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Heavyweight (>72 kilograms), Women

Date	20 July 1996
Status	Olympic
Location	Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia (Hall H)
Participants	20 from 20 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.

Nobody had dominated this event in the past four years and there was no real favorite. The final came down to the 1992 silver medalist, Cuba’s Estela Rodríguez, against China’s Sun Fuming, runner-up at the 1995 Worlds. The match was close with Sun winning by yuko at the time limit. Rodríguez then tested positive for furosemide (Lasix), a diuretic often used as a masking agent, but in an unusual ruling, she was only given a reprimand.

Finishing equal seventh in this class was Brazil’s Edinanci da Silva, who had an interesting road to the Atlanta Olympics. Born with mixed sexual organs, she had an operation only a few months before the Olympics to remove the male sexual organs so she could live and compete as a woman.

Pos	Competitor	NOC
1	Sun Fuming	CHN	Gold
2	Estela Rodríguez	CUB	Silver	1
=3	Christine Cicot	FRA	Bronze
=3	Johanna Hagn	GER	Bronze
=5	Svetlana Gundarenko	RUS
=5	Beáta Maksymow	POL
=7	Edinanci da Silva	BRA
=7	Son Hyeon-Mi	KOR
=9	Éva Gránitz	HUN
=9	Michelle Rogers	GBR
=9	Nancy Filteau	CAN
=9	Heba Hefny	EGY
13	Shah Kohli	IND
=14	Marguerite Goualou Yao	CIV
=14	Donata Burgatta	ITA
=14	Yeh Wen-Hua	TPE
=14	Heidi Burnett	AUS
=18	Colleen Rosensteel	USA
=18	Angelique Seriese	NED
=18	Noriko Anno	JPN

Pool A

Date	20 July 1996

Round One

Date	20 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	20 Jul	Hall H	Edinanci da Silva	BRA	Ippon	Noriko Anno	JPN
Match #2	20 Jul	Hall H	Johanna Hagn	GER	Chui	Angelique Seriese	NED

Quarter-Finals

Date	20 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	20 Jul	Hall H	Éva Gránitz	HUN	Ippon	Marguerite Goualou Yao	CIV
Match #2	20 Jul	Hall H	Svetlana Gundarenko	RUS	Yuko	Edinanci da Silva	BRA
Match #3	20 Jul	Hall H	Sun Fuming	CHN	Shido	Michelle Rogers	GBR
Match #4	20 Jul	Hall H	Johanna Hagn	GER	Yusei-gachi	Donata Burgatta	ITA

Semi-Finals

Date	20 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	20 Jul	Hall H	Svetlana Gundarenko	RUS	Yusei-gachi	Éva Gránitz	HUN
Match #2	20 Jul	Hall H	Sun Fuming	CHN	Yuko	Johanna Hagn	GER

Final Round

Date	20 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	20 Jul	Hall H	Sun Fuming	CHN	Waza-ari	Svetlana Gundarenko	RUS

Repêchage

Date	20 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	20 Jul	Hall H	Edinanci da Silva	BRA	Ippon	Éva Gránitz	HUN
Match #2	20 Jul	Hall H	Johanna Hagn	GER	Shido	Michelle Rogers	GBR
Match #3	20 Jul	Hall H	Johanna Hagn	GER	Yuko	Edinanci da Silva	BRA
Match 3/5	20 Jul	Hall H	Johanna Hagn	GER	Yuko	Beáta Maksymow	POL

Pool B

Date	20 July 1996

Round One

Date	20 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	20 Jul	Hall H	Estela Rodríguez	CUB	Ippon	Shah Kohli	IND
Match #2	20 Jul	Hall H	Heidi Burnett	AUS	Ippon	Colleen Rosensteel	USA

Quarter-Finals

Date	20 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	20 Jul	Hall H	Nancy Filteau	CAN	Ippon	Yeh Wen-Hua	TPE
Match #2	20 Jul	Hall H	Estela Rodríguez	CUB	Waza-ari	Son Hyeon-Mi	KOR
Match #3	20 Jul	Hall H	Heba Hefny	EGY	Ippon	Heidi Burnett	AUS
Match #4	20 Jul	Hall H	Beáta Maksymow	POL	Ippon	Christine Cicot	FRA

Semi-Finals

Date	20 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	20 Jul	Hall H	Estela Rodríguez	CUB	Ippon	Nancy Filteau	CAN
Match #2	20 Jul	Hall H	Beáta Maksymow	POL	Ippon	Heba Hefny	EGY

Final Round

Date	20 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	20 Jul	Hall H	Estela Rodríguez	CUB	Ippon	Beáta Maksymow	POL

Repêchage

Date	20 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	20 Jul	Hall H	Son Hyeon-Mi	KOR	Ippon	Shah Kohli	IND
Match #2	20 Jul	Hall H	Son Hyeon-Mi	KOR	Yuko	Nancy Filteau	CAN
Match #3	20 Jul	Hall H	Christine Cicot	FRA	Yuko	Heba Hefny	EGY
Match #4	20 Jul	Hall H	Christine Cicot	FRA	Ippon	Son Hyeon-Mi	KOR
Match 3/5	20 Jul		Christine Cicot	FRA	Ippon	Svetlana Gundarenko	RUS

Final Round

Date	20 July 1996

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match 1/2	20 Jul	Hall H	Sun Fuming	CHN	Yuko	Estela Rodríguez	CUB