# Wrestling at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 63 kg

The Men's Freestyle 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 | Masaaki Kaneko Japan |
| Silver | Enyu Todorov Bulgaria |
| Bronze | Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi Iran |

## 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 |
| 1 | 1 | Vehbi Akdağ (TUR) | | Jürgen Luczak (GDR) | 3 | 3 |
| 3 | 3 | Bobby Douglas (USA) | | Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi (IRI) | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | Yelkan Tedeyev (URS) | | Mohammad Ebrahimi (AFG) | 3 | 3 |
| 3 | 3 | Tadeusz Godyń (POL) | | Tsedendambyn Natsagdorj (MGL) | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | 4 | Gabriel Ruz (MEX) | TF / 2:47 | Masaaki Kaneko (JPN) | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | Choi Jeong-hyeok (KOR) | TF / 2:24 | Onésimo Rufino (DOM) | 4 | 4 |
| 0.5 | 0.5 | Petre Coman (ROU) | | John McCourtney (GBR) | 3.5 | 3.5 |
| 3 | 3 | Patrick Bolger (CAN) | | József Rusznyák (HUN) | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | Enyu Todorov (BUL) | TF / 10:09 | José Ramos (CUB) | 4 | 4 |
| 0 | 0 | Ismail Al-Karaghouli (IRQ) | TF / 5:45 | José García (GUA) | 4 | 4 |
| 4 | 4 | Antonio Senosa (PHI) | TF / 6:15 | Nikolaos Karypidis (GRE) | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | | Josef Engel (TCH) | | Bye | | |

### 2nd round

| TPP | MPP | | Score | | MPP | TPP |
| 3 | 3 | Josef Engel (TCH) | | Vehbi Akdağ (TUR) | 1 | 2 |
| 6.5 | 3.5 | Hans-Jürgen Luczak (GDR) | | Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi (IRI) | 0.5 | 1.5 |
| 1 | 0 | Yelkan Tedeyev (URS) | TF / 9:04 | Tadeusz Godyń (POL) | 4 | 7 |
| 5 | 2 | Mohammad Ebrahimi (AFG) | | Tsedendambyn Natsagdorj (MGL) | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | 3 | Gabriel Ruz (MEX) | | Choi Jung-Heuk (KOR) | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | Masaaki Kaneko (JPN) | TF / 2:06 | Onésimo Rufino (DOM) | 4 | 8 |
| 1 | 0.5 | Petre Coman (ROU) | | Patrick Bolger (CAN) | 3.5 | 6.5 |
| 7.5 | 4 | John McCourtney (GBR) | TF / 5:45 | József Rusznyák (HUN) | 0 | 1 |
| 0.5 | 0.5 | Enyu Todorov (BUL) | | Ismail Al-Karaghouli (IRQ) | 3.5 | 3.5 |
| 4 | 0 | José Ramos (CUB) | TF / 5:57 | Antonio Senosa (PHI) | 4 | 8 |
| 8 | 4 | José García (GUA) | TF / 4:47 | Nikolaos Karypidis (GRE) | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | | Bobby Douglas (USA) | | DNA | | |

### 3rd round

| TPP | MPP | | Score | | MPP | TPP |
| 7 | 4 | Josef Engel (TCH) | TF / 8:39 | Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi (IRI) | 0 | 1.5 |
| 4 | 2 | Vehbi Akdağ (TUR) | | Yelkan Tedeyev (URS) | 2 | 3 |
| 6.5 | 3.5 | Tsedendambyn Natsagdorj (MGL) | | Masaaki Kaneko (JPN) | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| 4 | 3 | Choi Jung-Heuk (KOR) | | Petre Coman (ROU) | 1 | 2 |
| 4.5 | 3.5 | József Rusznyák (HUN) | | Enyu Todorov (BUL) | 0.5 | 1 |
| 6 | 2 | José Ramos (CUB) | | Ismail Al-Karaghouli (IRQ) | 2 | 5.5 |
| 0 | | Nikolaos Karypidis (GRE) | | Bye | | |
| 5 | | Mohammad Ebrahimi (AFG) | | DNA | | |

### 4th round

| TPP | MPP | | Score | | MPP | TPP |
| 2.5 | 2.5 | Nikolaos Karypidis (GRE) | | Vehbi Akdağ (TUR) | 2.5 | 6.5 |
| 2.5 | 1 | Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi (IRI) | | Yelkan Tedeyev (URS) | 3 | 6 |
| 0.5 | 0 | Masaaki Kaneko (JPN) | TF / 5:31 | Choi Jung-Heuk (KOR) | 4 | 8 |
| 5 | 3 | Petre Coman (ROU) | | Enyu Todorov (BUL) | 1 | 2 |
| 7.5 | 3 | József Rusznyák (HUN) | | Ismail Al-Karaghouli (IRQ) | 1 | 6.5 |

### 5th round

| TPP | MPP | | Score | | MPP | TPP |
| 6.5 | 4 | Nikolaos Karypidis (GRE) | TF / 1:39 | Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi (IRI) | 0 | 2.5 |
| 1.5 | 1 | Masaaki Kaneko (JPN) | | Petre Coman (ROU) | 3 | 8 |
| 2 | | Enyu Todorov (BUL) | | Bye | | |

### Final round

Results from the preliminary round are carried forward into the final (shown in yellow).
| TPP | MPP | | | MPP | TPP |
| | 2 | Enyu Todorov (BUL) | Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi (IRI) | 2 | |
| | 2.5 | Masaaki Kaneko (JPN) | Enyu Todorov (BUL) | 2.5 | 4.5 |
| 5 | 3 | Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi (IRI) | Masaaki Kaneko (JPN) | 1 | 3.5 |

## Final standings

* Masaaki Kaneko (JPN)
* Enyu Todorov (BUL)
* Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi (IRI)
* Nikolaos Karypidis (GRE)
* Petre Coman (ROU)
* Yelkan Tedeyev (URS)