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Heavyweight (>95 kilograms), Men

Date27 July 1980 — 10:00-19:00
StatusOlympic
LocationDvorets sporta, Tsentralny stadion imeni V. I. Lenina, Moskva
Participants16 from 16 countries
FormatTwo single-elimination pools, with winner of each pool advanced to the final. All judoka losing to the winner of each pool advanced to repêchage pools, with the winners of the repêchage pools earning bronze medals.

The Japanese would have been heavily favored as Sumio Endo and Yasuhiro Yamashita had won the heavyweight and open classes at the 1979 World Championships. In their absence the favorite was European Champion Angelo Parisi, although he had only recently moved up from the half-heavyweight division. He made it to the final where he faced the 1979 European Junior Champion, Dimitar Zapryanov (BUL), who was much larger than Parisi at 140 kg. Parisi won the gold medal by ippon, throwing Zapryanov with seoi-otoshi at 6:14 of the final. Yamashita, who would win the 1984 open gold medal, watched the competition and proclaimed Parisi the only man worth watching in Moskva. Parisi represented France, although he had been born in Italy. He moved to England as a youth and competed on the British team, but switched to the French team after marrying a French woman.

PosCompetitor(s)NOC
1Angelo ParisiFRAGold
2Dimitar ZapryanovBULSilver
=3Vladimír KocmanTCHBronze
=3Radomir KovačevićYUGBronze
5Kim Myong-GyuPRK
6Paul RadburnGBR
=7Wojciech ReszkoPOL
=8Jean ZinnikerSUI
=8Imre VargaHUN
=10Mihai CiocROU
=10Abdoulaye KoteSEN
=10Peter AdelaarNED
=10Sayed FarhadKUW
=10Vitaly KuznetsovURS
=10Oswaldo Simões FilhoBRA
16Güsemiin JalaaMGL

Pool A (27 July 1980)

Round One (27 July 1980)

Match #1 Mihai CiocROU bye

Quarter-Finals (27 July 1980)

Match #1 Paul RadburnGBR
Waza-ari (5:00)
Mihai CiocROU
Match #2 Jean ZinnikerSUI
Waza-ari (5:00)
Abdoulaye KoteSEN
Match #3 Vladimír KocmanTCH
Sogo-gachi (4:56)
Peter AdelaarNED
Match #4 Angelo ParisiFRA
Yuko (5:00)
Wojciech ReszkoPOL

Semi-Finals (27 July 1980)

Match #1 Paul RadburnGBR
Ippon (5:00)
Jean ZinnikerSUI
Match #2 Angelo ParisiFRA
Seoi-otoshi/Ippon (1:24)
Vladimír KocmanTCH

Final Round (27 July 1980)

Match #1 Angelo ParisiFRA
Waza-ari/Keikoku (5:00)
Paul RadburnGBR

Repêchage (27 July 1980)

Match #1 Vladimír KocmanTCH
Yusei-gachi (5:00)
Wojciech ReszkoPOL
Match 3/4 Vladimír KocmanTCH
Ippon (5:02)
Paul RadburnGBR

Pool B (27 July 1980)

Round One (27 July 1980)

Match #1 Radomir KovačevićYUG
Ippon (1:07)
Güsemiin JalaaMGL

Quarter-Finals (27 July 1980)

Match #1 Radomir KovačevićYUG
Koka/Shido (5:00)
Vitaly KuznetsovURS
Match #2 Dimitar ZapryanovBUL bye
Match #3 Kim Myong-GyuPRK
Koka/Shido (5:00)
Oswaldo Simões FilhoBRA
Match #4 Imre VargaHUN
Ippon (0:59)
Sayed FarhadKUW

Semi-Finals (27 July 1980)

Match #1 Dimitar ZapryanovBUL
Ippon (2:46)
Radomir KovačevićYUG
Match #2 Kim Myong-GyuPRK
Yuko/Chui (5:00)
Imre VargaHUN

Final Round (27 July 1980)

Match #1 Dimitar ZapryanovBUL
Yusei-gachi (5:00)
Kim Myong-GyuPRK

Repêchage (27 July 1980)

Final Round (27 July 1980)

Match 1/2 Angelo ParisiFRA
Seoi-otoshi/Ippon (6:14)
Dimitar ZapryanovBUL