Judo at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Judo at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue	ExCeL Exhibition Centre
Dates	28 July – 3 August 2012

Judo at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Men			Women
	60 kg			48 kg
	66 kg			52 kg
	73 kg			57 kg
	81 kg			63 kg
	90 kg			70 kg
	100 kg			78 kg
	+100 kg			+78 kg

The host venue for judo was the ExCeL Exhibition Centre.

Wojdan Shaherkani became the first female competitor from Saudi Arabia to compete at an Olympic Games.

The judo competitions at the 2012 Olympic Games in London were held from 28 July to 3 August at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre.

Russia topped the medal table with three golds and five in total.

Qualification

Qualification was based on the world ranking list prepared by the International Judo Federation on 1 May 2012.^[1]

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra-lightweight (60 kg)	Arsen Galstyan  Russia	Hiroaki Hiraoka  Japan	Felipe Kitadai  Brazil Rishod Sobirov  Uzbekistan
Half-lightweight (66 kg)	Lasha Shavdatuashvili  Georgia	Miklós Ungvári  Hungary	Masashi Ebinuma  Japan Cho Jun-ho  South Korea
Lightweight (73 kg)	Mansur Isaev  Russia	Riki Nakaya  Japan	Sainjargalyn Nyam-Ochir  Mongolia Ugo Legrand  France
Half-middleweight (81 kg)	Kim Jae-bum  South Korea	Ole Bischof  Germany	Ivan Nifontov  Russia Antoine Valois-Fortier  Canada
Middleweight (90 kg)	Song Dae-nam  South Korea	Asley Gonzalez  Cuba	Ilias Iliadis  Greece Masashi Nishiyama  Japan
Half-heavyweight (100 kg)	Tagir Khaibulaev  Russia	Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar  Mongolia	Dimitri Peters  Germany Henk Grol  Netherlands
Heavyweight (+100 kg)	Teddy Riner  France	Aleksandr Mikhailine  Russia	Rafael Silva  Brazil Andreas Tölzer  Germany

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra-lightweight (48 kg)	Sarah Menezes  Brazil	Alina Dumitru  Romania	Éva Csernoviczki  Hungary Charline Van Snick  Belgium
Half-lightweight (52 kg)	An Kum-ae  North Korea	Yanet Bermoy  Cuba	Rosalba Forciniti  Italy Priscilla Gneto  France
Lightweight (57 kg)	Kaori Matsumoto  Japan	Corina Căprioriu  Romania	Marti Malloy  United States Automne Pavia  France
Half-middleweight (63 kg)	Urška Žolnir  Slovenia	Xu Lili  China	Yoshie Ueno  Japan Gévrise Émane  France
Middleweight (70 kg)	Lucie Decosse  France	Kerstin Thiele  Germany	Yuri Alvear  Colombia Edith Bosch  Netherlands
Half-heavyweight (78 kg)	Kayla Harrison  United States	Gemma Gibbons  Great Britain	Audrey Tcheuméo  France Mayra Aguiar  Brazil
Heavyweight (+78 kg)	Idalys Ortiz  Cuba	Mika Sugimoto  Japan	Karina Bryant  Great Britain Tong Wen  China

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	3	1	1	5
2	France	2	0	5	7
3	South Korea	2	0	1	3
4	Japan	1	3	3	7
5	Cuba	1	2	0	3
6	Brazil	1	0	3	4
7	United States	1	0	1	2
8	Georgia	1	0	0	1
	North Korea	1	0	0	1
	Slovenia	1	0	0	1
11	Germany	0	2	2	4
12	Romania	0	2	0	2
13	China	0	1	1	2
	Great Britain	0	1	1	2
	Hungary	0	1	1	2
	Mongolia	0	1	1	2
17	Netherlands	0	0	2	2
18	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	Canada	0	0	1	1
	Colombia	0	0	1	1
	Greece	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	1	1
	Uzbekistan	0	0	1	1
Total		14	14	28	56

References

1. "London 2012 Olympics qualifying: Judo". BBC. 4 Jan 2011. Retrieved 11 Aug 2011.

Coordinates: 51°30′27″N 0°01′47″E / 51.5075°N 0.0297°E