Wrestling at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman 90 kg

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Men's Greco-Roman 90 kg at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Venue	Maurice Richard Arena
Dates	20–24 July
Competitors	13 from 13 nations
Medalists
Valery Rezantsev  Soviet Union Stoyan Ivanov  Bulgaria Czesław Kwieciński  Poland
← 1972 1980 →

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 90 kg at the 1976 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program were held at the Maurice Richard Arena.^[1]

Medalists[]

Gold	Valery Rezantsev  Soviet Union
Silver	Stoyan Ivanov  Bulgaria
Bronze	Czesław Kwieciński  Poland

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	Sadao Sato (JPN)	TF / 2:00	Fred Theobald (FRG)	4	4
4	4	Michel Grangier (FRA)	DQ / 7:54	Valery Rezantsev (URS)	0	0
3	3	Petre Dicu (ROU)	2 - 7	István Séllyei (HUN)	1	1
3	3	Darko Nišavić (YUG)	3 - 10	Stoyan Ivanov (BUL)	1	1
0	0	James Johnson (USA)	TF / 1:20	Ambroise Sarr (SEN)	4	4
0	0	Frank Andersson (SWE)	25 - 9	Hashem Kolahi (IRI)	4	4
0		Czesław Kwieciński (POL)		Bye

Round 2[]

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
0	0	Czesław Kwieciński (POL)	TF / 2:00	Sadao Sato (JPN)	4	4
5	1	Fred Theobald (FRG)	11 - 4	Michel Grangier (FRA)	3	7
0	0	Valery Rezantsev (URS)	TF / 2:51	Petre Dicu (ROU)	4	7
4	3	István Séllyei (HUN)	2 - 4	Darko Nišavić (YUG)	1	4
1	0	Stoyan Ivanov (BUL)	TF / 8:02	James Johnson (USA)	4	4
8	4	Ambroise Sarr (SEN)	TF / 1:32	Frank Andersson (SWE)	0	0
4		Hashem Kolahi (IRI)		Bye

Round 3[]

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
8	4	Hashem Kolahi (IRI)	TF / 0:12	Czesław Kwieciński (POL)	0	0
8	4	Sadao Sato (JPN)	TF / 3:55	Valery Rezantsev (URS)	0	0
9	4	Fred Theobald (FRG)	DQ / 5:06	István Séllyei (HUN)	0	4
4	0	Darko Nišavić (YUG)	DQ / 7:28	James Johnson (USA)	4	8
2	1	Stoyan Ivanov (BUL)	10 - 4	Frank Andersson (SWE)	3	3

Round 4[]

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
3	3	Czesław Kwieciński (POL)	3 - 9	Valery Rezantsev (URS)	1	1
8	4	István Séllyei (HUN)	DQ / 4:55	Stoyan Ivanov (BUL)	0	2
5	1	Darko Nišavić (YUG)	3 - 2	Frank Andersson (SWE)	3	6

Round 5[]

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
3	0	Czesław Kwieciński (POL)	DQ / 8:00	Darko Nišavić (YUG)	4	9
2	1	Valery Rezantsev (URS)	6 - 6	Stoyan Ivanov (BUL)	3	5

Final[]

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

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
	3	Czesław Kwieciński (POL)	3 - 9	(URS)	1
2	1	Valery Rezantsev (URS)	6 - 6	Stoyan Ivanov (BUL)	3
5	2	Stoyan Ivanov (BUL)	D1 / 6:46	Czesław Kwieciński (POL)	4	7

Final standings[]

1.  Valery Rezantsev (URS)
2.  Stoyan Ivanov (BUL)
3.  Czesław Kwieciński (POL)
4.  Darko Nišavić (YUG)
5.  Frank Andersson (SWE)
6.  István Séllyei (HUN)
7.  Sadao Sato (JPN) and  James Johnson (USA)

References[]

External links[]

• Official Report