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Featherweight, Freestyle (≤62 kg), Men

Date	31 July – 1 August 1996
Status	Olympic
Location	Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia (Hall G)
Participants	21 from 21 countries
Format	Single-elimination tournament with classification rounds for placements.

Since the retirement of John Smith, gold medalist in 1988-92, this class had become much more open, with no clear favorite entering the 1996 Olympics. The last three World Champions were in Atlanta – American Tom Brands (1993), Russian Magomed Azizov (1994), and Ukrainian Elbrus Tedieiev (1995). Azizov had also won the 1993 and 1995-96 European Championships. Brands and Azizov met in the semi-finals where Brands won easily 4-1. He then met Korean Jang Jae-Seong, who had defeated Tedieiev in the quarters, in the final, crushing him, 7-0, for the gold medal. Tedieiev did come back to win the bronze medal, defeating Japan’s Takahiro Wada, 3-1.

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	CP	TP
1	12	Tom Brands	USA	–	–	Gold
2	6	Jang Jae-Seong	KOR	–	–	Silver
3	8	Elbrus Tedieiev	UKR	–	–	Bronze
4	1	Takahiro Wada	JPN	–	–
5	17	Magomed Azizov	RUS	–	–
6	19	Giovanni Schillaci	ITA	–	–
7	15	Marty Calder	CAN	–	–
8	21	Ramil Islamov	UZB	–	–
9	9	István Demeter	HUN	9	16
10	5	Arout Parsekian	CYP	8	16
11	14	Siarhei Smal	BLR	6	14
12	2	Șerban Mumjiev	ROU	5	14
13	16	Jürgen Scheibe	GER	5	7
14	3	Enrique Cubas	PER	4	8
15	20	Len Zaslavsky	AUS	4	9
16	10	Aníbal Nieves	PUR	3	8
17	4	Jan Krzesiak	POL	2	8
18	7	Tjaart du Plessis	RSA	2	2
19	11	Abbas Haj Kenari	IRI	1	3
=20	18	Vath Chamroeun	CAM	0	0
=20	13	Martin Müller	SUI	0	0

Round One

Date	31 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	31 Jul	Hall G	Takahiro Wada	JPN	Grand superiority (11-0) (2:18)	Șerban Mumjiev	ROU
Match #2	31 Jul	Hall G	Enrique Cubas	PER	Decision (7-7) (8:00)	Jan Krzesiak	POL
Match #3	31 Jul	Hall G	Jang Jae-Seong	KOR	Decision (5-2) (5:00)	Arout Parsekian	CYP
Match #4	31 Jul	Hall G	Elbrus Tedieiev	UKR	Decision (5-1) (5:00)	Tjaart du Plessis	RSA
Match #5	31 Jul	Hall G	István Demeter	HUN	Decision (3-0) (5:00)	Aníbal Nieves	PUR
Match #6	31 Jul	Hall G	Tom Brands	USA	Decision (3-0) (5:00)	Abbas Haj Kenari	IRI
Match #7	31 Jul	Hall G	Siarhei Smal	BLR	Decision (6-0) (5:00)	Martin Müller	SUI
Match #8	31 Jul	Hall G	Jürgen Scheibe	GER	Decision (4-2) (5:00)	Marty Calder	CAN
Match #9	31 Jul	Hall G	Magomed Azizov	RUS	Grand superiority (10-0) (1:32)	Vath Chamroeun	CAM
Match #10	31 Jul	Hall G	Giovanni Schillaci	ITA	Grand superiority (10-0) (2:14)	Len Zaslavsky	AUS
Match #11	31 Jul	Hall G	Ramil Islamov	UZB

Round Two

Date	31 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	31 Jul	Hall G	Takahiro Wada	JPN	Decision (3-2) (5:00)	Ramil Islamov	UZB
Match #2	31 Jul	Hall G	Jang Jae-Seong	KOR	Decision (3-0) (5:00)	Enrique Cubas	PER
Match #3	31 Jul	Hall G	Elbrus Tedieiev	UKR	Grand superiority (11-1) (3:33)	István Demeter	HUN
Match #4	31 Jul	Hall G	Tom Brands	USA	Decision (5-0) (5:00)	Siarhei Smal	BLR
Match #5	31 Jul	Hall G	Magomed Azizov	RUS	Decision (8-2) (5:00)	Jürgen Scheibe	GER
Match #6	31 Jul	Hall G	Giovanni Schillaci	ITA

Quarter-Finals

Date	1 August 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	01 Aug	Hall G	Giovanni Schillaci	ITA	Decision (4-3) (8:00)	Takahiro Wada	JPN
Match #2	01 Aug	Hall G	Jang Jae-Seong	KOR	Decision (3-1) (5:00)	Elbrus Tedieiev	UKR
Match #3	01 Aug	Hall G	Tom Brands	USA
Match #4	01 Aug	Hall G	Magomed Azizov	RUS

Semi-Finals

Date	1 August 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	01 Aug	Hall G	Jang Jae-Seong	KOR	Decision (1-1) (8:00)	Giovanni Schillaci	ITA
Match #2	01 Aug	Hall G	Tom Brands	USA	Decision (4-1) (5:00)	Magomed Azizov	RUS

Final Round

Date	1 August 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match 1/2	01 Aug	Hall G	Tom Brands	USA	Decision (7-0) (5:00)	Jang Jae-Seong	KOR
Match 3/4	01 Aug	Hall G	Elbrus Tedieiev	UKR	Decision (3-1) (5:00)	Takahiro Wada	JPN
Match 5/6	01 Aug	Hall G	Magomed Azizov	RUS	Default (0-0) (0:00)	Giovanni Schillaci	ITA
Match 7/8	01 Aug	Hall G	Marty Calder	CAN	Decision (9-1) (5:00)	Ramil Islamov	UZB

Classification Round Two

Date	31 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	31 Jul	Hall G	Șerban Mumjiev	ROU	Grand superiority (12-1) (5:00)	Jan Krzesiak	POL
Match #2	31 Jul	Hall G	Arout Parsekian	CYP	Decision (3-1) (5:00)	Tjaart du Plessis	RSA
Match #3	31 Jul	Hall G	Aníbal Nieves	PUR	Decision (8-3) (5:00)	Abbas Haj Kenari	IRI
Match #4	31 Jul	Hall G	Marty Calder	CAN	Decision (6-0) (5:00)	Martin Müller	SUI
Match #5	31 Jul	Hall G	Len Zaslavsky	AUS	Fall (9-0) (2:57)	Vath Chamroeun	CAM

Classification Round Three

Date	31 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	31 Jul	Hall G	Arout Parsekian	CYP	Decision (7-2) (5:00)	Șerban Mumjiev	ROU
Match #2	31 Jul	Hall G	Marty Calder	CAN	Decision (3-0) (5:00)	Aníbal Nieves	PUR
Match #3	31 Jul	Hall G	Ramil Islamov	UZB	Grand superiority (10-0) (1:15)	Len Zaslavsky	AUS
Match #4	31 Jul	Hall G	István Demeter	HUN	Grand superiority (11-1) (4:56)	Enrique Cubas	PER
Match #5	31 Jul	Hall G	Siarhei Smal	BLR	Decision (8-1) (5:00)	Jürgen Scheibe	GER

Classification Round Four

Date	1 August 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	01 Aug	Hall G	Marty Calder	CAN	Decision (10-4) (5:00)	Arout Parsekian	CYP
Match #2	01 Aug	Hall G	Ramil Islamov	UZB	Decision (6-1) (5:00)	István Demeter	HUN
Match #3	01 Aug	Hall G	Takahiro Wada	JPN	Decision (3-0) (5:00)	Siarhei Smal	BLR
Match #4	01 Aug	Hall G	Elbrus Tedieiev	UKR

Classification Round Five

Date	1 August 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	01 Aug	Hall G	Elbrus Tedieiev	UKR	Decision (5-4) (5:18)	Ramil Islamov	UZB
Match #2	01 Aug	Hall G	Takahiro Wada	JPN	Decision (7-3) (5:00)	Marty Calder	CAN

Classification Round Six

Date	1 August 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	01 Aug	Hall G	Elbrus Tedieiev	UKR	Decision (10-3) (5:00)	Giovanni Schillaci	ITA
Match #2	01 Aug	Hall G	Takahiro Wada	JPN	Grand superiority (10-0) (2:22)	Magomed Azizov	RUS