Judo at the Paralympic Games | |
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Location | Spain |
Date | 1992 |
Competition at external databases | |
Links | JudoInside |
Para Judo at the 1992 Summer Paralympics consisted of seven events for men.
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's 60 kg | Nobuhiro Kanki Japan | Veniamin Mitchourine Unified Team | Davide Albertini Italy |
Woon Noh Cheung South Korea | |||
Men's 65 kg | Juan Damián Matos Spain | Shinichi Ishizue Japan | Akhmed Gazimagomedov Unified Team |
Michael Murch Great Britain | |||
Men's 71 kg | Simon Jackson Great Britain | Mario Talavera Spain | Pier Morten Canada |
Eiji Miyauchi Japan | |||
Men's 78 kg | Joel Gichtenaere France | Brett Lewis United States | Takio Ushikubo Japan |
Matteo Ardit Italy | |||
Men's 86 kg | Yu Sung An South Korea | Yasuhiro Uwano Japan | Lin Der-chang Chinese Taipei |
Daniel Fourcade France | |||
Men's 95 kg | Osamu Takagaki Japan | Lynn Manning United States | Mikhail Yakovlev Unified Team |
Klaus Heyer Germany | |||
Men's +95 kg | Masakazu Saito Japan | None [*] | James Mastro United States |
Franz Gatscher Italy |
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Japan (JPN) | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
2 | Spain (ESP) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
3 | France (FRA) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Great Britain (GBR) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
South Korea (KOR) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
6 | Unified Team (EUN) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
7 | United States (USA) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
8 | Italy (ITA) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
9 | Canada (CAN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Germany (GER) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (11 entries) | 7 | 7 | 14 | 28 |
^ *: The Gold medal in the +95 weight class was originally awarded to Vladimir Kazakov of the Unified Team. After the games ended, Kazakov was found to have used illegal substances and was stripped of the medal. The Gold was then awarded to Masakazu Saito (Japan). The silver should have been awarded to James Mastro (U.S.A.) but never happened.
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