# Wrestling at the 1972 Summer Olympics

At the 1972 Summer Olympics, 20 wrestling events were contested, all for men. There were 10 weight classes in Greco-Roman wrestling and 10 classes in freestyle wrestling.

## Medal summary
### Freestyle

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 48 kg details | Roman Dmitriyev Soviet Union | Ognyan Nikolov Bulgaria | Ebrahim Javadi Iran |
| 52 kg details | Kiyomi Kato Japan | Arsen Alakhverdiyev Soviet Union | Kim Gwong-Hyong North Korea |
| 57 kg details | Hideaki Yanagida Japan | Richard Sanders United States | László Klinga Hungary |
| 62 kg details | Zagalav Abdulbekov Soviet Union | Vehbi Akdağ Turkey | Ivan Krastev Bulgaria |
| 68 kg details | Dan Gable United States | Kikuo Wada Japan | Ruslan Ashuraliyev Soviet Union |
| 74 kg details | Wayne Wells United States | Jan Karlsson Sweden | Adolf Seger West Germany |
| 82 kg details | Levan Tediashvili Soviet Union | John Peterson United States | Vasile Iorga Romania |
| 90 kg details | Ben Peterson United States | Gennadi Strakhov Soviet Union | Károly Bajkó Hungary |
| 100 kg details | Ivan Yarygin Soviet Union | Khorloogiin Bayanmönkh Mongolia | József Csatári Hungary |
| +100 kg details | Aleksandr Medved Soviet Union | Osman Duraliev Bulgaria | Chris Taylor United States |

### Greco-Roman

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 48 kg details | Gheorghe Berceanu Romania | Rahim Aliabadi Iran | Stefan Angelov Bulgaria |
| 52 kg details | Petar Kirov Bulgaria | Koichiro Hirayama Japan | Giuseppe Bognanni Italy |
| 57 kg details | Rustam Kazakov Soviet Union | Hans-Jürgen Veil West Germany | Risto Björlin Finland |
| 62 kg details | Georgi Markov Bulgaria | Heinz-Helmut Wehling East Germany | Kazimierz Lipień Poland |
| 68 kg details | Shamil Khisamutdinov Soviet Union | Stoyan Apostolov Bulgaria | Gian Matteo Ranzi Italy |
| 74 kg details | Vítězslav Mácha Czechoslovakia | Petros Galaktopoulos Greece | Jan Karlsson Sweden |
| 82 kg details | Csaba Hegedűs Hungary | Anatoly Nazarenko Soviet Union | Milan Nenadić Yugoslavia |
| 90 kg details | Valery Rezantsev Soviet Union | Josip Čorak Yugoslavia | Czesław Kwieciński Poland |
| 100 kg details | Nicolae Martinescu Romania | Nikolay Yakovenko Soviet Union | Ferenc Kiss Hungary |
| +100 kg details | Anatoly Roshchin Soviet Union | Aleksandar Tomov Bulgaria | Victor Dolipschi Romania |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 9 | 4 | 1 | 14 |
| 2 | United States (USA) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 3 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| 4 | Japan (JPN) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 5 | Romania (ROU) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 6 | Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 7 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Iran (IRI) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | West Germany (FRG) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | East Germany (GDR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Greece (GRE) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Mongolia (MGL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Turkey (TUR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Italy (ITA) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 16 | Poland (POL) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 18 | Finland (FIN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 18 | North Korea (PRK) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (19 entries) | Totals (19 entries) | 20 | 20 | 20 | 60 |

## Participating nations

A total of 388 wrestlers from 49 nations competed at the Munich Games:
| Afghanistan (8)  Argentina (3)  Australia (3)  Austria (4)  Belgium (2)  Bulgaria (20)  Canada (9)  Cuba (7)  Czechoslovakia (10)  Denmark (3)  East Germany (17)  Egypt (4)  Finland (10) | France (5)  Great Britain (6)  Greece (9)  Guatemala (4)  Hungary (18)  India (8)  Iran (14)  Israel (2)  Italy (7)  Japan (20)  Lebanon (2)  Mexico (9)  Mongolia (13) | Morocco (3)  Netherlands (1)  New Zealand (1)  North Korea (2)  Norway (5)  Pakistan (2)  Panama (2)  Peru (4)  Philippines (3)  Poland (18)  Portugal (3)  Republic of China (1) | Romania (20)  Senegal (4)  South Korea (4)  Soviet Union (20)  Sweden (7)  Switzerland (9)  Syria (2)  Tunisia (2)  Turkey (16)  United States (19)  West Germany (17)  Yugoslavia (10) |