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	Kevin Asano  United States	Shinji Hosokawa  Japan
			Amiran Totikashvili  Soviet Union
Half Lightweight 65 kg	Lee Kyung-Keun  South Korea	Janusz Pawłowski  Poland	Bruno Carabetta  France
			Yosuke Yamamoto  Japan
Lightweight 71 kg	Marc Alexandre  France	Sven Loll  East Germany	Mike Swain  United States
			Georgy Tenadze  Soviet Union
Half Middleweight 78 kg	Waldemar Legień  Poland	Frank Wieneke  West Germany	Torsten Bréchôt  East Germany
			Bashir Varaev  Soviet Union
Middleweight 86 kg	Peter Seisenbacher  Austria	Vladimir Shestakov  Soviet Union	Akinobu Osako  Japan
			Ben Spijkers  Netherlands
Half Heavyweight 95 kg	Aurélio Miguel  Brazil	Marc Meiling  West Germany	Dennis Stewart  Great Britain
			Robert Van de Walle  Belgium
Heavyweight +95 kg	Hitoshi Saito  Japan	Henry Stöhr  East Germany	Cho Yong-Chul  South Korea
			Grigory Verichev  Soviet Union

Medal table

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
Total		7	7	14	28

Women's demonstration games

Women's judo made its first appearance at the Olympic Games, as a demonstration sport. The following were the results of the women's competition. Women's Judo became an official part of the Olympic games from the 1992 Barcelona games and has been an integral part of the games since.

Category	Gold	Silver	Bronze
- 48 kg	China Li Zhongyun	Japan Fumiko Ezaki	South Korea Min-Sun Cho Australia Julie Reardon
- 52 kg	United Kingdom Sharon Rendle	France Dominique Brun	Italy Alessandra Giungi Japan Kaori Yamaguchi
- 56 kg	Australia Suzanne Williams	China Liu Guizhu	France Catherine Arnaud West Germany Regina Philips
- 61 kg	United Kingdom Diane Bell	United States Lynn Roethke	Poland Boguslawa Olechnowicz Japan Noriko Mochida
- 66 kg	Japan Hikari Sasaki	France Brigitte Deydier	South Korea Ji-Young Park Austria Roswitha Hartl
- 72 kg	Belgium Ingrid Berghmans	South Korea Mi-Jung Kim	Japan Yoko Tanabe West Germany Barbara Claßen
+ 72 kg	Netherlands Angelique Seriese	China Gao Fenglian	West Germany Regina Sigmund United States Margaret Castro

References

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2008-02-20.
• Sports123.com
• Videos of the 1988 Judo Summer Olympics