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Lightweight, Greco-Roman (≤63 kg), Men

Date	24 – 26 September 2000 — 09:30-17:00 (all days)
Status	Olympic
Location	Sydney Exhibition Centre, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Sydney, New South Wales (Halls 1 & 2)
Participants	20 from 20 countries
Format	Round-robin pools, winner of each pool advanced to single-elimination tournament.

Pool one was stacked, because FILA still refused to seed the wrestlers. The three wrestlers in pool one were Russia’s Varteres Samurgashev, the 2000 European Champion, Poland’s Włodzimierz Zawadzki, the defending Olympic gold medalist, and Turkey’s Şeref Eroğlu, the 1997 World Champion and runner-up in 1998-99. Samurgashev won the pool in a mild upset. Another contender was Kazakh Mkhitar Manukyan, the 1998-99 World Champion, but in those meets he competed for Armenia. Manukyan was eliminated in pool five by Cuban Juan Luis Marén, bronze medalist in this class in 1992 and silver medalist in 1996. Marén and Samurgashev advanced to the final, Samurgashev winning in overtime. This gave Marén his third consecutive medal in the class. Samurgashev competed at the 2004-08 Olympics, winning a bronze medal in 2004 as a middleweight. Marén would also compete at Athina in 2004, but did not extend his medal-winning streak.

Pos	Competitor	NOC	CP	TP
1	Varteres Samurgashev	RUS	–	–	Gold
2	Juan Luis Marén	CUB	–	–	Silver
3	Akaki Chachua	GEO	–	–	Bronze
4	Beat Motzer	SUI	–	–
5	Bakhodir Kurbanov	UZB	–	–
6	Kevin Bracken	USA	–	–
7	Mkhitar Manukyan	KAZ	8	22
8	Hryhoriy Kamyshenko	UKR	8	14
9	Yasutoshi Motoki	JPN	6	18
10	Şeref Eroğlu	TUR	5	2
11	Choi Sang-Seon	KOR	4	10
12	Vaghinak Galstyan	ARM	4	7
13	Gurbinder Singh	IND	4	6
14	Riccardo Magni	ITA	4	3
15	Michael Beilin	ISR	3	1
16	Yi Shanjun	CHN	1	2
17	Vitali Zhuk	BLR	1	1
18	Yassine Djakrir	ALG	1	1
19	Włodzimierz Zawadzki	POL	0	0
20	Rasoul Amani	NZL	0	0

Round One

Date	24 September 2000

Round One Pool One

Date	24 September 2000

Pos	Competitor	NOC	Wins	Losses	CP	TP
1	Varteres Samurgashev	RUS	2	0	6	13	Q
2	Şeref Eroğlu	TUR	1	1	5	2
3	Włodzimierz Zawadzki	POL	0	2	0	0

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	24 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Varteres Samurgashev	RUS	Decision (5-2) (6:00)	Şeref Eroğlu	TUR
Match #2	24 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Varteres Samurgashev	RUS	Decision (8-0) (6:00)	Włodzimierz Zawadzki	POL
Match #3	24 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Şeref Eroğlu	TUR

Round One Pool Two

Date	24 September 2000

Pos	Competitor	NOC	Wins	Losses	CP	TP
1	Kevin Bracken	USA	1	1	4	14	Q
2	Choi Sang-Seon	KOR	1	1	4	10
3	Riccardo Magni	ITA	1	1	4	3

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	24 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Kevin Bracken	USA	Decision (12-5) (6:00)	Choi Sang-Seon	KOR
Match #2	24 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Riccardo Magni	ITA	Decision (2-2) (9:00)	Kevin Bracken	USA
Match #3	24 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Choi Sang-Seon	KOR	Decision (5-1) (7:06)	Riccardo Magni	ITA

Round One Pool Three

Date	24 September 2000

Pos	Competitor	NOC	Wins	Losses	CP	TP
1	Akaki Chachua	GEO	2	0	7	17	Q
2	Vaghinak Galstyan	ARM	1	1	4	7
3	Yi Shanjun	CHN	0	2	1	2

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	24 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Akaki Chachua	GEO	Decision (6-5) (6:00)	Vaghinak Galstyan	ARM
Match #2	24 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Akaki Chachua	GEO	Fall (11-0) (2:39)	Yi Shanjun	CHN
Match #3	24 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Vaghinak Galstyan	ARM	Decision (2-2) (9:00)	Yi Shanjun	CHN

Round One Pool Four

Date	24 September 2000

Pos	Competitor	NOC	Wins	Losses	CP	TP
1	Bakhodir Kurbanov	UZB	2	0	6	10	Q
2	Michael Beilin	ISR	1	1	3	1
3	Vitali Zhuk	BLR	0	2	1	1

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	24 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Bakhodir Kurbanov	UZB	Decision (4-0) (6:00)	Michael Beilin	ISR
Match #2	24 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Bakhodir Kurbanov	UZB	Decision (6-1) (6:00)	Vitali Zhuk	BLR
Match #3	24 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Michael Beilin	ISR	Decision (1-0) (9:00)	Vitali Zhuk	BLR

Round One Pool Five

Date	24 September 2000

Pos	Competitor	NOC	Wins	Losses	CP	TP
1	Juan Luis Marén	CUB	3	0	9	17	Q
2	Mkhitar Manukyan	KAZ	2	1	8	22
3	Gurbinder Singh	IND	1	2	4	6
4	Yassine Djakrir	ALG	0	3	1	1

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	24 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Juan Luis Marén	CUB	Decision (5-3) (6:00)	Mkhitar Manukyan	KAZ
Match #2	24 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Juan Luis Marén	CUB	Decision (8-0) (6:00)	Gurbinder Singh	IND
Match #3	24 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Juan Luis Marén	CUB	Decision (4-1) (6:00)	Yassine Djakrir	ALG
Match #4	24 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Mkhitar Manukyan	KAZ	Decision (8-3) (6:00)	Gurbinder Singh	IND
Match #5	24 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Mkhitar Manukyan	KAZ	Grand superiority (11-0) (4:38)	Yassine Djakrir	ALG
Match #6	24 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Gurbinder Singh	IND	Decision (3-0) (6:08)	Yassine Djakrir	ALG

Round One Pool Six

Date	24 September 2000

Pos	Competitor	NOC	Wins	Losses	CP	TP
1	Beat Motzer	SUI	3	0	10	22	Q
2	Hryhoriy Kamyshenko	UKR	2	1	8	14
3	Yasutoshi Motoki	JPN	1	2	6	18
4	Rasoul Amani	NZL	0	3	0	0

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	24 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Beat Motzer	SUI	Decision (3-1) (8:02)	Hryhoriy Kamyshenko	UKR
Match #2	24 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Beat Motzer	SUI	Decision (8-3) (6:00)	Yasutoshi Motoki	JPN
Match #3	24 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Beat Motzer	SUI	Grand superiority (11-0) (4:17)	Rasoul Amani	NZL
Match #4	24 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Hryhoriy Kamyshenko	UKR	Decision (3-1) (6:00)	Yasutoshi Motoki	JPN
Match #5	24 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Hryhoriy Kamyshenko	UKR	Grand superiority (10-0) (4:05)	Rasoul Amani	NZL
Match #6	24 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Yasutoshi Motoki	JPN	Grand superiority (14-0) (6:00)	Rasoul Amani	NZL

Quarter-Finals

Date	25 September 2000

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	25 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Varteres Samurgashev	RUS	Decision (11-5) (6:00)	Kevin Bracken	USA
Match #2	25 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Akaki Chachua	GEO	Decision (3-2) (6:00)	Bakhodir Kurbanov	UZB
Match #3	25 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Juan Luis Marén	CUB
Match #4	25 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Beat Motzer	SUI

Semi-Finals

Date	25 September 2000

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	25 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Varteres Samurgashev	RUS	Decision (7-4) (6:00)	Akaki Chachua	GEO
Match #2	25 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Juan Luis Marén	CUB	Decision (3-0) (6:00)	Beat Motzer	SUI

Final Round

Date	26 September 2000

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match 1/2	26 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Varteres Samurgashev	RUS	Decision (3-0) (6:43)	Juan Luis Marén	CUB
Match 3/4	26 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Akaki Chachua	GEO	Fall (6-2) (1:57)	Beat Motzer	SUI
Match 5/6	26 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Bakhodir Kurbanov	UZB	Grand superiority (10-0) (4:06)	Kevin Bracken	USA