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Bantamweight, Greco-Roman (≤54 kilograms), Men

Date24 – 26 September 2000 — 09:30-17:00 (all days)
StatusOlympic
LocationSydney Exhibition Centre, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Sydney, New South Wales (Halls 1 & 2)
Participants20 from 20 countries
FormatRound-robin pools, winner of each pool advanced to single-elimination tournament.

The favorites were the last two World Champions. Korean Sim Gwon-Ho had won in 1998 and was the Olympic gold medalist in 1996 as a light-flyweight. Cuban Lázaro Rivas was the 1999 World and Pan American Games Champion. The two were easily the class of the class and met in the final, where Sim overwhelmed Rivas, winning 8-0. The bronze medal went to North Korean Kang Yong-Gyun, who defeated Ukrainian Andriy Kalashnykov, 7-0. Sim’s gold medal was his ninth championship at a major international since 1993.

PosCompetitor(s)NOCCPTP
1Sim Gwon-HoKORGold
2Lázaro RivasCUBSilver
3Kang Yong-GyunPRKBronze
4Andriy KalashnykovUKR
5Alfred Ter-MkrtchyanGER
6Wang HuiCHN
7Natig EyvazovAZE814
8Uran KalilovKGZ713
9Rakymzhan AsembekovKAZ59
10Mohamed Moustafa Abou EleaEGY58
11Ercan YıldızTUR416
12Aleksey ShevtsovRUS416
13Marian SanduROU416
14Hassan RangrazIRI410
15Aleksandr TsertsvadzeGEO34
16Petr ŠvehlaCZE25
17Steven MaysUSA13
18Tero KatajistoFIN12
19Dariusz JabłońskiPOL02
20Jotham PellewNZL00

Round One (24 September 2000)

Round One Pool One (24 September 2000)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCWinsLossesCPTP
1Alfred Ter-MkrtchyanGER2068Q
2Aleksandr TsertsvadzeGEO1134
3Tero KatajistoFIN0212

Match #1 Alfred Ter-MkrtchyanGER
decision (5-0) (6:00)
Aleksandr TsertsvadzeGEO
Match #2 Alfred Ter-MkrtchyanGER
decision (3-0) (6:00)
Tero KatajistoFIN
Match #3 Aleksandr TsertsvadzeGEO
decision (4-2) (6:00)
Tero KatajistoFIN

Round One Pool Two (24 September 2000)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCWinsLossesCPTP
1Sim Gwon-HoKOR20712Q
2Rakymzhan AsembekovKAZ1159
3Dariusz JabłońskiPOL0202

Match #1 Sim Gwon-HoKOR
decision (2-2) (9:00)
Rakymzhan AsembekovKAZ
Match #2 Sim Gwon-HoKOR
grand superiority (10-0) (3:06)
Dariusz JabłońskiPOL
Match #3 Rakymzhan AsembekovKAZ
fall (7-2) (4:14)
Dariusz JabłońskiPOL

Round One Pool Three (24 September 2000)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCWinsLossesCPTP
1Wang HuiCHN20616Q
2Hassan RangrazIRI11410
3Petr ŠvehlaCZE0225

Match #1 Wang HuiCHN
decision (8-2) (6:00)
Hassan RangrazIRI
Match #2 Wang HuiCHN
decision (8-3) (6:00)
Petr ŠvehlaCZE
Match #3 Hassan RangrazIRI
decision (8-2) (6:00)
Petr ŠvehlaCZE

Round One Pool Four (24 September 2000)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCWinsLossesCPTP
1Kang Yong-GyunPRK11417Q
2Aleksey ShevtsovRUS11416
3Marian SanduROU11416

Match #1 Kang Yong-GyunPRK
decision (10-5) (6:00)
Aleksey ShevtsovRUS
Match #2 Aleksey ShevtsovRUS
decision (11-8) (6:00)
Marian SanduROU
Match #3 Marian SanduROU
decision (8-7) (7:23)
Kang Yong-GyunPRK

Round One Pool Five (24 September 2000)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCWinsLossesCPTP
1Andriy KalashnykovUKR301130Q
2Uran KalilovKGZ21713
3Mohamed Moustafa Abou EleaEGY1258
4Steven MaysUSA0313

Match #1 Andriy KalashnykovUKR
decision (3-0) (6:00)
Uran KalilovKGZ
Match #2 Andriy KalashnykovUKR
grand superiority (16-2) (4:54)
Mohamed Moustafa Abou EleaEGY
Match #3 Andriy KalashnykovUKR
grand superiority (11-0) (2:29)
Steven MaysUSA
Match #4 Uran KalilovKGZ
decision (3-1) (6:00)
Mohamed Moustafa Abou EleaEGY
Match #5 Uran KalilovKGZ
grand superiority (10-0) (5:59)
Steven MaysUSA
Match #6 Mohamed Moustafa Abou EleaEGY
decision (5-3) (6:00)
Steven MaysUSA

Round One Pool Six (24 September 2000)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCWinsLossesCPTP
1Lázaro RivasCUB301131Q
2Natig EyvazovAZE21814
3Ercan YıldızTUR12416
4Jotham PellewNZL0300

Match #1 Lázaro RivasCUB
decision (6-1) (6:00)
Natig EyvazovAZE
Match #2 Lázaro RivasCUB
grand superiority (10-0) (1:32)
Ercan YıldızTUR
Match #3 Lázaro RivasCUB
grand superiority (15-0) (4:07)
Jotham PellewNZL
Match #4 Natig EyvazovAZE
decision (3-0) (6:00)
Ercan YıldızTUR
Match #5 Natig EyvazovAZE
grand superiority (10-0) (4:49)
Jotham PellewNZL
Match #6 Ercan YıldızTUR
grand superiority (16-0) (2:06)
Jotham PellewNZL

Quarter-finals (25 September 2000)

Match #1 Sim Gwon-HoKOR
decision (6-4) (6:00)
Alfred Ter-MkrtchyanGER
Match #2 Kang Yong-GyunPRK
decision (10-5) (6:00)
Wang HuiCHN
Match #3 Andriy KalashnykovUKR bye
Match #4 Lázaro RivasCUB bye

Semi-finals (25 September 2000)

Match #1 Sim Gwon-HoKOR
grand superiority (10-0) (2:37)
Kang Yong-GyunPRK
Match #2 Lázaro RivasCUB
grand superiority (11-0) (2:26)
Andriy KalashnykovUKR

Final Round (26 September 2000)

Match 1/2 Sim Gwon-HoKOR
decision (8-0) (6:00)
Lázaro RivasCUB
Match 3/4 Kang Yong-GyunPRK
decision (7-0) (6:00)
Andriy KalashnykovUKR
Match 5/6 Alfred Ter-MkrtchyanGER
decision (6-0) (6:00)
Wang HuiCHN