Wrestling at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman 63 kg

The Men's Greco-Roman 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][2]

Men's Greco-Roman 63 kg at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Venue	Insurgentes Ice Rink
Dates	23–26 October
Competitors	23 from 23 nations
Medalists
Roman Rurua  Soviet Union Hideo Fujimoto  Japan Simion Popescu  Romania

Medalists

Gold	Roman Rurua  Soviet Union
Silver	Hideo Fujimoto  Japan
Bronze	Simion Popescu  Romania

Tournament results

Left-right: Fujimoto, Rurua, Popescu

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.[2]

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

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
0	0	Jiří Švec (TCH)	TF / 1:21	José Luis García (GUA)	4	4
1	1	Nikolaos Lazarou (GRE)		Tadeusz Godyń (POL)	3	3
0	0	Metin Alakoç (TUR)	DQ	Adriano Morais (POR)	4	4
0	0	Seyed Hossein Moareb (IRI)	TF / 8:00	Yehya Mohamed Hassanein (EGY)	4	4
0	0	Dimitar Galinchev (BUL)	DQ	Rahal Mahassine (MAR)	4	4
2.5	2.5	Sreten Damjanović (YUG)		Kim Ik-Jong (KOR)	2.5	2.5
3	3	József Rusznyák (HUN)		Jim Hazewinkel (USA)	1	1
0	0	Roman Rurua (URS)	TF / 5:28	Ismail Al-Karaghouli (IRQ)	4	4
0.5	0.5	Simion Popescu (ROU)		Ponciano Contreras (MEX)	3.5	3.5
2	2	Lothar Schneider (GDR)		Martti Laakso (FIN)	2	2
0	0	Léonard Dutz (BEL)	TF / 2:49	Tortillano Tumasis (PHI)	4	4
0	0	Hideo Fujimoto (JPN)		Bye

2nd round

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
0	0	Hideo Fujimoto (JPN)	TF / 0:20	José Luis García (GUA)	4	8
4	4	Jiří Švec (TCH)	DQ	Nikolaos Lazarou (GRE)	4	5
8	4	Adriano Morais (POR)	DQ	Tadeusz Godyń (POL)	4	7
1	1	Metin Alakoç (TUR)		Seyed Hossein Moareb (IRI)	3	3
1	1	Dimitar Galinchev (BUL)		Yehya Hassanein (EGY)	3	7
8	4	Rahal Mahassine (MAR)		Kim Ik-Jong (KOR)	0	2.5
2.5	0	Sreten Damjanović (YUG)	TF / 2:23	József Rusznyák (HUN)	4	7
5	4	Jim Hazewinkel (USA)	TF / 6:23	Roman Rurua (URS)	0	0
3	1	Martti Laakso (FIN)		Ponciano Contreras (MEX)	3	6.5
8	4	Tortillano Tumasis (PHI)	TF / 2:13	Simion Popescu (ROU)	0	0.5
3	1	Lothar Schneider (GDR)		Léonard Dutz (BEL)	3	3
4		Ismail Al-Karaghouli (IRQ)		DNA

3rd round

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
1	1	Hideo Fujimoto (JPN)		Jiří Švec (TCH)	3	7
1	0	Metin Alakoç (TUR)		Nikolaos Lazarou (GRE)	4	9
7	4	Seyed Hossein Moareb (IRI)	TF / 1:20	Dimitar Galinchev (BUL)	0	1
6	3.5	Kim Ik-Jong (KOR)		Jim Hazewinkel (USA)	0.5	5.5
0	0	Roman Rurua (URS)	TF / 4:37	Sreten Damjanović (YUG)	4	6.5
2.5	2	Simion Popescu (ROU)		Lothar Schneider (GDR)	2	5
3	0	Martti Laakso (FIN)	DQ	Léonard Dutz (BEL)	4	9

4th round

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
3	2	Metin Alakoç (TUR)		Hideo Fujimoto (JPN)	2	3
8.5	3	Jim Hazewinkel (USA)		Dimitar Galinchev (BUL)	1	2
0	0	Roman Rurua (URS)	TF / 8:56	Lothar Schneider (GDR)	4	9
3.5	1	Simion Popescu (ROU)		Martti Laakso (FIN)	3	6

5th round

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
5	3	Dimitar Galinchev (BUL)		Hideo Fujimoto (JPN)	1	4
6	3	Metin Alakoç (TUR)		Roman Rurua (URS)	1	1
3.5		Simion Popescu (ROU)		Bye

6th round

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
5	1	Hideo Fujimoto (JPN)		Simion Popescu (ROU)	3	6.5
2	1	Roman Rurua (URS)	TF / 2:32	Dimitar Galinchev (BUL)	3	8

Final round

TPP	MPP		Score		MPP	TPP
7	2	Hideo Fujimoto (JPN)		Roman Rurua (URS)	2	4

Final standings

1.  Roman Rurua (URS)
2.  Hideo Fujimoto (JPN)
3.  Simion Popescu (ROU)
4.  Dimitar Galinchev (BUL)
5.  Metin Alakoç (TUR)
6.  Martti Laakso (FIN)

References

• Organizing Committee of the Games of the XIX Olympiad (1969). Official Report of the Organizing Committee of the Games of the XIX Olympiad Mexico 1968 (Volume 3) (PDF). Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles. pp. 728–729.

Notes

1. Organizing Committee of the Games of the XIX Olympiad (1969). Official Report of the Organizing Committee of the Games of the XIX Olympiad Mexico 1968 (Volume 3) (PDF). Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles. p. 728. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
2. "Wrestling at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games: Men's Featherweight, Greco-Roman". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 1 April 2019.