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Light-Heavyweight, Greco-Roman (≤85 kg), Men

Date	25 – 27 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.

The favorite was Turkey’s Hamza Yerlikaya, the defending gold medalist, who had won the European Championships in 1997-99, but had not featured at the Worlds since Atlanta. In 1996 Yerlikaya had defeated German Thomas Zander in the final, but in Sydney they were drawn against each other in pool one. Yerlikaya again defeated Zander, this time by 5-1, and that was his last semi-tough match on his way to the final. The final against Hungarian Sándor István Bárdosi was close, going to overtime, and ending in a 3-3 tie, but Yerlikaya defended his gold medal on officials’ decision. In the bronze medal match, Georgian Mukhran Vakht’angadze defeated Norway’s Fritz Aanes, 4-0, but Aanes fourth-place finish would not hold, as he failed a doping test and was disqualified.

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	CP	TP
1	3	Hamza Yerlikaya	TUR	–	–	Gold
2	13	Sándor István Bárdosi	HUN	–	–	Silver
3	11	Mukhran Vakhtangadze	GEO	–	–	Bronze
4	8	Valery Tsylents	BLR	–	–
5	5	Luis Enrique Méndez	CUB	–	–
6	17	Gotcha Tsitsiashvili	ISR	8	16
7	14	Martin Lidberg	SWE	7	3
8	6	Mohamed Abd El-Fatah	EGY	5	15
9	10	Toomas Proovel	EST	4	8
10	19	Yury Vitt	UZB	4	5
11	16	Eddy Bartolozzi	VEN	4	5
12	2	Thomas Zander	GER	4	4
13	7	Aleksandr Menshchikov	RUS	3	2
14	9	V'iacheslav Oliynyk	UKR	3	6
15	12	Raatbek Sanatbayev	KGZ	2	3
16	20	Amor Bach Hanba	TUN	2	2
17	1	Marko Asell	FIN	1	1
18	15	Arek Olczak	AUS	0	0
19	4	Quincey Clark	USA	0	0
DQ	18	Fritz Aanes	NOR	–	–		1

Round One

Date	25 – 26 September 2000

Round One Pool One

Date	25 – 26 September 2000

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Wins	Losses	CP	TP
1	3	Hamza Yerlikaya	TUR	2	0	7	15	Q
2	2	Thomas Zander	GER	1	1	4	4
3	1	Marko Asell	FIN	0	2	1	1

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	25 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Hamza Yerlikaya	TUR	Grand superiority (10-0) (1:55)	Marko Asell	FIN
Match #2	25 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Thomas Zander	GER	Decision (3-1) (6:00)	Marko Asell	FIN
Match #3	26 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Hamza Yerlikaya	TUR	Decision (5-1) (9:00)	Thomas Zander	GER

Round One Pool Two

Date	25 – 26 September 2000

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Wins	Losses	CP	TP
1	5	Luis Enrique Méndez	CUB	2	0	6	9	Q
2	6	Mohamed Abd El-Fatah	EGY	1	1	5	15
3	4	Quincey Clark	USA	0	2	0	0

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	25 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Luis Enrique Méndez	CUB	Decision (5-0) (6:00)	Quincey Clark	USA
Match #2	25 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Mohamed Abd El-Fatah	EGY	Grand superiority (12-0) (3:32)	Quincey Clark	USA
Match #3	26 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Luis Enrique Méndez	CUB	Decision (4-3) (6:00)	Mohamed Abd El-Fatah	EGY

Round One Pool Three

Date	25 – 26 September 2000

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Wins	Losses	CP	TP
1	8	Valery Tsylents	BLR	1	1	4	4	Q
2	7	Aleksandr Menshchikov	RUS	1	1	3	2
3	9	V'iacheslav Oliynyk	UKR	1	1	3	6

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	25 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Valery Tsylents	BLR	Decision (3-0) (6:00)	Aleksandr Menshchikov	RUS
Match #2	25 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Aleksandr Menshchikov	RUS	Decision (2-0) (9:00)	V'iacheslav Oliynyk	UKR
Match #3	26 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	V'iacheslav Oliynyk	UKR	Decision (6-1) (6:00)	Valery Tsylents	BLR

Round One Pool Four

Date	25 – 26 September 2000

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Wins	Losses	CP	TP
1	11	Mukhran Vakhtangadze	GEO	2	0	6	8	Q
2	10	Toomas Proovel	EST	1	1	4	8
3	12	Raatbek Sanatbayev	KGZ	0	2	2	3

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	25 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Mukhran Vakhtangadze	GEO	Decision (6-4) (7:54)	Toomas Proovel	EST
Match #2	25 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Toomas Proovel	EST	Decision (4-2) (6:21)	Raatbek Sanatbayev	KGZ
Match #3	26 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Mukhran Vakhtangadze	GEO	Decision (2-1) (9:00)	Raatbek Sanatbayev	KGZ

Round One Pool Five

Date	25 – 26 September 2000

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Wins	Losses	CP	TP
1	13	Sándor István Bárdosi	HUN	3	0	10	19	Q
2	14	Martin Lidberg	SWE	2	1	7	3
3	16	Eddy Bartolozzi	VEN	1	2	4	5
4	15	Arek Olczak	AUS	0	3	0	0

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	25 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Sándor István Bárdosi	HUN	Decision (2-0) (9:00)	Martin Lidberg	SWE
Match #2	25 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Sándor István Bárdosi	HUN	Grand superiority (12-0) (2:32)	Arek Olczak	AUS
Match #3	25 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Martin Lidberg	SWE	Decision (3-2) (6:18)	Eddy Bartolozzi	VEN
Match #4	25 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Eddy Bartolozzi	VEN	Decision (3-0) (6:00)	Arek Olczak	AUS
Match #5	26 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Sándor István Bárdosi	HUN	Decision (5-0) (6:00)	Eddy Bartolozzi	VEN
Match #6	26 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Martin Lidberg	SWE	Default (injury) (0-0) (0:00)	Arek Olczak	AUS

Round One Pool Six

Date	25 – 26 September 2000

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Wins	Losses	CP	TP
1	17	Gotcha Tsitsiashvili	ISR	2	1	8	16	Q
2	19	Yury Vitt	UZB	1	2	4	5
3	20	Amor Bach Hanba	TUN	0	3	2	2
DQ	18	Fritz Aanes	NOR	[3]	[0]	[10]	[25]

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	25 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Fritz Aanes	NOR	[decision (7-2) (6:00)]	Gotcha Tsitsiashvili	ISR
Match #2	25 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Fritz Aanes	NOR	[grand superiority (12-0) (2:14)]	Amor Bach Hanba	TUN
Match #3	25 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Gotcha Tsitsiashvili	ISR	Decision (3-0) (6:00)	Yury Vitt	UZB
Match #4	25 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Yury Vitt	UZB	Decision (4-1) (6:00)	Amor Bach Hanba	TUN
Match #5	26 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Fritz Aanes	NOR	[decision (6-1) (6:00)]	Yury Vitt	UZB
Match #6	26 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Gotcha Tsitsiashvili	ISR	Grand superiority (11-1) (4:39)	Amor Bach Hanba	TUN

Quarter-Finals

Date	27 September 2000

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	27 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Hamza Yerlikaya	TUR	Decision (3-0) (6:00)	Luis Enrique Méndez	CUB
Match #2	27 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Mukhran Vakhtangadze	GEO	Decision (6-5) (6:00)	Valery Tsylents	BLR
Match #3	27 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Sándor István Bárdosi	HUN
Match #4	27 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Fritz Aanes	NOR

Semi-Finals

Date	27 September 2000

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	27 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Hamza Yerlikaya	TUR	Decision (3-0) (6:00)	Mukhran Vakhtangadze	GEO
Match #2	27 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Sándor István Bárdosi	HUN	Decision (4-1) (6:00)	Fritz Aanes	NOR

Final Round

Date	27 September 2000

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match 1/2	27 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Hamza Yerlikaya	TUR	Decision (3-3) (9:00)	Sándor István Bárdosi	HUN
Match 3/4	27 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Mukhran Vakhtangadze	GEO	Decision (4-0) (6:00)	Fritz Aanes	NOR
Match 5/6	27 Sep	Halls 1 & 2	Valery Tsylents	BLR	Decision (4-0) (6:00)	Luis Enrique Méndez	CUB