List of Paralympic medalists in judo

Para judo has been part of the Paralympic Games program since 1988 where only male judoka participated, women began to compete at the 2004 Summer Paralympics. B1, B2 and B3 judoka have all competed against each other since the sport was introduced in the Summer Paralympics, the J1 (B1) and J2 (B2) classifications will be competed separately in the 2024 Summer Paralympics. ^[1]

Men

Extra lightweight

This weightclass was split into two classifications - J1 and J2 - in 2024.

• 60 kg (1988-2020)

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1988 Seoul [2] details [3]	Simon Jackson   Great Britain	Mokoto Shinkawa   Japan	Jaime De Oliveira   Brazil
			John Allen   United States
1992 Barcelona [4] details [5]	Nobuhiro Kanki   Japan	Veniamin Mitchourine   Unified Team	Davide Albertini   Italy
			Cheung Woon-Noh   South Korea
1996 Atlanta [6] details [7]	Lee Ching Chung   Chinese Taipei	Nobuhiro Kanki   Japan	Kim Il Keun   South Korea
			Veniamin Mitchourine   Russia
2000 Sydney [8] details [9]	Sergio Arturo Perez   Cuba	Veniamin Mitchourine   Russia	José Carlos Ruiz   Spain
			Lee Ching Chung   Chinese Taipei
2004 Athens [10] details [11]	None	Makoto Hirose   Japan	Ihor Zasyadkovych   Ukraine
			Norbert Biro   Hungary
2008 Beijing [12] details [13]	Mouloud Noura   Algeria	Saeed Rahmati   Iran	Ramin Ibrahimov   Azerbaijan
			Li Xiaodong   China
2012 London [14] details [15]	Ramin Ibrahimov   Azerbaijan	Li Xiaodong   China	Mouloud Noura   Algeria
			Ben Quilter   Great Britain
2016 Rio de Janeiro [16] details [17]	Sherzod Namozov   Uzbekistan	Makoto Hirose   Japan	Alex Bologa   Romania
			Uugankhuu Bolormaa   Mongolia
2020 Tokyo [18] details [19]	Vugar Shirinli   Azerbaijan	Anuar Sariyev   Kazakhstan	Recep Ciftci   Turkey
			Alex Bologa   Romania

• 60 kg J1 (2024-)

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2024 Paris details	Abdelkader Bouamer   Algeria	Meysam Banitaba   Iran	Marcos Dennis Blanco   Venezuela
			Kapil Parmar   India

• 60 kg J2 (2024-)

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2024 Paris details	Sherzod Namozov   Uzbekistan	Zurab Zurabiani   Georgia	Ishak Ouldkouider   Algeria
			Davyd Khorava   Ukraine

Half lightweight

This weightclass was paused in 2024.

• 65 kg (1988-1996)
• 66 kg (2000-)

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1988 Seoul details	Shinichi Ishizue   Japan	Rene Duchemin   France	Júlio Silva   Brazil
			Pier Morten   Canada
1992 Barcelona details	Juan Damián Matos   Spain	Shinichi Ishizue   Japan	Akhmed Gazimagomedov   Unified Team
			Michael Murch   Great Britain
1996 Atlanta details	Satoshi Fujimoto   Japan	Akhmed Gazimagomedov   Russia	Marlon Lopez   United States
			Cyril Morel   France
2000 Sydney details	Satoshi Fujimoto   Japan	David Garcia   Spain	Marlon Lopez   United States
			Oleg Chabachov   Russia
2004 Athens details	Satoshi Fujimoto   Japan	David Garcia   Spain	Jani Kallunki   Finland
			Xu Zhilin   China
2008 Beijing details	Sid Ali Lamri   Algeria	Satoshi Fujimoto   Japan	Jani Kallunki   Finland
			Victor Sanchez   Cuba
2012 London details	Davyd Khorava   Ukraine	Zhao Xu   China	Sid Ali Lamri   Algeria
			Marcos Falcón   Venezuela
2016 Rio de Janeiro details	Utkirjon Nigmatov   Uzbekistan	Bayram Mustafayev   Azerbaijan	Davyd Khorava   Ukraine
			Satoshi Fujimoto   Japan
2020 Tokyo details	Uchkun Kuranbaev   Uzbekistan	Sergio Ibanez Banon   Spain	Yujiro Seto   Japan
			Namig Abasli   Azerbaijan

Lightweight

This weightclass was amended in 2000 from 71 kg to 73 kg, and then split into two classifications - J1 and J2 - in 2024.

• 71 kg (1988-1996)
• 73 kg (2000-2020)

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1988 Seoul details	An Yu-Sung   South Korea	Norio Kato (judo)   Japan	Paul Lewis   Great Britain
			Eddie Morten   Canada
1992 Barcelona details	Simon Jackson   Great Britain	Mario Talavera   Spain	Pier Morten   Canada
			Eiji Miyauchi   Japan
1996 Atlanta details	Takio Ushikubo   Japan	Gérald Rollo   France	Stephen Moore   United States
			Cui Baoji   China
2000 Sydney details	Stephen Moore   United States	Cui Baoji   China	Pier Morten   Canada
			Gérald Rollo   France
2004 Athens details	Wang Yunfeng   China	Eduardo Amaral   Brazil	Hani Asakereh   Iran
			Stephen Moore   United States
2008 Beijing details	Eduardo Ávila   Mexico	Xu Zhilin   China	Fábian Ramírez   Argentina
			Sergii Sydorenko   Ukraine
2012 London details	Dmytro Solovey   Ukraine	Sharif Khalilov   Uzbekistan	Eduardo Ávila   Mexico
			Shakhban Kurbanov   Russia
2016 Rio de Janeiro details	Ramil Gasimov   Azerbaijan	Dmytro Solovey   Ukraine	Feruz Sayidov   Uzbekistan
			Nikolai Kornhass   Germany
2020 Tokyo details	Feruz Sayidov   Uzbekistan	Temirzhan Daulet   Kazakhstan	Rufat Mahomedov   Ukraine
			Osvaldas Bareikis   Lithuania

• 73 kg J1 (2024-)

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2024 Paris details	Alex Bologa   Romania	Yergali Shamey   Kazakhstan	Lennart Sass   Germany
			Djibrilo Iafa   Portugal

• 73 kg J2 (2024-)

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2024 Paris details	Yujiro Seto   Japan	Giorgi Kaldani   Georgia	Uchkun Kuranbaev   Uzbekistan
			Osvaldas Bareikis   Lithuania

Half middleweight

This weightclass was amended from 78 kg to 81 kg in 2000. The weightclass was paused in 2024.

• 78 kg (1988-1996)
• 81 kg (2000-)

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1988 Seoul details	Takio Ushikubo   Japan	Yu Do-Sang   South Korea	Terence Powell   Great Britain
			David McKinley   United States
1992 Barcelona details	Joel Gichtenaere   France	Brett Lewis   United States	Takio Ushikubo   Japan
			Matteo Ardit   Italy
1996 Atlanta details	Simon Jackson   Great Britain	Fábian Ramírez   Argentina	Eugenio Santana   Spain
			Jonas Stoškus   Lithuania
2000 Sydney details	Rafael Cruz Alonso   Cuba	Sébastien Le Meaux   France	Gabor Vincze   Hungary
			Simon Jackson   Great Britain
2004 Athens details	Cyril Jonard   France	Yuji Kato   Japan	Sebastian Junk   Germany
			Gabor Vincze   Hungary
2008 Beijing details	Isao Cruz Alonso   Cuba	Cyril Jonard   France	Jorge Lencina   Argentina
			Reinaldo Carvallo   Venezuela
2012 London details	Oleksandr Kosinov   Ukraine	José Effron   Argentina	Isao Cruz Alonso   Cuba
			Matthias Krieger   Germany
2016 Rio de Janeiro details	Eduardo Ávila   Mexico	Lee Jung Min   South Korea	Rovshan Safarov   Azerbaijan
			Oleksandr Kosinov   Ukraine
2020 Tokyo details	Huseyn Rahimli   Azerbaijan	Davurkhon Karomatov   Uzbekistan	Eduardo Ávila   Mexico
			Lee Jung Min   South Korea

Middleweight

This weightclass was amended from 86 kg to 90 kg in 2000, and split into two classifications - J1 and J2 - in 2024.

• 86 kg (1988-1996)
• 90 kg (2000-2020)

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1988 Seoul details	Yasuhiro Uwano   Japan	David Hurst   Great Britain	Kenneth Henningsson   Sweden
			Daniel Fourcade   France
1992 Barcelona details	An Yu-Sung   South Korea	Yasuhiro Uwano   Japan	Lin Der-chang   Chinese Taipei
			Daniel Fourcade   France
1996 Atlanta details	Antônio Tenório   Brazil	Francisco Boedo   Spain	An Yu-Sung   South Korea
			Ian Rose   Great Britain
2000 Sydney details	Antônio Tenório   Brazil	Brett Lewis   United States	David Guillaume   France
			An Yu-Sung   South Korea
2004 Athens details	Messaoud Nine   Algeria	Oleg Kretsul   Russia	Jonas Stoškus   Lithuania
			Raul Fernandez   Spain
2008 Beijing details	Oleg Kretsul   Russia	Tofig Mammadov   Azerbaijan	Olivier Cugnon de Sévricourt   France
			Sam Ingram   Great Britain
2012 London details	Jorge Hierrezuelo   Cuba	Sam Ingram   Great Britain	Jorge Lencina   Argentina
			Dartanyon Crockett   United States
2016 Rio de Janeiro details	Zviad Gogotchuri   Georgia	Oleksandr Nazarenko   Ukraine	Shukhrat Boboev   Uzbekistan
			Dartanyon Crockett   United States
2020 Tokyo details	Vahid Nouri   Iran	Elliot Stewart   Great Britain	Helios Latchoumanaya   France
			Oleksandr Nazarenko   Ukraine

• 90 kg J1 (2024-)

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2024 Paris details	Arthur Cavalcante da Silva   Brazil	Daniel Powell   Great Britain	Cyril Jonard   France
			Oleg Crețul   Moldova

• 90 kg J2 (2024-)

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2024 Paris details	Oleksandr Nazarenko   Ukraine	Hélios Latchoumanaya   France	Davurkhon Karomatov   Uzbekistan
			Marcelo Casanova   Brazil

Half heavyweight

This weightclass was amended from 95 kg to 100 kg in 2000. The weightclass was subsumed into the +90kg 'open' classes, both J1 and J2, in 2024.

• 95 kg (1992-1996)
• 100 kg (2000-)

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1992 Barcelona details	Osamu Takagaki   Japan	Lynn Manning   United States	Mikhail Yakovlev   Unified Team
			Klaus Heyer   Germany
1996 Atlanta details	Anthony Clarke   Australia	Run Ming Men   China	James Mastro   United States
			Terence Powell   Great Britain
2000 Sydney details	Walter Hanl   Austria	Grigory Shneyderman   Russia	Run Ming Men   China
			Yoshikazu Matsumoto   Japan
2004 Athens details	Antônio Tenório   Brazil	Run Ming Men   China	Sébastien Le Meaux   France
			Kevin Szott   United States
2008 Beijing details	Antônio Tenório   Brazil	Karim Sardarov   Azerbaijan	Juan Carlos Cortada   Cuba
			Mykola Lyivytskyi   Ukraine
2012 London details	Choi Gwang Geun   South Korea	Myles Porter   United States	Antônio Tenório   Brazil
			Vladimir Fedin   Russia
2016 Rio de Janeiro details	Choi Gwang Geun   South Korea	Antônio Tenório   Brazil	Yordani Fernandez Sastre   Cuba
			Shirin Sharipov   Uzbekistan
2020 Tokyo details	Chris Skelley   Great Britain	Ben Goodrich   United States	Sharif Khalilov   Uzbekistan
			Anatolii Shevchenko   RPC

Heavyweight

This weightclass, the 'open' weightclass, was set at +95 kg in 1988, amended to +100 kg in 2000, before being subsumed in the +90 kg J1 and J2 classifications in 2024.

The 'open' +90 kg class is considered the 'heavyweight' class despite being partially within the previous 'half-heavyweight' limits.

• +95 kg (1988-1996)
• +100 kg (2000-)

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1988 Seoul details	Masakazu Saito   Japan	Walter Monti   Italy	Leonel Cunha Maraes Filho   Brazil
			David Hodgkins   Great Britain
1992 Barcelona details	Masakazu Saito   Japan	None	James Mastro   United States
			Franz Gatscher   Italy
1996 Atlanta details	Walter Hanl   Austria	Kevin Szott   United States	Osamu Takagaki   Japan
			Eric Censier   France
2000 Sydney details	Kevin Szott   United States	Rafael Moreno   Spain	Eiji Miyauchi   Japan
			Martin Osewald   Germany
2004 Athens details	Ilham Zakiyev   Azerbaijan	Ian Rose   Great Britain	Keiji Amakawa   Japan
			Rafael Torres Pompa   Cuba
2008 Beijing details	Ilham Zakiyev   Azerbaijan	Wang Song   China	Greg DeWall   United States
			Julien Taurines   France
2012 London details	Kento Masaki   Japan	Wang Song   China	Ilham Zakiyev   Azerbaijan
			Yangaliny Jiménez Domínguez   Cuba
2016 Rio de Janeiro details	Adiljan Tulendibaev   Uzbekistan	Wilians Silva de Araújo   Brazil	Yangaliny Jiménez Domínguez   Cuba
			Kento Masaki   Japan
2020 Tokyo details	Mohammadreza Kheirollahzadeh   Iran	Revaz Chikoidze   Georgia	Ilham Zakiyev   Azerbaijan
			Choi Gwang Geun   South Korea

• +90 kg J1 (2024-)

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2024 Paris details	Wilians Silva de Araújo   Brazil	Ion Basoc   Moldova	Jason Grandry   France
			Ilham Zakiyev   Azerbaijan

• +90 kg J2 (2024-)

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2024 Paris details	İbrahim Bölükbaşı   Turkey	Revaz Chikoidze   Georgia	Zhurkamyrza Shukurbekov   Kazakhstan
			Chris Skelley   Great Britain

Women

Extra lightweight

• 48kg (2004-)

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2004 Athens details	Karima Medjeded   France	Karla Cardoso   Brazil	Viktoriya Potapova   Russia
			Astrid Arndt   Germany
2008 Beijing details	Guo Hua Ping   China	Karla Cardoso   Brazil	Viktoriya Potapova   Russia
			Carmen Brussig   Germany
2012 London details	Carmen Brussig   Germany	Lee Kai-lin   Chinese Taipei	Viktoriya Potapova   Russia
			Yuliya Halinska   Ukraine
2016 Rio de Janeiro details	Li Liqing   China	Carmen Brussig   Germany	Yuliya Halinska   Ukraine
			Ecem Tasin   Turkey
2020 Tokyo details	Shahana Hajiyeva   Azerbaijan	Sandrine Martinet   France	Viktoriya Potapova   RPC
			Yuliya Halinska   Ukraine

Half lightweight

• 52kg (2004-)

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2004 Athens details	Susann Schützel   Germany	Sandrine Aurieres   France	Wang Qiu Lian   China
			Alexandra Vlasova   Russia
2008 Beijing details	Cui Na   China	Sandrine Aurieres-Martinet   France	Alesia Stepaniuk   Russia
			Michele Ferreira   Brazil
2012 London details	Ramona Brussig   Germany	Wang Lijing   China	Michele Ferreira   Brazil
			Nataliya Nikolaychyk   Ukraine
2016 Rio de Janeiro details	Sandrine Martinet   France	Ramona Brussig   Germany	Cherine Abdellaoui   Algeria
			Sevinch Salaeva   Uzbekistan
2020 Tokyo details	Cherine Abdellaoui   Algeria	Priscilla Gagne   Canada	Alesia Stepaniuk   RPC
			Nataliya Nikolaychyk   Ukraine

Lightweight

• 57kg (2004-)

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2004 Athens details	Ramona Brussig   Germany	Marta Arce Payno   Spain	Ekaterina Buzmakova   Russia
			Daniele Silva   Brazil
2008 Beijing details	Wang Lijing   China	Ramona Brussig   Germany	Monica Merenciano   Spain
			Daniele Silva   Brazil
2012 London details	Afag Sultanova   Azerbaijan	Lucia Araujo   Brazil	Monica Merenciano   Spain
			Duygu Cete   Turkey
2016 Rio de Janeiro details	Inna Cherniak   Ukraine	Lucia Araujo   Brazil	Junko Hirose   Japan
			Seo Ha Na   South Korea
2020 Tokyo details	Sevda Valiyeva   Azerbaijan	Parvina Samandarova   Uzbekistan	Lucia Araujo   Brazil
			Zeynep Çelik   Turkey

Half middleweight

• 63kg (2004-)

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2004 Athens details	Madina Kazakova   Russia	Silke Huettler   Germany	Angelique Quessandier   France
			Monica Merenciano   Spain
2008 Beijing details	Naomi Soazo   Venezuela	Marta Arce Payno   Spain	Madina Kazakova   Russia
			Angelique Quessandier   France
2012 London details	Dalidaivis Rodriguez   Cuba	Zhou Tong   China	Marta Arce Payno   Spain
			Daniele Bernardes Milan   Brazil
2016 Rio de Janeiro details	Dalidaivis Rodriguez   Cuba	Iryna Husieva   Ukraine	Jin Song Lee   South Korea
			Tursunpashsha Nurmetova   Uzbekistan
2020 Tokyo details	Khanim Huseynova   Azerbaijan	Iryna Husieva   Ukraine	Wang Yue   China
			Nafisa Sheripboeva   Uzbekistan

Middleweight

• 70kg (2004-)

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2004 Athens details	Carmen Herrera   Spain	Lorena Pierce   United States	Sándorné Nagy   Hungary
			Tatiana Savostyanova   Russia
2008 Beijing details	Carmen Herrera   Spain	Lenia Ruvalcaba   Mexico	Tatiana Savostyanova   Russia
			Sanneke Vermeulen   Netherlands
2012 London details	Carmen Herrera   Spain	Tatiana Savostyanova   Russia	Zhou Qian   China
			Nikolett Szabo   Hungary
2016 Rio de Janeiro details	Lenia Ruvalcaba   Mexico	Alana Martins   Brazil	Naomi Soazo   Venezuela
			Gulruh Rahimova   Uzbekistan
2020 Tokyo details	Alana Martins   Brazil	Ina Kaldani   Georgia	Kazusa Ogawa   Japan
			Lenia Ruvalcaba   Mexico

Heavyweight

• +70kg (2004-)

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2004 Athens details	Xue Lan Mei   China	Maria Olmedo   Spain	Beate Bischler   Germany
2008 Beijing details	Yuan Yanping   China	Deanne Silva   Brazil	Irina Kalyanova   Russia
			Zoubida Bouazoug   Algeria
2012 London details	Yuan Yanping   China	Nazan Akin   Turkey	Zoubida Bouazoug   Algeria
			Irina Kalyanova   Russia
2016 Rio de Janeiro details	Yuan Yanping   China	Khayitjon Alimova   Uzbekistan	Mesme Tasbag   Turkey
			Christella Garcia   United States
2020 Tokyo details	Dursadaf Karimova   Azerbaijan	Zarina Baibatina   Kazakhstan	Meg Emmerich   Brazil
			Carolina Costa   Italy

Multiple medalists

This is a list of multiple Paralympic judo medalists, listing people who have won two or more Paralympic gold medals or more than five medals.

Updated to Tokyo 2024.

This list may not be complete, as the information from the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) website is based on sources which does not present all information from earlier Paralympic Games (1960–1984). ^[20]

No.	Athlete	Nation	Category	Sex				Total
1	Antônio Tenório	Brazil	Middleweight, Half-heavyweight	M	4	1	1	6
2	Satoshi Fujimoto	Japan	Half-lightweight	M	3	1	1	5
3	Simon Jackson	Great Britain	Half-lightweight, Lightweight, Half-middleweight	M	3	0	1	4
4	Carmen Herrera	Spain	Middleweight	F	3	0	0	3
	Yuan Yanping	China	Heavyweight	F	3	0	0	3
6	Ramona Brussig	Germany	Half-lightweight, Lighweight	F	2	2	0	4
7	Ilham Zakiyev	Azerbaijan	Heavyweight	M	2	0	3	5
8	An-Yu Sung	South Korea		M	2	0	2	4
9	Choi Gwan Geun	South Korea	Half-heavyweight, Heavyweight	M	2	0	1	3
	Takio Ushikubo	Japan		M	2	0	1	3
10	Masakazu Saito	Japan	Heavyweight	M	2	0	0	2
	Dalidaivis Rodríguez	Cuba	Half-middleweight	F	2	0	0	2
	Sherzod Namozov	Uzbekistan	Extra-lightweight	M	2	0	0	2

See also

• List of Olympic medalists in judo

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