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Half-Lightweight (≤65 kilograms), Men

Date	25 July 1996
Status	Olympic
Location	Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia (Hall H)
Participants	35 from 35 countries
Format	Two single-elimination pools, with winner of each pool advanced to the final. All judoka losing to the finalists in each pool advanced to repêchage pools, with the winners of the repêchage pools earning bronze medals.

Germany’s Udo Quellmalz was expected to win, having won the 1995 World Championships and World Cup. He won all his preliminary matches by ippon, easily making it to the final, where he faced Japan’s Yukimasa Nakamura, who he had defeated in the 1995 World final in only 13 seconds. But the Olympic final was very different. Nakamura fought tentatively and the match was quite passive, with neither judoka scoring a point. Quellmalz won the gold medal on yusei-gachi, winning by split decision of the judges. Nakamura came from a top judo family, as his older brother, Yoshio, and his younger brother, Kenzo, both won World Championships, and Kenzo would won the gold medal at Atlanta in the lightweight class.

Pos	Competitor	NOC
1	Udo Quellmalz	GER	Gold
2	Yukimasa Nakamura	JPN	Silver
=3	Henrique Guimarães	BRA	Bronze
=3	Israel Hernández	CUB	Bronze
=5	József Csák	HUN
=5	Philip Laats	BEL
=7	Ivan Netov	BUL
=7	Giorgi Revazishvili	GEO
=9	Jarosław Lewak	POL
=9	Michel Almeida	POR
=9	Pürevdorjiin Nyamlkhagva	MGL
=9	Duncan MacKinnon	RSA
=13	Orly Fuentes	USA
=13	Francis Figuereo	DOM
=13	Islam Matsiyev	RUS
=13	Najib Aga	IND
=17	Julian Davies	GBR
=17	Taro Tan	CAN
=17	Timur Mukhamedkhanov	UZB
=17	Lee Seong-Hun	KOR
=21	Abdoul Karim Seck	SEN
=21	Sergey Ashirov	KAZ
=21	Zhang Guangjun	CHN
=21	Francesco Giorgi	ITA
=21	Darren Fagan	AUS
=21	Pasi Laurén	FIN
=21	Antoni Molné	AND
=21	Ciarán Ward	IRL
=21	Jorge Steffano	URU
=21	Larbi Benboudaoud	FRA
=21	Bektaş Demirel	TUR
=21	José Tomás Toro	ESP
=34	Francisco Morales	ARG
=34	Carlos Ramírez	ESA
=34	José Pérez	PUR

Pool A

Date	25 July 1996

Round One

Date	25 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	25 Jul	Hall H	Giorgi Revazishvili	GEO	Waza-ari	Francisco Morales	ARG
Match #2	25 Jul	Hall H	Michel Almeida	POR	Ippon	José Pérez	PUR

Round Two

Date	25 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	25 Jul	Hall H	Julian Davies	GBR	Ippon	Abdoul Karim Seck	SEN
Match #2	25 Jul	Hall H	Jarosław Lewak	POL	Ippon	José Tomás Toro	ESP
Match #3	25 Jul	Hall H	Orly Fuentes	USA	Shido	Sergey Ashirov	KAZ
Match #4	25 Jul	Hall H	Philip Laats	BEL	Ippon	Giorgi Revazishvili	GEO
Match #5	25 Jul	Hall H	Taro Tan	CAN	Koka	Zhang Guangjun	CHN
Match #6	25 Jul	Hall H	Michel Almeida	POR	Koka	Francesco Giorgi	ITA
Match #7	25 Jul	Hall H	Israel Hernández	CUB	Ippon	Darren Fagan	AUS
Match #8	25 Jul	Hall H	Udo Quellmalz	GER	Ippon	Francis Figuereo	DOM

Quarter-Finals

Date	25 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	25 Jul	Hall H	Jarosław Lewak	POL	Yuko	Julian Davies	GBR
Match #2	25 Jul	Hall H	Philip Laats	BEL	Ippon	Orly Fuentes	USA
Match #3	25 Jul	Hall H	Michel Almeida	POR	Yuko	Taro Tan	CAN
Match #4	25 Jul	Hall H	Udo Quellmalz	GER	Ippon	Israel Hernández	CUB

Semi-Finals

Date	25 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	25 Jul	Hall H	Philip Laats	BEL	Koka	Jarosław Lewak	POL
Match #2	25 Jul	Hall H	Udo Quellmalz	GER	Ippon	Michel Almeida	POR

Final Round

Date	25 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	25 Jul	Hall H	Udo Quellmalz	GER	Ippon	Philip Laats	BEL

Repêchage

Date	25 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	25 Jul	Hall H	Giorgi Revazishvili	GEO	Ippon	Orly Fuentes	USA
Match #2	25 Jul	Hall H	Giorgi Revazishvili	GEO	Ippon	Jarosław Lewak	POL
Match #3	25 Jul	Hall H	Israel Hernández	CUB	Ippon	Francis Figuereo	DOM
Match #4	25 Jul	Hall H	Israel Hernández	CUB	Ippon	Michel Almeida	POR
Match #5	25 Jul	Hall H	Israel Hernández	CUB	Ippon	Giorgi Revazishvili	GEO
Match 3/5	25 Jul	Hall H	Israel Hernández	CUB	Yusei-gachi	József Csák	HUN

Pool B

Date	25 July 1996

Round One

Date	25 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	25 Jul	Hall H	Pasi Laurén	FIN	Ippon	Carlos Ramírez	ESA

Round Two

Date	25 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	25 Jul	Hall H	Pürevdorjiin Nyamlkhagva	MGL	Ippon	Pasi Laurén	FIN
Match #2	25 Jul	Hall H	Yukimasa Nakamura	JPN	Sogo-gachi	Islam Matsiyev	RUS
Match #3	25 Jul	Hall H	Timur Mukhamedkhanov	UZB	Ippon	Antoni Molné	AND
Match #4	25 Jul	Hall H	Ivan Netov	BUL	Ippon	Ciarán Ward	IRL
Match #5	25 Jul	Hall H	József Csák	HUN	Ippon	Najib Aga	IND
Match #6	25 Jul	Hall H	Duncan MacKinnon	RSA	Ippon	Jorge Steffano	URU
Match #7	25 Jul	Hall H	Henrique Guimarães	BRA	Koka	Larbi Benboudaoud	FRA
Match #8	25 Jul	Hall H	Lee Seong-Hun	KOR	Keikoku	Bektaş Demirel	TUR

Quarter-Finals

Date	25 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	25 Jul	Hall H	Yukimasa Nakamura	JPN	Chui	Pürevdorjiin Nyamlkhagva	MGL
Match #2	25 Jul	Hall H	Ivan Netov	BUL	Shido	Timur Mukhamedkhanov	UZB
Match #3	25 Jul	Hall H	József Csák	HUN	Ippon	Duncan MacKinnon	RSA
Match #4	25 Jul	Hall H	Henrique Guimarães	BRA	Yusei-gachi	Lee Seong-Hun	KOR

Semi-Finals

Date	25 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	25 Jul	Hall H	Yukimasa Nakamura	JPN	Ippon	Ivan Netov	BUL
Match #2	25 Jul	Hall H	József Csák	HUN	Yuko	Henrique Guimarães	BRA

Final Round

Date	25 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	25 Jul	Hall H	Yukimasa Nakamura	JPN	Yuko	József Csák	HUN

Repêchage

Date	25 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	25 Jul	Hall H	Pürevdorjiin Nyamlkhagva	MGL	Ippon	Islam Matsiyev	RUS
Match #2	25 Jul	Hall H	Ivan Netov	BUL	Ippon	Pürevdorjiin Nyamlkhagva	MGL
Match #3	25 Jul	Hall H	Duncan MacKinnon	RSA	Ippon	Najib Aga	IND
Match #4	25 Jul	Hall H	Henrique Guimarães	BRA	Waza-ari	Duncan MacKinnon	RSA
Match #5	25 Jul	Hall H	Henrique Guimarães	BRA	Ippon	Ivan Netov	BUL
Match 3/5	25 Jul	Hall H	Henrique Guimarães	BRA	Sogo-gachi	Philip Laats	BEL

Final Round

Date	25 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match 1/2	25 Jul	Hall H	Udo Quellmalz	GER	Yusei-gachi	Yukimasa Nakamura	JPN