Judo Olympics 2016

Judo at the Olympics

There would never be a great thing as judo Olympics 2016 in Rio if judo did not made its first ever appearance at the Olympic games in 1964 in Tokyo. Eight years later in 1972, men judo found its way back to Olympic games never to leave again.

And it took 20 years for women’s judo to be incorporated in the Olympic program of Barcelona games in 1992. Since 1992 men and women compete in seven weight categories. There was also, a men’s category open to all weights, but this event was withdrawn after the 1984 Games in Los Angeles.

The new Olympic event, recently added to the programme, will feature at least 12 teams represented by three male judoka, in the -73kg, -90kg and +90kg categories, and three female judoka, in the -57kg, -70kg and +70kg categories. All the action will take place on one day, with a quarter-final repechage system in which the top four ranked teams will be seeded.

Judo Olympics 2016

2016 Olympic games were held at Rio de Janeiro from August 6 to 12 in Barra Olympic park situated in Barra da Tijuca at the Carioca Arena 2. Around 386 judoka from 134 countries competed in 14 events. Similarly enough to 2012 London format, qualifying rounds  were based on the world ranking list prepared by IJF.  14 woman and 22 man in each division summing up to 252 directly qualified judoka at this competition in addition to  ensuring  that each NOC was subjected to a limit of one judoka per division.

Divisions

Historically there were between  8 and 4 Olympic weight classes this was changed from time to time by adding or subtracting a category or two and currently since 1996 there are seven both for male and female judoka.

Men’s

Extra Lightweight -60 kg
Half Lightweight 60–66 kg
Lightweight 66–73 kg
Half Middleweight 73–81 kg
Middleweight 81–90 kg
Half Heavyweight 90–100 kg
Heavyweight +100 kg

Woman’s

Extra Lightweight -48 kg
Half Lightweight 48–52 kg
Lightweight 52–57 kg
Half Middleweigh 57–63 kg
Middleweight 63–70 kg
Half Heavyweight 70–78 kg
Heavyweight +78 kg

Competition schedule

Competition was held at schedule of one male and one female division a day, for seven days. Starting whit men’s 60 and woman’s 48 at day one, men’s 66 kg and woman’s 52 kg and working its way from Extra Lightweight towards Heavyweight taking place last day of competition.  Elimination rounds and quarterfinal matches were held in between  10:00 to 13:00 local time and repechage, semifinal, Bronze medal and Gold medal matches was conducted from 15:30 to 18:10 local time.

Judo Olympics 2016 medal summary

medals by country

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	3	1	8	12
2	France	2	2	1	5
3	Russia	2	0	1	3
4	Italy	1	1	0	2
	United States	1	1	0	2
6	Brazil	1	0	2	3
7	Slovenia	1	0	1	2
8	Argentina	1	0	0	1
	Czech Republic	1	0	0	1
	Kosovo	1	0	0	1
11	South Korea	0	2	1	3
12	Azerbaijan	0	2	0	2
13	Georgia	0	1	1	2
	Kazakhstan	0	1	1	2
15	Colombia	0	1	0	1
	Cuba	0	1	0	1
	Mongolia	0	1	0	1
18	China	0	0	2	2
	Israel	0	0	2	2
	Uzbekistan	0	0	2	2
21	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	Germany	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
	Portugal	0	0	1	1
	United Arab Emirates	0	0	1	1
Total 26 NOCs		14	14	28	56

Judo Olympics 2016 medals by division

Men’s

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra-lightweight (60 kg)	Beslan Mudranov  Russia	Yeldos Smetov  Kazakhstan	Naohisa Takato  Japan Diyorbek Urozboev  Uzbekistan
Half-lightweight (66 kg)	Fabio Basile  Italy	An Ba-ul  South Korea	Rishod Sobirov  Uzbekistan Masashi Ebinuma  Japan
Lightweight (73 kg)	Shohei Ono  Japan	Rustam Orujov  Azerbaijan	Lasha Shavdatuashvili  Georgia Dirk Van Tichelt  Belgium
Half-middleweight (81 kg)	Khasan Khalmurzaev  Russia	Travis Stevens  United States	Sergiu Toma  United Arab Emirates Takanori Nagase  Japan
Middleweight (90 kg)	Mashu Baker  Japan	Varlam Liparteliani  Georgia	Gwak Dong-han  South Korea Cheng Xunzhao  China
Half-heavyweight (100 kg)	Lukáš Krpálek  Czech Republic	Elmar Gasimov  Azerbaijan	Cyrille Maret  France Ryunosuke Haga  Japan
Heavyweight (+100 kg)	Teddy Riner  France	Hisayoshi Harasawa  Japan	Rafael Silva  Brazil Or Sasson  Israel

Woman’s

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra-lightweight (48 kg)	Paula Pareto  Argentina	Jeong Bo-kyeong  South Korea	Ami Kondo  Japan Galbadrakhyn Otgontsetseg  Kazakhstan
Half-lightweight (52 kg)	Majlinda Kelmendi  Kosovo	Odette Giuffrida  Italy	Misato Nakamura  Japan Natalia Kuziutina  Russia
Lightweight (57 kg)	Rafaela Silva  Brazil	Dorjsürengiin Sumiyaa  Mongolia	Telma Monteiro  Portugal Kaori Matsumoto  Japan
Half-middleweight (63 kg)	Tina Trstenjak  Slovenia	Clarisse Agbegnenou  France	Yarden Gerbi  Israel Anicka van Emden  Netherlands
Middleweight (70 kg)	Haruka Tachimoto  Japan	Yuri Alvear  Colombia	Sally Conway  Great Britain Laura Vargas Koch  Germany
Half-heavyweight (78 kg)	Kayla Harrison  United States	Audrey Tcheuméo  France	Mayra Aguiar  Brazil Anamari Velenšek  Slovenia
Heavyweight (+78 kg)	Émilie Andéol  France	Idalys Ortiz  Cuba	Kanae Yamabe  Japan Yu Song  China

Full judoka placement on IJF.org

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