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Light-Heavyweight (≤81 kilograms), Men

Date13 – 26 October 1968
StatusOlympic
LocationArena México, Ciudad de México
Participants18 from 18 countries
FormatSingle elimination tournament.

The semi-finals in this class came down to an all-Eastern bloc tournament, with Soviet Lithuanian Danas Pozniakas defeating Bulgarian Georgi Stankov, and Romania’s Ion Monea winning by majority decision over Poland’s Stanisław Dragan. But in that second semi, Monea sustained a broken nose and could not appear for the final, Pozniakas winning the gold medal by a walkover. Pozniakas had been the favorite, having won the European Amateur title in 1965 and 1967, after taking silver in that class in 1963. He had been expected to make the 1964 Soviet Olympic team, but lost in the trials to Aleksey Kiselyov, who won a silver in the light-heavyweight class in 1964 and in the 1968 middleweight class in Mexico. Pozniakas would return in 1969 to win a third consecutive European Championship and then retired from competition. Monea was competing in his third Olympics, having won a bronze medal in 1960 as a middleweight, and he had lost in the semi-finals of the 1967 Europeans to Pozniakas, taking a bronze medal there as well.

PosCompetitorNOC
1Danas PozniakasURSGold
2Ion MoneaROUSilver
=3Georgi StankovBULBronze
=3Stanisław DraganPOLBronze
=5Bernard MalherbeFRA
=5Jürgen SchlegelGDR
=5Fatai Ayinla-AdekunleNGR
=5Walter FacchinettiITA
=9Art ReddenUSA
=9Efstathios AlexopoulosGRE
=9Gregorio AldamaCUB
=9Hassan Nour-el-Din AmanEGY
=9Raymar ReimersFRG
=9Enrique VillarrealMEX
=9Jorge ClementePUR
=9Kurt BaumgartnerAUT
=17Soungalo BagayogoMLI
=17Josef KapínTCH

Round One

Date13 October 1968
FormatWinner of each match advanced to the second round.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorNOCResultCompetitorNOC
Match #113 OctGeorgi StankovBUL
Match #213 OctArt ReddenUSA
Match #313 OctBernard MalherbeFRA
Match #413 OctEfstathios AlexopoulosGRE
Match #513 OctDanas PozniakasURS
Match #613 OctGregorio AldamaCUB
Match #713 OctJürgen SchlegelGDR
Match #813 OctHassan Nour-el-Din AmanEGY
Match #913 OctIon MoneaROU
Match #1013 OctRaymar ReimersFRG
Match #1113 OctFatai Ayinla-AdekunleNGR
Match #1213 OctEnrique VillarrealMEX
Match #1313 OctStanisław DraganPOL
Match #1413 OctJorge ClementePUR
Match #1513 OctKurt BaumgartnerAUTDecisionSoungalo BagayogoMLI
Match #1613 OctWalter FacchinettiITADecisionJosef KapínTCH

Round Two

Date18 October 1968
FormatWinner of each match advanced to the quarter-finals.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorNOCResultCompetitorNOC
Match #118 OctGeorgi StankovBULDecisionArt ReddenUSA
Match #218 OctBernard MalherbeFRADecisionEfstathios AlexopoulosGRE
Match #318 OctDanas PozniakasURSKnock-outGregorio AldamaCUB
Match #418 OctJürgen SchlegelGDRDecisionHassan Nour-el-Din AmanEGY
Match #518 OctIon MoneaROUDecisionRaymar ReimersFRG
Match #618 OctFatai Ayinla-AdekunleNGRReferee stops contestEnrique VillarrealMEX
Match #718 OctStanisław DraganPOLKnock-outJorge ClementePUR
Match #818 OctWalter FacchinettiITADisqualifiedKurt BaumgartnerAUT

Quarter-Finals

Date20 October 1968
FormatWinner of each match advanced to the semi-finals.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorNOCResultCompetitorNOC
Match #120 OctGeorgi StankovBULDecisionBernard MalherbeFRA
Match #220 OctDanas PozniakasURSDecisionJürgen SchlegelGDR
Match #320 OctIon MoneaROUDecisionFatai Ayinla-AdekunleNGR
Match #420 OctStanisław DraganPOLDecisionWalter FacchinettiITA

Semi-Finals

Date24 October 1968
FormatWinner of each match advanced to the final match.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorNOCResultCompetitorNOC
Match #124 OctDanas PozniakasURSDecisionGeorgi StankovBUL
Match #224 OctIon MoneaROUDecisionStanisław DraganPOL

Final Round

Date26 October 1968
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorNOCResultCompetitorNOC
Match 1/226 OctDanas PozniakasURSWalkoverIon MoneaROU