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Middleweight (≤80 kilograms), Men

Date21 October 1964 — 13:00-18:00
StatusOlympic
LocationNippon Budokan, Chiyoda, Tokyo
Participants25 from 20 countries
FormatRound-robin pools advanced judoka to single-elimination tournament.

The favorite was Isao Okano, a 3rd Dan from Chuo University. With only an Open Class conducted at the World Championships until 1965, he had no major international title, but he had not been defeated in several years. His only competition was thought to be the Korean, Kim Eui-Tae. There were eight pools in the event. The second pool was won by Jim Bregman, an American who had trained extensively in Japan. Kim won the sixth pool, and Okano won the eighth pool. In the quarter-finals, Okano faced France’s Lionel Grossain, 1962 European Champion. After five minutes, Grossain found himself on his back, but reversed Okano, putting him onto his back, and at high risk of defeat. Okano grabbed Grossain’s collar in a form of okuri-eri-jime, and suddenly he realized that Grossain was not putting up any fight. He looked at the referee, trying to signal that Grossain was unconscious, but the referee did not acknowledge it. When a Japanese coach pointed out the limp legs of the Frenchman, the referee declared ippon for Okano. Okano immediately set to work to revive Grossain, using katsu, a traditional Japanese resuscitation technique, and he was not injured. After that, the semi-finals were anticlimactic. Okano defeated Kim in the second match by decision while in the first semi-final, Wolfgang Hoffman (GER) defeated Bregman. The final was not competitive, as Okano sidestepped Hoffman’s attempt to throw him, and clamped on a yoko-shiho-gatame, ending the match in 1:36.

PosCompetitor(s)NOC
1Isao OkanoJPNGold
2Wolfgang HofmannGERSilver
=3Jim BregmanUSABronze
=3Kim Ui-TaeKORBronze
=5Rodolfo PérezARG
=5Peter SnijdersNED
=5Lhofei ShiozawaBRA
=5Lionel GrossainFRA
=9Kanapathy MoorthyMAS
=9Gabriel GoldschmiedMEX
=9Jacques le BerréFRA
=9Pipat SingsaneeTHA
=9Alfred RedlAUT
=9Huang Chin-ChunTPE
=9Jan SnijdersNED
=9Fernando Costa MatosPOR
=17Bernardo RepuyanPHI
=17Peter PaigeAUS
=17Orlando MadrigalCRC
=17Thuc Thuân ThaiVNM
=17Narzal GarcíaPHI
=17Lê Bả ThànhVNM
=17Syd HoareGBR
=17Jorge LugoVEN
25Rafael BarqueroCRC

Round One (21 October 1964)

Pool A (21 October 1964)

Match #1 Rodolfo PérezARG
Awase-waza
Kanapathy MoorthyMAS
Match #2 Kanapathy MoorthyMAS
Kaeshi-waza
Bernardo RepuyanPHI
Match #3 Rodolfo PérezARG
Awase-waza
Bernardo RepuyanPHI

Pool B (21 October 1964)

Match #1 Jim BregmanUSA
Uchi-mata
Gabriel GoldschmiedMEX
Match #2 Jim BregmanUSA
Seoi-nage
Peter PaigeAUS
Match #3 Gabriel GoldschmiedMEX
Kinsa
Peter PaigeAUS

Pool C (21 October 1964)

Match #1 Jacques le BerréFRA
Uchi-mata
Orlando MadrigalCRC
Match #2 Wolfgang HofmannGER
Awase-waza
Jacques le BerréFRA
Match #3 Wolfgang HofmannGER
Kusure-kesa-gatame
Orlando MadrigalCRC

Pool D (21 October 1964)

Match #1 Peter SnijdersNED
Awase-waza
Pipat SingsaneeTHA
Match #2 Pipat SingsaneeTHA
Harai-goshi
Thuc Thuân ThaiVNM
Match #3 Peter SnijdersNED
O-uchi-gari
Thuc Thuân ThaiVNM

Pool E (21 October 1964)

Match #1 Alfred RedlAUT
Kesa-gatame
Narzal GarcíaPHI
Match #2 Lhofei ShiozawaBRA
Awase-waza
Rafael BarqueroCRC
Match #3 Lhofei ShiozawaBRA
Awase-waza
Alfred RedlAUT
Match #4 Narzal GarcíaPHI
Kaeshi-waza
Rafael BarqueroCRC
Match #5 Alfred RedlAUT
Awase-waza
Rafael BarqueroCRC
Match #6 Lhofei ShiozawaBRA
Ko-soto-gake
Narzal GarcíaPHI

Pool F (21 October 1964)

Match #1 Huang Chin-ChunTPE
Seoi-nage
Lê Bả ThànhVNM
Match #2 Kim Ui-TaeKOR
Uchi-mata
Huang Chin-ChunTPE
Match #3 Kim Ui-TaeKOR
Awase-waza
Lê Bả ThànhVNM

Pool G (21 October 1964)

Match #1 Lionel GrossainFRA
Waza-ari
Syd HoareGBR
Match #2 Jan SnijdersNED
Kaeshi-waza
Syd HoareGBR
Match #3 Lionel GrossainFRA
Awase-waza
Jan SnijdersNED

Pool H (21 October 1964)

Match #1 Fernando Costa MatosPOR
Waza-ari-chikai-waza
Jorge LugoVEN
Match #2 Isao OkanoJPN
Seoi-nage
Fernando Costa MatosPOR
Match #3 Isao OkanoJPN
Awase-waza
Jorge LugoVEN

Quarter-finals (21 October 1964)

Match #1 Jim BregmanUSA
Awase-waza (5:16)
Rodolfo PérezARG
Match #2 Wolfgang HofmannGER
Uchi-mata (3:10)
Peter SnijdersNED
Match #3 Kim Ui-TaeKOR
Awase-waza (1:33)
Lhofei ShiozawaBRA
Match #4 Isao OkanoJPN
Okuri-eri-jime (5:18)
Lionel GrossainFRA

Semi-finals (21 October 1964)

Match #1 Wolfgang HofmannGER
Udehishigi-juji-gatame (1:21)
Jim BregmanUSA
Match #2 Isao OkanoJPN
Waza-ari-chikai-waza
Kim Ui-TaeKOR

Final Round (21 October 1964)

Match 1/2 Isao OkanoJPN
Yoko-shiho-gatame (1:36)
Wolfgang HofmannGER