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Host City: Montréal, Canada
Venue(s): Maurice Richard Arena, Montréal, Québec; Pierre Charbonneau Centre, Olympic Park, Montréal, Québec
Date Started: July 27, 1976
Date Finished: July 31, 1976
Format: Scoring by negative points, with negative points given for any result short of a fall. Accumulation of 6 negative points eliminated the wrestler, but a wrestler could not be eliminated after a victory. When three or fewer wrestlers remained, they advanced to a final round, with preliminary results carried forward.
| Gold: | Yang Jeong-Mo |
| Silver: | Zevegiin Oidov |
| Bronze: | Gene Davis |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | Medal | RE | BP | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yang Jeong-Mo | 23 | South Korea | KOR | Gold | |||
| 2 | Zevegiin Oidov | 25 | Mongolia | MGL | Silver | |||
| 3 | Gene Davis | 30 | United States | USA | Bronze | |||
| 4 | Mohsen Farahvash | 28 | Iran | IRI | ||||
| 5 | Ivan Yankov | 25 | Bulgaria | BUL | ||||
| 6 | Sergey Timofeyev | 26 | Soviet Union | URS | ||||
| 7 | Kenkichi Maekawa | 23 | Japan | JPN | ||||
| 8 | Helmut Strumpf | 25 | East Germany | GDR | ||||
| AC | Eduard Giray | 27 | West Germany | FRG | Eliminated r4/7 | 9,0 | ||
| AC | Petre Coman | 32 | Romania | ROU | Eliminated r3/7 | 7,0 | ||
| AC | Egon Beiler | 23 | Canada | CAN | Eliminated r3/7 | 7,5 | ||
| AC | Vehbi Akdağ | 27 | Turkey | TUR | Eliminated r3/7 | 7,5 | ||
| AC | Théodule Toulotte | 25 | France | FRA | Eliminated r3/7 | 8,0 | ||
| AC | Mihály Fodor | 26 | Hungary | HUN | Eliminated r2/7 | 7,0 | ||
| AC | Marco Terán | 25 | Ecuador | ECU | Eliminated r2/7 | 8,0 | ||
| AC | Kenneth Dawes | 29 | Great Britain | GBR | Eliminated r2/7 | 8,0 | ||
| AC | Benjamin Varela | 21 | Puerto Rico | PUR | Eliminated r2/7 | 8,0 |