| Event: | Men's freestyle 100 kg |
| Games: | 1972 Summer |
| Venue: | Messe München |
| Dates: | 27–31 August |
| Competitors: | 16 |
| Nations: | 16 |
| Gold: | Ivan Yarygin |
| Goldnoc: | URS |
| Silver: | Khorloogiin Bayanmönkh |
| Silvernoc: | MGL |
| Bronze: | József Csatári |
| Bronzenoc: | HUN |
| Prev: | 1968 |
| 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.
| TPP | MPP | Time | MPP | TPP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| 0 | 0 | 0:27 | 4 | 4 | |||
| 4 | 4 | 1:24 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 0 | 0 | 5:08 | 4 | 4 | |||
| 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| 0 | Bye |
| TPP | MPP | Time | MPP | TPP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 4 | 0:00 | 0 | 1 | |||
| bgcolor=pink | 7 | 4 | 2:11 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 4 | 0 | 4:20 | 4 | bgcolor=pink | 8 | ||
| 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| bgcolor=pink | 8 | 4 | 2:09 | 0 | 1 | ||
| bgcolor=pink | 7 | 4 | 1:32 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 4 | 1 | 3 | bgcolor=pink | 6 | |||
| 1 | 0 | 8:28 | 4 | 5 | |||
| 3 | Bye |
| TPP | MPP | Time | MPP | TPP | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bgcolor=pink | 6.5 | 3.5 | 0.5 | 1.5 | ||||
| 0 | 0 | 2:20 | 4 | bgcolor=pink | 7 | |||
| bgcolor=pink | 8 | 4 | 7:42 | 0 | 1 | |||
| 5 | 4 | 2:04 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| bgcolor=pink | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| 5 | Bye | |||||||
| bgcolor=pink | 4 | DNA |
| TPP | MPP | Time | MPP | TPP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bgcolor=pink | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3.5 | |||
| 0 | 0 | 2:58 | 4 | bgcolor=pink | 9 | ||
| 5 | 4 | 4:27 | 0 | 1 | |||
| 2 | Bye |
| TPP | MPP | Time | MPP | TPP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 0 | 8:56 | 4 | bgcolor=pink | 7.5 | ||
| 0 | 0 | 1:47 | 4 | bgcolor=pink | 9 | ||
| 1 | Bye |
Results from the preliminary round are carried forward into the final (shown in yellow).
| TPP | MPP | Time | MPP | TPP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | ||||||
| 0 | 5:21 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| 7 | 4 | 2:04 | 0 | 0 |