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Wrestling at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 63 kg

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1968

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.

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

    • Final round

    Results from the preliminary round are carried forward into the final (shown in yellow).

    Final standings

    1.  Masaaki Kaneko (JPN)
    2.  Enyu Todorov (BUL)
    3.  Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi (IRI)
    4.  Nikolaos Karypidis (GRE)
    5.  Petre Coman (ROU)
    6.  Yelkan Tedeyev (URS)

    References

    Wrestling at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 63 kg Wikipedia
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