Judo 1992

Judo at the 1992 Summer Olympics was held from 27 July to 2 August 1992 at Palau Blaugrana.

For the first time in Olympic history, women's judo was officially included in the program as a full-medal sport after it was previously contested as a demonstration sport at Seoul 1988.

Medal Table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	2	4	4	10
2	France	2	1	4	7
3	Unified Team	2	0	2	4
4	Spain	2	0	0	2
5	Hungary	1	2	1	4
6	Cuba	1	1	3	5
7	South Korea	1	1	2	4
8	China	1	0	2	3
9	Brazil	1	0	0	1
	Poland	1	0	0	1
11	Great Britain	0	2	2	4
12	Israel	0	1	1	2
13	Italy	0	1	0	1
	United States	0	1	0	1
15	Germany	0	0	2	2
	Netherlands	0	0	2	2
17	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	Canada	0	0	1	1
	Turkey	0	0	1	1

Medalists

Men

Event
60 kg	Nazim Gousseinov	Yoon Hyun	Richard Trautmann	Tadanori Koshino
65 kg	Rogerio Sampaio Cardoso	Jozsef Csak	Udo Gunter Quellmalz	Israel Hernandez Planas
71 kg	Toshihiko Koga	Bertalan Hajtos	Chung Hoon	Shay Oren Smadga
78 kg	Hidehiko Yoshida	Jason Morris	Kim Byung-joo	Bertrand Damaisin
86 kg	Waldemar Legien	Pascal Tayot	Hirotaka Okada	Nicolas Gill
95 kg	Antal Kovacs	Raymond Stevens	Theo Meijer	Dmitri Sergeev
95+ kg	David Khakhaleichvili	Naoya Ogawa	David Douillet	Imre Csosz

Women

Event
48 kg	Cecile Nowak	Ryoko Tamura	Hulya Senyurt	Amarilis Savon Carmenaty
52 kg	Almudena Munoz Martinez	Noriko Mizoguchi	Li Zhongyun	Sharon Susan Rendle
56 kg	Miriam Blasco Soto	Nicola Kim Fairbrother	Driulis Gonzalez Morales	Chiyori Tateno
61 kg	Catherine Fleury	Yael Arad	Zhang Di	Elena Petrova
66 kg	Odalis Reve Jimenez	Emanuela Pierantozzi	Heidi Rakels	Kate Louise Howey
72 kg	Kim Mi-jung	Yoko Tanabe	Irene de Kok	Laetitia Meignan
72+ kg	Zhuang Xiaoyan	Estela Rodriguez	Natalia Lupino	Yoko Sakaue

Statistics

• There were 433 total athletes from 93 countries.
• Erin Lum was the youngest participant with 15 years and 178 days.
• Mohamed Doukoure was the oldest participant with 38 years and 254 days.
• 9 participants were chosen to be a flag bearer at the opening ceremony.
• Japan won 10 medals, more than in any other sport.
• France won 7 medals, more than in any other sport.
• Israel won its first-ever 2 medals in the sport and its only 2 medals of Barcelona 1992.
• Turkey won its first-ever medal in the sport.
• Spain won its first-ever 2 gold medals in the sport.
• China and Hungary won their first-ever gold medal in the sport.
• Canada won its first medal in the sport since Los Angeles 1984.
• Cuba won its first gold medal in the sport since Montreal 1976.

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