Judo at the 2012 Summer Olympics

The judo competitions at the 2012 Olympic Games in London were held from 28 July to 3 August at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre.

Judo Judo at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue	ExCeL Exhibition Centre
Location	London, United Kingdom
Dates	28 July – 3 August 2012
Website	Official website
Competition at external databases
Links	IJF • EJU • JudoInside
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The host venue for judo was the ExCeL Exhibition Centre.

Wojdan Shaherkani became the first female competitor from Saudi Arabia to compete at an Olympic Games.

Qualification

Main article: Judo at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Qualification was based on the world ranking list prepared by the International Judo Federation on 1 May 2012.^[1]

Medal table

Russia topped the medal table with three golds and five in total.

  *   Host nation (Great Britain)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	3	1	1	5
2	France	2	0	5	7
3	South Korea	2	0	1	3
4	Japan	1	3	3	7
5	Cuba	1	2	0	3
6	Brazil	1	0	3	4
7	United States	1	0	1	2
8	Georgia	1	0	0	1
	North Korea	1	0	0	1
	Slovenia	1	0	0	1
11	Germany	0	2	2	4
12	Romania	0	2	0	2
13	China	0	1	1	2
	Great Britain*	0	1	1	2
	Hungary	0	1	1	2
	Mongolia	0	1	1	2
17	Netherlands	0	0	2	2
18	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	Canada	0	0	1	1
	Colombia	0	0	1	1
	Greece	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	1	1
	Uzbekistan	0	0	1	1
Totals (23 entries)		14	14	28	56

Medal summary

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra-lightweight (60 kg) details	Arsen Galstyan  Russia	Hiroaki Hiraoka  Japan	Felipe Kitadai  Brazil
			Rishod Sobirov  Uzbekistan
Half-lightweight (66 kg) details	Lasha Shavdatuashvili  Georgia	Miklós Ungvári  Hungary	Masashi Ebinuma  Japan
			Cho Jun-ho  South Korea
Lightweight (73 kg) details	Mansur Isaev  Russia	Riki Nakaya  Japan	Sainjargalyn Nyam-Ochir  Mongolia
			Ugo Legrand  France
Half-middleweight (81 kg) details	Kim Jae-bum  South Korea	Ole Bischof  Germany	Ivan Nifontov  Russia
			Antoine Valois-Fortier  Canada
Middleweight (90 kg) details	Song Dae-nam  South Korea	Asley González  Cuba	Ilias Iliadis  Greece
			Masashi Nishiyama  Japan
Half-heavyweight (100 kg) details	Tagir Khaibulaev  Russia	Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar  Mongolia	Dimitri Peters  Germany
			Henk Grol  Netherlands
Heavyweight (+100 kg) details	Teddy Riner  France	Aleksandr Mikhailine  Russia	Rafael Silva  Brazil
			Andreas Tölzer  Germany

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra-lightweight (48 kg) details	Sarah Menezes  Brazil	Alina Dumitru  Romania	Éva Csernoviczki  Hungary
			Charline Van Snick  Belgium
Half-lightweight (52 kg) details	An Kum-ae  North Korea	Yanet Bermoy  Cuba	Rosalba Forciniti  Italy
			Priscilla Gneto  France
Lightweight (57 kg) details	Kaori Matsumoto  Japan	Corina Căprioriu  Romania	Marti Malloy  United States
			Automne Pavia  France
Half-middleweight (63 kg) details	Urška Žolnir  Slovenia	Xu Lili  China	Yoshie Ueno  Japan
			Gévrise Émane  France
Middleweight (70 kg) details	Lucie Décosse  France	Kerstin Thiele  Germany	Yuri Alvear  Colombia
			Edith Bosch  Netherlands
Half-heavyweight (78 kg) details	Kayla Harrison  United States	Gemma Gibbons  Great Britain	Audrey Tcheuméo  France
			Mayra Aguiar  Brazil
Heavyweight (+78 kg) details	Idalys Ortiz  Cuba	Mika Sugimoto  Japan	Karina Bryant  Great Britain
			Tong Wen  China