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Featherweight (≤68 kilograms), Men

Date	27 August 2004
Status	Olympic
Location	Kleisto Gymnastirio Falirou, Olympiako Syngrotima Papaliakis Zonis Falirou, Faliro
Participants	16 from 16 countries
Format	Single-elimination tournament. All fighters losing to the finalists in each pool advance to repêchage tournament for the bronze medal.

Hadi Saei of Iran had placed at the World Championships as far back as 1997, and won a bronze medal in this division in 2000. He was co-favorite with Huang Chih-Hsiung of Chinese Taipei, who had won an Olympic gold medal in the 58 kg. class in 2000, and was world bantamweight champion (62 kg.) in 2003. The 2003 featherweight World Champion had been Kang Nam-Won of Korea, who also was bantamweight World Champion in 2001. But Kang was not present in Athína, Korea being represented by Song Myeong-Seop. Song and Saei met in the semi-finals and it was the best match of the tournament, with Saei prevailing only by superiority after a 9-9 tie. Huang’s path to the final was easier. The two favorites met in the final and Saei pulled out a narrow 4-3 victory. Song won the repêchage round for the bronze medal.

Pos	Competitor	NOC
1	Hadi Saei	IRI	Gold
2	Huang Chih-Hsiung	TPE	Silver
3	Song Myeong-Seop	KOR	Bronze
4	Diogo Silva	BRA
=5	Gabriel Sagástume	GUA
=5	Tamer Hussein	EGY
=7	Carlo Molfetta	ITA
=7	Tuncay Caliskan	AUT
=9	Carlo Massimino	AUS
=9	Jesper Roesen	DEN
=11	Mohammed Omrani	TUN
=11	Duncan Mahlangu	RSA
=11	Bertrand Gbongou Liango	CAF
=11	Luis Alberto García	VEN
=11	Alejandro Hernando	ARG
=11	Niyaməddin Paşayev	AZE

Round One

Date	27 August 2004 — 11:12
Format	Winner of each match advanced to the quarter-finals.

Match	Date/Time	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	27 Aug 11:12	Carlo Massimino	AUS	Final score	Mohammed Omrani	TUN
Match #2	27 Aug 11:27	Gabriel Sagástume	GUA	Final score	Duncan Mahlangu	RSA
Match #3	27 Aug 11:42	Tuncay Caliskan	AUT	Knock-out	Bertrand Gbongou Liango	CAF
Match #4	27 Aug 11:57	Huang Chih-Hsiung	TPE	Final score	Tamer Hussein	EGY
Match #5	27 Aug 12:12	Hadi Saei	IRI	Referee stopped contest	Carlo Molfetta	ITA
Match #6	27 Aug 12:27	Diogo Silva	BRA	Final score	Luis Alberto García	VEN
Match #7	27 Aug 12:42	Jesper Roesen	DEN	Final score	Alejandro Hernando	ARG
Match #8	27 Aug 12:57	Song Myeong-Seop	KOR	Final score	Niyaməddin Paşayev	AZE

Quarter-Finals

Date	27 August 2004 — 13:12
Format	Winner of each match advanced to the semi-finals.

Match	Date/Time	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	27 Aug 13:12	Gabriel Sagástume	GUA	Final score	Carlo Massimino	AUS
Match #2	27 Aug 13:27	Huang Chih-Hsiung	TPE	Final score	Tuncay Caliskan	AUT
Match #3	27 Aug 15:54	Hadi Saei	IRI	Final score	Diogo Silva	BRA
Match #4	27 Aug 16:09	Song Myeong-Seop	KOR	Final score	Jesper Roesen	DEN

Semi-Finals

Date	27 August 2004 — 16:24
Format	Winner of each match advanced to the final round.

Match	Date/Time	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	27 Aug 16:24	Huang Chih-Hsiung	TPE	Final score	Gabriel Sagástume	GUA
Match #2	27 Aug 16:39	Hadi Saei	IRI	Superiority	Song Myeong-Seop	KOR

Repêchage Round One

Date	27 August 2004 — 17:18
Format	Winner of each match advanced to the repêchage round two.

Match	Date/Time	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	27 Aug	Gabriel Sagástume	GUA
Match #2	27 Aug 17:18	Diogo Silva	BRA	Walkover	Carlo Molfetta	ITA
Match #3	27 Aug 17:33	Tamer Hussein	EGY	Final score	Tuncay Caliskan	AUT
Match #4	27 Aug	Song Myeong-Seop	KOR

Repêchage Round Two

Date	27 August 2004 — 18:12
Format	Winner of each match advanced to the bronze medal match.

Match	Date/Time	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	27 Aug 18:12	Diogo Silva	BRA	Final score	Gabriel Sagástume	GUA
Match #2	27 Aug 18:27	Song Myeong-Seop	KOR	Final score	Tamer Hussein	EGY

Final Round

Date	27 August 2004 — 19:05

Match	Date/Time	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match 1/2	27 Aug 19:35	Hadi Saei	IRI	Final score	Huang Chih-Hsiung	TPE
Match 3/4	27 Aug 19:05	Song Myeong-Seop	KOR	Final score	Diogo Silva	BRA