Men's freestyle 63 kgat the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Medal winners
Venue Insurgentes Ice Rink Dates 17–20 October Competitors 23 from 23 nations
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 [ edit ] Tournament results [ edit ] 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 [ edit ] 2nd round [ edit ] 3rd round [ edit ] 4th round [ edit ] 5th round [ edit ] Final round [ edit ] Results from the preliminary round are carried forward into the final (shown in yellow).
Final standings [ edit ] Masaaki Kaneko (JPN ) Enyu Todorov (BUL ) Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi (IRI ) Nikolaos Karypidis (GRE ) Petre Coman (ROU ) Yelkan Tedeyev (URS ) References [ edit ] External links [ edit ]
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