| Event: | Men's freestyle +100 kg |
| Games: | 1972 Summer |
| Venue: | Messe München |
| Dates: | 27–31 August |
| Competitors: | 13 |
| Nations: | 13 |
| Gold: | Aleksandr Medved |
| Goldnoc: | URS |
| Silver: | Osman Duraliev |
| Silvernoc: | BUL |
| Bronze: | Chris Taylor |
| Bronzenoc: | USA |
| Next: | 1976 |
The men's freestyle +100 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.
Chris Taylor was controversially defeated by two-time defending gold medalist Alexander Medved. It appeared Medved was stalling but the referee awarded a point to the Soviet, charging Taylor with a lack of action. Later admitting that he felt sorry for Medved because of Taylor's size, the referee was dismissed from the Olympic tournament and banned from international officiating. In the Greco-Roman competition Taylor was unexpectedly suplexed and pinned by a much lighter Wilfried Dietrich, whom he defeated a week before in the freestyle contest.[2]
| TPP | MPP | Time | MPP | TPP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| 3.5 | 3.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | ||||
| 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 0 | 0 | 1:17 | 4 | 4 | |||
| 0 | 0 | 5:22 | 4 | 4 | |||
| 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| 0 | Bye |
| TPP | MPP | Time | MPP | TPP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 3.5 | ||||
| 4 | 1 | 3 | bgcolor=pink | 6.5 | |||
| 3.5 | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| 1 | 0 | 8:59 | 4 | 4 | |||
| bgcolor=pink | 8 | 4 | 6:54 | 0 | 0 | ||
| bgcolor=pink | 8 | 4 | 4:56 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 3 | Bye |
| TPP | MPP | Time | MPP | TPP | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 2 | 2 | 4.5 | |||||
| bgcolor=pink | 7.5 | 4 | 2:35 | 0 | 3.5 | |||
| bgcolor=pink | 8 | 4 | 1:45 | 0 | 4 | |||
| 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | |||||
| bgcolor=pink | 8 | 4 | 2:31 | 0 | 1 |
| TPP | MPP | Time | MPP | TPP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bgcolor=pink | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4.5 | |||
| bgcolor=pink | 8.5 | 4 | 1:26 | 0 | 2 | ||
| 5 | 1 | 3 | bgcolor=pink | 6 | |||
| 1 | Bye |
| TPP | MPP | Time | MPP | TPP | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 3 | 1 | bgcolor=pink | 6 | ||||
| bgcolor=pink | 8.5 | 4 | 4:01 | 0 | 2 |
Results from the preliminary round are carried forward into the final (shown in yellow).