindler
11	FRG	Ernst Knoll
	CHE	Étienne Martinetti

Date: August 27th to 31st, 1972
23 participants from 23 countries

Heavy weight (up to 100 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	URS	Ivan Jarygin
2	MGL	Chorloogiin bayan monk
3	HUN	József Csatári
4th	BUL	Vasil Todorov
5	ROME	Enache Panait
6th	POLE	Ryszard Długosz
8th	CHE	Bruno Jutzeler
12	GDR	Gerd Bachmann

Date: August 27 to 31, 1972
16 participants from 16 countries

Super heavyweight (over 100 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	URS	Alexander Medved
2	BUL	Osman Duraliew
3	United States	Chris Taylor
4th	IRN	Muslim Eskandar-Filabi
5	FRG	Wilfried Dietrich
6th	GDR	Peter Germer

Date: August 27th to 31st, 1972
13 participants from 13 countries

Results Greco-Roman style

Paper weight (up to 48 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	ROME	Gheorghe Berceanu
2	IRN	Rahim Aliabadi
3	BUL	Stefan Angelow
4th	FIN	Raimo Hirvonen
5	JPN	Kazuharu Ishida
6th	ITA	Lorenzo Calafiore
7th	GDR	Bernd Drechsel
8th	FRG	Günter Maas

Date: 5th to 10th September 1972
20 participants from 20 countries

Flyweight (up to 52 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	BUL	Petar Kirov
2	JPN	Koichiro Hirayama
3	ITA	Giuseppe Bognanni
4th	POLE	Jan Michalik
5	HUN	József Doncsecz
	TCH	Miroslav Zeman
10	FRG	Fritz Huber

Date: 5th to 10th September 1972
20 participants from 20 countries

Bantam weight (up to 57 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	URS	Rustem Kazakov
2	FRG	Hans-Jürgen Veil
3	FIN	Risto Björlin
4th	HUN	Janos Varga
5	BUL	Christo Traikow
6th	ROME	Ion Baciu
19th	AUT	Serious hack
	GDR	Wolfgang Radmacher

Date: 5th to 10th September 1972
29 participants from 29 countries

Feather weight (up to 62 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	BUL	Georgi Markov
2	GDR	Heinz-Helmut Wehling
3	POLE	Kazimierz Lipień
4th	JPN	Hideo Fujimoto
5	URS	Ever Megrelishvili
6th	ROME	Ion Păun
12	SUI	Jakob Tanner

Date: 5th to 10th September 1972
19 participants from 19 countries

Lightweight (up to 68 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	URS	Shamil Chissamutdinov
2	BUL	Stoyan Apostolov
3	ITA	Gian-Matteo Ranzi
4th	FRG	Manfred Schöndorfer
5	JPN	Takashi Tanoue
6th	DOOR	Seyyit Hışırlı
	HUN	Antal Steer
12	GDR	Klaus-Peter Göpfert
	SUI	Heinz Rhyn

Date: 5th to 10th September 1972
23 participants from 23 countries

Welter weight (up to 74 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	TCH	Vítězslav Mácha
2	GRE	Petros Galaktopoulos
3	SWE	Jan Karlsson
4th	BUL	Ivan Kolew
5	YUG	Momir Kecman
6th	FRA	Daniel Robin
7th	GDR	Klaus Pohl
8th	FRG	Werner Schröter
10	AUT	Franz Berger
15th	SUI	Robert Blaser

Date: September 6-10, 1972
20 participants from 20 countries

Middle weight (up to 82 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	HUN	Csaba Hegedűs
2	URS	Anatoly Nasarenko
3	YUG	Milan Nenadić
4th	TCH	Miroslav Janota
5	ROME	Ion Gabor
6th	GDR	Frank Hartmann
15th	FRG	Reinhold Hucker
	SUI	Jimmy Martinetti

Date: September 6-10, 1972
20 participants from 20 countries

Light heavyweight (up to 90 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	URS	Valery Resanzew
2	YUG	Josip Čorak
3	POLE	Czesław Kwieciński
4th	HUN	József Pércsi
5	NOR	Håkon Øverby
6th	ROME	Nicolae Neguț
8th	GDR	Lothar Metz
	FRG	Günter Kowalewski
11	SUI	Jean-Marie Chardonnens

Date: September 6-10, 1972
14 participants from 14 countries

Heavy weight (up to 100 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	ROME	Nicolae Martinescu
2	URS	Nikolai Yakovenko
3	HUN	Ferenc Kiss
4th	BUL	Christo Ignatow
5	GDR	Fredi Albrecht
6th	NOR	Gates Hem
8th	FRG	Lorenz Hecher
	SUI	Ruedi Lüscher

Date: September 6-10, 1972
14 participants from 14 countries

Super heavyweight (over 100 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	URS	Anatoly Roschtschin
2	BUL	Alexandar Tomov
3	ROME	Victor Dolipschi
4th	HUN	József Csatári
5	YUG	Ištvan Semeredi
6th	FRG	Wilfried Dietrich

Date: September 6-10, 1972
12 participants from 12 countries

Web links

• Wrestling at the 1972 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official results of the 1972 Summer Games (PDF, 29.4 MB)