Judo at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Judo at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Venue	Jangchung Gymnasium
Dates	25 September to 1 October 1988
Competitors	119 from 62 nations

Judo at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Men
60 kg
65 kg
71 kg
78 kg
86 kg
95 kg
+95 kg

The Judo competition at the 1988 Summer Olympics continued the seven weight classes first used at the 1980 Games. The open division was eliminated from the competition. Women's judo made its first appearance at the Olympic Games, as a demonstration sport. Japan failed to claim the top of the medal count for the first time in an Olympics in which they participated, coming in third behind South Korea and Poland.^[1]

Peter Seisenbacher from Austria and Hitoshi Saito from Japan won the gold medal in their weight classes, defending their titles from 1984, and becoming the first judoka to win gold at two Olympics.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra Lightweight 60 kg	Kim Jae-yup South Korea	Kevin Asano United States	Shinji Hosokawa Japan Amiran Totikashvili Soviet Union
Half Lightweight 65 kg	Lee Kyung-keun South Korea	Janusz Pawłowski Poland	Bruno Carabetta France Yosuke Yamamoto Japan
Lightweight 71 kg	Marc Alexandre France	Sven Loll East Germany	Mike Swain United States Georgy Tenadze Soviet Union
Half Middleweight 78 kg	Waldemar Legień Poland	Frank Wieneke West Germany	Torsten Bréchôt East Germany Bashir Varaev Soviet Union
Middleweight 86 kg	Peter Seisenbacher Austria	Vladimir Shestakov Soviet Union	Akinobu Osako Japan Ben Spijkers Netherlands
Half Heavyweight 95 kg	Aurélio Miguel Brazil	Marc Meiling West Germany	Dennis Stewart Great Britain Robert Van de Walle Belgium
Heavyweight +95 kg	Hitoshi Saito Japan	Henry Stöhr East Germany	Cho Yong-chul South Korea Grigory Verichev Soviet Union

Participating nations

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea	2	0	1	3
2	Poland	1	1	0	2
3	Japan	1	0	3	4
4	France	1	0	1	2
5	Austria	1	0	0	1
	Brazil	1	0	0	1
7	East Germany	0	2	1	3
8	West Germany	0	2	0	2
9	Soviet Union	0	1	4	5
10	United States	0	1	1	2
11	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 nations)		7	7	14	28

Women's demonstration events

Women's judo made its first appearance at the Olympic Games, as a demonstration sport. The following were the results of the women's competition. Women's Judo became an official part of the Olympic games from the 1992 Barcelona games and has been an integral part of the games since.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
−48 kg	Li Zhongyun China	Fumiko Ezaki Japan	Cho Min-sun South Korea Julie Reardon Australia
−52 kg	Sharon Rendle United Kingdom	Dominique Brun France	Alessandra Giungi Italy Kaori Yamaguchi Japan
−56 kg	Suzanne Williams Australia	Liu Guizhu China	Catherine Arnaud France Regina Philips West Germany
−61 kg	Diane Bell United Kingdom	Lynn Roethke United States	Boguslawa Olechnowicz Poland Noriko Mochida Japan
−66 kg	Hikari Sasaki Japan	Brigitte Deydier France	Park Ji-young South Korea Roswitha Hartl Austria
−72 kg	Ingrid Berghmans Belgium	Kim Mi-jung South Korea	Yoko Tanabe Japan Barbara Claßen West Germany
+72 kg	Angelique Seriese Netherlands	Gao Fenglian China	Regina Sigmund West Germany Margaret Castro United States

References

External links

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 20 February 2008.
• Sports123.com
• Videos of the 1988 Judo Summer Olympics