Judo at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 80 kg

The middleweight class was a judo event held as part of the Judo at the 1964 Summer Olympics programme. The weight class was the second-lightest contested, and allowed judokas of up to eighty kilograms. The competition was held on Wednesday, October 21, 1964.^[1]

Twenty-five judokas from twenty nations competed.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Isao Okano  Japan	Wolfgang Hofmann  United Team of Germany	James Bregman  United States Kim Eui-Tae  South Korea

Results

Elimination round

The twenty-five competitors were divided into seven pools of three and one group of four. Each pool played a round-robin tournament, with the winner of the pool advancing to the quarterfinals.

Pool A

Place	Judoka	Score	Qual.
1	Rodolfo Pérez (ARG)	2–0	QQ
2	Kanapathy Moorthy (MAS)	1–1
3	Bernardo Repuyan (PHI)	0–2

Pool B

Place	Judoka	Score	Qual.
1	James Bregman (USA)	2–0	QQ
2	Gabriel Goldschmied (MEX)	1–1
3	Peter Paige (AUS)	0–2

Pool C

Place	Judoka	Score	Qual.
1	Wolfgang Hofmann (EUA)	2–0	QQ
2	Jacques le Berré (FRA)	1–1
3	Orlando Madrigal (CRC)	0–2

Pool D

Place	Judoka	Score	Qual.
1	Peter Snijders (NED)	2–0	QQ
2	Pipat Singsanee (THA)	1–1
3	Thai Thuc Thuan (VIE)	0–2

Pool E

Place	Judoka	Score	Qual.
1	Lhofei Shiozawa (BRA)	3–0	QQ
2	Alfred Redl (AUT)	2–1
3	Narzal García (PHI)	1–2
4	Rafael Barquero (CRC)	0–3

Pool F

Place	Judoka	Score	Qual.
1	Kim Eui-Tae (KOR)	2–0	QQ
2	Huang Chin-chun (ROC)	1–1
3	Lê Bả Thành (VIE)	0–2

Pool G

Place	Judoka	Score	Qual.
1	Lionel Grossain (FRA)	2–0	QQ
2	Jan Snijders (NED)	1–1
3	Sydney Hoare (GBR)	0–2

Pool H

Place	Judoka	Score	Qual.
1	Isao Okano (JPN)	2–0	QQ
2	Fernando Matos (POR)	1–1
3	Jorge Lugo (VEN)	0–2

Knockout rounds

The remaining eight judokas competed in a single elimination bracket. Losers in the quarterfinals were placed 5–8 while both losers in the semifinals won bronze medals.

	Quarterfinals October 21				Semifinals October 21				Final October 21
	Isao Okano (JPN)	Okuri-eri-jime
	Lionel Grossain (FRA)	5:18			Isao Okano (JPN)	Waza-ari-chikai-waza
	Kim Eui-Tae (KOR)	Awase-waza			Kim Eui-Tae (KOR)	–
	Lhofei Shiozawa (BRA)	1:33							Isao Okano (JPN)	Yoko-shiho-gatame
	Wolfgang Hofmann (EUA)	Uchi-mata							Wolfgang Hofmann (EUA)	1:36
	Peter Snijders (NED)	3:10			Wolfgang Hofmann (EUA)	Udehishigi-juji-gatame
	James Bregman (USA)	Awase-waza			James Bregman (USA)	1:21
	Rodolfo Pérez (ARG)	5:16

Sources

• Tokyo Organizing Committee (1964). The Games of the XVIII Olympiad: Tokyo 1964, vol. 2.