Judo at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	Beijing Science and Technology University Gymnasium
Dates	9 – 15 August 2008
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Judo at the 2008 Summer Olympics
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
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Judo competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were held from August 9 to August 15 at the Beijing Science and Technology University Gymnasium.

This was the fifth Olympics for Driulys González (Cuba), Mária Pekli (Australia), Ryoko Tamura-Tani (Japan). The only other judokas to compete at five Olympics are Robert Van de Walle (Belgium), the judoka-bobsledder Jorge Bonnet (Puerto Rico) and Telma Monteiro (Portugal).

Medal table

  *   Host nation ( China)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	4	1	2	7
2	China*	3	0	1	4
3	South Korea	1	2	1	4
4	Azerbaijan	1	0	1	2
5	Georgia	1	0	0	1
	Germany	1	0	0	1
	Italy	1	0	0	1
	Mongolia	1	0	0	1
	Romania	1	0	0	1
10	Cuba	0	3	3	6
11	France	0	2	2	4
12	Netherlands	0	1	4	5
13	North Korea	0	1	2	3
14	Algeria	0	1	1	2
	Uzbekistan	0	1	1	2
16	Austria	0	1	0	1
	Kazakhstan	0	1	0	1
18	Brazil	0	0	3	3
19	Argentina	0	0	1	1
	Egypt	0	0	1	1
	Slovenia	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
	Tajikistan	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (25 entries)		14	14	28	56

Medal summary

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra-lightweight (60 kg) details	Choi Min-ho   South Korea	Ludwig Paischer   Austria	Rishod Sobirov   Uzbekistan
			Ruben Houkes   Netherlands
Half-lightweight (66 kg) details	Masato Uchishiba   Japan	Benjamin Darbelet   France	Yordanis Arencibia   Cuba
			Pak Chol-min   North Korea
Lightweight (73 kg) details	Elnur Mammadli   Azerbaijan	Wang Ki-chun   South Korea	Rasul Boqiev   Tajikistan
			Leandro Guilheiro   Brazil
Half-middleweight (81 kg) details	Ole Bischof   Germany	Kim Jae-bum   South Korea	Tiago Camilo   Brazil
			Roman Gontiuk   Ukraine
Middleweight (90 kg) details	Irakli Tsirekidze   Georgia	Amar Benikhlef   Algeria	Hesham Mesbah   Egypt
			Sergei Aschwanden   Switzerland
Half-heavyweight (100 kg) details	Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar   Mongolia	Askhat Zhitkeyev   Kazakhstan	Movlud Miraliyev   Azerbaijan
			Henk Grol   Netherlands
Heavyweight (+100 kg) details	Satoshi Ishii   Japan	Abdullo Tangriev   Uzbekistan	Teddy Riner   France
			Oscar Braison   Cuba

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra-lightweight (48 kg) details	Alina Alexandra Dumitru   Romania	Yanet Bermoy   Cuba	Paula Pareto   Argentina
			Ryoko Tani   Japan
Half-lightweight (52 kg) details	Xian Dongmei   China	An Kum-ae   North Korea	Soraya Haddad   Algeria
			Misato Nakamura   Japan
Lightweight (57 kg) details	Giulia Quintavalle   Italy	Deborah Gravenstijn   Netherlands	Xu Yan   China
			Ketleyn Quadros   Brazil
Half-middleweight (63 kg) details	Ayumi Tanimoto   Japan	Lucie Décosse   France	Elisabeth Willeboordse   Netherlands
			Won Ok-Im   North Korea
Middleweight (70 kg) details	Masae Ueno   Japan	Anaysi Hernández   Cuba	Ronda Rousey   United States
			Edith Bosch   Netherlands
Half-heavyweight (78 kg) details	Yang Xiuli   China	Yalennis Castillo   Cuba	Jeong Gyeong-mi   South Korea
			Stéphanie Possamaï   France
Heavyweight (+78 kg) details	Tong Wen   China	Maki Tsukada   Japan	Idalys Ortiz   Cuba
			Lucija Polavder   Slovenia

Qualification

Together with 366 directly qualified athletes, there will be 20 invitational places from a Tripartite Commission (genders and categories are yet to be decided), making up a total athlete quota of 386 athletes—217 men, 147 women and 22 places not yet allocated to a gender.

An NOC may enter up to one athlete per weight category. The qualifying places will be allocated as follows:

Event/Union	Date	Location	Men	Women	Totals
World Championships	September 13–16, 2007	Rio de Janeiro	6	6	84
African Judo Union	May 2006 – May 2008	—	3	2	35
Judo Union of Asia	Nov 2006 – Apr 2008	—	5	3	58 [a]
European Judo Union	Apr 2007 – Apr 2008	—	9	5	98
Oceania Judo Union	Sep 2007 – Mar 2008	—	1	1	14
Pan-American Judo Union	May 2006 – May 2008	—	6	3	63
Host Nation ( CHN)	—	—	1	1	14 [b]
TOTAL			31	21	366

^a Two additional places will be awarded to this union, but gender and weight categories are to be defined.

^b If the host nation qualifies athletes directly through the world championships or Asian continental qualification system, the reserved entry places will be reallocated as part of the Asian continental qualification.

Continental qualification places will be allocated through the ranking system based on the major tournaments on the continent (continental championships, qualification tournaments). More important tournaments and tournaments closer to the Olympics will carry more points. Deadline for the unions to confirm the places was May 21, 2008.

See also

• Judo at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

External links

• judo at the 2008 Summer Olympics at the International Judo Federation
• judo at the 2008 Summer Olympics at JudoInside.com
• judo at the 2008 Summer Olympics at the European Judo Union
• European Judo Union Olympic Classification
• 2008 Olympic Qualification System
• Judo – Official Results Book