The middleweight class was a judo event held as part of the Judo at the 1964 Summer Olympics programme. The weight class was the second-lightest contested, and allowed judokas of up to eighty kilograms. The competition was held on Wednesday, October 21, 1964.[1]

Twenty-five judokas from twenty nations competed.

Medalists

Gold Silver Bronze
Isao Okano
 Japan		 Wolfgang Hofmann
 United Team of Germany		 James Bregman
 United States
Kim Eui-Tae
 South Korea

Results

Elimination round

The twenty-five competitors were divided into seven pools of three and one group of four. Each pool played a round-robin tournament, with the winner of the pool advancing to the quarterfinals.

Pool A

PlaceJudokaScoreQual.
1 Rodolfo Pérez (ARG)2–0QQ
2 Kanapathy Moorthy (MAS)1–1
3 Bernardo Repuyan (PHI)0–2

Pool B

PlaceJudokaScoreQual.
1 James Bregman (USA)2–0QQ
2 Gabriel Goldschmied (MEX)1–1
3 Peter Paige (AUS)0–2

Pool C

PlaceJudokaScoreQual.
1 Wolfgang Hofmann (EUA)2–0QQ
2 Jacques le Berré (FRA)1–1
3 Orlando Madrigal (CRC)0–2

Pool D

PlaceJudokaScoreQual.
1 Peter Snijders (NED)2–0QQ
2 Pipat Singsanee (THA)1–1
3 Thai Thuc Thuan (VIE)0–2

Pool E

PlaceJudokaScoreQual.
1 Lhofei Shiozawa (BRA)3–0QQ
2 Alfred Redl (AUT)2–1
3 Narzal García (PHI)1–2
4 Rafael Barquero (CRC)0–3

Pool F

PlaceJudokaScoreQual.
1 Kim Eui-Tae (KOR)2–0QQ
2 Huang Chin-chun (ROC)1–1
3 Lê Bả Thành (VIE)0–2

Pool G

PlaceJudokaScoreQual.
1 Lionel Grossain (FRA)2–0QQ
2 Jan Snijders (NED)1–1
3 Sydney Hoare (GBR)0–2

Pool H

PlaceJudokaScoreQual.
1 Isao Okano (JPN)2–0QQ
2 Fernando Matos (POR)1–1
3 Jorge Lugo (VEN)0–2

Knockout rounds

The remaining eight judokas competed in a single elimination bracket. Losers in the quarterfinals were placed 5–8 while both losers in the semifinals won bronze medals.

Quarterfinals
October 21 		Semifinals
October 21 		Final
October 21
 Isao Okano (JPN) Okuri-eri-jime
 Lionel Grossain (FRA) 5:18  Isao Okano (JPN) Waza-ari-chikai-waza
 Kim Eui-Tae (KOR) Awase-waza  Kim Eui-Tae (KOR) –
 Lhofei Shiozawa (BRA) 1:33  Isao Okano (JPN) Yoko-shiho-gatame
 Wolfgang Hofmann (EUA) Uchi-mata  Wolfgang Hofmann (EUA) 1:36
 Peter Snijders (NED) 3:10  Wolfgang Hofmann (EUA) Udehishigi-juji-gatame
 James Bregman (USA) Awase-waza  James Bregman (USA) 1:21
 Rodolfo Pérez (ARG) 5:16

Sources

  • Tokyo Organizing Committee (1964). The Games of the XVIII Olympiad: Tokyo 1964, vol. 2.

References

  1. ↑ "Judo at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Men's Middleweight". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
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