Judo at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue	Ano Liossia Olympic Hall
Dates	14–20 August 2004
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Judo at the 2004 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
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Judo at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in the Ano Liossia Olympic Hall and featured 368 judoka competing for 14 gold medals with seven different weight categories in both the men's and women's competitions. Japan dominated the event by taking 8 gold and 2 silver medals.

Gold and silver medals in each weight class were determined by a single-elimination bracket. There was a repechage for those who are eliminated by one of the eventual semifinalists. Since there are four semifinalists, this means that four of the losers of the round of 32 (i.e., 25%) faced four of the losers from the round of 16 (50%). The winners of these matches faced the four judokas who have lost in the quarterfinals. The winners, then, of these four matches faced each other to narrow the repechage field down to two judokas. Until this stage, the repechage has been segregated into two distinct halves, with each successive competitor facing another one from the same half of the original bracket; but each of the two judokas who emerge from the repechage challenged the loser of the other bracket's semifinal. (Since these two always come from opposite halves of the original bracket, they could not have faced each other already.) The winners of these two matches were each awarded a bronze medal, making judo unusual among Olympic events in not determining a single third-place finisher.

There was controversy in the men's competition, when Iranian competitor and two-times world champion Arash Miresmaeili weighed in overweight and was disqualified before a match in which he would have faced Israeli judoka Ehud Vaks. Miresmaeili's comments strongly suggested that he had intentionally disqualified himself so as not to compete against an Israeli. ^[1]

Medal summary

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra-lightweight (60 kg) details	Tadahiro Nomura   Japan	Nestor Khergiani   Georgia	Khashbaataryn Tsagaanbaatar   Mongolia
			Choi Min-ho   South Korea
Half-lightweight (66 kg) details	Masato Uchishiba   Japan	Jozef Krnáč   Slovakia	Georgi Georgiev   Bulgaria
			Yordanis Arencibia   Cuba
Lightweight (73 kg) details	Lee Won-hee   South Korea	Vitaliy Makarov   Russia	Leandro Guilheiro   Brazil
			Jimmy Pedro   United States
Half-middleweight (81 kg) details	Ilias Iliadis   Greece	Roman Gontyuk   Ukraine	Dmitri Nossov   Russia
			Flávio Canto   Brazil
Middleweight (90 kg) details	Zurab Zviadauri   Georgia	Hiroshi Izumi   Japan	Mark Huizinga   Netherlands
			Khasanbi Taov   Russia
Half-heavyweight (100 kg) details	Ihar Makarau   Belarus	Jang Sung-ho   South Korea	Ariel Ze'evi   Israel
			Michael Jurack   Germany
Heavyweight (+100 kg) details	Keiji Suzuki   Japan	Tamerlan Tmenov   Russia	Indrek Pertelson   Estonia
			Dennis van der Geest   Netherlands

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra-lightweight (48 kg) details	Ryoko Tani   Japan	Frédérique Jossinet   France	Gao Feng   China
			Julia Matijass   Germany
Half-lightweight (52 kg) details	Xian Dongmei   China	Yuki Yokosawa   Japan	Ilse Heylen   Belgium
			Amarilis Savón   Cuba
Lightweight (57 kg) details	Yvonne Bönisch   Germany	Kye Sun-hui   North Korea	Deborah Gravenstijn   Netherlands
			Yurisleidy Lupetey   Cuba
Half-middleweight (63 kg) details	Ayumi Tanimoto   Japan	Claudia Heill   Austria	Driulis González   Cuba
			Urška Žolnir   Slovenia
Middleweight (70 kg) details	Masae Ueno   Japan	Edith Bosch   Netherlands	Qin Dongya   China
			Annett Böhm   Germany
Half-heavyweight (78 kg) details	Noriko Anno   Japan	Liu Xia   China	Yurisel Laborde   Cuba
			Lucia Morico   Italy
Heavyweight (+78 kg) details	Maki Tsukada   Japan	Daima Beltrán   Cuba	Tea Donguzashvili   Russia
			Sun Fuming   China

Medal table

  *   Host nation ( Greece)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	8	2	0	10
2	China	1	1	3	5
3	South Korea	1	1	1	3
4	Georgia	1	1	0	2
5	Germany	1	0	3	4
6	Belarus	1	0	0	1
	Greece*	1	0	0	1
8	Russia	0	2	3	5
9	Cuba	0	1	5	6
10	Netherlands	0	1	3	4
11	Austria	0	1	0	1
	France	0	1	0	1
	North Korea	0	1	0	1
	Slovakia	0	1	0	1
	Ukraine	0	1	0	1
16	Brazil	0	0	2	2
17	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
	Estonia	0	0	1	1
	Israel	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	1	1
	Mongolia	0	0	1	1
	Slovenia	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (24 entries)		14	14	28	56

References

External links

• judo at the 2004 Summer Olympics at the International Judo Federation
• judo at the 2004 Summer Olympics at JudoInside.com
• Official result book – Judo
• Videos of the 2004 Judo Summer Olympics