Judo 1980

Judo at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held from 27 July to 2 August 1980 at the Luzhniki Palace of Sports.

For the first time, the extra-lightweight and half-lightweight category were officially included in the Olympic judo program.

Medal Table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	2	1	2	5
2	France	2	1	1	4
3	East Germany	1	0	4	5
4	Belgium	1	0	0	1
	Italy	1	0	0	1
	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
7	Cuba	0	3	0	3
8	Bulgaria	0	1	1	2
	Great Britain	0	1	1	2
	Mongolia	0	1	1	2
11	Hungary	0	0	2	2
12	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
	Yugoslavia	0	0	1	1

Medalists

Event
60 kg	Thierry Rey	Jose Rodriguez	Tibor Kincses	Arambi Emizh
65 kg	Nikolai Solodukhin	Tsendying Damdin	Ilian Nedkov	Janusz Pawlowski
71 kg	Ezio Gamba	Neil Adams	Karl-Heinz Lehmann	Ravdan Davaadalai
78 kg	Shota Khabareli	Juan Ferrer	Bernard Tchoullouyan	Harald Heinke
86 kg	Jurg Rothlisberger	Isaac Azcuy	Aleksandr Yatskevich	Detlef Ultsch
95 kg	Robert van de Walle	Tengiz Khubuluri	Dietmar Lorenz	Henk Numan
95+ kg	Angelo Parisi	Dimitar Zaprianov	Vladimir Kocman	Radomir Kovacevic
Open	Dietmar Lorenz	Angelo Parisi	Arthur Mapp	Andras Ozsvar

Statistics

• There were 182 total athletes from 42 countries.
• Ronny Sanabria was the youngest participant with 16 years and 111 days.
• Vitali Kuznetsov was the oldest participant with 39 years and 162 days.
• 4 participants were chosen to be a flag bearer at the opening ceremony.
• France won its first-ever 2 gold medals in the sport.
• Italy and Switzerland won their first-ever gold medal in the sport.
• Bulgaria and Mongolia won their first-ever 2 medals in the sport.
• Belgium and Czechoslovakia won their first-ever medal in the sport.

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