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Olympic Wrestling Championships
August 27, 1972 - September 9, 1972 @ Messegelande (Munich, Germany)
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U.S. Mat Medalists
 The U.S. Olympic freestyle team enjoyed its most successful Olympics ever, winning six medals in all, three of them gold. SOURCE: The Cedar Rapids Gazette, September 1, 1972. Click for larger image.




Men's Freestyle

Teams

Bulgaria [BUL], Czechoslovakia [TCH], East Germany [GDR], Finland [FIN], Germany [GER], Greece [GRE], Hungary [HUN], Iran [IRI], Italy [ITA], Japan [JPN], Mongolia [MGL], North Korea [PRK], Poland [POL], Romania [ROU], Soviet Union [URS], Sweden [SWE], Turkey [TUR], United States of America [USA], West Germany [FRG], Yugoslavia [YUG]

Place Winners

 48 1. Roman Dmitriyev (SU)
    2. Ognyan Nikolov (Bulgaria)
    3. Ebrahim Javadi (Iran)
 52 1. Kiyomi Kato (Japan)
    2. Arsen Alakhverdiyev (SU)
    3. Kim Gwong-Hyong (NK)
 57 1. Hideaki Yanagida (Japan)
    2. Richard Sanders (USA)
    3. Laszlo Klinga (Hungary)
 62 1. Zagalav Abdulbekov (SU)
    2. Vehbi Akdag (Turkey)
    3. Ivan Krastev (Bulgaria)
 68 1. Dan Gable (USA)
    2. Kikuo Wada (Japan)
    3. Ruslan Ashuraliyev (SU)
 74 1. Wayne Wells (USA)
    2. Jan Karlsson (Sweden)
    3. Adolf Seger (WG)
 82 1. Levan Tediashvili (SU)
    2. John Peterson (USA)
    3. Vasile Iorga (Romania)
 90 1. Ben Peterson (USA)
    2. Gennadi Strakhov (SU)
    3. Karoly Bajko (Hungary)
100 1. Ivan Yarygin (SU)
    2. Khorloogiin Bayanmonkh (Mongolia)
    3. Jozsef Csatari (Hungary)
UNL 1. Aleksandr Medved (SU)
    2. Osman Duraliev (Bulgaria)
    3. Chris Taylor (USA)

Results not entered.

Men's Greco-Roman

Teams

Bulgaria [BUL], Czechoslovakia [TCH], East Germany [GDR], Finland [FIN], Germany [GER], Greece [GRE], Hungary [HUN], Iran [IRI], Italy [ITA], Japan [JPN], Mongolia [MGL], North Korea [PRK], Poland [POL], Romania [ROU], Soviet Union [URS], Sweden [SWE], Turkey [TUR], United States of America [USA], West Germany [FRG], Yugoslavia [YUG]

Place Winners

 48 1. Gheorghe Berceanu (Romania)
    2. Rahim Aliabadi (Iran)
    3. Stefan Angelov (Bulgaria)
 52 1. Petar Kirov (Bulgaria)
    2. Koichiro Hirayama (Japan)
    3. Giuseppe Bognanni (Italy)
 57 1. Rustam Kazakov (SU)
    2. Hans-Jurgen Veil (WG)
    3. Risto Bjorlin (Finland)
 62 1. Georgi Markov (Bulgaria)
    2. Heinz-Helmut Wehling (EG)
    3. Kazimierz Lipiei (Poland)
 68 1. Shamil Khisamutdinov (SU)
    2. Stoyan Apostolov (Bulgaria)
    3. Gian Matteo Ranzi (Italy)
 74 1. Vitezslav Macha (Czechoslovakia)
    2. Petros Galaktopoulos (Greece)
    3. Jan Karlsson (Sweden)
 82 1. Csaba Hegedus (Hungary)
    2. Anatoly Nazarenko (SU)
    3. Milan Nenadic (Yugoslavia)
 90 1. Valery Rezantsev (SU)
    2. Josip Xorak (Yugoslavia)
    3. Czeslaw Kwiecinski (Poland)
100 1. Nicolae Martinescu (Romania)
    2. Nikolay Yakovenko (SU)
    3. Ferenc Kiss (Hungary)
UNL 1. Anatoly Roshchin (SU)
    2. Aleksandar Tomov (Bulgaria)
    3. Victor Dolipschi (Romania)

Results not entered.

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