Date | 28 September 2000 | |
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Status | Olympic | |
Location | State Sports Centre, Olympic Park, Sydney, New South Wales | |
Participants | 14 from 14 countries | |
Format | Single-elimination tournament. All fighters losing to the finalists in each pool advance to repêchage tournament for the bronze medal. |
The favorite in this class was Iran’s Hadj Sayed Bonehkohal, who had won three World Championships, the most recent in 1999 in the lightweight class. He had to move down in weight to compete in the 68 kg. class at Sydney. But Bonehkohal was upset in the semi-finals by Korea’s Sin Joon-Sik. In the final, Sin faced Steve Lopez of the United States. Lopez was a five-time US champion who had won the 1999 Pan-American Games gold medal. Lopez came from a family with three siblings who were world class taekwondo fighters, brothers Jean and Mark, and sister Diana. Diana and Mark narrowly failed to make the qualifying for the Sydney Olympics, but both would become World Champions in 2005. In the Olympic final, Lopez and Sin were tied near the end of the match when the referee, Flavio Pérez of Colombia, deducted a point from Sin’s score because of penalties he had incurred during the match. This was not in accordance with the taekwondo rules and Pérez was suspended for this action but the result was allowed to stand.
Pos | Nr | Fighter | NOC | |||
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1 | 052 | Steven Lopez | ![]() | Gold | ||
2 | 047 | Sin Jun-Sik | ![]() | Silver | ||
3 | 045 | Hadi Saei | ![]() | Bronze | ||
4 | 041 | Tuncay Caliskan | ![]() | |||
=5 | 044 | Aziz Acharki | ![]() | |||
=5 | 040 | Carlo Massimino | ![]() | |||
=7 | 050 | Aslanbek Dzitiyev | ![]() | |||
=7 | 046 | Claudio Nolano | ![]() | |||
=9 | 039 | Alejandro Hernando | ![]() | |||
=9 | 049 | Olivier Bernasconi | ![]() | |||
=11 | 043 | Francisco Zas | ![]() | |||
=11 | 051 | Hsu Chi-Hung | ![]() | |||
=11 | 048 | Nizar Mohamed Naeeli | ![]() | |||
=11 | 042 | Stanislas Ogoudjobi | ![]() |
Winner of each match advanced to the quarter-finals.
Match #1 | Alejandro Hernando | ![]() | Bye | ||
Match #2 | Hadi Saei | ![]() | Hsu Chi-Hung | ![]() | Final Score (5 - 2) |
Match #3 | Sin Jun-Sik | ![]() | Tuncay Caliskan | ![]() | Final Score (7 - 3) |
Match #4 | Aslanbek Dzitiyev | ![]() | Nizar Mohamed Naeeli | ![]() | Final Score (12 - 3) |
Match #5 | Carlo Massimino | ![]() | Francisco Zas | ![]() | Superiority (3 - 3) |
Match #6 | Steven Lopez | ![]() | Claudio Nolano | ![]() | Final Score (7 - 0) |
Match #7 | Aziz Acharki | ![]() | Stanislas Ogoudjobi | ![]() | Final Score (7 - 0) |
Match #8 | Olivier Bernasconi | ![]() | Bye |
Winner of each match advanced to the semi-finals.
Match #1 | Hadi Saei | ![]() | Alejandro Hernando | ![]() | Final Score (3 - 0) |
Match #2 | Sin Jun-Sik | ![]() | Aslanbek Dzitiyev | ![]() | Final Score (9 - 1) |
Match #3 | Steven Lopez | ![]() | Carlo Massimino | ![]() | Superiority (1 - 1) |
Match #4 | Aziz Acharki | ![]() | Olivier Bernasconi | ![]() | Final Score (15 - 1) |
Winner of each match advanced to the final round.
Match #1 | Sin Jun-Sik | ![]() | Hadi Saei | ![]() | Final Score (5 - 3) |
Match #2 | Steven Lopez | ![]() | Aziz Acharki | ![]() | Final Score (2 - 0) |
Winner of each match advanced to the repêchage round two.
Match #1 | Hadi Saei | ![]() | Bye | ||
Match #2 | Carlo Massimino | ![]() | Claudio Nolano | ![]() | Final Score (9 - 7) |
Match #3 | Tuncay Caliskan | ![]() | Aslanbek Dzitiyev | ![]() | Final Score (6 - 0) |
Match #4 | Aziz Acharki | ![]() | Bye |
Winner of each match advanced to the bronze medal match.
Match #1 | Hadi Saei | ![]() | Carlo Massimino | ![]() | Final Score (6 - 5) |
Match #2 | Tuncay Caliskan | ![]() | Aziz Acharki | ![]() | Final Score (7 - 7) |
Match 1/2 | Steven Lopez | ![]() | Sin Jun-Sik | ![]() | Final Score (1 - 0) |
Match 3/4 | Hadi Saei | ![]() | Tuncay Caliskan | ![]() | Final Score (4 - 2) |