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Host City: Montréal, Canada
Venue(s): Pierre Charbonneau Centre, Olympic Park, Montréal, Québec
Date Started: July 20, 1976
Date Finished: July 24, 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.
| Gold: | Kazimierz Lipień |
| Silver: | Nelson Davydian |
| Bronze: | László Réczi |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | Medal | RE | BP | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kazimierz Lipień | 27 | Poland | POL | Gold | |||
| 2 | Nelson Davydian | 26 | Soviet Union | URS | Silver | |||
| 3 | László Réczi | 29 | Hungary | HUN | Bronze | |||
| 4 | Teruhiko Miyahara | 24 | Japan | JPN | ||||
| 5 | Ion Păun | 25 | Romania | ROU | ||||
| 6 | Pekka Hjelt | 26 | Finland | FIN | ||||
| 7 | Stelios Mygiakis | 24 | Greece | GRE | ||||
| 8 | Stoyan Lazarov | 25 | Bulgaria | BUL | ||||
| AC | Gholam Reza Ghassab | 20 | Iran | IRI | Eliminated r3/7 | 8,0 | ||
| AC | Choi Gyeong-Su | 30 | South Korea | KOR | Eliminated r3/7 | 8,0 | ||
| AC | Lars Malmkvist | 20 | Sweden | SWE | Eliminated r3/7 | 8,5 | ||
| AC | Mehmet Uysal | 22 | Turkey | TUR | Eliminated r3/7 | 8,5 | ||
| AC | Lionel Lacaze | 21 | France | FRA | Eliminated r2/7 | 7,5 | ||
| AC | Howard Stupp | 21 | Canada | CAN | Eliminated r2/7 | 8,0 | ||
| AC | Domenico Giuffrida | 22 | Italy | ITA | Eliminated r2/7 | 8,0 | ||
| AC | Joaquim Jesus Vieira | 30 | Portugal | POR | Eliminated r2/7 | 8,0 | ||
| AC | Gary Alexander | 32 | United States | USA | Eliminated r2/7 | 8,0 |