Wrestling at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Wrestling
at the Games of the XX Olympiad
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.^[1]

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Roman Dmitriev Soviet Union	Ognyan Nikolov Bulgaria	Ebrahim Javadi Iran
52 kg	Kiyomi Kato Japan	Arsen Alakhverdiev 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 Ashuraliev 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

Event	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


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	9	4	1	14
2	United States	3	2	1	6
3	Bulgaria	2	4	2	8
4	Japan	2	2	0	4
5	Romania	2	0	2	4
6	Hungary	1	0	4	5
7	Czechoslovakia	1	0	0	1
8	Iran	0	1	1	2
	Sweden	0	1	1	2
	West Germany	0	1	1	2
	Yugoslavia	0	1	1	2
12	East Germany	0	1	0	1
	Greece	0	1	0	1
	Mongolia	0	1	0	1
	Turkey	0	1	0	1
16	Italy	0	0	2	2
16	Poland	0	0	2	2
18	Finland	0	0	1	1
18	North Korea	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		20	20	20	60

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

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