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Light-Flyweight, Freestyle (≤48 kilograms), Men

Date7 – 9 August 1984 — 12:00-15:00-18:00-20:30 (all days)
StatusOlympic
LocationAnaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California, USA
Participants7 from 7 countries
FormatTwo groups of competitors. Placement within each group decided by a series of matches with positive points awarded for each result, from 4.0 for victory by fall, to 0.0 for defeat by fall. When three wrestlers remained within a group, they wrestled a round-robin series to determine the top three placements within the group. The winners of each group then wrestled for 1st and 2nd place. Runners-up in each group wrestled for 3rd and 4th place. Third-place finishers within each group wrestled for 5th and 6th place..

Due to the Soviet-led boycott this class had only seven competitors, the smallest wrestling class since the 1932 Olympics. Soviet Sergey Kornaliyev, World Champion in 1981-82 and 1984 European Champion, could not compete, nor could the 1983 World Champion, North Korean Kim Chol-Hwan. Japan’s Takashi Irie and American Bobby Weaver, silver medalist at the 1979 Worlds, won Groups A and B, respectively, and advanced to the gold medal match. Weaver won the gold by throwing Irie in 2:58. Korean Son Gap-Do, runner-up at the 1981 World Championships, won the bronze medal by defeating China’s Gao Wenhe on points, 13-7.

PosCompetitor(s)NOCRECP
1Bobby WeaverUSAGold
2Takashi IrieJPNSilver
3Son Gap-DoKORBronze
4Gao WenheCHN
5Reiner HeugabelFRG
6Kent AnderssonSWE
7Sunil DuttIND

Group A - Round One (7 August 1984)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCCP
=1Takashi IrieJPN4,0
=1Son Gap-DoKOR4,0
=3Sunil DuttIND0,0
=3Kent AnderssonSWE0,0

Match #1 Son Gap-DoKOR
decision (12-0) (1:48)
Sunil DuttIND
Match #2 Takashi IrieJPN
fall (0:37)
Kent AnderssonSWE

Group A - Round Two (7 August 1984)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCCP
=1Takashi IrieJPN7,0
=1Kent AnderssonSWE7,0
3Son Gap-DoKOR5,0
4Sunil DuttIND1,0

Match #1 Takashi IrieJPN
decision (8-7)
Son Gap-DoKOR
Match #2 Kent AnderssonSWE
decision (0-0)
Sunil DuttIND

Group A - Final (8 August 1984)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCCP
1Takashi IrieJPN7,0
2Son Gap-DoKOR5,0
3Kent AnderssonSWE0,0

Match #1 Takashi IrieJPN Son Gap-DoKOR
Match #2 Son Gap-DoKOR
decision (12-0) (3:28)
Kent AnderssonSWE
Match #3 Takashi IrieJPN Kent AnderssonSWE

Group B - Final (8 August 1984)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCCP
1Bobby WeaverUSA8,0
2Gao WenheCHN3,0
3Reiner HeugabelFRG1,0

Match #1 Gao WenheCHN
decision (9-4)
Reiner HeugabelFRG
Match #2 Bobby WeaverUSA
fall (2:56)
Reiner HeugabelFRG
Match #3 Bobby WeaverUSA
decision (13-0) (2:32)
Gao WenheCHN

Final Round (9 August 1984)

Match 1/2 Bobby WeaverUSA
fall (2:58)
Takashi IrieJPN
Match 3/4 Son Gap-DoKOR
decision (13-7)
Gao WenheCHN
Match 5/6 Reiner HeugabelFRG
passivity
Kent AnderssonSWE