| Judo at the Games of the XXX Olympiad | |
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| Venue | ExCeL Exhibition Centre |
| Dates | 28 July – 3 August 2012 |
| Judo at the 2012 Summer Olympics | ||
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| List of judoka Qualification | ||
| 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 judo competitions at the 2012 Olympic Games in London were held from 28 July to 3 August at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre.
Qualification was based on the world ranking list prepared by the International Judo Federation on 1 May 2012. [1]
Russia topped the medal table with three golds and five in total.
* Host nation (Great Britain)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 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 | |
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| 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 González  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 |
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| 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 Décosse 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 |
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