Judo at the 1988 Summer Olympics
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.
Medal summary
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | .svg.png){kind=small} 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 |
.svg.png){kind=small} 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 | .svg.png){kind=small} Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Total | 7 | 7 | 14 | 28 | |
Women's demonstration games
Women's judo made its first appearance at the Olympic Games, as a demonstration sport. The following were the results of the women's competition. Women's Judo became an official part of the Olympic games from the 1992 Barcelona games and has been an integral part of the games since.
| Category |  Gold |
 Silver |
 Bronze |
| - 48 kg |  China Li Zhongyun |
Japan Fumiko Ezaki |
 South Korea Min-Sun Cho  Australia Julie Reardon |
| - 52 kg | United Kingdom Sharon Rendle |
France Dominique Brun |
 Italy Alessandra Giungi Japan Kaori Yamaguchi |
| - 56 kg | Australia Suzanne Williams |
China Liu Guizhu |
France Catherine Arnaud West Germany Regina Philips |
| - 61 kg | United Kingdom Diane Bell |
United States Lynn Roethke |
Poland Boguslawa Olechnowicz Japan Noriko Mochida |
| - 66 kg | Japan Hikari Sasaki |
France Brigitte Deydier |
South Korea Ji-Young Park Austria Roswitha Hartl |
| - 72 kg | Belgium Ingrid Berghmans |
South Korea Mi-Jung Kim |
Japan Yoko Tanabe West Germany Barbara Claßen |
| + 72 kg | Netherlands Angelique Seriese |
China Gao Fenglian |
West Germany Regina Sigmund United States Margaret Castro |
References
- "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2008-02-20.
- Sports123.com
- Videos of the 1988 Judo Summer Olympics
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