Olympic Judo

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  1. Official Site: International Judo Federation
  2. International Olympic Committee: Olympic Judo
  3. Wikipedia: Judo at the Summer Olympics
  4. United States Olympic Committee: USA Judo
  5. NBC Olympics: Olympic Judo Basics
  6. Comcast Net Olympics: How Olympic Judo Is Scored (July 13, 2008)
  7. YouTube Video: Athens 2004 Olympic Judo Highlights (Time: 3:35)


Olympic Judo News and Articles

2008 Olympic Judo

2008 Olympic Judo Medal Winners

Men's Judo
EventGold MedalSilver MedalBronze Medal
Extra-lightweight <60 kg Minho Choi - South Korea Ludwig Paischer - Austria Rishod Sobirov - Uzbekistan and Ruben Houkes - Netherlands
Half-lightweight 60-66 kg Masato Uchishiba - Japan Benjamin Darbelet - France Yordanis Arencibia - Cuba and Pak Chol Min - North Korea
Lightweight 66-73 kg Elnur Mammadli - Azerbaijan Wang Ki-Chun - South Korea Rasul Boqiev - Tajikistan and Leandro Guilheiro - Brazil
Half-middleweight 73-81 kg Ole Bischof - Germany Kim Jae-Bum - South Korea Tiago Camilo - Brazil and Roman Gontiuk - Ukraine
Middleweight: 81-90 kg Irakli Tsirekidze - Georgia Amar Benikhlef - Algeria Hesham Mesbah - Egypt and Sergei Aschwanden - Switzerland
Half-heavyweight: 90-100 kg Tuvshinbayar Naidan - Mongolia Askhat Zhitkeyev - Kazakhstan Movlud Miraliyev - Azerbaijan and Henk Grol - Netherlands
Heavyweight: >100 kg Satoshi Ishii - Japan Abdullo Tangriev - Uzbekistan Lasha Gujejiani - Georgia and Oscar Braison - Cuba


Women's Judo
EventGold MedalSilver MedalBronze Medal
Extra-lightweight <48 kg Alina Alexandra Dumitru - Romania Yanet Bermoy - Cuba Paula Belen Pareto - Argentina and Ryoko Tani - Japan
Half-lightweight 48-52 kg Dongmei Xian - China Kum Ae An - North Korea Soraya Haddad - Algeria and Misato Nakamura - Japan
Lightweight: 52-57 kg Giulia Quintavalle - Italy Deborah Gravenstijn - Netherlands Xu Yan - China and Ketleyn Quadros - Brazil
Half-middleweight: 57-63 kg Ayumi Tanimoto - Japan Lucie Decosse - France Elisabeth Willeboordse - Netherlands and Won Ok-Im - North Korea
Middleweight: 63-70 kg Masae Ueno - Japan Anaysi Hernandez - Cuba Ronda Rousey - United States and Edith Bosch - Netherlands
Half-heavyweight: 70-78 kg Xiuli Yang - China Yalennis Castillo - Cuba Stephanie Possamai - France and Gyeongmi Jeong - South Korea
Heavyweight: >78 kg Tong Wen - China Maki Tsukada - Japan Idalys Ortiz - Cuba and Lucija Polavder - Slovenia


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