The Men's Freestyle 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.
Final
Results from the preliminary round are carried forward into the final (shown in yellow).
Final standings
- Wayne Wells (USA)
- Jan Karlsson (SWE)
- Adolf Seger (FRG)
- Yancho Pavlov (BUL)
- Daniel Robin (FRA), Mansour Barzegar (IRI) and Wolfgang Nitschke (GDR)
References
Wrestling at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 74 kg Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA