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Half-Middleweight (≤61 kilograms), Women

Date	30 July 1992
Status	Olympic
Location	Palau Blaugrana, Barcelona
Participants	29 from 29 countries
Format	Two 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.

Catherine Fleury (FRA) had won the World and European Championships in 1989, but had struggled since then, and not made an international final in 1990-92. But she made the final in Barcelona with three victories by ippon, and one decision. There she faced Yael Arad. Arad had been bronze medalist at the 1989 Europeans and 1991 Worlds, but of more significance was that she was an Israeli. When Arad won the B Pool final over 1991 World Champion Frauke Eickhoff (GER), making the final, she became the first Israeli athlete to win an Olympic medal – the color to be determined. In the final, neither judoka could score a point, with the hantei being given to Fleury, winning by yusei-gachi for a gold medal. Arad dedicated her silver medal to “The Eleven” – the 11 Israeli athletes and coaches who had been assassinated by Arab terrorists at the 1972 Olympic Games.

Pos	Competitor	NOC
1	Catherine Fleury	FRA	Gold
2	Yael Arad	ISR	Silver
=3	Zhang Di	CHN	Bronze
=3	Yelena Petrova	EUN	Bronze
=5	Frauke Eickhoff	GER
=5	Gu Hyeon-Suk	KOR
=7	Xiomara Griffith	VEN
=7	Begoña Gómez	ESP
=9	Diane Bell	GBR
=9	Ileana Beltrán	CUB
=9	Gella Vandecaveye	BEL
=9	Miroslava Jánošíková	TCH
=13	Nicola Morris	NZL
=13	Debbie Warren-Jeans	ZIM
=13	Jenny Gal-Vismara	NED
=16	Susanne Profanter	AUT
=16	Zsuzsa Nagy	HUN
=16	Gisela Hämmerling	SUI
=16	Birgit Blum	LIE
=20	Eleucadia Vargas	DOM
=20	Bogusława Olechnowicz	POL
=20	Tânia Ishii	BRA
=20	Lkhamaasürengiin Badamsüren	MGL
=20	Michelle Buckingham	CAN
=20	Laurie Pace	MLT
=20	Thant Phyu Phyu	MYA
=20	Felicité Makounawode	CAF
=20	Lynn Roethke	USA
=20	Takako Kobayashi	JPN

Pool A

Date	30 July 1992

Round One

Date	30 July 1992

Match	Date/Time	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	30 Jul	Susanne Profanter	AUT	Yusei-gachi	Eleucadia Vargas	DOM
Match #2	30 Jul	Diane Bell	GBR	Yuko	Bogusława Olechnowicz	POL
Match #3	30 Jul	Zhang Di	CHN	Ippon	Tânia Ishii	BRA
Match #4	30 Jul	Gu Hyeon-Suk	KOR	Ippon	Nicola Morris	NZL
Match #5	30 Jul	Ileana Beltrán	CUB	Ippon	Michelle Buckingham	CAN
Match #6	30 Jul	Catherine Fleury	FRA	Ippon	Debbie Warren-Jeans	ZIM
Match #7	30 Jul	Zsuzsa Nagy	HUN	Ippon	Lkhamaasürengiin Badamsüren	MGL

Quarter-Finals

Date	30 July 1992

Match	Date/Time	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	30 Jul	Diane Bell	GBR	Yuko	Susanne Profanter	AUT
Match #2	30 Jul	Gu Hyeon-Suk	KOR	Yuko	Zhang Di	CHN
Match #3	30 Jul	Catherine Fleury	FRA	Shido	Ileana Beltrán	CUB
Match #4	30 Jul	Xiomara Griffith	VEN	Ippon	Zsuzsa Nagy	HUN

Semi-Finals

Date	30 July 1992

Match	Date/Time	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	30 Jul	Gu Hyeon-Suk	KOR	Yusei-gachi	Diane Bell	GBR
Match #2	30 Jul	Catherine Fleury	FRA	Ippon	Xiomara Griffith	VEN

Final Round

Date	30 July 1992

Match	Date/Time	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	30 Jul	Catherine Fleury	FRA	Ippon	Gu Hyeon-Suk	KOR

Repêchage

Date	30 July 1992

Match	Date/Time	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	30 Jul	Zhang Di	CHN	Waza-ari awasete ippon	Nicola Morris	NZL
Match #2	30 Jul	Zhang Di	CHN	Yuko	Diane Bell	GBR
Match #3	30 Jul	Ileana Beltrán	CUB	Waza-ari	Debbie Warren-Jeans	ZIM
Match #4	30 Jul	Xiomara Griffith	VEN	Yusei-gachi	Ileana Beltrán	CUB
Match #5	30 Jul	Zhang Di	CHN	Yuko	Xiomara Griffith	VEN
Match 3/5	30 Jul	Zhang Di	CHN	Yuko	Frauke Eickhoff	GER

Pool B

Date	30 July 1992

Round One

Date	30 July 1992

Match	Date/Time	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	30 Jul	Jenny Gal-Vismara	NED	Ippon	Laurie Pace	MLT
Match #2	30 Jul	Frauke Eickhoff	GER	Ippon	Yelena Petrova	EUN
Match #3	30 Jul	Gella Vandecaveye	BEL	Ippon	Thant Phyu Phyu	MYA
Match #4	30 Jul	Miroslava Jánošíková	TCH	Ippon	Felicité Makounawode	CAF
Match #5	30 Jul	Birgit Blum	LIE	Koka	Lynn Roethke	USA
Match #6	30 Jul	Begoña Gómez	ESP	Yuko	Takako Kobayashi	JPN

Quarter-Finals

Date	30 July 1992

Match	Date/Time	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	30 Jul	Frauke Eickhoff	GER	Waza-ari	Jenny Gal-Vismara	NED
Match #2	30 Jul	Gella Vandecaveye	BEL	Ippon	Gisela Hämmerling	SUI
Match #3	30 Jul	Miroslava Jánošíková	TCH	Koka	Birgit Blum	LIE
Match #4	30 Jul	Yael Arad	ISR	Waza-ari	Begoña Gómez	ESP

Semi-Finals

Date	30 July 1992

Match	Date/Time	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	30 Jul	Frauke Eickhoff	GER	Waza-ari	Gella Vandecaveye	BEL
Match #2	30 Jul	Yael Arad	ISR	Waza-ari	Miroslava Jánošíková	TCH

Final Round

Date	30 July 1992

Match	Date/Time	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	30 Jul	Yael Arad	ISR	Waza-ari awasete ippon	Frauke Eickhoff	GER

Repêchage

Date	30 July 1992

Match	Date/Time	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	30 Jul	Yelena Petrova	EUN	Ippon	Jenny Gal-Vismara	NED
Match #2	30 Jul	Yelena Petrova	EUN	Waza-ari	Gella Vandecaveye	BEL
Match #3	30 Jul	Begoña Gómez	ESP	Yuko	Miroslava Jánošíková	TCH
Match #4	30 Jul	Yelena Petrova	EUN	Ippon	Begoña Gómez	ESP
Match 3/5	30 Jul	Yelena Petrova	EUN	Ippon	Gu Hyeon-Suk	KOR

Final Round

Date	30 July 1992

Match	Date/Time	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match 1/2	30 Jul	Catherine Fleury	FRA	Yusei-gachi	Yael Arad	ISR