Judo at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Palace of Sports of the Central Lenin Stadium as it appears today

The Judo competition at the 1980 Summer Olympics was the first time that the medal count was not dominated by Japan, as the country joined the boycott of the games because of the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Medals were awarded to male judoka in eight competitions, seven weight classes and the open competition — two more than in 1976. All events were held at the Palace of Sports of the Central Lenin Stadium at Luzhniki (south western part of Moscow). The schedule started on July 27 and ended on August 2.

Victory ceremony of the 95 kg event. RIAN photo.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra Lightweight 60 kg	Thierry Rey  France	Jose Rodriguez  Cuba	Aramby Emizh  Soviet Union Tibor Kincses  Hungary
Half Lightweight 65 kg	Nikolai Solodukhin  Soviet Union	Tsendiin Damdin  Mongolia	Ilian Nedkov  Bulgaria Janusz Pawłowski  Poland
Lightweight 71 kg	Ezio Gamba  Italy	Neil Adams  Great Britain	Ravdangiin Davaadalai  Mongolia Karl-Heinz Lehmann  East Germany
Half Middleweight 78 kg	Shota Khabareli  Soviet Union	Juan Ferrer  Cuba	Harald Heinke  East Germany Bernard Tchoullouyan  France
Middleweight 86 kg	Jürg Röthlisberger  Switzerland	Isaac Azcuy  Cuba	Detlef Ultsch  East Germany Aleksandrs Jackevičs  Soviet Union
Half-Heavyweight 95 kg	Robert Van de Walle  Belgium	Tengiz Khubuluri  Soviet Union	Dietmar Lorenz  East Germany Henk Numan  Netherlands
Heavyweight +95 kg	Angelo Parisi  France	Dimitar Zaprianov  Bulgaria	Radomir Kovačević  Yugoslavia Vladimír Kocman  Czechoslovakia
Open category	Dietmar Lorenz  East Germany	Angelo Parisi  France	Arthur Mapp  Great Britain András Ozsvár  Hungary

Medal table

1	Soviet Union (URS)	2	1	2	5
2	France (FRA)	2	1	1	4
3	East Germany (GDR)	1	0	4	5
4	Belgium (BEL)	1	0	0	1
	Italy (ITA)	1	0	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	0	1
7	Cuba (CUB)	0	3	0	3
8	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	1	2
	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	1	2
	Mongolia (MGL)	0	1	1	2
11	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	2	2
12	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	0	1	1
Total		8	8	16	32

References

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2008-02-20.
• Sports123.com