Wrestling at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman 90 kg

Wrestling at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Freestyle			Greco-Roman
	48 kg			48 kg
	52 kg			52 kg
	57 kg			57 kg
	62 kg			62 kg
	68 kg			68 kg
	74 kg			74 kg
	82 kg			82 kg
	90 kg			90 kg
	100 kg			100 kg
	+100 kg			+100 kg

The Men's Greco-Roman 90 kg at the 1976 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program were held at the Maurice Richard Arena.

Contents 1 Medalists 2 Tournament results 2.1 Round 1 2.2 Round 2 2.3 Round 3 2.4 Round 4 2.5 Round 5 2.6 Final 3 Final standings 4 References

Medalists

Gold	Valeri Rezantsev Soviet Union (URS)
Silver	Stoyan Ivanov Bulgaria (BUL)
Bronze	Czesław Kwieciński Poland (POL)

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 loser wrestler. When only three wrestlers remain, a special final round is used to determine the order of the medals.

Legend

• TF — Won by Fall
• IN — Won by Opponent Injury
• DQ — Won by Passivity
• D1 — Won by Passivity, the winner is passive too
• D2 — Both wrestlers lost by Passivity
• FF — Won by Forfeit
• DNA — Did not appear
• TPP — Total penalty points
• MPP — Match penalty points

Penalties

• 0 — Won by Fall, Technical Superiority, Passivity, Injury and Forfeit
• 0.5 — Won by Points, 8-11 points difference
• 1 — Won by Points, 1-7 points difference
• 2 — Won by Passivity, the winner is passive too
• 3 — Lost by Points, 1-7 points difference
• 3.5 — Lost by Points, 8-11 points difference
• 4 — Lost by Fall, Technical Superiority, Passivity, Injury and Forfeit

Round 1

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
0	0	Sadao Sato (JPN)	TF / 2:00	Fred Theobald (FRG)	4	4
4	4	Michel Grangier (FRA)	DQ / 7:54	Valeri Rezantsev (URS)	0	0
3	3	Petre Dicu (ROU)	2 - 7	István Séllyei (HUN)	1	1
3	3	Darko Nišavić (YUG)	3 - 10	Stoyan Ivanov (BUL)	1	1
0	0	James Johnson (USA)	TF / 1:20	Ambroise Sarr (SEN)	4	4
0	0	Frank Andersson (SWE)	25 - 9	Hashem Kolahi (IRI)	4	4
0		Czesław Kwieciński (POL)		Bye

Round 2

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
0	0	Czesław Kwieciński (POL)	TF / 2:00	Sadao Sato (JPN)	4	4
5	1	Fred Theobald (FRG)	11 - 4	Michel Grangier (FRA)	3	7
0	0	Valeri Rezantsev (URS)	TF / 2:51	Petre Dicu (ROU)	4	7
4	3	István Séllyei (HUN)	2 - 4	Darko Nišavić (YUG)	1	4
1	0	Stoyan Ivanov (BUL)	TF / 8:02	James Johnson (USA)	4	4
8	4	Ambroise Sarr (SEN)	TF / 1:32	Frank Andersson (SWE)	0	0
4		Hashem Kolahi (IRI)		Bye

Round 3

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
8	4	Hashem Kolahi (IRI)	TF / 0:12	Czesław Kwieciński (POL)	0	0
8	4	Sadao Sato (JPN)	TF / 3:55	Valeri Rezantsev (URS)	0	0
9	4	Fred Theobald (FRG)	DQ / 5:06	István Séllyei (HUN)	0	4
4	0	Darko Nišavić (YUG)	DQ / 7:28	James Johnson (USA)	4	8
2	1	Stoyan Ivanov (BUL)	10 - 4	Frank Andersson (SWE)	3	3

Round 4

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
3	3	Czesław Kwieciński (POL)	3 - 9	Valeri Rezantsev (URS)	1	1
8	4	István Séllyei (HUN)	DQ / 4:55	Stoyan Ivanov (BUL)	0	2
5	1	Darko Nišavić (YUG)	3 - 2	Frank Andersson (SWE)	3	6

Round 5

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
3	0	Czesław Kwieciński (POL)	DQ / 8:00	Darko Nišavić (YUG)	4	9
2	1	Valeri Rezantsev (URS)	6 - 6	Stoyan Ivanov (BUL)	3	5

Final

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

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
	3	Czesław Kwieciński (POL)	3 - 9	Valeri Rezantsev (URS)	1
2	1	Valeri Rezantsev (URS)	6 - 6	Stoyan Ivanov (BUL)	3
5	2	Stoyan Ivanov (BUL)	D1 / 6:46	Czesław Kwieciński (POL)	4	7

Final standings

1.  Valeri Rezantsev (URS)
2.  Stoyan Ivanov (BUL)
3.  Czesław Kwieciński (POL)
4.  Darko Nišavić (YUG)
5.  Frank Andersson (SWE)
6.  István Séllyei (HUN)
7.  Sadao Sato (JPN) and  James Johnson (USA)

References

• Official Report