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Light-Flyweight, Freestyle (≤48 kg), Men

Date	29 – 30 July 1996
Status	Olympic
Location	Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia (Hall G)
Participants	19 from 19 countries
Format	Single-elimination tournament with classification rounds for placements.

This class would be discontinued after 1996, as the International Wrestling Federation (FILA) shuffled weight limits to decrease the number of weight classes, as mandated by the IOC. North Korean Kim Il-Ong was the defending gold medalist but had not been permitted to compete internationally by his nation since 1992. This would change in April 1996, when he was allowed to compete at the Asian Qualifying Tournament. In his absence Cuban Alexis Vila had won the 1993-94 World Championships and the 1995 World title had gone to Russian Vugar Orudzhov, who also won the Europeans that year. Kim again went through the tournament undefeated, however, despite his lack of international competition in the ensuring four years, and won the gold medal by defeating Armenian Armen Mkrtchyan in the final, 5-4. Vila and Orudzhov met for the bronze medal, won by Vila, 5-2.

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	CP	TP
1	11	Kim Il-Ong	PRK	–	–	Gold
2	5	Armen Mkrtchyan	ARM	–	–	Silver
3	2	Alexis Vila	CUB	–	–	Bronze
4	13	Vugar Orudzhev	RUS	–	–
5	18	Jeong Sun-Won	KOR	–	–
6	7	Vitalie Railean	MDA	–	–
7	9	Gheorghe Corduneanu	ROU	–	–
8	4	Rob Eiter	USA	–	–
9	1	Isaac Jacob	NGR	8	9
10	14	Viktor Yefteni	UKR	6	11
11	8	Vlatko Sokolov	MKD	5	18
12	16	Luvsan–Ishiin Sergelenbaatar	MGL	5	9
13	10	Nikos Tskouaseli	GRE	5	6
14	12	Fariborz Besarati	SWE	2	5
15	6	José Manuel Restrepo	COL	1	4
16	15	Paul Ragusa	CAN	1	1
=17	19	Filiberto Fernández	MEX	0	0
=17	3	Mynor Ramírez	GUA	0	0
=17	17	Vladimir Torgovkin	KGZ	0	0

Round One

Date	29 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	29 Jul	Hall G	Alexis Vila	CUB	Decision (4-0) (6:04)	Isaac Jacob	NGR
Match #2	29 Jul	Hall G	Rob Eiter	USA	Grand superiority (12-0) (4:29)	Mynor Ramírez	GUA
Match #3	29 Jul	Hall G	Armen Mkrtchyan	ARM	Grand superiority (10-0) (3:57)	José Manuel Restrepo	COL
Match #4	29 Jul	Hall G	Vitalie Railean	MDA	Grand superiority (10-0) (2:23)	Vlatko Sokolov	MKD
Match #5	29 Jul	Hall G	Nikos Tskouaseli	GRE	Decision (3-2) (6:00)	Gheorghe Corduneanu	ROU
Match #6	29 Jul	Hall G	Kim Il-Ong	PRK	Grand superiority (12-2) (4:36)	Fariborz Besarati	SWE
Match #7	29 Jul	Hall G	Viktor Yefteni	UKR	Decision (6-4) (5:00)	Vugar Orudzhev	RUS
Match #8	29 Jul	Hall G	Luvsan–Ishiin Sergelenbaatar	MGL	Decision (7-1) (5:00)	Paul Ragusa	CAN
Match #9	29 Jul	Hall G	Jeong Sun-Won	KOR	Grand superiority (11-0) (3:58)	Vladimir Torgovkin	KGZ
Match #10	29 Jul	Hall G	Filiberto Fernández	MEX

Round Two

Date	29 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	29 Jul	Hall G	Alexis Vila	CUB	Grand superiority (11-0) (1:54)	Filiberto Fernández	MEX
Match #2	29 Jul	Hall G	Armen Mkrtchyan	ARM	Decision (9-2) (5:00)	Rob Eiter	USA
Match #3	29 Jul	Hall G	Vitalie Railean	MDA	Decision (10-1) (5:00)	Nikos Tskouaseli	GRE
Match #4	29 Jul	Hall G	Kim Il-Ong	PRK	Decision (3-0) (5:00)	Viktor Yefteni	UKR
Match #5	29 Jul	Hall G	Jeong Sun-Won	KOR	Decision (3-1) (6:23)	Luvsan–Ishiin Sergelenbaatar	MGL

Quarter-Finals

Date	30 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	30 Jul	Hall G	Armen Mkrtchyan	ARM	Decision (4-2) (7:06)	Alexis Vila	CUB
Match #2	30 Jul	Hall G	Vitalie Railean	MDA
Match #3	30 Jul	Hall G	Kim Il-Ong	PRK
Match #4	30 Jul	Hall G	Jeong Sun-Won	KOR

Semi-Finals

Date	30 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	30 Jul	Hall G	Armen Mkrtchyan	ARM	Decision (7-2) (5:00)	Vitalie Railean	MDA
Match #2	30 Jul	Hall G	Kim Il-Ong	PRK	Decision (3-1) (5:25)	Jeong Sun-Won	KOR

Final Round

Date	30 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match 1/2	30 Jul	Hall G	Kim Il-Ong	PRK	Decision (5-4) (5:00)	Armen Mkrtchyan	ARM
Match 3/4	30 Jul	Hall G	Alexis Vila	CUB	Decision (5-2) (5:00)	Vugar Orudzhev	RUS
Match 5/6	30 Jul	Hall G	Jeong Sun-Won	KOR	Decision (4-0) (5:00)	Vitalie Railean	MDA
Match 7/8	30 Jul	Hall G	Gheorghe Corduneanu	ROU	Decision (3-1) (5:27)	Rob Eiter	USA

Classification Round Two

Date	29 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	29 Jul	Hall G	Isaac Jacob	NGR	Decision (3-0) (5:14)	Mynor Ramírez	GUA
Match #2	29 Jul	Hall G	Vlatko Sokolov	MKD	Grand superiority (15-4) (4:15)	José Manuel Restrepo	COL
Match #3	29 Jul	Hall G	Gheorghe Corduneanu	ROU	Decision (6-3) (5:00)	Fariborz Besarati	SWE
Match #4	29 Jul	Hall G	Vugar Orudzhev	RUS	Grand superiority (12-0) (1:36)	Paul Ragusa	CAN
Match #5	29 Jul	Hall G	Vladimir Torgovkin	KGZ

Classification Round Three

Date	29 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	29 Jul	Hall G	Isaac Jacob	NGR	Default (0-0) (0:00)	Vladimir Torgovkin	KGZ
Match #2	29 Jul	Hall G	Gheorghe Corduneanu	ROU	Decision (7-3) (5:00)	Vlatko Sokolov	MKD
Match #3	29 Jul	Hall G	Vugar Orudzhev	RUS	Grand superiority (10-0) (1:14)	Filiberto Fernández	MEX
Match #4	29 Jul	Hall G	Rob Eiter	USA	Decision (11-2) (5:00)	Nikos Tskouaseli	GRE
Match #5	29 Jul	Hall G	Viktor Yefteni	UKR	Decision (5-1) (5:00)	Luvsan–Ishiin Sergelenbaatar	MGL

Classification Round Four

Date	30 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	30 Jul	Hall G	Gheorghe Corduneanu	ROU	Decision (7-6) (5:00)	Isaac Jacob	NGR
Match #2	30 Jul	Hall G	Vugar Orudzhev	RUS	Decision (10-4) (5:00)	Rob Eiter	USA
Match #3	30 Jul	Hall G	Alexis Vila	CUB	Decision (8-0) (5:00)	Viktor Yefteni	UKR

Classification Round Five

Date	30 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	30 Jul	Hall G	Vugar Orudzhev	RUS	Grand superiority (10-0) (3:10)	Gheorghe Corduneanu	ROU
Match #2	30 Jul	Hall G	Alexis Vila	CUB

Classification Round Six

Date	30 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	30 Jul	Hall G	Alexis Vila	CUB	Grand superiority (10-0) (3:39)	Vitalie Railean	MDA
Match #2	30 Jul	Hall G	Vugar Orudzhev	RUS	Decision (5-1) (5:00)	Jeong Sun-Won	KOR