Wrestling at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 74 kg

Men's freestyle 74 kg
at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Men's freestyle 74 kg; at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
	Medal winners
Venue	Maurice Richard Arena
Dates	27–31 July
Competitors	21 from 21 nations
Medalists
	← 1972 1980 →

The Men's Freestyle 74 kg at the 1976 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program were held at the Maurice Richard Arena.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Jiichiro Date Japan
Silver	Mansour Barzegar Iran
Bronze	Stanley Dziedzic United States

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
3	3	Ruslan Ashuraliyev (URS)	6 - 6	Mansour Barzegar (IRI)	1	1
0	0	Yancho Pavlov (BUL)	21 - 0	Mihály Toma (HUN)	4	4
0	0	Marin Pîrcălabu (ROU)	DQ / 5:55	Keith Haward (GBR)	4	4
0	0	Jarmo Övermark (FIN)	TF / 1:23	Ivan David (ISV)	4	4
4	4	Yakup Topuz (TUR)	3 - 16	Dan Karabin (TCH)	0	0
4	4	Kiro Ristov (YUG)	2 - 16	Yu Jae-gwon (KOR)	0	0
4	4	Brian Renken (CAN)	TF / 1:31	Fred Hempel (GDR)	0	0
4	4	Bruce Akers (AUS)	1 - 24	Jan Karlsson (SWE)	0	0
0	0	Jiichiro Date (JPN)	TF / 1:41	Dennis Herrick (PUR)	4	4
4	4	Zevegiin Düvchin (MGL)	DQ / 3:18	Stanley Dziedzic (USA)	0	0
0		Giuseppe Spagnoli (ITA)		Bye

Round 2

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
4	4	Giuseppe Spagnoli (ITA)	TF / 4:28	Ruslan Ashuraliyev (URS)	0	3
2	1	Mansour Barzegar (IRI)	11 - 5	Yancho Pavlov (BUL)	3	3
7	3	Mihály Toma (HUN)	4 - 5	Marin Pîrcălabu (ROU)	1	1
8	4	Keith Haward (GBR)	TF / 2:45	Jarmo Övermark (FIN)	0	0
7	3	Yakup Topuz (TUR)	6 - 12	Kiro Ristov (YUG)	1	5
0.5	0.5	Dan Karabin (TCH)	16 - 6	Yoo Jae-Kwon (KOR)	3.5	3.5
5	1	Brian Renken (CAN)	11 - 4	Bruce Akers (AUS)	3	7
1	1	Fred Hempel (GDR)	11 - 4	Jan Karlsson (SWE)	3	3
0	0	Jiichiro Date (JPN)	TF / 1:39	Zevegiin Düvchin (MGL)	4	8
8	4	Dennis Herrick (PUR)	TF / 4:11	Stanley Dziedzic (USA)	0	0
4		Ivan David (ISV)		DNA

Round 3

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
8	4	Giuseppe Spagnoli (ITA)	DQ / 8:49	Mansour Barzegar (IRI)	0	2
3.5	0.5	Ruslan Ashuraliyev (URS)	13 - 4	Yancho Pavlov (BUL)	3.5	6.5
2	1	Marin Pîrcălabu (ROU)	11 - 6	Jarmo Övermark (FIN)	3	3
4.5	4	Dan Karabin (TCH)	IN / 5:05	Kiro Ristov (YUG)	0	5
4.5	1	Yoo Jae-Kwon (KOR)	12 - 9	Brian Renken (CAN)	3	8
5	4	Fred Hempel (GDR)	TF / 7:03	Jiichiro Date (JPN)	0	0
6	3	Jan Karlsson (SWE)	5 - 11	Stanley Dziedzic (USA)	1	1

Round 4

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
4.5	1	Ruslan Ashuraliyev (URS)	10 - 4	Marin Pîrcălabu (ROU)	3	5
2	0	Mansour Barzegar (IRI)	DQ / 7:45	Jarmo Övermark (FIN)	4	7
8	3	Kiro Ristov (YUG)	12 - 16	Fred Hempel (GDR)	1	6
8.5	4	Yoo Jae-Kwon (KOR)	TF / 2:13	Jiichiro Date (JPN)	0	0
1		Stanley Dziedzic (USA)		Bye
4.5		Dan Karabin (TCH)		DNA

Round 5

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
2	1	Stanley Dziedzic (USA)	9 - 6	Ruslan Ashuraliyev (URS)	3	7.5
2	0	Mansour Barzegar (IRI)	23 - 8	Fred Hempel (GDR)	4	10
9	4	Marin Pîrcălabu (ROU)	TF / 4:06	Jiichiro Date (JPN)	0	0

Final

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

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
	3	Stanley Dziedzic (USA)	8 - 11	Mansour Barzegar (IRI)	1
	1	Jiichiro Date (JPN)	10 - 5	Stanley Dziedzic (USA)	3	6
5	4	Mansour Barzegar (IRI)	TF / 6:07	Jiichiro Date (JPN)	0	1