Judo at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 68 kg
The lightweight class was a judo event held as part of the Judo at the 1964 Summer Olympics programme. The weight class was the lightest contested, and allowed judokas of up to sixty-eight kilograms. The competition was held on Tuesday, October 20, 1964.[1]
Men's 68kg at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad | |||||||||||||||||
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Venue | Nippon Budokan | ||||||||||||||||
Date | 20 October | ||||||||||||||||
Competitors | 25 from 18 nations | ||||||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||||||
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Judo at the 1964 Summer Olympics | |
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Lightweight | men |
Middleweight | men |
Heavyweight | men |
Open | men |
Twenty-five judokas from eighteen nations competed.
Results
Elimination round
The twenty-five competitors were divided into seven pools of three and one pool of four. Each pool played a round-robin tournament, with the winner of the pool advancing to the quarterfinals. Pool D was the only one to require a playoff, which was won by Chang.
Pool A
Place | Judoka | Score | Qual. |
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1 | 2-0 | ||
2 | 1-1 | ||
3 | 0-2 |
Pool B
Place | Judoka | Score | Qual. |
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1 | 2-0 | ||
2 | 1-1 | ||
3 | 0-2 |
Pool C
Place | Judoka | Score | Qual. |
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1 | 2-0 | ||
2 | 1-1 | ||
3 | 0-2 |
Pool D
Place | Judoka | Score | Qual. |
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1 | 2-1 | ||
2 | 1-2 | ||
3 | 1-1 |
Pool E
Place | Judoka | Score | Qual. |
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1 | 3-0 | ||
2 | 1-2 | ||
1-2 | |||
1-2 |
Pool F
Place | Judoka | Score | Qual. |
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1 | 2-0 | ||
2 | 1-1 | ||
— | 0-2 |
Stefano Gamba did not compete.
Pool G
Place | Judoka | Score | Qual. |
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1 | 2-0 | ||
2 | 1-1 | ||
3 | 0-2 |
Group 8
Place | Judoka | Score | Qual. |
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1 | 2-0 | ||
2 | 1-1 | ||
3 | 0-2 |
Knockout rounds
The remaining eight judokas competed in a single elimination bracket. Losers in the quarterfinals were placed 5-8 while both losers in the semifinals won bronze medals.
Quarterfinals October 20 |
Semifinals October 20 |
Final October 20 | |||||||
De-ashi-barai | |||||||||
0:24 | Awase-waza | ||||||||
Seukui-nage | 4:25 | ||||||||
2:10 | Awase-waza | ||||||||
Uchi-mata | 1:15 | ||||||||
0:44 | Kinsa | ||||||||
Waza-ari | - | ||||||||
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Sources
- Tokyo Organizing Committee (1964). The Games of the XVIII Olympiad: Tokyo 1964, vol. 2.
References
- "Judo at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Men's Lightweight". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
- René Arredondo Cepeda