Wrestling at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman 74 kg

Men's Greco-Roman 74 kg

at the Games of the XXI Olympiad

Venue

Maurice Richard Arena

Dates

20–24 July

Competitors

18 from 18 nations

Medalists

		Anatoly Bykov	Soviet Union
		Vítězslav Mácha	Czechoslovakia
		Karl-Heinz Helbing	West Germany

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Wrestling at the 1976 Summer Olympics

	Freestyle	Greco-Roman
	48 kg	48 kg
	52 kg	52 kg
	57 kg	57 kg
	62 kg	62 kg
	68 kg	68 kg
	74 kg	74 kg
	82 kg	82 kg
	90 kg	90 kg
	100 kg	100 kg
	+100 kg	+100 kg
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The Men's Greco-Roman 74 kg at the 1976 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program were held at the Maurice Richard Arena.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Anatoly Bykov Soviet Union
Silver	Vítězslav Mácha Czechoslovakia
Bronze	Karl-Heinz Helbing West Germany

Tournament results

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 loser wrestler. When only three wrestlers remain, a special final round is used to determine the order of the medals.

Legend

TF — Won by Fall
IN — Won by Opponent Injury
DQ — Won by Passivity
D1 — Won by Passivity, the winner is passive too
D2 — Both wrestlers lost by Passivity
FF — Won by Forfeit
DNA — Did not appear
TPP — Total penalty points
MPP — Match penalty points

Penalties

0 — Won by Fall, Technical Superiority, Passivity, Injury and Forfeit
0.5 — Won by Points, 8-11 points difference
1 — Won by Points, 1-7 points difference
2 — Won by Passivity, the winner is passive too
3 — Lost by Points, 1-7 points difference
3.5 — Lost by Points, 8-11 points difference
4 — Lost by Fall, Technical Superiority, Passivity, Injury and Forfeit

Round 1

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
0	0	Yasuo Nagatomo (JPN)	IN / 5:25	Jamtsyn Davaajav (MGL)	4	4
4	4	Gheorghe Ciobotaru (ROU)	D2 / 8:00	Jan Karlsson (SWE)	4	4
4	4	Brahim Toughza (MAR)	DQ / 8:00	Hans Kiss (AUT)	0	0
4	4	Stanisław Krzesiński (POL)	DQ / 5:15	Mikko Huhtala (FIN)	0	0
1	1	Idalberto Barban (CUB)	13 - 10	John Matthews (USA)	3	3
4	4	Klaus-Peter Göpfert (GDR)	DQ / 8:17	Vítězslav Mácha (TCH)	0	0
0	0	Petros Galaktopoulos (GRE)	TF / 4:54	Brian Renken (CAN)	4	4
0	0	Yanko Chopov (BUL)	DQ / 7:54	Mihály Toma (HUN)	4	4
4	4	Karl-Heinz Helbing (FRG)	DQ / 7:56	Anatoly Bykov (URS)	0	0

Round 2

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
4	4	Yasuo Nagatomo (JPN)	DQ / 6:50	Gheorghe Ciobotaru (ROU)	0	4
4	0	Jan Karlsson (SWE)	TF / 2:40	Hans Kiss (AUT)	4	4
4	0	Stanisław Krzesiński (POL)	DQ / 7:53	Idalberto Barbán (CUB)	4	5
0	0	Mikko Huhtala (FIN)	DQ / 4:24	John Matthews (USA)	4	7
5	1	Klaus-Peter Göpfert (GDR)	9 - 6	Petros Galaktopoulos (GRE)	3	3
0	0	Vítězslav Mácha (TCH)	DQ / 6:57	Brian Renken (CAN)	4	8
4	4	Yanko Chopov (BUL)	D1 / 4:34	Karl-Heinz Helbing (FRG)	2	6
8	4	Mihály Toma (HUN)	DQ / 7:44	Anatoly Bykov (URS)	0	0
4		Jamtsyn Davaajav (MGL)		DNA
4		Brahim Toughza (MAR)		DNA

Round 3

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
7	3	Yasuo Nagatomo (JPN)	5 - 10	Jan Karlsson (SWE)	1	5
4	0	Gheorghe Ciobotaru (ROU)	TF / 5:41	Hans Kiss (AUT)	4	8
8	4	Stanisław Krzesiński (POL)	TF / 1:14	Klaus-Peter Göpfert (GDR)	0	5
0.5	0.5	Mikko Huhtala (FIN)	12 - 3	Idalberto Barbán (CUB)	3.5	8.5
0.5	0.5	Vítězslav Mácha (TCH)	12 - 2	Yanko Chopov (BUL)	3.5	7.5
7	4	Petros Galaktopoulos (GRE)	TF / 3:55	Karl-Heinz Helbing (FRG)	0	6
0		Anatoly Bykov (URS)		Bye

Round 4

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
1	1	Anatoly Bykov (URS)	7 - 6	Gheorghe Ciobotaru (ROU)	3	7
8	3	Jan Karlsson (SWE)	5 - 9	Klaus-Peter Göpfert (GDR)	1	6
3.5	3	Mikko Huhtala (FIN)	3 - 4	Vítězslav Mácha (TCH)	1	1.5
6		Karl-Heinz Helbing (FRG)		Bye

Round 5

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
6	0	Karl-Heinz Helbing (FRG)	TF / 2:09	Mikko Huhtala (FIN)	4	7.5
1	0	Anatoly Bykov (URS)	DQ / 8:54	Klaus-Peter Göpfert (GDR)	4	10
1.5		Vítězslav Mácha (TCH)		Bye

Final

Results from the preliminary round are carried forward into the final (shown in yellow).

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
	4	Karl-Heinz Helbing (FRG)	DQ / 7:56	Anatoly Bykov (URS)	0
	0	Vítězslav Mácha (TCH)	DQ / 8:52	Karl-Heinz Helbing (FRG)	4	8
1	1	Anatoly Bykov (URS)	7 - 3	Vítězslav Mácha (TCH)	3	3