Rassling Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 (edited) Flashback to a time when we were the dominators! Anyone watch this live back then? The 1972 US men's freestyle wrestling Olympic team included the following wrestlers who won medals: Dan Gable: Won gold in the welterweight division Wayne Wells: Won gold in the middleweight division Ben Peterson: Won gold in the heavyweight division Rick Sanders: Won silver in the bantamweight division John Peterson: Won silver in the light-heavyweight division Chris Taylor: Won bronze in the super heavyweight division https://www.facebook.com/share/TWoaV8JDa1DMR91h/?mibextid=WC7FNe Edited August 14 by Rassling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim L Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 Where there 10 weight classes iin 72? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rassling Posted August 14 Author Share Posted August 14 8 minutes ago, Jim L said: Where there 10 weight classes iin 72? I don’t know Jim but I bet one of these posters knows. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ionel Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 18 minutes ago, Jim L said: Where there 10 weight classes iin 72? Freestyle edit Games Gold Silver Bronze 48 kg details Roman Dmitriyev Soviet Union Ognyan Nikolov Bulgaria Ebrahim Javadi Iran 52 kg details Kiyomi Kato Japan Arsen Alakhverdiyev Soviet Union Kim Gwong-Hyong North Korea 57 kg details Hideaki Yanagida Japan Richard Sanders United States László Klinga Hungary 62 kg details Zagalav Abdulbekov Soviet Union Vehbi Akdağ Turkey Ivan Krastev Bulgaria 68 kg details Dan Gable United States Kikuo Wada Japan Ruslan Ashuraliyev Soviet Union 74 kg details Wayne Wells United States Jan Karlsson Sweden Adolf Seger West Germany 82 kg details Levan Tediashvili Soviet Union John Peterson United States Vasile Iorga Romania 90 kg details Ben Peterson United States Gennadi Strakhov Soviet Union Károly Bajkó Hungary 100 kg details Ivan Yarygin Soviet Union Khorloogiin Bayanmönkh Mongolia József Csatári Hungary +100 kg details Aleksandr Medved Soviet Union Osman Duraliev Bulgaria Chris Taylor United States 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrestleknownothing Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 20 minutes ago, Jim L said: Where there 10 weight classes iin 72? 1972 was the first time there was 10 weights. It was 8 prior to that. 1 Drowning in data, but thirsting for knowledge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rassling Posted August 14 Author Share Posted August 14 (edited) 3 minutes ago, ionel said: Freestyle edit Games Gold Silver Bronze 48 kg details Roman Dmitriyev Soviet Union Ognyan Nikolov Bulgaria Ebrahim Javadi Iran 52 kg details Kiyomi Kato Japan Arsen Alakhverdiyev Soviet Union Kim Gwong-Hyong North Korea 57 kg details Hideaki Yanagida Japan Richard Sanders United States László Klinga Hungary 62 kg details Zagalav Abdulbekov Soviet Union Vehbi Akdağ Turkey Ivan Krastev Bulgaria 68 kg details Dan Gable United States Kikuo Wada Japan Ruslan Ashuraliyev Soviet Union 74 kg details Wayne Wells United States Jan Karlsson Sweden Adolf Seger West Germany 82 kg details Levan Tediashvili Soviet Union John Peterson United States Vasile Iorga Romania 90 kg details Ben Peterson United States Gennadi Strakhov Soviet Union Károly Bajkó Hungary 100 kg details Ivan Yarygin Soviet Union Khorloogiin Bayanmönkh Mongolia József Csatári Hungary +100 kg details Aleksandr Medved Soviet Union Osman Duraliev Bulgaria Chris Taylor United States There ya go! Thanks ionel and wrestleknowALOT! Edited August 14 by Rassling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ionel Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 Did pretty well in 92 Freestyle edit Event Gold Silver Bronze 48 kg details Kim Il North Korea Kim Jong-shin South Korea Vugar Orujov Unified Team 52 kg details Ri Hak-son North Korea Zeke Jones United States Valentin Yordanov Bulgaria 57 kg details Alejandro Puerto Cuba Sergey Smal Unified Team Kim Yong-sik North Korea 62 kg details John Smith United States Askari Mohammadian Iran Lázaro Reinoso Cuba 68 kg details Arsen Fadzaev Unified Team Valentin Getsov Bulgaria Kosei Akaishi Japan 74 kg details Park Jang-soon South Korea Kenny Monday United States Amir Reza Khadem Iran 82 kg details Kevin Jackson United States Elmadi Zhabrailov Unified Team Rasoul Khadem Iran 90 kg details Makharbek Khadartsev Unified Team Kenan Şimşek Turkey Chris Campbell United States 100 kg details Leri Khabelov Unified Team Heiko Balz Germany Ali Kayalı Turkey 130 kg details Bruce Baumgartner United States Jeff Thue Canada David Gobejishvili Unified Team Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim L Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 Hard to compare the medal haul in 72 & 92 with ten weight classes v. today's 6. Also to note that with one Russian per weight, they won 8 medals with 5 golds in 72 and 7 medals with 3 golds in 92. Add another 5 or so Soviet wrestlers to those earlier tournaments and force everyone into 6 weight classes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mspart Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 In 2024, 3 gold medallists were born in Russia. 4 Bronze medallists were born in Russia. It seems to happen a lot. mspart 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D3 for LU Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 Definitely remembered the "72 Munich Olympics on ABC... I was totally blown away w/ the amount of US bouts they showed. Other than the USSR, the US FS team had a whale of a tournament!. Flo has archived a lot of those bouts that ABC broadcast back then. Also remembered the '92 Barcelona Olympics as well... watched on cable thru the Olympic Triplecast (Red/white/ blue channels... purchase was required, of course.) I was able to watch all of the GR as well as the FS... had them recorded on VHS. Alas, they're gone. Good memories! D3 2 Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAC Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 I'd argue that the 2020 (aka 2021) men's freestyle Olympic team was our best in modern memory. Six weights, five medals: Gold (Taylor, Gable), Silver (Snyder), Bronze (Gilman, Dake). That's a medal in over 83% the weights, and that's with Russia completing (under the Olympic banner) along with all the former Soviet republics. That's a far higher percentage than the '72 team (83% vs 60%), and even a higher percentage of gold medals (33% vs 30%), and that's with only a single Soviet bloc competitor. The '92 team had the same percentages as the '72 team, so the same comments apply. And remember we didn't even qualify 65kg in '20, so of the actual competitors, we were 5-for-5 in medals. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrandOlm Posted August 15 Share Posted August 15 Sick Soviet team as well. Most decorated freestyle wrestler in history at +100 kg capping his career off with a 7 year undefeated streak. Absolute monster Ivan Yarygin who pinned everyone in his gold run that tournament . Levan was in the beginning of his 5 year unbeaten run. Big Dagestan contingent as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pa in Taiwan Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 On 8/14/2024 at 7:37 PM, Rassling said: Flashback to a time when we were the dominators! That's rich, especially considering that we were second place that year. The Soviet Union had 5 golds, 2 silvers and 1 bronze. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormMacDonald Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 On 8/14/2024 at 7:37 AM, Rassling said: Flashback to a time when we were the dominators! Anyone watch this live back then? The 1972 US men's freestyle wrestling Olympic team included the following wrestlers who won medals: Dan Gable: Won gold in the welterweight division Wayne Wells: Won gold in the middleweight division Ben Peterson: Won gold in the heavyweight division Rick Sanders: Won silver in the bantamweight division John Peterson: Won silver in the light-heavyweight division Chris Taylor: Won bronze in the super heavyweight division https://www.facebook.com/share/TWoaV8JDa1DMR91h/?mibextid=WC7FNe BRING BACK UNLIMITED HEAVYWEIGHT!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lu1979 Posted August 18 Share Posted August 18 On 8/14/2024 at 7:37 AM, Rassling said: Flashback to a time when we were the dominators! Anyone watch this live back then? The 1972 US men's freestyle wrestling Olympic team included the following wrestlers who won medals: Dan Gable: Won gold in the welterweight division Wayne Wells: Won gold in the middleweight division Ben Peterson: Won gold in the heavyweight division Rick Sanders: Won silver in the bantamweight division John Peterson: Won silver in the light-heavyweight division Chris Taylor: Won bronze in the super heavyweight division https://www.facebook.com/share/TWoaV8JDa1DMR91h/?mibextid=WC7FNe That was the summer after my freshman year in HS - I just started wrestling as a freshman - and I watched every match at my aunts house up the street, She had a big color TV vs the small b&w that we had. I will never forget it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rassling Posted August 18 Author Share Posted August 18 9 minutes ago, lu1979 said: That was the summer after my freshman year in HS - I just started wrestling as a freshman - and I watched every match at my aunts house up the street, She had a big color TV vs the small b&w that we had. I will never forget it. Great history LU, thanks for sharing sir! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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