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Bantamweight, Greco-Roman (≤57 kilograms), Men

Date1 – 3 August 1984 — 12:00-15:00-18:00-20:30 (all days)
StatusOlympic
LocationAnaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California, USA
Participants16 from 16 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..

This was one of only three Greco-Roman classes in 1984 in which the defending World Champion competed, Masaki Eto of Japan (the other being the featherweight and lightweight classes). His biggest challenger was expected to be West German Pasquale Passarelli, the 1981 World Champion. As expected, Eto won Group A and Passarelli won Group B and they met for the gold medal. Passarelli went ahead on points but Eto had him close to a pin for the last 1½ minutes of the match but could never quite turn him, and Passarelli held on to win gold. Within a year after the Los Angeles Olympics Passarelli was arrested and convicted for smuggling stolen money in France and Paraguay.

PosCompetitor(s)NOCRECP
1Pasquale PassarelliFRGGold
2Masaki EtoJPNSilver
3Babis CholidisGREBronze
4Nicolae ZamfirROU
5Frank FamianoUSA
6Benni LjungbeckSWE
7Mehmet Serhat KaradağTUR
8Park Byeong-HyoKOR
ACAntonino CaltabianoITAEliminated r3/3 Group A4,0
ACRonny SigdeNOREliminated r3/3 Group A4,0
ACIlpo SeppäläFINEliminated r2/3 Group A2,0
ACAli LachkarMAREliminated r2/3 Group A1,0
ACAbdel Latif KhalafEGYEliminated r2/3 Group A0,0
ACPatrice MourierFRAEliminated r2/4 Group B1,0
ACServio SeverinoDOMEliminated r2/4 Group B0,0
ACErnesto BahenaMEXEliminated r2/4 Group B0,0

Group A - Round One (1 August 1984)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCCP
1Babis CholidisGRE4,0
=2Masaki EtoJPN3,0
=2Ronny SigdeNOR3,0
=2Benni LjungbeckSWE3,0
=5Ilpo SeppäläFIN1,0
=5Antonino CaltabianoITA1,0
=5Ali LachkarMAR1,0
8Abdel Latif KhalafEGY0,0

Match #1 Benni LjungbeckSWE
decision (3-1)
Antonino CaltabianoITA
Match #2 Ronny SigdeNOR
decision (10-3)
Ilpo SeppäläFIN
Match #3 Masaki EtoJPN
decision (8-4)
Ali LachkarMAR
Match #4 Babis CholidisGRE
decision (14-0) (2:43)
Abdel Latif KhalafEGY

Group A - Round Two (1 August 1984)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCCP
=1Babis CholidisGRE7,0
=1Masaki EtoJPN7,0
3Benni LjungbeckSWE6,0
=4Antonino CaltabianoITA4,0
=4Ronny SigdeNOR4,0
6Ilpo SeppäläFIN2,0eliminated
7Ali LachkarMAR1,0eliminated
8Abdel Latif KhalafEGY0,0eliminated

Match #1 Antonino CaltabianoITA
decision (8-2)
Ronny SigdeNOR
Match #2 Benni LjungbeckSWE
decision (7-1)
Ilpo SeppäläFIN
Match #3 Masaki EtoJPN
decision (16-4) (5:01)
Abdel Latif KhalafEGY
Match #4 Babis CholidisGRE
decision (2-0)
Ali LachkarMAR

Group A - Round Three (1 August 1984)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCCP
=1Masaki EtoJPN10,0
=1Benni LjungbeckSWE10,0
3Babis CholidisGRE7,0
=4Antonino CaltabianoITA4,0eliminated
=4Ronny SigdeNOR4,0eliminated

Match #1 Masaki EtoJPN
passivity (5:44)
Antonino CaltabianoITA
Match #2 Benni LjungbeckSWE
fall (5:54)
Ronny SigdeNOR
Match #3 Babis CholidisGRE bye

Group A - Final (2 August 1984)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCCP
1Masaki EtoJPN7,0
2Babis CholidisGRE4,0
3Benni LjungbeckSWE1,0

Match #1 Babis CholidisGRE
decision (5-2)
Benni LjungbeckSWE
Match #2 Masaki EtoJPN
decision (6-6)
Babis CholidisGRE
Match #3 Masaki EtoJPN
fall (4:25)
Benni LjungbeckSWE

Group B - Round One (1 August 1984)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCCP
=1Pasquale PassarelliFRG4,0
=1Frank FamianoUSA4,0
3Mehmet Serhat KaradağTUR3,5
4Nicolae ZamfirROU3,0
5Patrice MourierFRA1,0
6Park Byeong-HyoKOR0,5
=7Servio SeverinoDOM0,0
=7Ernesto BahenaMEX0,0

Match #1 Nicolae ZamfirROU
decision (8-2)
Patrice MourierFRA
Match #2 Mehmet Serhat KaradağTUR
decision (12-4)
Park Byeong-HyoKOR
Match #3 Frank FamianoUSA
decision (13-0) (1:21)
Servio SeverinoDOM
Match #4 Pasquale PassarelliFRG
decision (13-1) (3:11)
Ernesto BahenaMEX

Group B - Round Two (1 August 1984)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCCP
=1Pasquale PassarelliFRG8,0
=1Frank FamianoUSA8,0
3Mehmet Serhat KaradağTUR6,5
4Park Byeong-HyoKOR4,5
5Nicolae ZamfirROU3,0
6Patrice MourierFRA1,0eliminated
=7Servio SeverinoDOM0,0eliminated
=7Ernesto BahenaMEX0,0eliminated

Match #1 Park Byeong-HyoKOR
fall (5:23)
Patrice MourierFRA
Match #2 Mehmet Serhat KaradağTUR
decision (1-0)
Nicolae ZamfirROU
Match #3 Frank FamianoUSA
decision (17-5) (2:46)
Ernesto BahenaMEX
Match #4 Pasquale PassarelliFRG
decision (16-2) (1:24)
Servio SeverinoDOM

Group B - Round Three (1 August 1984)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCCP
1Frank FamianoUSA12,0
2Pasquale PassarelliFRG8,0
3Mehmet Serhat KaradağTUR6,5
4Nicolae ZamfirROU6,0
5Park Byeong-HyoKOR5,5

Match #1 Nicolae ZamfirROU
decision (8-5)
Park Byeong-HyoKOR
Match #2 Frank FamianoUSA
decision (18-5)
Mehmet Serhat KaradağTUR
Match #3 Pasquale PassarelliFRG bye

Group B - Round Four (2 August 1984)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCCP
1Frank FamianoUSA12,0
2Pasquale PassarelliFRG11,0
3Nicolae ZamfirROU9,0
4Mehmet Serhat KaradağTUR6,5

Match #1 Pasquale PassarelliFRG
passivity (4:10)
Mehmet Serhat KaradağTUR
Match #2 Nicolae ZamfirROU
passivity (4:30)
Frank FamianoUSA

Group B - Final (2 August 1984)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCCP
1Pasquale PassarelliFRG6,0
2Nicolae ZamfirROU3,0
3Frank FamianoUSA0.0

Match #1 Pasquale PassarelliFRG
passivity (5:47)
Nicolae ZamfirROU
Match #2 Pasquale PassarelliFRG
decision (14-2) (3:12)
Frank FamianoUSA

Final Round (3 August 1984)

Match 1/2 Pasquale PassarelliFRG
decision (8-5)
Masaki EtoJPN
Match 3/4 Babis CholidisGRE
decision (2-1)
Nicolae ZamfirROU
Match 5/6 Frank FamianoUSA walkover