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Half-Middleweight (≤61 kilograms), Women

Date23 July 1996
StatusOlympic
LocationGeorgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia (Hall H)
Participants24 from 24 countries
FormatTwo single-elimination pools, with winner of each pool advanced to the final. All judoka losing to the finalists in each pool advanced to repêchage pools, with the winners of the repêchage pools earning bronze medals.

The last two World Champions had been Gella Vandecaveye (BEL-1993) and Jeong Seong-Suk (KOR-1995). Joining them in Atlanta was the defending champion, France’s Catherine Fleury, defending silver medalist Yael Arad of Israel, and the 1996 European Champion, Jenny Gal of the Netherlands. Japan’s Yuko Emoto was not considered a contender. But in Pool B she consecutively defeated Fleury, Arad, and Gal to advance to the final. Jeong had lost the Pool A final to Vandecaveye, and met Emoto in the final. The final was an easy victory for Emoto who used uchi-mata for ippon to win in 0:55. Emoto never made the podium at the World Championships with her best other international placing being a silver at the 1994 Asian Games.

PosCompetitor(s)NOC
1Yuko EmotoJPNGold
2Gella VandecaveyeBELSilver
=3Jenny Gal-VismaraNEDBronze
=3Jeong Seong-SukKORBronze
=5Yael AradISR
=5İlknur KobaşTUR
=7Sara ÁlvarezESP
=7Xiomara GriffithVEN
=9Hajer TbessiTUN
=9Susann SingerGER
=9Tatyana BogomyagkovaRUS
=9Ileana BeltránCUB
=13Laurie PaceMLT
=13Cathy Fleury-VachonFRA
=13Michelle BuckinghamCAN
=16Michaela VernerováCZE
=16Liu LizheCHN
=16Valentina KamsulyevaKAZ
=16Diane BellGBR
=20Celita SchutzUSA
=20Wu Ching HuiHKG
=20Cristiane ParmigianoBRA
=20Birgit BlumLIE
=20Lara SullivanAUS

Pool A (23 July 1996)

Round One (23 July 1996)

Match #1 Xiomara GriffithVEN
Ippon/Harai-goshi (3:04)
Celita SchutzUSA
Match #2 Hajer TbessiTUN
Ippon/Uchi-mata (3:05)
Wu Ching HuiHKG
Match #3 Jeong Seong-SukKOR
Yuko/Uchi-mata (4:00)
Susann SingerGER
Match #4 İlknur KobaşTUR
Ippon/Kusure-kesa-gatame (3:08)
Cristiane ParmigianoBRA

Quarter-Finals (23 July 1996)

Match #1 Xiomara GriffithVEN
Ippon/Harai-makikomi (2:17)
Michaela VernerováCZE
Match #2 Gella VandecaveyeBEL
Ippon/Uchi-mata (0:26)
Hajer TbessiTUN
Match #3 Jeong Seong-SukKOR
Ippon/Sankaku-jime (1:00)
Laurie PaceMLT
Match #4 İlknur KobaşTUR
Waza-ari/Ko-uchi-gari (4:00)
Liu LizheCHN

Semi-Finals (23 July 1996)

Match #1 Gella VandecaveyeBEL
Ippon/Juji-gatame (1:26)
Xiomara GriffithVEN
Match #2 Jeong Seong-SukKOR
Ippon/Sankaku-jime (1:31)
İlknur KobaşTUR

Final Round (23 July 1996)

Match #1 Gella VandecaveyeBEL
Yuko/Harai-goshi (4:00)
Jeong Seong-SukKOR

Repêchage (23 July 1996)

Match #1 Xiomara GriffithVEN
Ippon/Kuchiki-taoshi (1:06)
Hajer TbessiTUN
Match #2 Susann SingerGER
Waza-ari-wasete Ippon/O-uchi-gari (0:55)
Laurie PaceMLT
Match #3 İlknur KobaşTUR
Ippon/Kuchiki-taoshi (1:04)
Susann SingerGER
Match #4 İlknur KobaşTUR
Ippon/Ushiro-goshi (0:14)
Xiomara GriffithVEN
Match 3/4 Jenny Gal-VismaraNED
Ippon/Juji-gatame (2:12)
İlknur KobaşTUR

Pool B (23 July 1996)

Round One (23 July 1996)

Match #1 Yuko EmotoJPN
Waza-ari/O-soto-gari (4:00)
Tatyana BogomyagkovaRUS
Match #2 Yael AradISR
Yuko/Seoi-nage (4:00)
Birgit BlumLIE
Match #3 Diane BellGBR
Yusei-gachi (4:00)
Lara SullivanAUS
Match #4 Jenny Gal-VismaraNED
Waza-ari-wasete Ippon/Kusure-yoko-shiho-gatame (2:44)
Michelle BuckinghamCAN

Quarter-Finals (23 July 1996)

Match #1 Yuko EmotoJPN
Yusei-gachi (4:00)
Cathy Fleury-VachonFRA
Match #2 Yael AradISR
Ippon/O-soto-gari (0:55)
Valentina KamsulyevaKAZ
Match #3 Sara ÁlvarezESP
Waza-ari/Tani-otoshi (4:00)
Diane BellGBR
Match #4 Jenny Gal-VismaraNED
Koka/Kesa-gatame (4:00)
Ileana BeltránCUB

Semi-Finals (23 July 1996)

Match #1 Yuko EmotoJPN
Waza-ari/Uchi-mata (4:00)
Yael AradISR
Match #2 Jenny Gal-VismaraNED
Waza-ari-wasete Ippon/Kusure-kesa-gatame (1:12)
Sara ÁlvarezESP

Final Round (23 July 1996)

Match #1 Yuko EmotoJPN
Koka/O-uchi-gari (4:00)
Jenny Gal-VismaraNED

Repêchage (23 July 1996)

Match #1 Tatyana BogomyagkovaRUS
Yuko/Sumi-gaeshi (4:00)
Cathy Fleury-VachonFRA
Match #2 Yael AradISR
Koka/O-soto-gari (4:00)
Tatyana BogomyagkovaRUS
Match #3 Ileana BeltránCUB
Yuko/Sode-tsuri-komi-goshi (4:00)
Michelle BuckinghamCAN
Match #4 Sara ÁlvarezESP
Waza-ari/Kibisu-gaeshi (4:00)
Ileana BeltránCUB
Match #5 Yael AradISR
Ippon/Seoi-nage (3:15)
Sara ÁlvarezESP
Match 3/4 Jeong Seong-SukKOR
Yuko/Uchi-mata (4:00)
Yael AradISR

Final Round (23 July 1996)

Match 1/2 Yuko EmotoJPN
Ippon/Uchi-mata (0:55)
Gella VandecaveyeBEL