Event: | Men's 68kg |
Games: | 1964 Summer |
Date: | 20 October |
Competitors: | 25 |
Nations: | 18 |
Gold: | Takehide Nakatani |
Goldnoc: | JPN |
Silver: | Eric Hänni |
Silvernoc: | SUI |
Bronze: | Ārons Bogoļubovs |
Bronzenoc: | URS |
Bronze2: | Oleg Stepanov |
Bronzenoc2: | URS |
Next: | 1976 |
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.
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
width=20 | Place | width=240 | Judoka | width=60 | Score | width=50 | Qual. |
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1 | 2-0 | ||||||
2 | 1-1 | ||||||
3 | 0-2 |
Pool B
width=20 | Place | width=240 | Judoka | width=60 | Score | width=50 | Qual. |
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1 | 2-0 | ||||||
2 | 1-1 | ||||||
3 | 0-2 |
Pool C
width=20 | Place | width=240 | Judoka | width=60 | Score | width=50 | Qual. |
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1 | 2-0 | ||||||
2 | 1-1 | ||||||
3 | 0-2 |
Pool D
width=20 | Place | width=240 | Judoka | width=60 | Score | width=50 | Qual. |
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1 | 2-1 | ||||||
2 | 1-2 | ||||||
3 | 1-1 |
Pool E
width=20 | Place | width=240 | Judoka | width=60 | Score | width=50 | Qual. |
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1 | 3-0 | ||||||
2 | 1-2 | ||||||
1-2 | |||||||
1-2 |
Pool F
width=20 | Place | width=240 | Judoka | width=60 | Score | width=50 | Qual. |
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1 | 2-0 | ||||||
2 | 1-1 | ||||||
— | 0-2 |
Stefano Gamba did not compete.
Pool G
width=20 | Place | width=240 | Judoka | width=60 | Score | width=50 | Qual. |
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1 | 2-0 | ||||||
2 | 1-1 | ||||||
3 | 0-2 |
Pool H
width=20 | Place | width=240 | Judoka | width=60 | Score | width=50 | Qual. |
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1 | 2-0 | ||||||
2 | 1-1 | ||||||
3 | 0-2 |
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.