Olympedia – Judo at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Judo at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Dates	20 – 26 July 1996
Medal Events	14

Dates

20 – 26 July 1996

Medal Events

Judo was very popular at the 1996 Olympic Games. It was held at the Georgia World Congress Center, right in downtown Atlanta, and adjacent to the Centennial Olympic Park and the headquarters of the CNN Television Network. Men and women competed in the same 14 events as in 1992, with seven weight classes for men and women. Japan and Korea both won eight medals in Atlanta, with Japan taking three gold to two for Korea. France also won three titles, and six medals in all, with Cuba also winning six medals.

Event	Status	Date	Participants	NOCs
Extra-Lightweight (≤60 kilograms), Men	Olympic	26 July 1996	34	34
Half-Lightweight (≤65 kilograms), Men	Olympic	25 July 1996	35	35
Lightweight (≤71 kilograms), Men	Olympic	24 July 1996	35	35
Half-Middleweight (≤78 kilograms), Men	Olympic	23 July 1996	34	34
Middleweight (≤86 kilograms), Men	Olympic	22 July 1996	33	33
Half-Heavyweight (≤95 kilograms), Men	Olympic	21 July 1996	32	32
Heavyweight (>95 kilograms), Men	Olympic	20 July 1996	33	33
Extra-Lightweight (≤48 kilograms), Women	Olympic	26 July 1996	23	23
Half-Lightweight (≤52 kilograms), Women	Olympic	25 July 1996	21	21
Lightweight (≤56 kilograms), Women	Olympic	24 July 1996	22	22
Half-Middleweight (≤61 kilograms), Women	Olympic	23 July 1996	24	24
Middleweight (≤66 kilograms), Women	Olympic	22 July 1996	20	20
Half-Heavyweight (≤72 kilograms), Women	Olympic	21 July 1996	21	21
Heavyweight (>72 kilograms), Women	Olympic	20 July 1996	20	20
			387 (236/151)	92 (82/49)

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Extra-Lightweight, Men	Tadahiro Nomura	JPN	Girolamo Giovinazzo	ITA	Richard Trautmann Dorjpalamyn Narmandakh	GER MGL
Half-Lightweight, Men	Udo Quellmalz	GER	Yukimasa Nakamura	JPN	Henrique Guimarães Israel Hernández	BRA CUB
Lightweight, Men	Kenzo Nakamura	JPN	Gwak Dae-Seong	KOR	Christophe Gagliano Jimmy Pedro	FRA USA
Half-Middleweight, Men	Djamel Bouras	FRA	Toshihiko Koga	JPN	Soso Lip'art'eliani Jo In-Cheol	GEO KOR
Middleweight, Men	Jeon Gi-Yeong	KOR	Armen Bagdasarov	UZB	Marko Spittka Mark Huizinga	GER NED
Half-Heavyweight, Men	Paweł Nastula	POL	Kim Min-Su	KOR	Aurélio Miguel Stéphane Traineau	BRA FRA
Heavyweight, Men	David Douillet	FRA	Ernesto Pérez	ESP	Harry Van Barneveld Frank Möller	BEL GER
Extra-Lightweight, Women	Kye Sun-Hui	PRK	Ryoko Tamura	JPN	Amarilis Savón Yolanda Soler	CUB ESP
Half-Lightweight, Women	Marie-Claire Restoux	FRA	Hyeon Suk-Hui	KOR	Legna Verdecia Noriko Sugawara	CUB JPN
Lightweight, Women	Driulis González	CUB	Jeong Seon-Yong	KOR	Marisabel Lomba Isabel Fernández	BEL ESP
Half-Middleweight, Women	Yuko Emoto	JPN	Gella Vandecaveye	BEL	Jeong Seong-Suk Jenny Gal-Vismara	KOR NED
Middleweight, Women	Jo Min-Seon	KOR	Aneta Szczepańska	POL	Wang Xianbo Claudia Zwiers	CHN NED
Half-Heavyweight, Women	Ulla Werbrouck	BEL	Yoko Tanabe	JPN	Diadenis Luna Ylenia Scapin	CUB ITA
Heavyweight, Women	Sun Fuming	CHN	Estela Rodríguez	CUB	Christine Cicot Johanna Hagn	FRA GER

NOC		Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Japan	JPN	3	4	1	8
France	FRA	3	0	3	6
Republic of Korea	KOR	2	4	2	8
Cuba	CUB	1	1	4	6
Belgium	BEL	1	1	2	4
Poland	POL	1	1	0	2
Germany	GER	1	0	4	5
People's Republic of China	CHN	1	0	1	2
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	PRK	1	0	0	1
Spain	ESP	0	1	2	3
Italy	ITA	0	1	1	2
Uzbekistan	UZB	0	1	0	1
Netherlands	NED	0	0	3	3
Brazil	BRA	0	0	2	2
Georgia	GEO	0	0	1	1
Mongolia	MGL	0	0	1	1
United States	USA	0	0	1	1

Judo at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Events

Medals

Medal table