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Featherweight, Greco-Roman (≤62 kg), Men

Date	21 – 22 July 1996
Status	Olympic
Location	Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia (Hall G)
Participants	19 from 19 countries
Format	Single-elimination tournament with classification rounds for placements.

This was expected to be an easy victory for Russian Sergey Martynov, who had won the last four World Championships, and three of the last five Europeans, including earlier in 1996. In round two he was drawn against Juan Luis Marén, the bronze medalist from Barcelona, and Marén knocked Martynov out of gold medal contention, defeating him 5-4. Marén went to the final where he met Poland’s Włodzimierz Zawadzki, medalist at the 1994-95 Worlds, and the 1991 and 1995 European Champion. Zawadzki won a well-fought match, 3-1, to take the gold medal. Marén would win another silver medal in this class, his third Olympic medal, at Sydney in 2000.

Pos	Competitor	NOC	CP	TP
1	Włodzimierz Zawadzki	POL	–	–	Gold
2	Juan Luis Marén	CUB	–	–	Silver
3	Mehmet Akif Pirim	TUR	–	–	Bronze
4	Koba Guliashvili	GEO	–	–
5	Ivan Ivanov	BUL	–	–
6	Hryhoriy Kamyshenko	UKR	–	–
7	Mkhitar Manukyan	ARM	–	–
8	Sergey Martynov	RUS	–	–
9	Choi Sang-Seon	KOR	7	18
10	David Zuniga	USA	5	10
11	Ahad Pazach	IRI	5	8
12	Hu Guohong	CHN	4	9
13	Ihar Piatrenka	BLR	4	8
14	Usama Aziz	SWE	4	7
15	Marco Sánchez	PUR	2	8
16	Bakhodir Kurbanov	UZB	2	4
17	Aristidis Roumpenian	GRE	2	2
18	Ainsley Robinson	CAN	1	2
19	Winston Santos	VEN	0	0

Round One

Date	21 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	21 Jul	Hall G	Koba Guliashvili	GEO	4	Aristidis Roumpenian	GRE
Match #2	21 Jul	Hall G	Włodzimierz Zawadzki	POL	4	Ihar Piatrenka	BLR
Match #3	21 Jul	Hall G	Usama Aziz	SWE	6	Marco Sánchez	PUR
Match #4	21 Jul	Hall G	Mkhitar Manukyan	ARM	11	Hu Guohong	CHN
Match #5	21 Jul	Hall G	Hryhoriy Kamyshenko	UKR	10	Winston Santos	VEN
Match #6	21 Jul	Hall G	Ivan Ivanov	BUL	1	Mehmet Akif Pirim	TUR
Match #7	21 Jul	Hall G	David Zuniga	USA	3	Ainsley Robinson	CAN
Match #8	21 Jul	Hall G	Sergey Martynov	RUS	3	Choi Sang-Seon	KOR
Match #9	21 Jul	Hall G	Juan Luis Marén	CUB	5	Ahad Pazach	IRI
Match #10	21 Jul	Hall G	Bakhodir Kurbanov	UZB

Round Two

Date	21 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	21 Jul	Hall G	Koba Guliashvili	GEO	10	Bakhodir Kurbanov	UZB
Match #2	21 Jul	Hall G	Włodzimierz Zawadzki	POL	3	Usama Aziz	SWE
Match #3	21 Jul	Hall G	Hryhoriy Kamyshenko	UKR	3	Mkhitar Manukyan	ARM
Match #4	21 Jul	Hall G	Ivan Ivanov	BUL	3	David Zuniga	USA
Match #5	21 Jul	Hall G	Juan Luis Marén	CUB	5	Sergey Martynov	RUS

Quarter-Finals

Date	22 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	22 Jul	Hall G	Włodzimierz Zawadzki	POL	3	Koba Guliashvili	GEO
Match #2	22 Jul	Hall G	Hryhoriy Kamyshenko	UKR
Match #3	22 Jul	Hall G	Ivan Ivanov	BUL
Match #4	22 Jul	Hall G	Juan Luis Marén	CUB

Semi-Finals

Date	22 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	22 Jul	Hall G	Włodzimierz Zawadzki	POL	8	Hryhoriy Kamyshenko	UKR
Match #2	22 Jul	Hall G	Juan Luis Marén	CUB	4	Ivan Ivanov	BUL

Final Round

Date	22 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match 1/2	22 Jul	Hall G	Włodzimierz Zawadzki	POL	3	Juan Luis Marén	CUB
Match 3/4	22 Jul	Hall G	Mehmet Akif Pirim	TUR	9	Koba Guliashvili	GEO
Match 5/6	22 Jul	Hall G	Ivan Ivanov	BUL	3	Hryhoriy Kamyshenko	UKR
Match 7/8	22 Jul	Hall G	Mkhitar Manukyan	ARM

Classification Round Two

Date	21 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	21 Jul	Hall G	Ihar Piatrenka	BLR	3	Aristidis Roumpenian	GRE
Match #2	21 Jul	Hall G	Hu Guohong	CHN	8	Marco Sánchez	PUR
Match #3	21 Jul	Hall G	Mehmet Akif Pirim	TUR	5	Winston Santos	VEN
Match #4	21 Jul	Hall G	Choi Sang-Seon	KOR	7	Ainsley Robinson	CAN
Match #5	21 Jul	Hall G	Ahad Pazach	IRI

Classification Round Three

Date	21 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	21 Jul	Hall G	Ahad Pazach	IRI	6	Ihar Piatrenka	BLR
Match #2	21 Jul	Hall G	Mehmet Akif Pirim	TUR	3	Hu Guohong	CHN
Match #3	21 Jul	Hall G	Choi Sang-Seon	KOR	11	Bakhodir Kurbanov	UZB
Match #4	21 Jul	Hall G	Mkhitar Manukyan	ARM	4	Usama Aziz	SWE
Match #5	21 Jul	Hall G	Sergey Martynov	RUS	6	David Zuniga	USA

Classification Round Four

Date	22 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	22 Jul	Hall G	Mehmet Akif Pirim	TUR	4	Ahad Pazach	IRI
Match #2	22 Jul	Hall G	Mkhitar Manukyan	ARM	5	Choi Sang-Seon	KOR
Match #3	22 Jul	Hall G	Koba Guliashvili	GEO	7	Sergey Martynov	RUS

Classification Round Five

Date	22 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	22 Jul	Hall G	Mehmet Akif Pirim	TUR	9	Mkhitar Manukyan	ARM
Match #2	22 Jul	Hall G	Koba Guliashvili	GEO

Classification Round Six

Date	22 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	22 Jul	Hall G	Mehmet Akif Pirim	TUR	2	Hryhoriy Kamyshenko	UKR
Match #2	22 Jul	Hall G	Koba Guliashvili	GEO	3	Ivan Ivanov	BUL