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The Men's Freestyle bantamweight at the 1968 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program were held at the Insurgentes Ice Rink. The bantamweight was the second-lightest weight class, allowing wrestlers up to 57 kilograms.
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Tournament results
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.
Final standings
- Yojiro Uetake (JPN)
- Donald Behm (USA)
- Aboutaleb Talebi (IRI)
- Ali Aliyev (URS)
- Ivan Shavov (BUL)
- Zbigniew Żedzicki (POL)
References
Wrestling at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 57 kg Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA