Men's Greco-Roman 90 kg at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Venue	Messe München
Dates	5–10 September
Competitors	13 from 13 nations
Medalists
Valery Rezantsev  Soviet Union Josip Čorak  Yugoslavia Czesław Kwieciński  Poland
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Wrestling at the 1972 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 1972 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program at the Fairgrounds, Judo and Wrestling Hall.^[1]

Gold	Valery Rezantsev  Soviet Union
Silver	Josip Čorak  Yugoslavia
Bronze	Czesław Kwieciński  Poland

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.

Legend

• DNA — Did not appear
• TPP — Total penalty points
• MPP — Match penalty points

Penalties

• 0 — Won by Fall, Passivity, Injury and Forfeit
• 0.5 — Won by Technical Superiority
• 1 — Won by Points
• 2 — Draw
• 2.5 — Draw, Passivity
• 3 — Lost by Points
• 3.5 — Lost by Technical Superiority
• 4 — Lost by Fall, Passivity, Injury and Forfeit

TPP	MPP		Time		MPP	TPP
3	3	Roland Andersson (SWE)		Wayne Baughman (USA)	1	1
0	0	Håkon Øverby (NOR)	7:42	Günter Kowalewski (FRG)	4	4
2	2	Nicolae Neguţ (ROU)		Valery Rezantsev (URS)	2	2
1	1	Kimuchi Tani (JPN)		Jean-Marie Chardonnens (SUI)	3	3
4	4	Barend Kops (NED)	0:00	Josip Čorak (YUG)	0	0
2	2	Lothar Metz (GDR)		Czesław Kwieciński (POL)	2	2
3	3	Stoyan Ivanov (BUL)		József Pércsi (HUN)	1	1

TPP	MPP		Time		MPP	TPP
7	4	Roland Andersson (SWE)	7:03	Håkon Øverby (NOR)	0	0
5	4	Wayne Baughman (USA)	8:03	Günter Kowalewski (FRG)	0	4
2	0	Nicolae Neguţ (ROU)	0:52	Kimuchi Tani (JPN)	4	5
2	0	Valery Rezantsev (URS)	2:59	Jean-Marie Chardonnens (SUI)	4	7
1	1	Josip Čorak (YUG)		Lothar Metz (GDR)	3	5
3	1	Czesław Kwieciński (POL)		Stoyan Ivanov (BUL)	3	6
1		József Pércsi (HUN)		Bye
4		Barend Kops (NED)		DNA

TPP	MPP		Time		MPP	TPP
1.5	0.5	József Pércsi (HUN)		Wayne Baughman (USA)	3.5	8.5
2	2	Håkon Øverby (NOR)		Nicolae Neguţ (ROU)	2	4
8	4	Günter Kowalewski (FRG)	0:00	Valery Rezantsev (URS)	0	2
5	0	Kimuchi Tani (JPN)	1:58	Lothar Metz (GDR)	4	9
3	2	Josip Čorak (YUG)		Czesław Kwieciński (POL)	2	5

TPP	MPP		Time		MPP	TPP
2.5	1	József Pércsi (HUN)		Håkon Øverby (NOR)	3	5
8	4	Nicolae Neguţ (ROU)	7:36	Josip Čorak (YUG)	0	3
2	0	Valery Rezantsev (URS)	1:24	Kimuchi Tani (JPN)	4	9
5		Czesław Kwieciński (POL)		Bye

TPP	MPP		Time		MPP	TPP
5	0	Czesław Kwieciński (POL)	2:04	József Pércsi (HUN)	4	6.5
9	4	Håkon Øverby (NOR)	1:39	Valery Rezantsev (URS)	0	2
3		Josip Čorak (YUG)		Bye

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

TPP	MPP		Time		MPP	TPP
	2	Josip Čorak (YUG)		Czesław Kwieciński (POL)	2
5	3	Josip Čorak (YUG)		Valery Rezantsev (URS)	1
5	3	Czesław Kwieciński (POL)		Valery Rezantsev (URS)	1	2

1.  Valery Rezantsev (URS)
2.  Josip Čorak (YUG)
3.  Czesław Kwieciński (POL)
4.  József Pércsi (HUN)
5.  Håkon Øverby (NOR)
6.  Nicolae Neguţ (ROU)

• Official Report