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Featherweight, Freestyle (≤62 kilograms), Men

Date	31 July – 1 August 1996
Status	Olympic
Location	Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia (Hall G)
Participants	21 from 21 countries
Format	Single-elimination tournament with classification rounds for placements.

Since the retirement of John Smith, gold medalist in 1988-92, this class had become much more open, with no clear favorite entering the 1996 Olympics. The last three World Champions were in Atlanta – American Tom Brands (1993), Russian Magomed Azizov (1994), and Ukrainian Elbrus Tedieiev (1995). Azizov had also won the 1993 and 1995-96 European Championships. Brands and Azizov met in the semi-finals where Brands won easily 4-1. He then met Korean Jang Jae-Seong, who had defeated Tedieiev in the quarters, in the final, crushing him, 7-0, for the gold medal. Tedieiev did come back to win the bronze medal, defeating Japan’s Takahiro Wada, 3-1.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	CP	TP
1	Tom Brands	USA	–	–	Gold
2	Jang Jae-Seong	KOR	–	–	Silver
3	Elbrus Tedieiev	UKR	–	–	Bronze
4	Takahiro Wada	JPN	–	–
5	Magomed Azizov	RUS	–	–
6	Giovanni Schillaci	ITA	–	–
7	Marty Calder	CAN	–	–
8	Ramil Islamov	UZB	–	–
9	István Demeter	HUN	9	16
10	Arout Parsekian	CYP	8	16
11	Siarhei Smal	BLR	6	14
12	Șerban Mumjiev	ROU	5	14
13	Jürgen Scheibe	GER	5	7
14	Enrique Cubas	PER	4	8
15	Len Zaslavsky	AUS	4	9
16	Aníbal Nieves	PUR	3	8
17	Jan Krzesiak	POL	2	8
18	Tjaart du Plessis	RSA	2	2
19	Abbas Haj Kenari	IRI	1	3
=20	Vath Chamroeun	CAM	0	0
=20	Martin Müller	SUI	0	0

Round One (31 July 1996)

Match #1	Takahiro Wada	JPN	grand superiority (11-0) (2:18)	Șerban Mumjiev	ROU
Match #2	Enrique Cubas	PER	decision (7-7) (8:00)	Jan Krzesiak	POL
Match #3	Jang Jae-Seong	KOR	decision (5-2) (5:00)	Arout Parsekian	CYP
Match #4	Elbrus Tedieiev	UKR	decision (5-1) (5:00)	Tjaart du Plessis	RSA
Match #5	István Demeter	HUN	decision (3-0) (5:00)	Aníbal Nieves	PUR
Match #6	Tom Brands	USA	decision (3-0) (5:00)	Abbas Haj Kenari	IRI
Match #7	Siarhei Smal	BLR	decision (6-0) (5:00)	Martin Müller	SUI
Match #8	Jürgen Scheibe	GER	decision (4-2) (5:00)	Marty Calder	CAN
Match #9	Magomed Azizov	RUS	grand superiority (10-0) (1:32)	Vath Chamroeun	CAM
Match #10	Giovanni Schillaci	ITA	grand superiority (10-0) (2:14)	Len Zaslavsky	AUS
Match #11	Ramil Islamov	UZB	bye

Round Two (31 July 1996)

Match #1	Takahiro Wada	JPN	decision (3-2) (5:00)	Ramil Islamov	UZB
Match #2	Jang Jae-Seong	KOR	decision (3-0) (5:00)	Enrique Cubas	PER
Match #3	Elbrus Tedieiev	UKR	grand superiority (11-1) (3:33)	István Demeter	HUN
Match #4	Tom Brands	USA	decision (5-0) (5:00)	Siarhei Smal	BLR
Match #5	Magomed Azizov	RUS	decision (8-2) (5:00)	Jürgen Scheibe	GER
Match #6	Giovanni Schillaci	ITA	bye

Quarter-Finals (1 August 1996)

Match #1	Giovanni Schillaci	ITA	decision (4-3) (8:00)	Takahiro Wada	JPN
Match #2	Jang Jae-Seong	KOR	decision (3-1) (5:00)	Elbrus Tedieiev	UKR
Match #3	Tom Brands	USA	bye
Match #4	Magomed Azizov	RUS	bye

Semi-Finals (1 August 1996)

Match #1	Jang Jae-Seong	KOR	decision (1-1) (8:00)	Giovanni Schillaci	ITA
Match #2	Tom Brands	USA	decision (4-1) (5:00)	Magomed Azizov	RUS

Final Round (1 August 1996)

Match 1/2	Tom Brands	USA	decision (7-0) (5:00)	Jang Jae-Seong	KOR
Match 3/4	Elbrus Tedieiev	UKR	decision (3-1) (5:00)	Takahiro Wada	JPN
Match 5/6	Magomed Azizov	RUS	default (0-0) (0:00)	Giovanni Schillaci	ITA
Match 7/8	Marty Calder	CAN	decision (9-1) (5:00)	Ramil Islamov	UZB

Classification Round Two (31 July 1996)

Match #1	Șerban Mumjiev	ROU	grand superiority (12-1) (5:00)	Jan Krzesiak	POL
Match #2	Arout Parsekian	CYP	decision (3-1) (5:00)	Tjaart du Plessis	RSA
Match #3	Aníbal Nieves	PUR	decision (8-3) (5:00)	Abbas Haj Kenari	IRI
Match #4	Marty Calder	CAN	decision (6-0) (5:00)	Martin Müller	SUI
Match #5	Len Zaslavsky	AUS	fall (9-0) (2:57)	Vath Chamroeun	CAM

Classification Round Three (31 July 1996)

Match #1	Arout Parsekian	CYP	decision (7-2) (5:00)	Șerban Mumjiev	ROU
Match #2	Marty Calder	CAN	decision (3-0) (5:00)	Aníbal Nieves	PUR
Match #3	Ramil Islamov	UZB	grand superiority (10-0) (1:15)	Len Zaslavsky	AUS
Match #4	István Demeter	HUN	grand superiority (11-1) (4:56)	Enrique Cubas	PER
Match #5	Siarhei Smal	BLR	decision (8-1) (5:00)	Jürgen Scheibe	GER

Classification Round Four (1 August 1996)

Match #1	Marty Calder	CAN	decision (10-4) (5:00)	Arout Parsekian	CYP
Match #2	Ramil Islamov	UZB	decision (6-1) (5:00)	István Demeter	HUN
Match #3	Takahiro Wada	JPN	decision (3-0) (5:00)	Siarhei Smal	BLR
Match #4	Elbrus Tedieiev	UKR	bye

Classification Round Five (1 August 1996)

Match #1	Elbrus Tedieiev	UKR	decision (5-4) (5:18)	Ramil Islamov	UZB
Match #2	Takahiro Wada	JPN	decision (7-3) (5:00)	Marty Calder	CAN

Classification Round Six (1 August 1996)

Match #1	Elbrus Tedieiev	UKR	decision (10-3) (5:00)	Giovanni Schillaci	ITA
Match #2	Takahiro Wada	JPN	grand superiority (10-0) (2:22)	Magomed Azizov	RUS