Judo at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 68 kg

Men's 68kg
at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Medal winners
VenueNippon Budokan
Date20 October
Competitors25 from 18 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Takehide Nakatani  Japan
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Eric Hänni  Switzerland
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Ārons Bogoļubovs  Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Oleg Stepanov  Soviet Union
Judo at the
1964 Summer Olympics
Lightweightmen
Middleweightmen
Heavyweightmen
Openmen

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]

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

PlaceJudokaScoreQual.
1 Paul Maruyama (USA)2-0QQ
2 Karl Reisinger (AUT)1-1
3 Matthias Schießleder (EUA)0-2

Pool B

PlaceJudokaScoreQual.
1 Takehide Nakatani (JPN)2-0QQ
2 Brian Jacks (GBR)1-1
3 Udom Ratsamelongkorn (THA)0-2

Pool C

PlaceJudokaScoreQual.
1 Oleg Stepanov (URS)2-0QQ
2 Brian Dalton (AUS)1-1
3 Seo Sang-cheol (KOR)0-2

Pool D

PlaceJudokaScoreQual.
1 Chang Won-ku (ROC)2-1QQ
2 Gaston Lesturgeon (FRA)1-2
3 Bruno Carmeni (ITA)1-1

Pool E

PlaceJudokaScoreQual.
1 Gerhard Zotter (AUT)3-0QQ
2 René Arredondo Cepeda[2] (MEX)1-2
 Oscar Karpenkopf (ARG)1-2
 Vicente Uematsu (PHI)1-2

Pool F

PlaceJudokaScoreQual.
1 Eric Hänni (SUI)2-0QQ
2 Aurelio Chu Yi (PAN)1-1
— Stefano Gamba (ITA)0-2

Stefano Gamba did not compete.

Pool G

PlaceJudokaScoreQual.
1 Park Cheong-sam (KOR)2-0QQ
2 André Bourreau (FRA)1-1
3 Ronald Ford (AUS)0-2

Group 8

PlaceJudokaScoreQual.
1 Ārons Bogoļubovs (URS)2-0QQ
2 Eiam Harssarungsri (THA)1-1
3 Nguyễn Văn Bình (VIE)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
 Takehide Nakatani (JPN) De-ashi-barai
 Paul Maruyama (USA) 0:24  Takehide Nakatani (JPN) Awase-waza
 Oleg Stepanov (URS) Seukui-nage  Oleg Stepanov (URS) 4:25
 Chang Won-Ku (ROC) 2:10  Takehide Nakatani (JPN) Awase-waza
 Eric Hänni (SUI) Uchi-mata  Eric Hänni (SUI) 1:15
 Gerhard Zotter (AUT) 0:44  Eric Hänni (SUI) Kinsa
 Ārons Bogoļubovs (URS) Waza-ari  Ārons Bogoļubovs (URS) -
 Park Cheong-Sam (KOR) -

Sources
  • Tokyo Organizing Committee (1964). The Games of the XVIII Olympiad: Tokyo 1964, vol. 2.

References
  1. "Judo at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Men's Lightweight". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
  2. René Arredondo Cepeda
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