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Wrestling at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco Roman 62 kg

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1972

The Men's Greco-Roman 62 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 standings

    1.  Georgi Markov (BUL)
    2.  Heinz-Helmut Wehling (GDR)
    3.  Kazimierz Lipień (POL)
    4.  Hideo Fujimoto (JPN)
    5.  Djemal Megrelishvili (URS)
    6.  Ion Păun (ROU)
    7.  Martti Laakso (FIN) and  Stelios Mygiakis (GRE)

    References

    Wrestling at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman 62 kg Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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