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Half-Middleweight (≤78 kilograms), Men

Date29 July 1980 — 10:00-19:00
StatusOlympic
LocationDvorets sporta, Tsentralny stadion imeni V. I. Lenina, Moskva
Participants23 from 23 countries
FormatTwo single-elimination pools, with winner of each pool advanced to the final. All judoka losing to the winner of each pool advanced to repêchage pools, with the winners of the repêchage pools earning bronze medals.

This was the class most affected by the boycott as Japan’s Shozo Fujii, four-time World Champion, was not present. In addition the 1980 European Champion, Neil Adams, dropped back to the lightweight class in Moskva. In their absence, the class came down, as did many in 1980 judo, to Soviet, Cuban, and East German fighters. The final matched Shota Khabareli (USSR and Georgia) against Cuba’s Juan Ferrer. Ferrer opened with koka at 23 seconds, but Khabarelli equaled the match at two minutes, and made the winning move at four minutes, scoring a yuko from ouchi-gari. The bronze medalists, Bernard Tchoullouyan of France and Harald Heinke of East Germany, had also won medals in this class at the 1979 Worlds.

PosCompetitor(s)NOC
1Shota KhabareliURSGold
2Juan FerrerCUBSilver
=3Bernard TchoullouyanFRABronze
=3Harald HeinkeGDRBronze
=5Mircea FrățicăROU
=5Ignacio SanzESP
=7Georgi PetrovBUL
=7Slavko SikirićYUG
9Dave McManusIRL
=10António RoquetePOR
=10Carlos Alberto CunhaBRA
=12Chris BowlesGBR
=12Berkane AddaALG
=12Dovdongiin DashjamtsMGL
=12Thomas HagmannSUI
=12Vladimír BártaTCH
=17Philippe SimoCMR
=17Karim BadianeSEN
=17Jarosław BrawataPOL
=17Henry SichalweZAM
=17János GyániHUN
=17Michel GrantSWE
=17Bassam El-JabbinSYR

Pool A (29 July 1980)

Round One (29 July 1980)

Match #1 Chris BowlesGBR
Yusei-gachi (5:00)
Philippe SimoCMR
Match #2 Berkane AddaALG
Ippon (2:07)
Jarosław BrawataPOL
Match #3 Juan FerrerCUB
Waza-ari (5:00)
Dave McManusIRL
Match #4 Ignacio SanzESP
Ippon (0:20)
Bassam El-JabbinSYR

Quarter-Finals (29 July 1980)

Match #1 Bernard TchoullouyanFRA
Yusei-gachi (5:00)
Chris BowlesGBR
Match #2 António RoquetePOR
Waza-ari (5:00)
Berkane AddaALG
Match #3 Juan FerrerCUB
Yuko (5:00)
Slavko SikirićYUG
Match #4 Ignacio SanzESP
Ippon (1:31)
Dovdongiin DashjamtsMGL

Semi-Finals (29 July 1980)

Match #1 Bernard TchoullouyanFRA
Ippon (1:54)
António RoquetePOR
Match #2 Juan FerrerCUB
Ippon (1:09)
Ignacio SanzESP

Final Round (29 July 1980)

Match #1 Juan FerrerCUB
Uchi-mata/Ippon (0:28)
Bernard TchoullouyanFRA

Repêchage (29 July 1980)

Match #1 Slavko SikirićYUG
Yusei-gachi (5:00)
Dave McManusIRL
Match #2 Ignacio SanzESP
Ippon (3:17)
Slavko SikirićYUG
Match 3/4 Bernard TchoullouyanFRA
Waza-ari-wasete Ippon (7:00)
Ignacio SanzESP

Pool B (29 July 1980)

Round One (29 July 1980)

Match #1 Harald HeinkeGDR
Koka (5:00)
Karim BadianeSEN
Match #2 Vladimír BártaTCH
Ippon (0:09)
Henry SichalweZAM
Match #3 Carlos Alberto CunhaBRA
Waza-ari (5:00)
Michel GrantSWE
Match #4 Mircea FrățicăROU
Waza-ari (5:00)
János GyániHUN

Quarter-Finals (29 July 1980)

Match #1 Shota KhabareliURS
Koka (5:00)
Harald HeinkeGDR
Match #2 Georgi PetrovBUL
Yusei-gachi (5:00)
Vladimír BártaTCH
Match #3 Carlos Alberto CunhaBRA
Yusei-gachi (5:00)
Thomas HagmannSUI
Match #4 Mircea FrățicăROU bye

Semi-Finals (29 July 1980)

Match #1 Shota KhabareliURS
Koka/Shido (5:00)
Georgi PetrovBUL
Match #2 Mircea FrățicăROU
Ippon (4:12)
Carlos Alberto CunhaBRA

Final Round (29 July 1980)

Match #1 Shota KhabareliURS
Yuko (5:00)
Mircea FrățicăROU

Repêchage (29 July 1980)

Match #1 Harald HeinkeGDR
Yuko (5:00)
Georgi PetrovBUL
Match 3/4 Mircea FrățicăROU
Yuko/Chui (7:00)
Harald HeinkeGDR

Final Round (29 July 1980)

Match 1/2 Shota KhabareliURS
O-uchi-gari/Yuko (7:00)
Juan FerrerCUB