1976 Summer Olympics / Judo

Judo at the 1976 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Montreal
Competition venue	Vélodrome olympique
Nations	46
Athletes	136 (136 )
date	26.-31. July 1976
decisions	6th
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At the XXI. At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal , six judo competitions were held for men. The venue was the Vélodrome olympique .

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Japan	3	1	1	5
2	Soviet Union	2	2	1	5
3	Cuba	1	-	-	1
4th	South Korea	-	1	2	3
5	Great Britain	-	1	1	2
6th	BR Germany	-	1	-	1
7th	France	-	-	1	1
	Italy	-	-	1	1
	Yugoslavia	-	-	1	1
	Poland	-	-	1	1
	Switzerland	-	-	1	1
	Hungary	-	-	1	1
	United States	-	-	1	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
lightweight	Héctor Rodríguez	Chang Eun-kyung	Felice Mariani József Tuncsik
Light middleweight	Vladimir Newsorov	Kōji Kuramoto	Marian Tałaj Patrick Vial
medium weight	Isamu Sonoda	Valery Dvoinikov	Slavko Obadov Park Young-chul
Light heavyweight	Kazuhiro Ninomiya	Ramas Khachiladze	Jürg Röthlisberger David Starbrook
Heavyweight	Sergei Novikov	Günther Neureuther	Allen Coage Sumio Endo
Open class	Haruki Uemura	Keith Remfry	Cho Jea-ki Shota Chochishvili

Results

Lightweight (up to 63 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	CUB	Héctor Rodríguez
2	COR	Chang Eun-kyung
3	ITA	Felice Mariani
	HUN	József Tuncsik
5	AUT	Erich Pointner
	POLE	Marian Standowicz
7th	POR	José Gomes
	CAN	Brad Farrow
18th	FRG	Alexander Leibkind

Date: July 30th, 1976
29 participants from 29 countries

Medium weight (up to 70 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	URS	Vladimir Newsorov
2	JPN	Kōji Kuramoto
3	POLE	Marian Tałaj
	FRA	Patrick Vial
5	COR	Lee Chang-seon
	GBR	Vacinuff Morrison
7th	ESP	Juan Carlos Rodríguez
	OUT	John Van Hoek
9	SUI	Thomas Hagmann
11	GDR	Dietmar Hötger

Date: July 29, 1976
27 participants from 27 countries

Middle weight (up to 80 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	JPN	Isamu Sonoda
2	URS	Valery Dvoinikov
3	YUG	Slavko Obadov
	COR	Park Young-chul
5	ESP	José Luis de Frutos
	FRG	Fred Marhenke
7th	OUT	Paul Buganey
	DOOR	Süheyl Yeşilnur
11	AUT	Jurek Jatowitt
19th	GDR	Detlef Ultsch

Date: July 28, 1976
27 participants from 27 countries

Light heavyweight (up to 93 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	JPN	Kazuhiro Ninomiya
2	URS	Ramas Khachiladze
3	SUI	Jürg Röthlisberger
	GBR	David Starbrook
5	COR	Cho Jea-ki
	GDR	Dietmar Lorenz
7th	PRK	To Ung-nam
	SEN	Abdoulaye Djiba
12	FRG	Arthur Schnabel
18th	LIE	Paul Büchel
	AUT	Johann Pollak

Date: July 27, 1976
32 participants from 32 countries

Heavy weight (over 93 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	URS	Sergei Novikov
2	FRG	Günther Neureuther
3	United States	Allen Coage
	JPN	Sumio Endo
5	MGL	Güsemiin Jalaa
	HUN	Mihály Petrovszky
7th	SEN	Abdoulaye Kote
	YUG	Radomir Kovačević
10	AUT	Klaus Wallas
17th	LIE	Hans-Jakob Schädler

Date: July 26th, 1976
19 participants from 19 countries

Open class

space	country	athlete
1	JPN	Haruki Uemura
2	GBR	Keith Remfry
3	COR	Cho Jea-ki
	URS	Shota Chochishvili
5	ARG	Jorge Portelli
	FRA	Jean-Luc Rougé
7th	FRG	Günther Neureuther
	PRK	Pak Jong-gil
9	AUT	Klaus Wallas
16	GDR	Dietmar Lorenz
	LIE	Hans-Jakob Schädler

Date: July 31, 1976
23 participants from 23 countries

Web links

• Judo at the 1976 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official results of the 1976 Summer Games (PDF, 22.7 MB)