Judo at the 1988 Summer Olympics

The Judo competition at the 1988 Summer Olympics continued the seven weight classes first used at the 1980 Games. The open division was eliminated from the competition. Women's judo made its first appearance at the Olympic Games, as a demonstration sport. Japan failed to claim the top of the medal count for the first time in an Olympics in which they participated, coming in third behind South Korea and Poland.

Peter Seisenbacher from Austria and Hitoshi Saito from Japan won the gold medal in their weight classes, defending their titles from 1984, and becoming the first judoka to win gold at two Olympics.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra Lightweight 60 kg	Kim Jae-Yup South Korea (KOR)	Kevin Asano United States (USA)	Shinji Hosokawa Japan (JPN)
			Amiran Totikashvili Soviet Union (URS)
Half Lightweight 65 kg	Lee Kyung-Keun South Korea (KOR)	Janusz Pawłowski Poland (POL)	Bruno Carabetta France (FRA)
			Yosuke Yamamoto Japan (JPN)
Lightweight 71 kg	Marc Alexandre France (FRA)	Sven Loll East Germany (GDR)	Mike Swain United States (USA)
			Georgy Tenadze Soviet Union (URS)
Half Middleweight 78 kg	Waldemar Legień Poland (POL)	Frank Wieneke West Germany (FRG)	Torsten Bréchôt East Germany (GDR)
			Bashir Varaev Soviet Union (URS)
Middleweight 86 kg	Peter Seisenbacher Austria (AUT)	Vladimir Shestakov Soviet Union (URS)	Akinobu Osako Japan (JPN)
			Ben Spijkers Netherlands (NED)
Half Heavyweight 95 kg	Aurélio Miguel Brazil (BRA)	Marc Meiling West Germany (FRG)	Dennis Stewart Great Britain (GBR)
			Robert Van de Walle Belgium (BEL)
Heavyweight +95 kg	Hitoshi Saito Japan (JPN)	Henry Stöhr East Germany (GDR)	Cho Yong-Chul South Korea (KOR)
			Grigory Verichev Soviet Union (URS)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea (KOR)	2	0	1	3
2	Poland (POL)	1	1	0	2
3	Japan (JPN)	1	0	3	4
4	France (FRA)	1	0	1	2
5	Austria (AUT)	1	0	0	1
	Brazil (BRA)	1	0	0	1
7	East Germany (GDR)	0	2	1	3
8	West Germany (FRG)	0	2	0	2
9	Soviet Union (URS)	0	1	4	5
10	United States (USA)	0	1	1	2
11	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1

References

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp. Retrieved 2008-02-20. 
• Sports123.com
• Videos of the 1988 Judo Summer Olympics