1972 Freestyle Wrestling medal counts

                                Total    Gold   Silver  Bronze
Soviet Union                       8       5       2       1
United States                      6       3       2       1
Japan                              3       2       1       0
Bulgaria                           3       0       2       1
Hungary                            3       0       0       3
Mongolia                           1       0       1       0
Sweden                             1       0       1       0
Turkey                             1       0       1       0
Iran                               1       0       0       1
North Korea (PDR of Korea)         1       0       0       1
Romania                            1       0       0       1
West Germany                       1       0       0       1

Medal winners:
      Event                     Gold                     Silver                   Bronze               
1972  Men's Light Flyweight     Roman Dimitriyev   URS   Ognian Nikolov     BUL   Ebrahim Javadpour IRI
1972  Men's Flyweight           Kiyomi Kato        JPN   Arsen Alakhverdiev URS   Hyong Kim Gwong   PRK
1972  Men's Bantamweight        Hideaki Yanagida   JPN   Richard Sanders    USA   Laszlo Klinga     HUN
1972  Men's Featherweight       Zagalav Abdulbekov URS   Vehbi Akdag        TUR   Ivan Krastev      BUL
1972  Men's Lightweight         Dan Gable          USA   Kikou Wada         JPN   Ruslan Ashuralyev URS
1972  Men's Welterweight        Wayne Wells        USA   Jan Karlsson       SWE   Adolf Seger       FRG
1972  Men's Middleweight        Levan Tediashvili  URS   John Peterson      USA   Vasile Jorga      ROM
1972  Men's Light-Heavyweight   Ben Peterson       USA   Gennadiy Strakhov  URS   Karoly Bajko      HUN
1972  Men's Heavyweight         Ivan Yarygin       URS   Khorloo Baianmunkh MGL   Jozef Csatari     HUN
1972  Men's Super-Heavyweight   Alexander Medved   URS   Osman, Duraliev    BUL   Chris Taylor      USA