Judo at the 1988 Summer Olympics

The Judo competition at the 1988 Summer Olympics continued the seven weight classes first used at the 1980 Games. The open division was eliminated from the competition. Women's judo made its first appearance at the Olympic Games, as a demonstration sport. Japan failed to claim the top of the medal count for the first time in an Olympics in which they participated, coming in third behind South Korea and Poland.

Peter Seisenbacher from Austria and Hitoshi Saito from Japan won the gold medal in their weight classes, defending their titles from 1984, and becoming the first judoka to win gold at two Olympics.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra Lightweight 60 kg	Kim Jae-yup  South Korea	Kevin Asano  United States	Shinji Hosokawa  Japan Amiran Totikashvili  Soviet Union
Half Lightweight 65 kg	Lee Kyung-keun  South Korea	Janusz Pawłowski  Poland	Bruno Carabetta  France Yosuke Yamamoto  Japan
Lightweight 71 kg	Marc Alexandre  France	Sven Loll  East Germany	Mike Swain  United States Georgy Tenadze  Soviet Union
Half Middleweight 78 kg	Waldemar Legień  Poland	Frank Wieneke  West Germany	Torsten Bréchôt  East Germany Bashir Varaev  Soviet Union
Middleweight 86 kg	Peter Seisenbacher  Austria	Vladimir Shestakov  Soviet Union	Akinobu Osako  Japan Ben Spijkers  Netherlands
Half Heavyweight 95 kg	Aurélio Miguel  Brazil	Marc Meiling  West Germany	Dennis Stewart  Great Britain Robert Van de Walle  Belgium
Heavyweight +95 kg	Hitoshi Saito  Japan	Henry Stöhr  East Germany	Cho Yong-chul  South Korea Grigory Verichev  Soviet Union

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea	2	0	1	3
2	Poland	1	1	0	2
3	Japan	1	0	3	4
4	France	1	0	1	2
5	Austria	1	0	0	1
	Brazil	1	0	0	1
7	East Germany	0	2	1	3
8	West Germany	0	2	0	2
9	Soviet Union	0	1	4	5
10	United States	0	1	1	2
11	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
Total		7	7	14	28

Women's demonstration games

Women's judo made its first appearance at the Olympic Games, as a demonstration sport. The following were the results of the women's competition. Women's Judo became an official part of the Olympic games from the 1992 Barcelona games and has been an integral part of the games since.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
−48 kg	Li Zhongyun  China	Fumiko Ezaki  Japan	Cho Min-sun  South Korea Julie Reardon  Australia
−52 kg	Sharon Rendle  United Kingdom	Dominique Brun  France	Alessandra Giungi  Italy Kaori Yamaguchi  Japan
−56 kg	Suzanne Williams  Australia	Liu Guizhu  China	Catherine Arnaud  France Regina Philips  West Germany
−61 kg	Diane Bell  United Kingdom	Lynn Roethke  United States	Boguslawa Olechnowicz  Poland Noriko Mochida  Japan
−66 kg	Hikari Sasaki  Japan	Brigitte Deydier  France	Park Ji-young  South Korea Roswitha Hartl  Austria
−72 kg	Ingrid Berghmans  Belgium	Kim Mi-jung  South Korea	Yoko Tanabe  Japan Barbara Claßen  West Germany
+72 kg	Angelique Seriese  Netherlands	Gao Fenglian  China	Regina Sigmund  West Germany Margaret Castro  United States

External links

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2008-02-20. 
• Sports123.com
• Videos of the 1988 Judo Summer Olympics

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