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Welterweight, Greco-Roman (≤74 kilograms), Men

Date6 – 10 September 1972
StatusOlympic
LocationRinger-Judo-Halle, Messegelände (Halle 14), München
Participants20 from 20 countries
FormatScoring by negative points, with negative points given for any result short of a fall. Accumulation of 6 negative points eliminated the wrestler.

Soviet Viktor Igumenov had won the 1969-71 World Championships, but had to withdraw after the second round in München with an injury. The tournament did not start out well for Czechoslovak Vítězslav Mácha, as he lost his first round match to Bulgaria’s Ivan Kolev. Kolev, however, lost his third round match to West German Werner Schröter, and was eliminated after a draw in round four. Mácha, meanwhile, kept winning, and after five rounds only he and Greece’s Petros Galaktopoulos remained. Galaktopoulos was leading on bad points, but Mácha defeated him by decision to win the gold medal. Mácha came close to defending this gold medal in 1976, but lost his final match and took silver. The bronze medal went to Sweden’s Jan Karlsson, who won a silver medal in welterweight freestyle in 1972. This made him one of only 13 Olympic wrestlers to have won medals in both styles at a single Olympics, but only the third after World War II, and through 2012, he is the last one to have done this.

PosCompetitor(s)NOCREBad Points
1Vítězslav MáchaTCH––Gold
2Petros GalaktopoulosGRE––Silver
3Jan KarlssonSWE––Bronze
4Ivan KolevBUL––
5Momir KecmanYUG––
6Daniel RobinFRA––
7Klaus PohlGDR––
ACWerner SchröterFRGEliminated r4/67,5
ACEero TapioFINEliminated r4/69,5
ACFranz BergerAUTEliminated r3/66,0
ACJiichiro DateJPNEliminated r3/67,0
ACStanisław KrzesińskiPOLEliminated r3/67,0
ACMehmet TürütTUREliminated r3/67,0
ACViktor IgumenovURSWithdrew r3/63,0
ACMiklós HegedűsHUNEliminated r2/66,0
ACMarcel VladROUEliminated r2/66,0
ACGary NeistUSAEliminated r2/66,0
ACRobert BlaserSUIEliminated r2/67,5
ACNéstor GonzálezARGEliminated r2/68,0
ACConstant BensBELEliminated r2/68,0

Round One (6 September 1972 — 19:00)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCBad Points
=1Daniel RobinFRA0,0
=1Petros GalaktopoulosGRE0,0
=1Jiichiro DateJPN0,0
=1Mehmet TürütTUR0,0
5Eero TapioFIN0,5
=6Ivan KolevBUL1,0
=6Jan KarlssonSWE1,0
=6Viktor IgumenovURS1,0
=6Momir KecmanYUG1,0
=10Werner SchröterFRG2,0
=10Stanisław KrzesińskiPOL2,0
=12Franz BergerAUT3,0
=12Marcel VladROU3,0
=12Vítězslav MáchaTCH3,0
=12Gary NeistUSA3,0
16Robert BlaserSUI3,5
=17Néstor GonzálezARG4,0
=17Constant BensBEL4,0
=17Klaus PohlGDR4,0
=17Miklós HegedűsHUN4,0

Match #1 Ivan KolevBUL
decision
Vítězslav MáchaTCH
Match #2 Mehmet TürütTUR
fall (2:20)
Néstor GonzálezARG
Match #3 Werner SchröterFRG
draw
Stanisław KrzesińskiPOL
Match #4 Jiichiro DateJPN
fall (8:36)
Miklós HegedűsHUN
Match #5 Jan KarlssonSWE
decision
Marcel VladROU
Match #6 Momir KecmanYUG
decision
Gary NeistUSA
Match #7 Petros GalaktopoulosGRE
fall (1:56)
Constant BensBEL
Match #8 Viktor IgumenovURS
decision
Franz BergerAUT
Match #9 Eero TapioFIN
decision
Robert BlaserSUI
Match #10 Daniel RobinFRA
fall (8:26)
Klaus PohlGDR

Round Two (7 September 1972 — 19:00)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCBad Points
1Ivan KolevBUL1,5
=2Daniel RobinFRA2,0
=2Petros GalaktopoulosGRE2,0
=2Jan KarlssonSWE2,0
=2Momir KecmanYUG2,0
6Eero TapioFIN2,5
=7Franz BergerAUT3,0
=7Jiichiro DateJPN3,0
=7Stanisław KrzesińskiPOL3,0
=7Vítězslav MáchaTCH3,0
=7Viktor IgumenovURS3,0
12Mehmet TürütTUR3,5
=13Klaus PohlGDR4,0
=13Werner SchröterFRG4,0
=15Miklós HegedűsHUN6,0eliminated
=15Marcel VladROU6,0eliminated
=15Gary NeistUSA6,0eliminated
18Robert BlaserSUI7,5eliminated
=19Néstor GonzálezARG8,0eliminated
=19Constant BensBEL8,0eliminated

Match #1 Vítězslav MáchaTCH
fall (2:31)
Néstor GonzálezARG
Match #2 Ivan KolevBUL
decision
Mehmet TürütTUR
Match #3 Werner SchröterFRG
draw
Miklós HegedűsHUN
Match #4 Stanisław KrzesińskiPOL
decision
Jiichiro DateJPN
Match #5 Jan KarlssonSWE
decision
Gary NeistUSA
Match #6 Momir KecmanYUG
decision
Marcel VladROU
Match #7 Petros GalaktopoulosGRE
draw
Viktor IgumenovURS
Match #8 Franz BergerAUT
fall (1:26)
Constant BensBEL
Match #9 Klaus PohlGDR
fall (0;59)
Robert BlaserSUI
Match #10 Eero TapioFIN
draw
Daniel RobinFRA

Round Three (8 September 1972 — 19:00)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCBad Points
=1Daniel RobinFRA2,0
=1Jan KarlssonSWE2,0
=1Momir KecmanYUG2,0
4Petros GalaktopoulosGRE3,0
5Vítězslav MáchaTCH3,5
6Ivan KolevBUL4,5
=7Klaus PohlGDR5,0
=7Werner SchröterFRG5,0
9Eero TapioFIN5,5
10Franz BergerAUT6,0eliminated
=11Jiichiro DateJPN7,0eliminated
=11Stanisław KrzesińskiPOL7,0eliminated
=11Mehmet TürütTUR7,0eliminated

Match #1 Vítězslav MáchaTCH
decision
Mehmet TürütTUR
Match #2 Werner SchröterFRG
decision
Ivan KolevBUL
Match #3 Jan KarlssonSWE
fall (8:47)
Stanisław KrzesińskiPOL
Match #4 Momir KecmanYUG
fall (8:31)
Jiichiro DateJPN
Match #5 Petros GalaktopoulosGRE
decision
Franz BergerAUT
Match #6 Klaus PohlGDR
decision
Eero TapioFIN
Match #7 Daniel RobinFRA bye

Round Four (9 September 1972 — 10:00)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCBad Points
1Petros GalaktopoulosGRE3,0
=2Vítězslav MáchaTCH4,5
=2Momir KecmanYUG4,5
=4Daniel RobinFRA5,0
=4Klaus PohlGDR5,0
=4Jan KarlssonSWE5,0
7Ivan KolevBUL5,5
8Werner SchröterFRG7,5eliminated
9Eero TapioFIN9,5eliminated

Match #1 Vítězslav MáchaTCH
decision
Daniel RobinFRA
Match #2 Ivan KolevBUL
decision
Jan KarlssonSWE
Match #3 Werner SchröterFRG
draw
Momir KecmanYUG
Match #4 Petros GalaktopoulosGRE
fall (7:23)
Eero TapioFIN
Match #5 Klaus PohlGDR bye

Round Five (9 September 1972 — 19:00)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCBad Points
1Petros GalaktopoulosGRE3,0
2Vítězslav MáchaTCH5,5
3Jan KarlssonSWE6,0eliminated
4Ivan KolevBUL6,5eliminated
5Momir KecmanYUG7,5eliminated
=6Daniel RobinFRA8,0eliminated
=6Klaus PohlGDR8,0eliminated

Match #1 Vítězslav MáchaTCH
decision
Klaus PohlGDR
Match #2 Ivan KolevBUL
decision
Daniel RobinFRA
Match #3 Jan KarlssonSWE
decision
Momir KecmanYUG
Match #4 Petros GalaktopoulosGRE bye

Final Round (10 September 1972 — 19:00)

Match #1 Vítězslav MáchaTCH
decision
Petros GalaktopoulosGRE