Judo at the 2004 Summer Olympics

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Judo

Judo at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in the Ano Liossia Olympic Hall and featured 368 judoka competing for 14 gold medals with seven different weight categories in both the men's and women's competitions. Japan dominated the event by taking 8 gold and 2 silver medals.

Gold and silver medals in each weight class were determined by a single-elimination bracket. There was a repechage for those who are eliminated by one of the eventual semifinalists. Since there are four semifinalists, this means that four of the losers of the round of 32 (i.e., 25%) faced four of the losers from the round of 16 (50%). The winners of these matches faced the four judokas who have lost in the quarterfinals. The winners, then, of these four matches faced each other to narrow the repechage field down to two judokas. Until this stage, the repechage has been segregated into two distinct halves, with each successive competitor facing another one from the same half of the original bracket; but each of the two judokas who emerge from the repechage challenged the loser of the other bracket's semifinal. (Since these two always come from opposite halves of the original bracket, they could not have faced each other already.) The winners of these two matches were each awarded a bronze medal, making judo unusual among Olympic events in not determining a single third-place finisher.

There was controversy in the men's competition, when Iranian competitor Arash Miresmaeili intentionally weighed in overweight (thus being disqualified) in order to avoid competing with an Israeli.

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[edit] Medal summary

[edit] Men's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Extra-lightweight (60 kg)
details
Japan Tadahiro Nomura
Japan (JPN)
Georgia Nestor Khergiani
Georgia (GEO)
Mongolia Khashbaatar Tsagaanbaatar
Mongolia (MGL)
South Korea Choi Min-Ho
South Korea (KOR)
Half-lightweight (66 kg)
details
Japan Masato Uchishiba
Japan (JPN)
Slovakia Jozef Krnáč
Slovakia (SVK)
Bulgaria Georgi Georgiev
Bulgaria (BUL)
Cuba Yordanis Arencibia
Cuba (CUB)
Lightweight (73 kg)
details
South Korea Lee Won-Hee
South Korea (KOR)
Russia Vitaliy Makarov
Russia (RUS)
Brazil Leandro Guilheiro
Brazil (BRA)
United States Jimmy Pedro
United States (USA)
Half-middleweight (81 kg)
details
Greece Ilias Iliadis
Greece (GRE)
Ukraine Roman Gontyuk
Ukraine (UKR)
Russia Dmitri Nossov
Russia (RUS)
Brazil Flavio Canto
Brazil (BRA)
Middleweight (90 kg)
details
Georgia Zurab Zviadauri
Georgia (GEO)
Japan Hiroshi Izumi
Japan (JPN)
Netherlands Mark Huizinga
Netherlands (NED)
Russia Khasanbi Taov
Russia (RUS)
Half-heavyweight (100 kg)
details
Belarus Ihar Makarau
Belarus (BLR)
South Korea Jang Sung-Ho
South Korea (KOR)
Israel Ariel Zeevi
Israel (ISR)
Germany Michael Jurack
Germany (GER)
Heavyweight (+100 kg)
details
Japan Keiji Suzuki
Japan (JPN)
Russia Tamerlan Tmenov
Russia (RUS)
Estonia Indrek Pertelson
Estonia (EST)
Netherlands Dennis van der Geest
Netherlands (NED)

[edit] Women's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Extra-lightweight (48 kg)
details
Japan Ryoko Tani
Japan (JPN)
France Frédérique Jossinet
France (FRA)
China Gao Feng
China (CHN)
Germany Julia Matijass
Germany (GER)
Half-lightweight (52 kg)
details
China Xian Dongmei
China (CHN)
Japan Yuki Yokosawa
Japan (JPN)
Belgium Ilse Heylen
Belgium (BEL)
Cuba Amarilis Savón
Cuba (CUB)
Lightweight (57 kg)
details
Germany Yvonne Bönisch
Germany (GER)
North Korea Kye Sun-Hui
North Korea (PRK)
Netherlands Deborah Gravenstijn
Netherlands (NED)
Cuba Yurisleidy Lupetey
Cuba (CUB)
Half-middleweight (63 kg)
details
Japan Ayumi Tanimoto
Japan (JPN)
Austria Claudia Heill
Austria (AUT)
Cuba Driulis González
Cuba (CUB)
Slovenia Urška Žolnir
Slovenia (SLO)
Middleweight (70 kg)
details
Japan Masae Ueno
Japan (JPN)
Netherlands Edith Bosch
Netherlands (NED)
China Qin Dongya
China (CHN)
Germany Annett Böhm
Germany (GER)
Half-heavyweight (78 kg)
details
Japan Noriko Anno
Japan (JPN)
China Liu Xia
China (CHN)
Cuba Yurisel Laborde
Cuba (CUB)
Italy Lucia Morico
Italy (ITA)
Heavyweight (+78 kg)
details
Japan Maki Tsukada
Japan (JPN)
Cuba Daima Beltrán
Cuba (CUB)
Russia Tea Donguzashvili
Russia (RUS)
China Sun Fuming
China (CHN)

[edit] Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Japan Japan (JPN) 8 2 0 10
2 China China (CHN) 1 1 3 5
3 South Korea South Korea (KOR) 1 1 1 3
4 Georgia Georgia (GEO) 1 1 0 2
5 Germany Germany (GER) 1 0 3 4
6 Belarus Belarus (BLR) 1 0 0 1
Greece Greece (GRE) 1 0 0 1
8 Russia Russia (RUS) 0 2 3 5
9 Cuba Cuba (CUB) 0 1 5 6
10 Netherlands Netherlands (NED) 0 1 3 4
11 Austria Austria (AUT) 0 1 0 1
France France (FRA) 0 1 0 1
North Korea North Korea (PRK) 0 1 0 1
Slovakia Slovakia (SVK) 0 1 0 1
Ukraine Ukraine (UKR) 0 1 0 1
16 Brazil Brazil (BRA) 0 0 2 2
17 Belgium Belgium (BEL) 0 0 1 1
Bulgaria Bulgaria (BUL) 0 0 1 1
Estonia Estonia (EST) 0 0 1 1
Israel Israel (ISR) 0 0 1 1
Italy Italy (ITA) 0 0 1 1
Mongolia Mongolia (MGL) 0 0 1 1
Slovenia Slovenia (SLO) 0 0 1 1
United States United States (USA) 0 0 1 1

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