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Featherweight, Greco-Roman (≤58 kilograms), Men

Date25 – 27 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 favorite was two-time World Champion (1998-99) Kim In-Seop of Korea, although he had a big challenger in Bulgarian Armen Nazaryan. Nazaryan had won a gold medal at Atlanta as a flyweight, when he competed for Armenia. He had since settled in Bulgaria, home of his girlfriend and future wife, and won three straight bronze medals at the Worlds and won the 1998-99 European Championships. Kim and Nazaryan were unchallenged and met in the final, with Nazaryan winning by fall in 2:47, after leading 10-3. Nazaryan continued to dominate the class for Bulgaria, winning three World and two European Championships over the next five years, and adding a bronze medal at the 2004 Olympics.

PosCompetitor(s)NOCCPTP
1Armen NazaryanBULGold
2Kim In-SeopKORSilver
3Sheng ZetianCHNBronze
4Rifat YildizGER
5Ali AshkaniIRI
6Jim GruenwaldUSA
7Valery NikonorovRUS819
8Makoto SasamotoJPN730
9Constantin BorăscuROU614
10Nepes GukulovTKM614
11Dilshod AripovUZB52
12Djamel AinaouiFRA37
13Ihar PietrenkaBLR34
14K'oba GuliashviliGEO33
15Karen MnatsakanyanARM25
16Oleksandr StepanianUKR16
17Brett CashAUS12
18István MajorosHUN11
19Yury MelnichenkoKAZ00
20Mohamed BarguaouiTUN00

Round One (25 – 26 September 2000)

Round One Pool One (—)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCWinsLossesCPTP
1Kim In-SeopKOR20610Q
2Dilshod AripovUZB1152
3Yury MelnichenkoKAZ0200

Match #1 Kim In-SeopKOR
decision (4-2) (6:00)
Dilshod AripovUZB
Match #2 Kim In-SeopKOR
decision (6-0) (6:00)
Yury MelnichenkoKAZ
Match #3 Dilshod AripovUZB bye

Round One Pool Two (—)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCWinsLossesCPTP
1Ali AshkaniIRI20612Q
2K'oba GuliashviliGEO1133
3István MajorosHUN0211

Match #1 Ali AshkaniIRI
decision (7-0) (6:00)
K'oba GuliashviliGEO
Match #2 Ali AshkaniIRI
decision (5-1) (6:00)
István MajorosHUN
Match #3 K'oba GuliashviliGEO
decision (3-0) (6:00)
István MajorosHUN

Round One Pool Three (—)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCWinsLossesCPTP
1Jim GruenwaldUSA2068Q
2Ihar PietrenkaBLR1134
3Karen MnatsakanyanARM0225

Match #1 Jim GruenwaldUSA
decision (4-0) (6:00)
Ihar PietrenkaBLR
Match #2 Jim GruenwaldUSA
decision (4-3) (6:00)
Karen MnatsakanyanARM
Match #3 Ihar PietrenkaBLR
decision (4-2) (6:00)
Karen MnatsakanyanARM

Round One Pool Four (—)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCWinsLossesCPTP
1Sheng ZetianCHN20711Q
2Djamel AinaouiFRA1137
3Oleksandr StepanianUKR0216

Match #1 Sheng ZetianCHN
decision (1-0) (9:00)
Djamel AinaouiFRA
Match #2 Sheng ZetianCHN
grand superiority (10-0) (2:20)
Oleksandr StepanianUKR
Match #3 Djamel AinaouiFRA
decision (7-6) (6:00)
Oleksandr StepanianUKR

Round One Pool Five (—)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCWinsLossesCPTP
1Armen NazaryanBUL301128Q
2Makoto SasamotoJPN21730
3Nepes GukulovTKM12614
4Brett CashAUS0312

Match #1 Armen NazaryanBUL
grand superiority (11-0) (2:08)
Makoto SasamotoJPN
Match #2 Armen NazaryanBUL
decision (4-1) (6:00)
Nepes GukulovTKM
Match #3 Armen NazaryanBUL
grand superiority (13-2) (4:03)
Brett CashAUS
Match #4 Makoto SasamotoJPN
decision (5-3) (6:00)
Nepes GukulovTKM
Match #5 Makoto SasamotoJPN
grand superiority (25-0) (6:00)
Brett CashAUS
Match #6 Nepes GukulovTKM
grand superiority (10-0) (3:54)
Brett CashAUS

Round One Pool Six (—)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCWinsLossesCPTP
1Rifat YildizGER30914Q
2Valery NikonorovRUS21819
3Constantin BorăscuROU12614
4Mohamed BarguaouiTUN0300

Match #1 Rifat YildizGER
decision (4-1) (6:00)
Valery NikonorovRUS
Match #2 Rifat YildizGER
decision (6-4) (6:00)
Constantin BorăscuROU
Match #3 Rifat YildizGER
decision (4-0) (6:00)
Mohamed BarguaouiTUN
Match #4 Valery NikonorovRUS
decision (7-3) (6:00)
Constantin BorăscuROU
Match #5 Valery NikonorovRUS
DQ (11-0) (3:08)
Mohamed BarguaouiTUN
Match #6 Constantin BorăscuROU
fall (7-0) (3:39)
Mohamed BarguaouiTUN

Quarter-finals (27 September 2000)

Match #1 Kim In-SeopKOR
decision (3-1) (6:00)
Ali AshkaniIRI
Match #2 Sheng ZetianCHN
grand superiority (11-1) (5:00)
Jim GruenwaldUSA
Match #3 Armen NazaryanBUL bye
Match #4 Rifat YildizGER bye

Semi-finals (27 September 2000)

Match #1 Kim In-SeopKOR
decision (4-0) (6:00)
Sheng ZetianCHN
Match #2 Armen NazaryanBUL
grand superiority (10-0) (1:50)
Rifat YildizGER

Final Round (27 September 2000)

Match 1/2 Armen NazaryanBUL
fall (10-3) (2:34)
Kim In-SeopKOR
Match 3/4 Sheng ZetianCHN
decision (2-0) (9:00)
Rifat YildizGER
Match 5/6 Ali AshkaniIRI
decision (3-2) (6:00)
Jim GruenwaldUSA