Judo at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Judo
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
VenueExCeL Exhibition Centre
Dates28 July – 3 August 2012
Judo at the
2012 Summer Olympics

Men Women
  60 kg     48 kg  
66 kg 52 kg
73 kg 57 kg
81 kg 63 kg
90 kg 70 kg
100 kg 78 kg
+100 kg +78 kg
The host venue for judo was the ExCeL Exhibition Centre.
Wojdan Shaherkani became the first female competitor from Saudi Arabia to compete at an Olympic Games.

The judo competitions at the 2012 Olympic Games in London were held from 28 July to 3 August at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre.

Russia topped the medal table with three golds and five in total.

Qualification

Qualification was based on the world ranking list prepared by the International Judo Federation on 1 May 2012.[1]

Medal summary

Men's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Extra-lightweight (60 kg)
Arsen Galstyan
 Russia
Hiroaki Hiraoka
 Japan
Felipe Kitadai
 Brazil
Rishod Sobirov
 Uzbekistan
Half-lightweight (66 kg)
Lasha Shavdatuashvili
 Georgia
Miklós Ungvári
 Hungary
Masashi Ebinuma
 Japan
Cho Jun-ho
 South Korea
Lightweight (73 kg)
Mansur Isaev
 Russia
Riki Nakaya
 Japan
Sainjargalyn Nyam-Ochir
 Mongolia
Ugo Legrand
 France
Half-middleweight (81 kg)
Kim Jae-bum
 South Korea
Ole Bischof
 Germany
Ivan Nifontov
 Russia
Antoine Valois-Fortier
 Canada
Middleweight (90 kg)
Song Dae-nam
 South Korea
Asley Gonzalez
 Cuba
Ilias Iliadis
 Greece
Masashi Nishiyama
 Japan
Half-heavyweight (100 kg)
Tagir Khaibulaev
 Russia
Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar
 Mongolia
Dimitri Peters
 Germany
Henk Grol
 Netherlands
Heavyweight (+100 kg)
Teddy Riner
 France
Aleksandr Mikhailine
 Russia
Rafael Silva
 Brazil
Andreas Tölzer
 Germany

Women's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Extra-lightweight (48 kg)
Sarah Menezes
 Brazil
Alina Dumitru
 Romania
Éva Csernoviczki
 Hungary
Charline Van Snick
 Belgium
Half-lightweight (52 kg)
An Kum-ae
 North Korea
Yanet Bermoy
 Cuba
Rosalba Forciniti
 Italy
Priscilla Gneto
 France
Lightweight (57 kg)
Kaori Matsumoto
 Japan
Corina Căprioriu
 Romania
Marti Malloy
 United States
Automne Pavia
 France
Half-middleweight (63 kg)
Urška Žolnir
 Slovenia
Xu Lili
 China
Yoshie Ueno
 Japan
Gévrise Émane
 France
Middleweight (70 kg)
Lucie Decosse
 France
Kerstin Thiele
 Germany
Yuri Alvear
 Colombia
Edith Bosch
 Netherlands
Half-heavyweight (78 kg)
Kayla Harrison
 United States
Gemma Gibbons
 Great Britain
Audrey Tcheuméo
 France
Mayra Aguiar
 Brazil
Heavyweight (+78 kg)
Idalys Ortiz
 Cuba
Mika Sugimoto
 Japan
Karina Bryant
 Great Britain
Tong Wen
 China

Medal table

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Russia 3 1 1 5
2 France 2 0 5 7
3 South Korea 2 0 1 3
4 Japan 1 3 3 7
5 Cuba 1 2 0 3
6 Brazil 1 0 3 4
7 United States 1 0 1 2
8 Georgia 1 0 0 1
North Korea 1 0 0 1
Slovenia 1 0 0 1
11 Germany 0 2 2 4
12 Romania 0 2 0 2
13 China 0 1 1 2
Great Britain 0 1 1 2
Hungary 0 1 1 2
Mongolia 0 1 1 2
17 Netherlands 0 0 2 2
18 Belgium 0 0 1 1
Canada 0 0 1 1
Colombia 0 0 1 1
Greece 0 0 1 1
Italy 0 0 1 1
Uzbekistan 0 0 1 1
Total 14 14 28 56

References

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  1. "London 2012 Olympics qualifying: Judo". BBC. 4 Jan 2011. Retrieved 11 Aug 2011.

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