Wrestling at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman 100 kg

Wrestling at the 1972 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 100 kg at the 1972 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program at the Fairgrounds, Judo and Wrestling Hall.

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	Nicolae Martinescu Romania (ROU)
Silver	Nikolai Yakovenko Soviet Union (URS)
Bronze	Ferenc Kiss Hungary (HUN)

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

TPP	MPP		Time		MPP	TPP
2	2	Hristo Ignatov (BUL)		Per Svensson (SWE)	2	2
3	3	Aimo Mäenpää (FIN)		Tore Hem (NOR)	1	1
2	2	Rudolf Lüscher (SUI)		Hassan Bechara (LIB)	2	2
0	0	Nikolai Yakovenko (URS)	7:23	Burke Deadrich (USA)	4	4
1	1	Andrzej Skrzydlewski (POL)		Lorenz Hecher (FRG)	3	3
1	1	Ferenc Kiss (HUN)		Fredi Albrecht (GDR)	3	3
3.5	3.5	Makoto Saito (JPN)		Nicolae Martinescu (ROU)	0.5	0.5

Round 2

TPP	MPP		Time		MPP	TPP
2	0	Hristo Ignatov (BUL)	5:48	Aimo Mäenpää (FIN)	4	7
6	4	Per Svensson (SWE)	0:42	Tore Hem (NOR)	0	1
6	4	Rudolf Lüscher (SUI)	1:44	Nikolai Yakovenko (URS)	0	0
8	4	Burke Deadrich (USA)	1:23	Andrzej Skrzydlewski (POL)	0	1
7	4	Lorenz Hecher (FRG)	8:23	Ferenc Kiss (HUN)	4	5
4	1	Fredi Albrecht (GDR)		Makoto Saito (JPN)	3	6.5
0.5		Nicolae Martinescu (ROU)		Bye
2		Hassan Bechara (LIB)		DNA

Round 3

TPP	MPP		Time		MPP	TPP
1.5	1	Nicolae Martinescu (ROU)		Hristo Ignatov (BUL)	3	5
4	3	Tore Hem (NOR)		Nikolai Yakovenko (URS)	1	1
4.5	3.5	Andrzej Skrzydlewski (POL)		Ferenc Kiss (HUN)	0.5	5.5
4		Fredi Albrecht (GDR)		Bye

Round 4

TPP	MPP		Time		MPP	TPP
7	3	Fredi Albrecht (GDR)		Nicolae Martinescu (ROU)	1	2.5
5	0	Hristo Ignatov (BUL)	1:24	Tore Hem (NOR)	4	8
1	0	Nikolai Yakovenko (URS)	1:25	Andrzej Skrzydlewski (POL)	4	8.5
5.5		Ferenc Kiss (HUN)		Bye

Round 5

TPP	MPP		Time		MPP	TPP
6.5	1	Ferenc Kiss (HUN)		Nicolae Martinescu (ROU)	3	5.5
9	4	Hristo Ignatov (BUL)	8:35	Nikolai Yakovenko (URS)	0	1

Final

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

TPP	MPP		Time		MPP	TPP
0	0	Nicolae Martinescu (ROU)	0:00	Nikolai Yakovenko (URS)	4	4

Final standings

1.  Nicolae Martinescu (ROU)
2.  Nikolai Yakovenko (URS)
3.  Ferenc Kiss (HUN)
4.  Hristo Ignatov (BUL)
5.  Fredi Albrecht (GDR)
6.  Tore Hem (NOR)

References

• Official Report