# Wrestling at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman 63 kg

The Men's Greco-Roman Featherweight at the 1968 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program were held at the Insurgentes Ice Rink. The featherweight was the third-lightest weight class, allowing wrestlers up to 63 kilograms.

## Medalists

| Gold | Roman Rurua Soviet Union |
| Silver | Hideo Fujimoto Japan |
| Bronze | Simion Popescu Romania |

## Tournament results

The competition used a form of negative points tournament, with negative points given for any result short of a fall. Accumulation of 6 negative points eliminated the wrestler. When only two or three wrestlers remain, a special final round is used to determine the order of the medals.

### Legend

* TF — Won by Fall
* DQ — Won by Passivity or forfeit
* D2 — Both wrestlers lost by Passivity
* DNA — Did not appear
* TPP — Total penalty points
* MPP — Match penalty points

### Penalties

* 0 — Won by Fall and Disqualification
* 0.5 — Won by Technical Superiority
* 1 — Won by Points
* 2 — Draw
* 2.5 — Draw, Passivity
* 3 — Lost by Points
* 3.5 — Lost by Technical Superiority
* 4 — Lost by Fall and Disqualification

### 1st round

| TPP | MPP | | Score | | MPP | TPP |
| 0 | 0 | Jiří Švec (TCH) | TF / 1:21 | José Luis García (GUA) | 4 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 | Nikolaos Lazarou (GRE) | | Tadeusz Godyń (POL) | 3 | 3 |
| 0 | 0 | Metin Alakoç (TUR) | DQ | Adriano Morais (POR) | 4 | 4 |
| 0 | 0 | Seyed Hossein Moareb (IRI) | TF / 8:00 | Yehya Mohamed Hassanein (EGY) | 4 | 4 |
| 0 | 0 | Dimitar Galinchev (BUL) | DQ | Rahal Mahassine (MAR) | 4 | 4 |
| 2.5 | 2.5 | Sreten Damjanović (YUG) | | Kim Ik-Jong (KOR) | 2.5 | 2.5 |
| 3 | 3 | József Rusznyák (HUN) | | Jim Hazewinkel (USA) | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | Roman Rurua (URS) | TF / 5:28 | Ismail Al-Karaghouli (IRQ) | 4 | 4 |
| 0.5 | 0.5 | Simion Popescu (ROU) | | Ponciano Contreras (MEX) | 3.5 | 3.5 |
| 2 | 2 | Lothar Schneider (GDR) | | Martti Laakso (FIN) | 2 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | Léonard Dutz (BEL) | TF / 2:49 | Tortillano Tumasis (PHI) | 4 | 4 |
| 0 | 0 | Hideo Fujimoto (JPN) | | Bye | | |

### 2nd round

| TPP | MPP | | Score | | MPP | TPP |
| 0 | 0 | Hideo Fujimoto (JPN) | TF / 0:20 | José Luis García (GUA) | 4 | 8 |
| 4 | 4 | Jiří Švec (TCH) | DQ | Nikolaos Lazarou (GRE) | 4 | 5 |
| 8 | 4 | Adriano Morais (POR) | DQ | Tadeusz Godyń (POL) | 4 | 7 |
| 1 | 1 | Metin Alakoç (TUR) | | Seyed Hossein Moareb (IRI) | 3 | 3 |
| 1 | 1 | Dimitar Galinchev (BUL) | | Yehya Hassanein (EGY) | 3 | 7 |
| 8 | 4 | Rahal Mahassine (MAR) | | Kim Ik-Jong (KOR) | 0 | 2.5 |
| 2.5 | 0 | Sreten Damjanović (YUG) | TF / 2:23 | József Rusznyák (HUN) | 4 | 7 |
| 5 | 4 | Jim Hazewinkel (USA) | TF / 6:23 | Roman Rurua (URS) | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 1 | Martti Laakso (FIN) | | Ponciano Contreras (MEX) | 3 | 6.5 |
| 8 | 4 | Tortillano Tumasis (PHI) | TF / 2:13 | Simion Popescu (ROU) | 0 | 0.5 |
| 3 | 1 | Lothar Schneider (GDR) | | Léonard Dutz (BEL) | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | | Ismail Al-Karaghouli (IRQ) | | DNA | | |

### 3rd round

| TPP | MPP | | Score | | MPP | TPP |
| 1 | 1 | Hideo Fujimoto (JPN) | | Jiří Švec (TCH) | 3 | 7 |
| 1 | 0 | Metin Alakoç (TUR) | | Nikolaos Lazarou (GRE) | 4 | 9 |
| 7 | 4 | Seyed Hossein Moareb (IRI) | TF / 1:20 | Dimitar Galinchev (BUL) | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | 3.5 | Kim Ik-Jong (KOR) | | Jim Hazewinkel (USA) | 0.5 | 5.5 |
| 0 | 0 | Roman Rurua (URS) | TF / 4:37 | Sreten Damjanović (YUG) | 4 | 6.5 |
| 2.5 | 2 | Simion Popescu (ROU) | | Lothar Schneider (GDR) | 2 | 5 |
| 3 | 0 | Martti Laakso (FIN) | DQ | Léonard Dutz (BEL) | 4 | 9 |

### 4th round

| TPP | MPP | | Score | | MPP | TPP |
| 3 | 2 | Metin Alakoç (TUR) | | Hideo Fujimoto (JPN) | 2 | 3 |
| 8.5 | 3 | Jim Hazewinkel (USA) | | Dimitar Galinchev (BUL) | 1 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | Roman Rurua (URS) | TF / 8:56 | Lothar Schneider (GDR) | 4 | 9 |
| 3.5 | 1 | Simion Popescu (ROU) | | Martti Laakso (FIN) | 3 | 6 |

### 5th round

| TPP | MPP | | | MPP | TPP |
| 5 | 3 | Dimitar Galinchev (BUL) | Hideo Fujimoto (JPN) | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | 3 | Metin Alakoç (TUR) | Roman Rurua (URS) | 1 | 1 |
| 3.5 | | Simion Popescu (ROU) | Bye | | |

### 6th round

| TPP | MPP | | Score | | MPP | TPP |
| 5 | 1 | Hideo Fujimoto (JPN) | | Simion Popescu (ROU) | 3 | 6.5 |
| 2 | 1 | Roman Rurua (URS) | TF / 2:32 | Dimitar Galinchev (BUL) | 3 | 8 |

### Final round

| TPP | MPP | | Score | | MPP | TPP |
| 7 | 2 | Hideo Fujimoto (JPN) | | Roman Rurua (URS) | 2 | 4 |

## Final standings

* Roman Rurua (URS)
* Hideo Fujimoto (JPN)
* Simion Popescu (ROU)
* Dimitar Galinchev (BUL)
* Metin Alakoç (TUR)
* Martti Laakso (FIN)