Wrestling at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman 52 kg

The Men's Greco-Roman 52 kg at the 1976 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program were held at the Maurice Richard Arena.

Medalists

Gold	Vitali Konstantinov  Soviet Union
Silver	Nicu Gingă  Romania
Bronze	Koichiro Hirayama  Japan

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
1	1	Lajos Rácz (HUN)	13 - 9	Haralambos Holidis (GRE)	3	3
3.5	3.5	Bruce Thompson (USA)	7 - 15	Rolf Krauß (FRG)	0.5	0.5
4	4	Leonel Duarte (POR)	DQ / 7:47	Mohamed Karmous (MAR)	0	0
0	0	Nicu Gingă (ROU)	IN / 5:11	Petar Kirov (BUL)	4	4
1	1	Vitali Konstantinov (URS)	10 - 8	Antonio Caltabiano (ITA)	3	3
0	0	Czesław Stanjek (POL)	DQ / 6:52	Jamsrangiin Mönkh-Ochir (MGL)	4	4
4	4	Julien Mewis (BEL)	DQ / 8:40	Baek Seung-Hyun (KOR)	0	0
4	4	Bilal Tabur (TUR)	DQ / 7:31	Koichiro Hirayama (JPN)	0	0
0		Morad Ali Shirani (IRI)		Bye

Round 2

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
3	3	Morad Ali Shirani (IRI)	6 - 9	Lajos Rácz (HUN)	1	2
7	4	Haralambos Holidis (GRE)	TF / 7:23	Bruce Thompson (USA)	0	3.5
0.5	0	Rolf Krauß (FRG)	TF / 2:41	Leonel Duarte (POR)	4	8
3	3	Nicu Gingă (ROU)	11 - 17	Vitali Konstantinov (URS)	1	2
4	1	Antonio Caltabiano (ITA)	11 - 6	Czesław Stanjek (POL)	3	3
7	3	Jamsrangiin Mönkh-Ochir (MGL)	12 - 16	Julien Mewis (BEL)	1	5
1	1	Baek Seung-Hyun (KOR)	9 - 6	Bilal Tabur (TUR)	3	7
0		Koichiro Hirayama (JPN)		Bye
0		Mohamed Karmous (MAR)		DNA
4		Petar Kirov (BUL)		DNA

Round 3

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
3	3	Koichiro Hirayama (JPN)	12 - 15	Morad Ali Shirani (IRI)	1	4
3	1	Lajos Rácz (HUN)	8 - 6	Bruce Thompson (USA)	3	6.5
4.5	4	Rolf Krauß (FRG)	DQ / 7:06	Nicu Gingă (ROU)	0	3
2	0	Vitali Konstantinov (URS)	22 - 4	Julien Mewis (BEL)	4	9
4	0	Antonio Caltabiano (ITA)	DQ / 7:25	Baek Seung-Hyun (KOR)	4	5
3		Czesław Stanjek (POL)		DNA

Round 4

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
4	1	Koichiro Hirayama (JPN)	5 - 2	Lajos Rácz (HUN)	3	6
7	3	Morad Ali Shirani (IRI)	10 - 16	Rolf Krauß (FRG)	1	5.5
3.5	0.5	Nicu Gingă (ROU)	11 - 1	Antonio Caltabiano (ITA)	3.5	7.5
2	0	Vitali Konstantinov (URS)	TF / 7:32	Baek Seung-Hyun (KOR)	4	9

Round 5

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
8	4	Koichiro Hirayama (JPN)	D1 / 5:45	Nicu Gingă (ROU)	2	5.5
8.5	3	Rolf Krauß (FRG)	11 - 16	Vitali Konstantinov (URS)	1	3

Final

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

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
	3	Nicu Gingă (ROU)	11 - 17	Vitali Konstantinov (URS)	1
	4	Koichiro Hirayama (JPN)	D1 / 5:45	Nicu Gingă (ROU)	2	5
5	1	Koichiro Hirayama (JPN)	6 - 3	Vitali Konstantinov (URS)	3	4

Final standings

1.  Vitali Konstantinov (URS)
2.  Nicu Gingă (ROU)
3.  Koichiro Hirayama (JPN)
4.  Rolf Krauß (FRG)
5.  Lajos Rácz (HUN)
6.  Morad Ali Shirani (IRI)
7.  Antonio Caltabiano (ITA)
8.  Baek Seung-Hyun (KOR)

References

• Official Report