Wrestling at the 1972 Olympics
Events and Champions

Freestyle featherweight M

URS

Zagalav Abdulbekov

Freestyle heavyweight M

URS

Ivan Yarygin

Freestyle flyweight M

JPN

Kiyomi Kato

Freestyle lightweight M

USA

Danny Gable

Freestyle light-heavyweight M

USA

Benjamin Peterson

Freestyle light-flyweight M

URS

Roman Dmitriev

Freestyle middleweight M

URS

Levan Tediashvili

Freestyle super-heavyweight M

URS

Aleksandr Medved

Freestyle bantamweight M

JPN

Hideaki Yanagida

Freestyle welterweight M

USA

Wayne Wells

Greco-Roman welterweight M

TCH

Vitezslav Macha

Greco-Roman bantamweight M

URS

Rustem Kazakov

Greco-Roman light-flyweight M

ROU

Gheorghe Berceanu

Greco-Roman light-heavyweight M

URS

Valery Rezantsev

Greco-Roman featherweight M

BUL

Georgi Markov

Greco-Roman middleweight M

HUN

Csaba Hegedus

Greco-Roman lightweight M

URS

Shamil Khisamutdinov

Greco-Roman heavyweight M

ROU

Nicolae Martinescu

Greco-Roman flyweight M

BUL

Petar Kirov

Greco-Roman super-heavyweight M

URS

Anatoly Roshchin