Judo at the 1988 Summer Olympics

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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.

[edit] Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
60 kg	Kim Jae-Yup South Korea (KOR)	Kevin Asano United States (USA)	Shinji Hosokawa Japan (JPN)
			Amiran Totikashvili Soviet Union (URS)
65 kg	Lee Kyung-Keun South Korea (KOR)	Janusz Pawlowski Poland (POL)	Bruno Carabetta France (FRA)
			Yosuke Yamamoto Japan (JPN)
71 kg	Marc Alexandre France (FRA)	Sven Loll East Germany (GDR)	Mike Swain United States (USA)
			Georgiy Tenadze Soviet Union (URS)
78 kg	Waldemar Legien Poland (POL)	Frank Wieneke West Germany (FRG)	Torsten Brechot East Germany (GDR)
			Bashir Varayev Soviet Union (URS)
86 kg	Peter Seisenbacher Austria (AUT)	Vladimir Shestakov Soviet Union (URS)	Akinobu Osako Japan (JPN)
			Ben Spijkers Netherlands (NED)
95kg	Aurelio Miguel Brazil (BRA)	Marc Meiling West Germany (FRG)	Dennis Stewart Great Britain (GBR)
			Robert Van De Walle Belgium (BEL)
+95 kg	Hitoshi Saito Japan (JPN)	Henry Stöhr East Germany (GDR)	Cho Yong-Chul South Korea (KOR)
			Gregoriy Verichev Soviet Union (URS)

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea (KOR)	2	0	1	3
2	Poland (POL)	1	1	0	2
3	Japan (JPN)	1	0	3	4
4	France (FRA)	1	0	1	2
5	Austria (AUT)	1	0	0	1
	Brazil (BRA)	1	0	0	1
7	East Germany (GDR)	0	2	1	3
8	West Germany (FRG)	0	2	0	2
9	Soviet Union (URS)	0	1	4	5
10	United States (USA)	0	1	1	2
11	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1

[edit] References

• Sports123.com

Events at the 1988 Summer Olympics (Seoul)
Archery • Athletics • Basketball • Baseball (demonstration) • Boxing • Canoeing • Cycling • Diving • Equestrian • Fencing • Football • Gymnastics • Handball • Hockey • Judo • Modern pentathlon • Rowing • Sailing • Shooting • Swimming • Synchronized swimming • Table tennis • Taekwondo (demonstration) • Tennis • Volleyball • Water polo • Weightlifting • Wrestling

Judo at the Summer Olympics
1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1996 • 2000 • 2004 • 2008 See also: List of Olympic medalists in judo