| Event: | Men's freestyle 87 kg |
| Games: | 1962 Asian Games |
| Venue: | Ikada Sports Hall |
| Dates: | 28–29 August 1962 |
| Competitors: | 6 |
| Nations: | 6 |
| Gold: | Faiz Muhammad |
| Goldnoc: | PAK |
| Silver: | Sajjan Singh |
| Silvernoc: | IND |
| Bronze: | Shunichi Kawano |
| Bronzenoc: | JPN |
| Prev: | 1958 |
| Next: | 1966 |
See main article: Wrestling at the 1962 Asian Games.
The men's freestyle 87 kilograms (middleweight) freestyle wrestling competition at the 1962 Asian Games in Jakarta was held from 28 to 29 August 1962.[1]
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 three or fewer wrestlers remained, they advanced to a final round, with only preliminary results amongst them carried forward.
All times are Western Indonesian Time
| width=220 | Date | width=50 | Time | width=100 | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, 28 August 1962 | 08:00 | 1st round | |||
| Wednesday, 29 August 1962 | 08:00 | 2nd round | |||
| 14:30 | 3rd round |
| width=30 | width=270 | width=30 | width=75 | width=30 | width=270 | width=30 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 | Fall 3:00 | 4 | 4 | |||||||||
| 3 | 3 | Decision | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 4 | 4 | Fall 2:00 | 0 | 0 |
| width=30 | width=270 | width=30 | width=75 | width=30 | width=270 | width=30 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 4 | Fall 3:59 | 0 | 3 | |||||||||
| bgcolor=pink | 6 | 2 | Draw | 2 | bgcolor=pink | 6 | |||||||
| 4 | 3 | Decision | 1 | 1 |
| width=30 | width=270 | width=30 | width=75 | width=30 | width=270 | width=30 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bgcolor=pink | 7 | 3 | Decision | 1 | 5 | ||||||||
| 5 | 2 | Draw | 2 | 3 |
| Rank | Athlete | Round | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=30 | 1 | width=30 | 2 | width=30 | 3 | |||
| 0 | bgcolor=gold | 1 | bgcolor=gold | 2 | 3 | 3 | ||
| bgcolor=gold | 1 | bgcolor=gold | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | ||
| bgcolor=gold | 3 | 0 | bgcolor=gold | 2 | 5 | 5 | ||
| 4 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 7 | ||||
| 5 | 4 | 2 | 6 | |||||
| 6 | 4 | 2 | 6 | |||||