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Light-Flyweight, Greco-Roman (≤48 kilograms), Men

Date19 – 20 July 1996
StatusOlympic
LocationGeorgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia (Hall G)
Participants19 from 19 countries
FormatSingle-elimination tournament with classification rounds for placements.

This class would be discontinued after 1996, as the International Wrestling Federation (FILA) shuffled weight limits to decrease the number of weight classes, as mandated by the IOC. The 1995 World Champion was Korean Sim Gwon-Ho, although he was expected to be challenged by the 1993-94 World Champion, Cuban Wilber Sánchez, and Russian Zafar Guliyev, who had won three of the last four European tournaments. Guliyev lost in round two to Sim and was out of contention for gold. Sánchez was upset in the semi-finals by Belarussian Aleksandr Pavlov, runner-up at the 1994 Worlds. The final between Pavlov and Sim went to overtime with Sim winning the gold medal, 4-0 at 6:44. Guliyev did get a bronze medal, defeating North Korean Kang Yong-Gyun, also by 4-0.

PosCompetitor(s)NOCCPTP
1Sim Gwon-HoKORGold
2Aliaksandr PaulauBLRSilver
3Zafar GuliyevRUSBronze1
4Kang Yong-GyunPRK
5Wilber SánchezCUB
6Gela P'ap'ashviliGEO
7Hiroshi KadoJPN
8Ioannis AgkakatzanianGRE
9Francesco CostantinoITA821
10Bratan TsenovBUL514
11Bayram ÖzdemirTUR717
12Oleg KutscherenkoGER511
13Mujaahid MaynardUSA57
14Tahir ZahidovAZE411
15Piotr JabłońskiPOL24
16José OchoaVEN02
17Enrique AguilarMEX00
18Jorge YllescasPER00
19Abdullah Al-IzaniYEM00

Round One (19 July 1996)

Match #1 2 Zafar GuliyevRUS 3
decision (3-2) (5:00)
Hiroshi KadoJPN
Match #2 Bayram ÖzdemirTUR
grand superiority (11-0) (4:13)
Enrique AguilarMEX
Match #3 Ioannis AgkakatzanianGRE
grand superiority (10-0) (1:06)
Jorge YllescasPER
Match #4 Gela P'ap'ashviliGEO
decision (8-6) (5:00)
Francesco CostantinoITA
Match #5 Bratan TsenovBUL
grand superiority (10-0) (1:11)
Abdullah Al-IzaniYEM
Match #6 Oleg KutscherenkoGER
grand superiority (10-0) (3:08)
Tahir ZahidovAZE
Match #7 Wilber SánchezCUB
decision (12-3) (5:00)
Mujaahid MaynardUSA
Match #8 Aliaksandr PaulauBLR
grand superiority (11-0) (1:43)
José OchoaVEN
Match #9 Kang Yong-GyunPRK
decision (9-3) (5:00)
Piotr JabłońskiPOL
Match #10 Sim Gwon-HoKOR bye

Round Two (19 July 1996)

Match #1 4 Sim Gwon-HoKOR
decision (2-1) (8:00)
Zafar GuliyevRUS 5
Match #2 Ioannis AgkakatzanianGRE
decision (3-2) (6:26)
Bayram ÖzdemirTUR
Match #3 Gela P'ap'ashviliGEO
decision (7-4) (5:00)
Bratan TsenovBUL
Match #4 Wilber SánchezCUB
decision (1-1) (8:00)
Oleg KutscherenkoGER
Match #5 Aliaksandr PaulauBLR
decision (3-2) (5:00)
Kang Yong-GyunPRK

Quarter-Finals (20 July 1996)

Match #1 Sim Gwon-HoKOR
decision (4-1) (5:00)
Ioannis AgkakatzanianGRE
Match #2 Gela P'ap'ashviliGEO bye
Match #3 Wilber SánchezCUB bye
Match #4 Aliaksandr PaulauBLR bye

Semi-Finals (20 July 1996)

Match #1 Sim Gwon-HoKOR
grand superiority (11-0) (4:14)
Gela P'ap'ashviliGEO
Match #2 Aliaksandr PaulauBLR
decision (5-0) (7:59)
Wilber SánchezCUB

Final Round (20 July 1996)

Match 1/2 Sim Gwon-HoKOR
decision (4-0) (6:10)
Aliaksandr PaulauBLR
Match 3/4 6 Zafar GuliyevRUS 7
decision (4-0) (5:00)
Kang Yong-GyunPRK
Match 5/6 Wilber SánchezCUB
decision (4-0) (5:00)
Gela P'ap'ashviliGEO
Match 7/8 Hiroshi KadoJPN
decision (1-0) (5:00)
Ioannis AgkakatzanianGRE

Classification Round Two (19 July 1996)

Match #1 Hiroshi KadoJPN
grand superiority (10-0) (3:29)
Enrique AguilarMEX
Match #2 Francesco CostantinoITA
grand superiority (10-0) (3:28)
Jorge YllescasPER
Match #3 Tahir ZahidovAZE
grand superiority (11-0) (1:58)
Abdullah Al-IzaniYEM
Match #4 Mujaahid MaynardUSA
fall (4-2) (2:31)
José OchoaVEN
Match #5 Piotr JabłońskiPOL bye

Classification Round Three (19 July 1996)

Match #1 Hiroshi KadoJPN
decision (9-1) (5:00)
Piotr JabłońskiPOL
Match #2 Francesco CostantinoITA
decision (5-0) (7:28)
Tahir ZahidovAZE
Match #3 8 Zafar GuliyevRUS 9
decision (6-0) (5:00)
Mujaahid MaynardUSA
Match #4 Bayram ÖzdemirTUR
decision (4-0) (5:00)
Bratan TsenovBUL
Match #5 Kang Yong-GyunPRK
decision (3-0) (5:00)
Oleg KutscherenkoGER

Classification Round Four (20 July 1996)

Match #1 Hiroshi KadoJPN
decision (4-0) (5:00)
Francesco CostantinoITA
Match #2 10 Zafar GuliyevRUS 11
decision (7-0) (5:00)
Bayram ÖzdemirTUR
Match #3 Kang Yong-GyunPRK
grand superiority (10-0) (2:56)
Ioannis AgkakatzanianGRE

Classification Round Five (20 July 1996)

Match #1 Kang Yong-GyunPRK
grand superiority (11-0) (0:31)
Hiroshi KadoJPN
Match #2 12 Zafar GuliyevRUS 13bye

Classification Round Six (20 July 1996)

Match #1 14 Zafar GuliyevRUS 15
decision (6-0) (5:00)
Gela P'ap'ashviliGEO
Match #2 Kang Yong-GyunPRK
decision (7-0) (5:00)
Wilber SánchezCUB