Judo at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Judo Judo at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue	ExCeL Exhibition Centre
Location	London, United Kingdom
Dates	28 July – 3 August 2012
Website	Official website
Competition at external databases
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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.

Qualification

Main article: Judo at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Qualification

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

Medal table

Russia topped the medal table with three golds and five medals overall.

  *   Host nation (Great Britain)

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
Totals (23 entries)		14	14	28	56

Medal summary

Men's events

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

Women's events

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

References

1. "London 2012 Olympics qualifying: Judo". BBC. 4 January 2011. Retrieved 11 August 2011.

External links

Media related to Judo at the 2012 Summer Olympics at Wikimedia Commons

• Judo at the 2012 Summer Olympics. London2012.com. at the UK Government Web Archive (archived 28 February 2013)
• Official results book – Judo. London2012.com. at the Wayback Machine (archived 11 May 2013)
• Judo at the 2012 Summer Olympics at SR/Olympics (archived)
• judo at the 2012 Summer Olympics at the International Judo Federation
• judo at the 2012 Summer Olympics at JudoInside.com
• judo at the 2012 Summer Olympics at the European Judo Union

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