Wrestling at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 87 kg

Men's freestyle middleweight at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Venue	Insurgentes Ice Rink
Date	17 – 20 October
Competitors	22 from 22 nations
Medalists
Boris Gurevich  Soviet Union Jigjidiin Mönkhbat  Mongolia Prodan Gardzhev  Bulgaria

The Men's Freestyle middleweight at the 1968 Summer Olympics was part of the wrestling program were held at the Insurgentes Ice Rink from October 17 to October 20.^[1] The middleweight allowed wrestlers up to 87 kilograms.^[2]

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 wrestler. When only two or three wrestlers remain, a special final round is used to determine the order of the medals.^[1]

Legend

• TF — Won by Fall
• DQ — Won by Passivity or forfeit
• D2 — Both wrestlers lost by Passivity
• DNA — Did not appear

Penalties

• 0 — Won by Fall and Disqualification
• 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 and Disqualification

1st round

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
3	3	Ghulam Dastagir (AFG)		Julio Graffigna (ARG)	1	1
2	2	Prodan Gardzhev (BUL)		Tom Peckham (USA)	2	2
1	1	Francisc Balla (ROU)		Mansour Mahdizadeh (IRI)	3	3
1	1	Géza Hollósi (HUN)		Umberto Marcheggiani (ITA)	3	3
3	3	Robert Chamberot (CAN)		Ronald Grinstead (GBR)	1	1
4	4	Robert Nihon (BAH)	TF / 1:59	Boris Gurevich (URS)	0	0
2.5	2.5	Jan Wypiorczyk (POL)		Shigeru Endo (JPN)	2.5	2.5
3	3	Ernst Knoll (FRG)		Lupe Lara (CUB)	1	1
2	2	Jean-Marie Chardonnens (SUI)		Raúl García (MEX)	2	2
1	1	Jigjidiin Mönkhbat (MGL)		Peter Döring (GDR)	3	3
4	4	José Manuel Hernández (GUA)	TF / 1:45	Hüseyin Gürsoy (TUR)	0	0

2nd round

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
7	4	Ghulam Dastagir (AFG)	TF / 1:16	Prodan Gardzhev (BUL)	0	2
4	3	Julio Graffigna (ARG)		Tom Peckham (USA)	1	3
5	4	Francisc Balla (ROU)	DQ	Géza Hollósi (HUN)	4	5
3.5	0.5	Umberto Marcheggiani (ITA)		Robert Chamberot (CAN)	3.5	6.5
1	0	Ronald Grinstead (GBR)	TF / 4:33	Robert Nihon (BAH)	4	8
0	0	Boris Gurevich (URS)	TF / 10:36	Jan Wypiorczyk (POL)	4	6.5
3.5	1	Shigeru Endo (JPN)		Ernst Knoll (FRG)	3	6
2	1	Lupe Lara (CUB)		Jean-Marie Chardonnens (SUI)	3	5
6	4	Raúl García (MEX)	TF / 1:17	Jigjidiin Mönkhbat (MGL)	0	1
3	0	Peter Döring (GDR)	TF / 0:37	José Manuel Hernández (GUA)	4	8
		Hüseyin Gürsoy (TUR)

3rd round

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
7	3	Julio Graffigna (ARG)		Hüseyin Gürsoy (TUR)	1	1
2	0	Prodan Gardzhev (BUL)	TF / 6:54	Francisc Balla (ROU)	4	9
3	0	Tom Peckham (USA)	TF / 1:39	Umberto Marcheggiani (ITA)	4	7.5
4.5	3.5	Ronald Grinstead (GBR)		Boris Gurevich (URS)	0.5	0.5
4.5	1	Shigeru Endo (JPN)		Lupe Lara (CUB)	3	5
8.5	3.5	Jean-Marie Chardonnens (SUI)		Jigjidiin Mönkhbat (MGL)	0.5	1.5
		Peter Döring (GDR)		Bye

4th round

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
6	3	Peter Döring (GDR)		Hüseyin Gürsoy (TUR)	1	2
2.5	0.5	Prodan Gardzhev (BUL)		Ronald Grinstead (GBR)	3.5	8
3	0	Tom Peckham (USA)	TF / 1:19	Shigeru Endo (JPN)	4	8.5
0.5	0	Boris Gurevich (URS)	TF / 0:49	Lupe Lara (CUB)	4	9
		Jigjidiin Mönkhbat (MGL)		Bye

5th round

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
3.5	2	Prodan Gardzhev (BUL)		Jigjidiin Mönkhbat (MGL)	2	4.5
5	2	Tom Peckham (USA)		Hüseyin Gürsoy (TUR)	2	4
		Boris Gurevich (URS)		Bye

6th round

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
2.5	2	Boris Gurevich (URS)		Jigjidiin Mönkhbat (MGL)	2	5.5
5.5	1	Prodan Gardzhev (BUL)		Hüseyin Gürsoy (TUR)	3	7
		Tom Peckham (USA)		Bye

Final round

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
8	3	Tom Peckham (USA)		Jigjidiin Mönkhbat (MGL)	1	6.5
7.5	2	Prodan Gardzhev (BUL)		Boris Gurevich (URS)	2	4.5

Final standings

1.  Boris Gurevich (URS)
2.  Jigjidiin Mönkhbat (MGL)
3.  Prodan Gardzhev (BUL)
4.  Tom Peckham (USA)
5.  Hüseyin Gürsoy (TUR)
6.  Peter Döring (GDR)

References

1. "Wrestling at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games: Men's Middleweight, Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
2. Official Report, p. 722.

Sources

• Trueblood, Beatrice (ed). (1969). Official Report of the Organizing Committee of the Games of the XIX Olympiad Mexico 1968 (Volume 3). pp. 335, 722-723.