Judo at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Dates 27 July – 2 August 1980
Medal Events 8

One extra event was added to the judo program, with an extra-lightweight class added for athletes of 60 kg. [132 lbs.] or less. The judo matches were held at the Sports Palace next to the Central Lenin Stadium. It was considered an excellent venue with good sight lines for all matches. The organization, however, was less than top-notch, with judo experts blaming the International Judo Federation officials, and not the Moskva organizers. Several mix-ups in the order of the matches occurred and the refereeing was uneven throughout the tournament. The American-led boycott also affected the quality of the tournament, which almost turned into a European Championship without the US, German, Japanese, and Korean fighters.

Events

Event Status Date Participants NOCs
Extra-Lightweight (≤60 kilograms), Men Olympic 1 August 1980 29 29
Half-Lightweight (≤65 kilograms), Men Olympic 31 July 1980 29 29
Lightweight (≤71 kilograms), Men Olympic 30 July 1980 30 30
Half-Middleweight (≤78 kilograms), Men Olympic 29 July 1980 23 23
Middleweight (≤86 kilograms), Men Olympic 28 July 1980 25 25
Half-Heavyweight (≤95 kilograms), Men Olympic 27 July 1980 23 23
Heavyweight (>95 kilograms), Men Olympic 27 July 1980 16 16
Open Class, Men Olympic 2 August 1980 18 18
182 (182/0) 42 (42/0)

Medals

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Extra-Lightweight, Men Thierry ReyFRA José RodríguezCUB Tibor Kincses
Aramby Yemizh
HUN
URS
Half-Lightweight, Men Nikolay SolodukhinURS Tsendiin DamdinMGL Iliyan Nedkov
Janusz Pawłowski
BUL
POL
Lightweight, Men Ezio GambaITA Neil AdamsGBR Karl-Heinz Lehmann
Ravdangiin Davaadalai
GDR
MGL
Half-Middleweight, Men Shota KhabareliURS Juan FerrerCUB Bernard Tchoullouyan
Harald Heinke
FRA
GDR
Middleweight, Men Jürg RöthlisbergerSUI Isaac AzcuyCUB Detlef Ultsch
Aleksandrs Jackēvičs
GDR
URS
Half-Heavyweight, Men Robert Van de WalleBEL Tengiz KhubuluriURS Dietmar Lorenz
Henk Numan
GDR
NED
Heavyweight, Men Angelo ParisiFRA Dimitar ZapryanovBUL Vladimír Kocman
Radomir Kovačević
TCH
YUG
Open Class, Men Dietmar LorenzGDR Angelo ParisiFRA Arthur Mapp
András Ozsvár
GBR
HUN

Medal table

NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
Soviet Union URS 2 1 2 5
France FRA 2 1 1 4
East Germany GDR 1 0 4 5
Belgium BEL 1 0 0 1
Italy ITA 1 0 0 1
Switzerland SUI 1 0 0 1
Cuba CUB 0 3 0 3
Bulgaria BUL 0 1 1 2
Great Britain GBR 0 1 1 2
Mongolia MGL 0 1 1 2
Hungary HUN 0 0 2 2
Czechoslovakia TCH 0 0 1 1
Netherlands NED 0 0 1 1
Poland POL 0 0 1 1
Yugoslavia YUG 0 0 1 1