Wrestling at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman 63 kg

Wrestling at the
1968 Summer Olympics
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The Men's Greco-Roman Featherweight at the 1968 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program were held at the Insurgentes Ice Rink. The featherweight was the third-lightest weight class, allowing wrestlers up to 63 kilograms.[1][2]

Medalists

GoldRoman Rurua
 Soviet Union
SilverHideo Fujimoto
 Japan
BronzeSimion Popescu
 Romania

Tournament results

Left-right: Fujimoto, Rurua, Popescu

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.[2]

Legend
Penalties

1st round

TPP MPP Score MPP TPP
0 0  Jiří Švec (TCH) TF / 1:21  José Luis García (GUA) 4 4
1 1  Nikolaos Lazarou (GRE)  Tadeusz Godyń (POL) 3 3
0 0  Metin Alakoç (TUR) DQ  Adriano Morais (POR) 4 4
0 0  Seyed Hossein Moareb (IRI) TF / 8:00  Yehya Hassanein (EGY) 4 4
0 0  Dimitar Galinchev (BUL) DQ  Rahal Mahassine (MAR) 4 4
2.5 2.5  Sreten Damjanović (YUG)  Kim Ik-Jong (KOR) 2.5 2.5
3 3  József Rusznyák (HUN)  Jim Hazewinkel (USA) 1 1
0 0  Roman Rurua (URS) TF / 5:28  Ismail Al-Karaghouli (IRQ) 4 4
0.5 0.5  Simion Popescu (ROU)  Ponciano Contreras (MEX) 3.5 3.5
2 2  Lothar Schneider (GDR)  Martti Laakso (FIN) 2 2
0 0  Léonard Dutz (BEL) TF / 2:49  Tortillano Tumasis (PHI) 4 4
0 0  Hideo Fujimoto (JPN) Bye

2nd round

TPP MPP Score MPP TPP
0 0  Hideo Fujimoto (JPN) TF / 0:20  José Luis García (GUA) 4 8
4 4  Jiří Švec (TCH) DQ  Nikolaos Lazarou (GRE) 4 5
8 4  Adriano Morais (POR) DQ  Tadeusz Godyń (POL) 4 7
1 1  Metin Alakoç (TUR)  Seyed Hossein Moareb (IRI) 3 3
1 1  Dimitar Galinchev (BUL)  Yehya Hassanein (EGY) 3 7
8 4  Rahal Mahassine (MAR)  Kim Ik-Jong (KOR) 0 2.5
2.5 0  Sreten Damjanović (YUG) TF / 2:23  József Rusznyák (HUN) 4 7
5 4  Jim Hazewinkel (USA) TF / 6:23  Roman Rurua (URS) 0 0
3 1  Martti Laakso (FIN)  Ponciano Contreras (MEX) 3 6.5
8 4  Tortillano Tumasis (PHI) TF / 2:13  Simion Popescu (ROU) 0 0.5
3 1  Lothar Schneider (GDR)  Léonard Dutz (BEL) 3 3
4  Ismail Al-Karaghouli (IRQ) DNA

3rd round

TPP MPP Score MPP TPP
1 1  Hideo Fujimoto (JPN)  Jiří Švec (TCH) 3 7
1 0  Metin Alakoç (TUR)  Nikolaos Lazarou (GRE) 4 9
7 4  Seyed Hossein Moareb (IRI) TF / 1:20  Dimitar Galinchev (BUL) 0 1
6 3.5  Kim Ik-Jong (KOR)  Jim Hazewinkel (USA) 0.5 5.5
0 0  Roman Rurua (URS) TF / 4:37  Sreten Damjanović (YUG) 4 6.5
2.5 2  Simion Popescu (ROU)  Lothar Schneider (GDR) 2 5
3 0  Martti Laakso (FIN) DQ  Léonard Dutz (BEL) 4 9

4th round

TPP MPP Score MPP TPP
3 2  Metin Alakoç (TUR)  Hideo Fujimoto (JPN) 2 3
8.5 3  Jim Hazewinkel (USA)  Dimitar Galinchev (BUL) 1 2
0 0  Roman Rurua (URS) TF / 8:56  Lothar Schneider (GDR) 4 9
3.5 1  Simion Popescu (ROU)  Martti Laakso (FIN) 3 6

5th round

TPP MPP Score MPP TPP
5 3  Dimitar Galinchev (BUL)  Hideo Fujimoto (JPN) 1 4
6 3  Metin Alakoç (TUR)  Roman Rurua (URS) 1 1
3.5  Simion Popescu (ROU) Bye

6th round

TPP MPP Score MPP TPP
5 1  Hideo Fujimoto (JPN)  Simion Popescu (ROU) 3 6.5
2 1  Roman Rurua (URS) TF / 2:32  Dimitar Galinchev (BUL) 3 8

Final round

TPP MPP Score MPP TPP
7 2  Hideo Fujimoto (JPN)  Roman Rurua (URS) 2 4

Final standings

  1.  Roman Rurua (URS)
  2.  Hideo Fujimoto (JPN)
  3.  Simion Popescu (ROU)
  4.  Dimitar Galinchev (BUL)
  5.  Metin Alakoç (TUR)
  6.  Martti Laakso (FIN)

References

Notes

  1. Organizing Committee of the Games of the XIX Olympiad (1969). Official Report of the Organizing Committee of the Games of the XIX Olympiad Mexico 1968 (Volume 3) (PDF). Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles. p. 728. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
  2. 1 2 Wrestling at the 1968 Ciudad de México Summer Games: Men's Featherweight, Greco-Roman. Sports Reference. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
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