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

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The Men's Greco-Roman 74 kg at the 1972 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program at the Fairgrounds, Judo and Wrestling Hall.

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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

    • Final

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

    Final standings

    1.  Vítězslav Mácha (TCH)
    2.  Petros Galaktopoulos (GRE)
    3.  Jan Karlsson (SWE)
    4.  Ivan Kolev (BUL)
    5.  Momir Kecman (YUG)
    6.  Daniel Robin (FRA)
    7.  Klaus Pohl (GDR)

    References

    Wrestling at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman 74 kg Wikipedia
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