| Event: | Men's Greco-Roman 82 kg |
| Games: | 1972 Summer |
| Venue: | Messe München |
| Dates: | 5–10 September |
| Competitors: | 20 |
| Nations: | 20 |
| Gold: | Csaba Hegedűs |
| Goldnoc: | HUN |
| Silver: | Anatoly Nazarenko |
| Silvernoc: | URS |
| Bronze: | Milan Nenadić |
| Bronzenoc: | YUG |
| Prev: | 1968 |
| Next: | 1976 |
The Men's Greco-Roman 82 kg at the 1972 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program at the Fairgrounds, Judo and Wrestling Hall.[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 only two or three wrestlers remain, a special final round is used to determine the order of the medals.
| TPP | MPP | Time | MPP | TPP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 4 | 6:53 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| 0 | 0 | 4:02 | 4 | 4 | |||
| 4 | 4 | 8:09 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| 0 | 0 | 2:47 | 4 | 4 |
| TPP | MPP | Time | MPP | TPP | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bgcolor=pink | 8 | 4 | 2:14 | 0 | 2 | |||
| 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||||
| 1 | 1 | 3 | bgcolor=pink | 7 | ||||
| bgcolor=pink | 8 | 4 | 5:17 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 5 | 4 | 3:29 | 0 | 3 | ||||
| bgcolor=pink | 6.5 | 3.5 | 0.5 | 1.5 | ||||
| bgcolor=pink | 7 | 4 | 5:08 | 0 | 3 | |||
| 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | |||||
| 3 | 0 | 8:49 | 4 | bgcolor=pink | 8 |
| TPP | MPP | Time | MPP | TPP | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 0 | 2:09 | 4 | bgcolor=pink | 6 | |||
| bgcolor=pink | 6 | 2 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| 0 | 0 | 7:16 | 4 | bgcolor=pink | 9 | |||
| 5 | 2 | 2 | bgcolor=pink | 6 | ||||
| 4.5 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||||
| 2 | 0 | 0:00 | 4 | bgcolor=pink | 6 | |||
| bgcolor=pink | 7 | 4 | 2:40 | 0 | 3 |
| TPP | MPP | Time | MPP | TPP | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 2 | 2 | 5 | |||||
| 3 | 3 | 1 | bgcolor=pink | 6 | ||||
| bgcolor=pink | 7.5 | 3 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| 4 | 0 | 1:48 | 4 | bgcolor=pink | 7 |
| TPP | MPP | Time | MPP | TPP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bgcolor=pink | 7 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||
| bgcolor=pink | 9 | 4 | 8:35 | 0 | 4 | ||
| 3 | Bye |
Results from the preliminary round are carried forward into the final (shown in yellow).
| TPP | MPP | Time | MPP | TPP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1 | ||||||
| 2 | 1 | 3 | |||||
| 3 | 0 | 0:00 | 4 | 7 |