Judo at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Judo at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Men			Women
	60 kg			48 kg
	66 kg			52 kg
	73 kg			57 kg
	81 kg			63 kg
	90 kg			70 kg
	100 kg			+70 kg
	+100 kg

The Judo competition of the 2008 Summer Paralympics was held in Beijing Workers' Gymnasium from September 7 to September 9. There were 13 events, corresponding to seven weight classes for men and six for women. At the Paralympics, judo is contested by visually impaired athletes.

Events

These were the 13 judo events, followed by the date they were contested.

• Men's 60 kg - September 7
• Men's 66 kg - September 7
• Men's 73 kg - September 8
• Men's 81 kg - September 8
• Men's 90 kg - September 9
• Men's 100 kg - September 9
• Men's +100 kg - September 9
• Women's 48 kg - September 7
• Women's 52 kg - September 7
• Women's 57 kg - September 8
• Women's 63 kg - September 8
• Women's 70 kg - September 9
• Women's +70 kg - September 9

Competitors

There were 132 athletes (84 male, 48 female) taking part.

Medal summary

Medal table

This ranking sorts countries by the number of gold medals earned by their judoka (in this context a country is an entity represented by a National Paralympic Committee). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	4	2	1	7
2	Algeria (ALG)	2	0	1	3
3	Brazil (BRA)	1	2	2	5
4	Azerbaijan (AZE)	1	2	1	4
5	Spain (ESP)	1	1	1	3
6	Mexico (MEX)	1	1	0	2
7	Russia (RUS)	1	0	5	6
8	Cuba (CUB)	1	0	2	3
9	Venezuela (VEN)	1	0	1	2
10	France (FRA)	0	2	3	5
11	Germany (GER)	0	1	1	2
12	Iran (IRI)	0	1	0	1
12	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
14	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	2	2
14	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	2	2
16	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
16	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
16	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
16	United States (USA)	0	0	1	1
Total		13	13	26	52

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra-lightweight (60 kg)	Mouloud Noura  Algeria	Saeid Rahmati  Iran	Ramin Ibrahimov  Azerbaijan
			Li Xiaodong  China
Half-lightweight (66 kg)	Sidali Lamri  Algeria	Satoshi Fujimoto  Japan	Jani Kallunki  Finland
			Victor Sanchez  Cuba
Lightweight (73 kg)	Eduardo Avila  Mexico	Xu Zhilin  China	Fabian Ramirez  Argentina
			Sergii Sydorenko  Ukraine
Half-middleweight (81 kg)	Isao Cruz  Cuba	Cyril Jonard  France	Jorge Lencina  Argentina
			Reinaldo Carvallo  Venezuela
Middleweight (90 kg)	Oleg Kretsul  Russia	Tofig Mammadov  Azerbaijan	Olivier Cugnon de Sevricourt  France
			Samuel Ingram  Great Britain
Half-heavyweight (100 kg)	Antonio Tenorio Silva  Brazil	Karim Sardarov  Azerbaijan	Juan Carlos Cortada  Cuba
			Mykola Lyivytskyi  Ukraine
Heavyweight (+100 kg)	Ilham Zakiyev  Azerbaijan	Wang Song  China	Julien Taurines  France
			Greg Dewall  United States

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Guo Huaping  China	Karla Cardoso  Brazil	Victoria Potapova  Russia
			Carmen Brussig  Germany
52 kg	Cui Na  China	Sandrine Aurières-Martinet  France	Alesya Stepanyuk  Russia
			Michelle Ferreira  Brazil
57 kg	Wang Lijing  China	Ramona Brussig  Germany	Daniele Silva  Brazil
			Maria Monica Merenciano  Spain
63 kg	Naomi Soazo  Venezuela	Marta Arce  Spain	Angelique Quessandier  France
			Madina Kazakova  Russia
70 kg	Maria del Carmen Herrera  Spain	Lenia Ruvalcaba  Mexico	Tatiana Savostyanova  Russia
			Sanneke Vermeulen  Netherlands
+70 kg	Yuan Yanping  China	Deanne Silva  Brazil	Irina Kalyanova  Russia
			Zoubida Bouazoug  Algeria

References

• "Schedules and Results - Judo". The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. Archived from the original on 2008-09-28. Retrieved 2008-09-08. 

External links

• Official site of the 2008 Summer Paralympics