Judo at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Judo at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	Beijing Science and Technology University Gymnasium
Location	Beijing, China
Dates	9–15 August 2008
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Judo at the 2008 Summer Olympics
List of judoka Qualification
	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
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Judo competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were held from August 9 to August 15 at the Beijing Science and Technology University Gymnasium.

This was the fifth Olympics for Driulys González (Cuba), Mária Pekli (Australia), Ryoko Tamura-Tani (Japan). The only other judokas to compete at five Olympics are Robert Van de Walle (Belgium), the judoka-bobsledder Jorge Bonnet (Puerto Rico) and Telma Monteiro (Portugal). At Paris 2024 Teddy Riner joined this group as a 5-time Olympian.

  *   Host nation (China)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	4	1	2	7
2	China*	3	0	1	4
3	South Korea	1	2	1	4
4	Azerbaijan	1	0	1	2
5	Georgia	1	0	0	1
	Germany	1	0	0	1
	Italy	1	0	0	1
	Mongolia	1	0	0	1
	Romania	1	0	0	1
10	Cuba	0	3	3	6
11	France	0	2	2	4
12	Netherlands	0	1	4	5
13	North Korea	0	1	2	3
14	Algeria	0	1	1	2
	Uzbekistan	0	1	1	2
16	Austria	0	1	0	1
	Kazakhstan	0	1	0	1
18	Brazil	0	0	3	3
19	Argentina	0	0	1	1
	Egypt	0	0	1	1
	Slovenia	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
	Tajikistan	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (25 entries)		14	14	28	56

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra-lightweight (60 kg) details	Choi Min-ho  South Korea	Ludwig Paischer  Austria	Rishod Sobirov  Uzbekistan
			Ruben Houkes  Netherlands
Half-lightweight (66 kg) details	Masato Uchishiba  Japan	Benjamin Darbelet  France	Yordanis Arencibia  Cuba
			Pak Chol-min  North Korea
Lightweight (73 kg) details	Elnur Mammadli  Azerbaijan	Wang Ki-chun  South Korea	Rasul Boqiev  Tajikistan
			Leandro Guilheiro  Brazil
Half-middleweight (81 kg) details	Ole Bischof  Germany	Kim Jae-bum  South Korea	Tiago Camilo  Brazil
			Roman Gontiuk  Ukraine
Middleweight (90 kg) details	Irakli Tsirekidze  Georgia	Amar Benikhlef  Algeria	Hesham Mesbah  Egypt
			Sergei Aschwanden  Switzerland
Half-heavyweight (100 kg) details	Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar  Mongolia	Askhat Zhitkeyev  Kazakhstan	Movlud Miraliyev  Azerbaijan
			Henk Grol  Netherlands
Heavyweight (+100 kg) details	Satoshi Ishii  Japan	Abdullo Tangriev  Uzbekistan	Teddy Riner  France
			Oscar Braison  Cuba

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra-lightweight (48 kg) details	Alina Alexandra Dumitru  Romania	Yanet Bermoy  Cuba	Paula Pareto  Argentina
			Ryoko Tani  Japan
Half-lightweight (52 kg) details	Xian Dongmei  China	An Kum-ae  North Korea	Soraya Haddad  Algeria
			Misato Nakamura  Japan
Lightweight (57 kg) details	Giulia Quintavalle  Italy	Deborah Gravenstijn  Netherlands	Xu Yan  China
			Ketleyn Quadros  Brazil
Half-middleweight (63 kg) details	Ayumi Tanimoto  Japan	Lucie Décosse  France	Elisabeth Willeboordse  Netherlands
			Won Ok-Im  North Korea
Middleweight (70 kg) details	Masae Ueno  Japan	Anaysi Hernández  Cuba	Ronda Rousey  United States
			Edith Bosch  Netherlands
Half-heavyweight (78 kg) details	Yang Xiuli  China	Yalennis Castillo  Cuba	Jeong Gyeong-mi  South Korea
			Stéphanie Possamaï  France
Heavyweight (+78 kg) details	Tong Wen  China	Maki Tsukada  Japan	Idalys Ortiz  Cuba
			Lucija Polavder  Slovenia

Together with 366 directly qualified athletes, there were 20 invitational places from a Tripartite Commission (genders and categories are yet to be decided), making up a total athlete quota of 386 athletes—217 men, 147 women and 22 places not yet allocated to a gender.

An NOC may enter up to one athlete per weight category. The qualifying places were allocated as follows:

Event/Union	Date	Location	Men	Women	Totals
World Championships	September 13–16, 2007	Rio de Janeiro	6	6	84
African Judo Union	May 2006 – May 2008	—	3	2	35
Judo Union of Asia	Nov 2006 – Apr 2008	—	5	3	58[a]
European Judo Union	Apr 2007 – Apr 2008	—	9	5	98
Oceania Judo Union	Sep 2007 – Mar 2008	—	1	1	14
Pan American Judo Union	May 2006 – May 2008	—	6	3	63
Host Nation (CHN)	—	—	1	1	14[b]
TOTAL			31	21	366

^a Two additional places are awarded to this union, but gender and weight categories are to be defined.

^b If the host nation qualified athletes directly through the world championships or Asian continental qualification system, the reserved entry places were reallocated as part of the Asian continental qualification.

Continental qualification places were allocated through the ranking system based on the major tournaments on the continent (continental championships, qualification tournaments). More important tournaments and tournaments closer to the Olympics carried more points. Deadline for the unions to confirm the places was May 21, 2008.

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