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
	← 1968 1976 →

Last updated April 19, 2025

Medal summary

Freestyle

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

Event	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	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


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 (ROM)	2	0	2	4
6	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	4	5
7	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	0	0	1
8	Iran (IRN)	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
16	Poland (POL)	0	0	2	2
18	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
18	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]

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)

References

1 2 "Wrestling at the 1972 Munich Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 6 April 2019.

Sources

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

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[SR-1] 1 2 "Wrestling at the 1972 Munich Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 6 April 2019.

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