Judo at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 68 kg
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 | ||||||||||||||||
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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
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 |
Pool H
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
External links
- judo at the 1964 Summer Olympics – men's 68 kg at Olympedia