Wrestling at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 74 kg

The Men's Freestyle 74 kg at the 1972 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program at the Fairgrounds, Judo and Wrestling Hall.^[1]

Medalists

Tournament results

The competition used a form of negative points tournament, with negative points given for any result short of a fall. Accumulation of 6 negative points eliminated the wrestler. When only two or three wrestlers remain, a special final round is used to determine the order of the medals.

Legend

• DNA — Did not appear
• TPP — Total penalty points
• MPP — Match penalty points

Penalties

• 0 — Won by Fall, Passivity, Injury and Forfeit
• 0.5 — Won by Technical Superiority
• 1 — Won by Points
• 2 — Draw
• 2.5 — Draw, Passivity
• 3 — Lost by Points
• 3.5 — Lost by Technical Superiority
• 4 — Lost by Fall, Passivity, Injury and Forfeit

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6

Final

Results from the preliminary round are carried forward into the final (shown in yellow).

Final standings

1.  Wayne Wells (USA)
2.  Jan Karlsson (SWE)
3.  Adolf Seger (FRG)
4.  Yancho Pavlov (BUL)
5.  Daniel Robin (FRA),  Mansour Barzegar (IRI) and  Wolfgang Nitschke (GDR)

References

1. "Wrestling at the 1972 Munich Summer Games: Men's Welterweight, Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 7 April 2019.

External links

• Official Report