Men's freestyle 100 kg at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Venue	Maurice Richard Arena
Dates	27–31 July
Competitors	15 from 15 nations
Medalists
Ivan Yarygin  Soviet Union Russell Hellickson  United States Dimo Kostov  Bulgaria
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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 Freestyle 100 kg at the 1976 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program were held at the Maurice Richard Arena.^[1]

Gold	Ivan Yarygin  Soviet Union
Silver	Russell Hellickson  United States
Bronze	Dimo Kostov  Bulgaria

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

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
3	3	Reza Soukhteh-Saraei (IRI)	6 - 8	Kazuo Shimizu (JPN)	1	1
0	0	Russell Hellickson (USA)	TF / 2:35	Keith Peache (GBR)	4	4
4	4	Steve Daniar (CAN)	TF / 2:44	Dimo Kostov (BUL)	0	0
3	3	Enache Panaite (ROU)	3 - 5	Khorloogiin Bayanmönkh (MGL)	1	1
3.5	3.5	Harald Büttner (GDR)	5 - 13	Ivan Yarygin (URS)	0.5	0.5
4	4	Tore Hem (NOR)	TF / 3:18	Petr Drozda (TCH)	0	0
0	0	Daniel Verník (ARG)	TF / 0:17	Robert N'Diaye (SEN)	4	4
0		Hans-Peter Stratz (FRG)		Bye

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
3	3	Hans-Peter Stratz (FRG)	4 - 10	Reza Soukhteh-Saraei (IRI)	1	4
5	4	Kazuo Shimizu (JPN)	DQ / 6:52	Russell Hellickson (USA)	0	0
7.5	3.5	Keith Peache (GBR)	6 - 14	Steve Daniar (CAN)	0.5	4.5
0	0	Dimo Kostov (BUL)	TF / 4:05	Enache Panaite (ROU)	4	7
2	1	Khorloogiin Bayanmönkh (MGL)	9 - 5	Harald Büttner (GDR)	3	6.5
0.5	0	Ivan Yarygin (URS)	TF / 1:26	Daniel Verník (ARG)	4	4
0	0	Petr Drozda (TCH)	TF / 2:48	Robert N'Diaye (SEN)	4	8
4		Tore Hem (NOR)		DNA

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
7	4	Hans-Peter Stratz (FRG)	TF / 2:58	Kazuo Shimizu (JPN)	0	5
8	4	Reza Soukhteh-Saraei (IRI)	TF / 8:26	Russell Hellickson (USA)	0	0
8.5	4	Steve Daniar (CAN)	FF	Khorloogiin Bayanmönkh (MGL)	0	2
3.5	3.5	Dimo Kostov (BUL)	5 - 16	Ivan Yarygin (URS)	0.5	1
0	0	Petr Drozda (TCH)	TF / 2:19	Daniel Verník (ARG)	4	8

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
8	3	Kazuo Shimizu (JPN)	6 - 9	Dimo Kostov (BUL)	1	4.5
0.5	0.5	Russell Hellickson (USA)	14 - 5	Khorloogiin Bayanmönkh (MGL)	3.5	5.5
1	0	Ivan Yarygin (URS)	TF / 5:30	Petr Drozda (TCH)	4	4

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
3.5	3	Russell Hellickson (USA)	13 - 19	Ivan Yarygin (URS)	1	2
4.5	0	Dimo Kostov (BUL)	TF / 3:53	Petr Drozda (TCH)	4	8
5.5		Khorloogiin Bayanmönkh (MGL)		DNA

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

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
	3.5	Dimo Kostov (BUL)	5 - 16	Ivan Yarygin (URS)	0.5
	3	Russell Hellickson (USA)	13 - 19	Ivan Yarygin (URS)	1	1.5
4	1	Russell Hellickson (USA)	12 - 6	Dimo Kostov (BUL)	3	6.5

1.  Ivan Yarygin (URS)
2.  Russell Hellickson (USA)
3.  Dimo Kostov (BUL)
4.  Petr Drozda (TCH)
5.  Khorloogiin Bayanmönkh (MGL)
6.  Kazuo Shimizu (JPN)
7.  Hans-Peter Stratz (FRG)
8.  Daniel Verník (ARG)

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