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Heavyweight (>78 kilograms), Women

Date15 August 2008 — 12:00
StatusOlympic
LocationBeijing Keji Daxue Tiyuguan, Beijing
Participants21 from 21 countries
FormatTwo single-elimination pools, with winner of each pool advanced to the final. All judoka losing to the finalists in each pool advanced to repêchage pools, with the winners of the repêchage pools earning bronze medals.

The favorite was China’s Tong Wen, who was World Champion in 2003, 2005, and 2007, but she faced strong opposition in Japan’s Maki Tsukada, who was the 2004 Olympic gold medalist. Tsukada had been bronze medalist at the 2005 Worlds, silver medalist at the 2007 Worlds in the heavyweight class, and won the 2007 open class. The class went entirely per form and these two met in the final. With only a few seconds remaining in that match, Tong threw Tsukada for ippon to win the gold medal.

PosCompetitor(s)NOC
1Tong WenCHNGold
2Maki TsukadaJPNSilver
=3Idalys OrtizCUBBronze
=3Lucija PolavderSLOBronze
=5Dorjgotovyn TserenkhandMGL
=5Kim Na-YeongKOR
=7Anne-Sophie MondièreFRA
=7Samah RamadanEGY
=9Tea DonguzashviliRUS
=9Gulzhan IsanovaKAZ
=9Janelle ShepherdAUS
=9Vanessa Martina ZambottiMEX
13Maryna Prokof'ievaUKR
=14Karina BryantGBR
=14Sandra KöppenGER
=14Nihel Cheikh RouhouTUN
=14Carola UilenhoedNED
=18Carmen ChaláECU
=18Urszula SadkowskaPOL
=18Mariya ShekirovaUZB
=18Michela TorrentiITA

Pool A (15 August 2008)

Round One (15 August 2008)

Match #1 Janelle ShepherdAUS Michela TorrentiITA
Match #2 Tong WenCHN Tea DonguzashviliRUS
Match #3 Nihel Cheikh RouhouTUN Carmen ChaláECU

Round One (15 August 2008)

Match #1 Anne-Sophie MondièreFRA Mariya ShekirovaUZB
Match #2 Gulzhan IsanovaKAZ Urszula SadkowskaPOL

Quarter-Finals (15 August 2008)

Match #1 Janelle ShepherdAUS Sandra KöppenGER
Match #2 Idalys OrtizCUB Samah RamadanEGY
Match #3 Tong WenCHN Maryna Prokof'ievaUKR
Match #4 Kim Na-YeongKOR Nihel Cheikh RouhouTUN

Pool B (15 August 2008)

Quarter-Finals (15 August 2008)

Match #1 Maki TsukadaJPN Anne-Sophie MondièreFRA
Match #2 Vanessa Martina ZambottiMEX Karina BryantGBR
Match #3 Dorjgotovyn TserenkhandMGL Carola UilenhoedNED
Match #4 Lucija PolavderSLO Gulzhan IsanovaKAZ

Final Round (15 August 2008)

Match 1/2 Tong WenCHN Maki TsukadaJPN

Semi-Finals (15 August 2008)

Match #1 Idalys OrtizCUB Janelle ShepherdAUS
Match #2 Tong WenCHN Kim Na-YeongKOR

Semi-Finals (15 August 2008)

Match #1 Maki TsukadaJPN Vanessa Martina ZambottiMEX
Match #2 Lucija PolavderSLO Dorjgotovyn TserenkhandMGL

Final Round (15 August 2008)

Match #1 Tong WenCHN Idalys OrtizCUB

Final Round (15 August 2008)

Match #1 Maki TsukadaJPN Lucija PolavderSLO

Repêchage (15 August 2008)

Match #1 Tea DonguzashviliRUS Maryna Prokof'ievaUKR
Match #2 Samah RamadanEGY Janelle ShepherdAUS
Match #3 Kim Na-YeongKOR Tea DonguzashviliRUS
Match #4 Kim Na-YeongKOR Samah RamadanEGY
Match 3/4 Lucija PolavderSLO Kim Na-YeongKOR

Repêchage (15 August 2008)

Match #1 Anne-Sophie MondièreFRA Vanessa Martina ZambottiMEX
Match #2 Dorjgotovyn TserenkhandMGL Gulzhan IsanovaKAZ
Match #3 Dorjgotovyn TserenkhandMGL Anne-Sophie MondièreFRA
Match 3/4 Idalys OrtizCUB Dorjgotovyn TserenkhandMGL