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Lightweight (≤71 kilograms), Men

Date27 September 1988
StatusOlympic
LocationJang-chung Che-yuk-gwan, Seoul
Participants41 from 41 countries
FormatTwo single-elimination pools, with winner of each pool advanced to the final. All judoka losing to the winner of each pool advanced to repêchage pools, with the winners of the repêchage pools earning bronze medals.

The lightweight class was wide-open. At least six fighters were felt capable of winning the gold medal. These included the reigning World Champion, American Mike Swain; the 1987 World runner-up, Marc Alexandre (FRA), also the 1984 half-lightweight bronze medalist; Toshihiko Koga, the All-Japan Champion; and Britain’s Kerrith Brown, bronze medalist at the 1987 Worlds. In the pool semis, Swain met East German Sven Loll. Swain led early, but Loll eliminated him with a late yuko. Loll went to the final where he met Alexandre. Both were uchimata specialists, but neither could score with it. Alexandre won gold with a late koka from kouchi-gari. In one of the bronze medal matches, Brown defeated Swain with a koka from a side-sacrifice throw at 3½ minutes. But the medals were not yet decided. Two days later, Brown was disqualified for doping, testing positive for furosemide (Lasix), a diuretic. The bronze medal was given to Swain, joined by Soviet Georgian Giorgi Tenadze.

PosCompetitor(s)NOC
1Marc AlexandreFRAGold
2Sven LollGDRSilver
=3Mike SwainUSABronze
=3Giorgi TenadzeURSBronze
=5Bertalan HajtósHUN
=5Steffen StranzFRG
=7Joaquín RuizESP
=7Johannes WohlwendLIE
=9Lotuala N'DombassyANG
=9Ousmane CamaraMLI
=11Anders DahlinSWE
=11Stewart BrainAUS
=13Luiz OnmuraBRA
=13Hugo d'AssunçãoPOR
=13Federico VizcarraMEX
=13Glenn BeauchampCAN
=13Toshihiko KogaJPN
=13Ezio GambaITA
=19Wiesław BłachPOL
=19Abdelhak MaachMAR
=19Eugene McManusIRL
=19Henry NúñezCRC
=19Ángelo RuizPUR
=19Daniel Dohou DossouBEN
=19Mohamed MoslihYAR
=19Nelson OmbitoKEN
=19Ju Hsiang-HungTPE
=19Xiong FengshanCHN
=19Alpaslan AyanTUR
=19Mohamed MeridjaALG
=19Ganga Bahadur DangolNEP
=19Park Jeong-HuiKOR
=33Chong Siao ChinHKG
=33Babacar DioneSEN
=33James SibengeZIM
=33Jambalyn GanboldMGL
=33Rony KhawamLBN
=33Adel Al-NajadahKUW
=33Fredy TorresESA
=33Jason TrevisanMLT
DQKerrith BrownGBR1

Pool A (27 September 1988)

Round One (27 September 1988)

Match #1 Wiesław BłachPOL
Ippon (2:13)
Chong Siao ChinHKG
Match #2 2 Kerrith BrownGBR 3
Ippon (1:40)
Rony KhawamLBN
Match #3 Hugo d'AssunçãoPOR
Ippon (0:50)
James SibengeZIM
Match #4 Lotuala N'DombassyANG
Ippon (1:20)
Sven LollGDR
Match #5 Glenn BeauchampCAN
Ippon (4:24)
Adel Al-NajadahKUW

Round Two (27 September 1988)

Match #1 Luiz OnmuraBRA
Yuko (5:00)
Wiesław BłachPOL
Match #2 4 Kerrith BrownGBR 5
Koka (5:00)
Abdelhak MaachMAR
Match #3 Hugo d'AssunçãoPOR
Yusei-gachi (5:00)
Eugene McManusIRL
Match #4 Anders DahlinSWE
Koka (5:00)
Henry NúñezCRC
Match #5 Sven LollGDR
Ippon (4:23)
Johannes WohlwendLIE
Match #6 Steffen StranzFRG
Ippon (0:54)
Daniel Dohou DossouBEN
Match #7 Glenn BeauchampCAN
Ippon (1:27)
Mohamed MoslihYAR
Match #8 Mike SwainUSA
Waza-ari-wasete Ippon (1:45)
Nelson OmbitoKEN

Quarter-Finals (27 September 1988)

Match #1 6 Kerrith BrownGBR 7
Shido (5:00)
Luiz OnmuraBRA
Match #2 Anders DahlinSWE
Koka (5:00)
Hugo d'AssunçãoPOR
Match #3 Sven LollGDR
Koka (5:00)
Steffen StranzFRG
Match #4 Mike SwainUSA
Yusei-gachi (5:00)
Glenn BeauchampCAN

Semi-Finals (27 September 1988)

Match #1 8 Kerrith BrownGBR 9
Yusei-gachi (5:00)
Anders DahlinSWE
Match #2 Sven LollGDR
Yuko (5:00)
Mike SwainUSA

Final Round (27 September 1988)

Match #1 10 Sven LollGDR
Ippon (1:09)
Kerrith BrownGBR 11

Repêchage (27 September 1988)

Match #1 Johannes WohlwendLIE
Yuko (5:00)
Lotuala N'DombassyANG
Match #2 Steffen StranzFRG
Ippon (1:33)
Johannes WohlwendLIE
Match #3 Mike SwainUSA
Yusei-gachi (5:00)
Steffen StranzFRG
Match 3/4 12 Kerrith BrownGBR 13
Koka (5:00)
Mike SwainUSA

Pool B (27 September 1988)

Round One (27 September 1988)

Match #1 Bertalan HajtósHUN
Ippon (3:13)
Babacar DioneSEN
Match #2 Alpaslan AyanTUR
Ippon (3:33)
Jambalyn GanboldMGL
Match #3 Giorgi TenadzeURS
Ippon (1:17)
Fredy TorresESA
Match #4 Xiong FengshanCHN
Ippon (1:37)
Jason TrevisanMLT

Round Two (27 September 1988)

Match #1 Bertalan HajtósHUN
Yusei-gachi (5:00)
Ju Hsiang-HungTPE
Match #2 Marc AlexandreFRA
Ippon (3:52)
Ousmane CamaraMLI
Match #3 Ezio GambaITA
Yusei-gachi (5:00)
Alpaslan AyanTUR
Match #4 Joaquín RuizESP
Yuko (5:00)
Mohamed MeridjaALG
Match #5 Giorgi TenadzeURS
Sogo-gachi (0:57)
Ganga Bahadur DangolNEP
Match #6 Toshihiko KogaJPN
Koka (5:00)
Park Jeong-HuiKOR
Match #7 Stewart BrainAUS
Waza-ari (5:00)
Xiong FengshanCHN
Match #8 Federico VizcarraMEX
Shido (5:00)
Ángelo RuizPUR

Quarter-Finals (27 September 1988)

Match #1 Marc AlexandreFRA
Yusei-gachi (5:00)
Bertalan HajtósHUN
Match #2 Joaquín RuizESP
Shido (5:00)
Ezio GambaITA
Match #3 Giorgi TenadzeURS
Yuko (5:00)
Toshihiko KogaJPN
Match #4 Stewart BrainAUS
Yuko (5:00)
Federico VizcarraMEX

Semi-Finals (27 September 1988)

Match #1 Marc AlexandreFRA
Yuko (5:00)
Joaquín RuizESP
Match #2 Giorgi TenadzeURS
Ippon (1:44)
Stewart BrainAUS

Final Round (27 September 1988)

Match #1 Marc AlexandreFRA
Koka (5:00)
Giorgi TenadzeURS

Repêchage (27 September 1988)

Match #1 Bertalan HajtósHUN
Ippon (1:07)
Ousmane CamaraMLI
Match #2 Bertalan HajtósHUN
Yusei-gachi (5:00)
Joaquín RuizESP
Match 3/4 Giorgi TenadzeURS
Ippon (1:44)
Bertalan HajtósHUN

Final Round (27 September 1988)

Match 1/2 Marc AlexandreFRA
Koka (5:00)
Sven LollGDR