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Lightweight, Greco-Roman (≤68 kilograms), Men

Date	1 – 3 August 1984 — 12:00-15:00-18:00-20:30 (all days)
Status	Olympic
Location	Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California, USA
Participants	14 from 14 countries
Format	Two 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..

The favorite was Finn Tapio Sipilä who, unusually for 1984, came in as the defending World Champion. Sipilä seemed to have things well in hand, winning Group B easily, but he then met Yugoslav Vlado Lisjak in the final match, Lisjak throwing Sipilä in only 57 seconds to win a big upset gold medal. Lisjak had no international record and was only a last-minute substitute on the Yugoslavian team. Sipilä also won World silver medals in 1981 and 1986, and European bronze medals in 1980-81 and 1983. The bronze medal match came down to favored Romanian Ştefan Negrişan, the 1982 and 1984 European silver medalist, against American Jim Martinez, but Martinez prevailed, pinning Negrişan in only 25 seconds.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	RE	CP
1	Vlado Lisjak	YUG	–	–	Gold
2	Tapio Sipilä	FIN	–	–	Silver
3	Jim Martinez	USA	–	–	Bronze
4	Ștefan Negrișan	ROU	–	–
5	Dietmar Streitler	AUT	–	–
6	Mohamed Moutei Nakdali	SYR	–	–
7	Shaban Abdelwahab	EGY	–	–
8	Sümer Koçak	TUR	–	–
AC	Saïd Souaken	MAR	Eliminated r3/3 Group A	2,0
AC	Seiji Nemoto	JPN	Eliminated r2/3 Group A	1,0
AC	Lee Yeon-Ik	KOR	Eliminated r2/3 Group A	1,0
AC	Antonios Papadopoulos	GRE	Eliminated r3/5 Group B	1,0
AC	Boris Goldstein	ARG	Eliminated r2/5 Group B	0,0
AC	Gerry Svensson	SWE	Eliminated r2/5 Group B	0,0

Group A - Round One (1 August 1984)

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	CP
=1	Dietmar Streitler	AUT	3,0
=1	Ștefan Negrișan	ROU	3,0
=1	Sümer Koçak	TUR	3,0
=4	Seiji Nemoto	JPN	1,0
=4	Lee Yeon-Ik	KOR	1,0
=4	Saïd Souaken	MAR	1,0
7	Vlado Lisjak	YUG	0,0

Match #1	Dietmar Streitler	AUT	decision (6-5)	Seiji Nemoto	JPN
Match #2	Sümer Koçak	TUR	decision (12-9)	Lee Yeon-Ik	KOR
Match #3	Ștefan Negrișan	ROU	decision (7-3)	Saïd Souaken	MAR
Match #4	Vlado Lisjak	YUG	bye

Group A - Round Two (1 August 1984)

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	CP
=1	Dietmar Streitler	AUT	6,0
=1	Ștefan Negrișan	ROU	6,0
=3	Sümer Koçak	TUR	3,0
=3	Vlado Lisjak	YUG	3,0
=5	Seiji Nemoto	JPN	1,0	eliminated
=5	Lee Yeon-Ik	KOR	1,0	eliminated
=5	Saïd Souaken	MAR	1,0

Match #1	Vlado Lisjak	YUG	decision (7-0)	Seiji Nemoto	JPN
Match #2	Dietmar Streitler	AUT	passivity (5:28)	Sümer Koçak	TUR
Match #3	Ștefan Negrișan	ROU	decision (5-0)	Lee Yeon-Ik	KOR
Match #4	Saïd Souaken	MAR	bye

Group A - Round Three (1 August 1984)

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	CP
1	Dietmar Streitler	AUT	9,0
=2	Ștefan Negrișan	ROU	6,0
=2	Vlado Lisjak	YUG	6,0
4	Sümer Koçak	TUR	4,0
5	Saïd Souaken	MAR	2,0	eliminated

Match #1	Dietmar Streitler	AUT	decision (7-5)	Saïd Souaken	MAR
Match #2	Vlado Lisjak	YUG	decision (11-4)	Sümer Koçak	TUR
Match #3	Ștefan Negrișan	ROU	bye

Group A - Final (2 August 1984)

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	CP
1	Vlado Lisjak	YUG	6,0
2	Ștefan Negrișan	ROU	4,5
3	Dietmar Streitler	AUT	1,0

Match #1	Vlado Lisjak	YUG	criteria (6:00)	Ștefan Negrișan	ROU
Match #2	Ștefan Negrișan	ROU	passivity (5:33)	Dietmar Streitler	AUT
Match #3	Vlado Lisjak	YUG	decision (8-6)	Dietmar Streitler	AUT

Group B - Round One (1 August 1984)

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	CP
=1	Mohamed Moutei Nakdali	SYR	4,0
=1	Jim Martinez	USA	4,0
3	Tapio Sipilä	FIN	3,0
=4	Boris Goldstein	ARG	0,0
=4	Shaban Abdelwahab	EGY	0,0
=4	Antonios Papadopoulos	GRE	0,0
=4	Gerry Svensson	SWE	0,0

Match #1	Mohamed Moutei Nakdali	SYR	decision (12-0) (2:03)	Boris Goldstein	ARG
Match #2	Tapio Sipilä	FIN	decision (5-0)	Gerry Svensson	SWE
Match #3	Jim Martinez	USA	fall (2:44)	Antonios Papadopoulos	GRE
Match #4	Shaban Abdelwahab	EGY	bye

Group B - Round Two (1 August 1984)

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	CP
=1	Mohamed Moutei Nakdali	SYR	8,0
=1	Jim Martinez	USA	8,0
3	Tapio Sipilä	FIN	7,0
=4	Boris Goldstein	ARG	0,0	eliminated
=4	Shaban Abdelwahab	EGY	0,0
=4	Antonios Papadopoulos	GRE	0,0
=4	Gerry Svensson	SWE	0,0	eliminated

Match #1	Mohamed Moutei Nakdali	SYR	fall (0:48)	Shaban Abdelwahab	EGY
Match #2	Tapio Sipilä	FIN	decision (15-3) (1:10)	Boris Goldstein	ARG
Match #3	Jim Martinez	USA	fall (5:59)	Gerry Svensson	SWE
Match #4	Antonios Papadopoulos	GRE	bye

Group B - Round Three (1 August 1984)

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	CP
1	Tapio Sipilä	FIN	11,0
=2	Mohamed Moutei Nakdali	SYR	8,0
=2	Jim Martinez	USA	8,0
4	Shaban Abdelwahab	EGY	3,0
5	Antonios Papadopoulos	GRE	1,0	eliminated

Match #1	Shaban Abdelwahab	EGY	decision (5-3)	Antonios Papadopoulos	GRE
Match #2	Tapio Sipilä	FIN	decision (12-0) (2:18)	Mohamed Moutei Nakdali	SYR
Match #3	Jim Martinez	USA	bye

Group B - Round Four (2 August 1984)

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	CP
1	Tapio Sipilä	FIN	14,0
2	Jim Martinez	USA	11,0
3	Mohamed Moutei Nakdali	SYR	9,0
4	Shaban Abdelwahab	EGY	3,0

Match #1	Jim Martinez	USA	decision (9-7)	Mohamed Moutei Nakdali	SYR
Match #2	Tapio Sipilä	FIN	passivity (1:19)	Shaban Abdelwahab	EGY

Group B - Final (2 August 1984)

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	CP
1	Tapio Sipilä	FIN	3,0
2	Jim Martinez	USA	1,0

Match #1	Tapio Sipilä	FIN	decision (5-2)	Jim Martinez	USA

Final Round (3 August 1984)

Match 1/2	Vlado Lisjak	YUG	fall (0:57)	Tapio Sipilä	FIN
Match 3/4	Jim Martinez	USA	fall (0:25)	Ștefan Negrișan	ROU
Match 5/6	Dietmar Streitler	AUT	decision (8-4)	Mohamed Moutei Nakdali	SYR