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

Left-right: Doug Rogers, Isao Inokuma, Parnaoz Chikviladze and Anzor Kiknadze

Judo at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Lightweight		men
Middleweight		men
Heavyweight		men
Open		men

The heavyweight class was a judo event held as part of the Judo at the 1964 Summer Olympics programme. The weight class was the heaviest contested, and allowed judokas over eighty kilograms. The competition was held on Thursday, October 22, 1964.

Fourteen judokas from twelve nations competed. The final between Inokuma and Rogers was a draw with Inokuma given a preference for a slightly higher activity. Little occurred in the first 10 minutes, and the referee Charles Palmer threatened to disqualify both and award no gold medal, yet with little effect.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Isao Inokuma  Japan	Doug Rogers  Canada	Parnaoz Chikviladze  Soviet Union Anzor Kiknadze  Soviet Union

Results

Elimination round

The fifteen competitors were divided into five pools of three. Each pool played a round-robin tournament, with the winner of the pool advancing to the quarterfinals.

Pool A

Place	Judoka	Score	Qual.
1	Doug Rogers (CAN)	2-0	QQ
2	Chang Chung-Huei (ROC)	1-1
3	Salvador Goldschmied (MEX)	0-2

Pool B

Place	Judoka	Score	Qual.
1	Parnaoz Chikviladze (URS)	2-0	QQ
2	George Harris (USA)	1-1
3	Anthony Sweeney (GBR)	0-2

Pool C

Place	Judoka	Score	Qual.
1	Anzor Kiknadze (URS)	2-0	QQ
2	Job Gouweleeuw (NED)	1-1
3	Herbert Niemann (EUA)	0-2

Pool D

Place	Judoka	Score	Qual.
1	Isao Inokuma (JPN)	2-0	QQ
2	Michel Casella (ARG)	1-1
—	Ang Teck Bee (MAS)	0-2

Teck Bee Age did not compete.

Pool E

Place	Judoka	Score	Qual.
1	Kim Jong-Dal (KOR)	2-0	QQ
2	Nicola Tempesta (ITA)	1-1
3	Huang Yong-Chun (ROC)	0-2

Knockout rounds

The remaining five judokas competed in a single elimination bracket. Three received a bye in the quarterfinals, leaving only one match. The loser of that match placed 5th overall, while both losers in the semifinals won bronze medals.

Quarterfinals October 22				Semifinals October 22				Final October 22
Isao Inokuma (JPN)	Kusure-kami-shiho-gatame
Kim Jong-Dal (KOR)	2:57			Isao Inokuma (JPN)	Tai-otoshi
Anzor Kiknadze (URS)	-			Anzor Kiknadze (URS)	4:51
Bye	-							Isao Inokuma (JPN)	Kinsa
Doug Rogers (CAN)	-							Doug Rogers (CAN)	-
Bye	-			Doug Rogers (CAN)	Kinsa
Parnaoz Chikviladze (URS)	-			Parnaoz Chikviladze (URS)	-
Bye	-

References

1. Judo at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Men's Heavyweight. sports-reference.com

Sources

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