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The Men's Freestyle 82 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 standings
- Levan Tediashvili (URS)
- John Peterson (USA)
- Vasile Iorga (ROU)
- Horst Stottmeister (GDR)
- Tatsuo Sasaki (JPN)
- Peter Neumair (FRG)
References
Wrestling at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 82 kg Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA