Men's freestyle 63 kg
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Venue | Insurgentes Ice Rink |
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Dates | 17–20 October |
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Competitors | 23 from 23 nations |
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Medalists |
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The Men's Freestyle 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]
Medalists
Gold | Masaaki Kaneko
Japan |
Silver | Enyu Todorov
Bulgaria |
Bronze | Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi
Iran |
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.
- Legend
- TF — Won by Fall
- DQ — Won by Passivity or forfeit
- D2 — Both wrestlers lost by Passivity
- DNA — Did not appear
- TPP — Total penalty points
- MPP — Match penalty points
- 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
2nd round
3rd round
4th round
5th round
Final round
Results from the preliminary round are carried forward into the final (shown in yellow).
Final standings
Masaaki Kaneko (JPN)
Enyu Todorov (BUL)
Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi (IRI)
Nikolaos Karypidis (GRE)
Petre Coman (ROU)
Yelkan Tedeyev (URS)
References
- ^ "Wrestling at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games: Men's Featherweight, Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
External links
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- 1904: 61.33 kg
- 1908: 60.3 kg
- 1920–1936: 61 kg
- 1948–1960: 62 kg
- 1964–1968: 63 kg
- 1972–1996: 62 kg
- 2000: 63 kg
- 2004–2012: 60 kg
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