1980 Summer Olympics / Judo

Judo at the 1980 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Moscow
Competition venue	Lenin Sports Palace
Nations	42
Athletes	182 (182 )
date	July 27 - August 2, 1980
decisions	8th
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At the XXII. At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow , eight judo competitions for men were held. The venue was the Lenin Sports Palace (now the Luzhniki Sports Palace). The program included two weight classes more than before.

Balance sheet

Luzhniki Sports Palace

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Soviet Union	2	1	2	5
2	France	2	1	1	4th
3	GDR	1	-	4th	5
4th	Belgium	1	-	-	1
	Italy	1	-	-	1
	Switzerland	1	-	-	1
7th	Cuba	-	3	-	3
8th	Bulgaria	-	1	1	2
	Great Britain	-	1	1	2
	Mongolia	-	1	1	2
11	Hungary	-	-	2	2
12	Netherlands	-	-	1	1
	Yugoslavia	-	-	1	1
	Poland	-	-	1	1
	Czechoslovakia	-	-	1	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Super light weight	Thierry Rey	José Rodríguez	Arambi Jemisch Tibor Kincses
Half light weight	Nikolai Soloduchin	Tsendiin Damdin	Ilijan Nedkow Janusz Pawłowski
lightweight	Ezio Gamba	Neil Adams	Rawdangiin Dawaadalai Karl-Heinz Lehmann
Light middleweight	Shota Khabareli	Juan Ferrer	Harald Heinke Bernard Tchoullouyan
Middle heavyweight	Jürg Röthlisberger	Isaac Azcuy	Aleksandrs Jackēvičs Detlef Ultsch
Light heavyweight	Robert Van de Walle	Tengis Chubuluri	Dietmar Lorenz Henk Numan
Heavyweight	Angelo Parisi	Dimitar Sapryanov	Vladimír Kocman Radomir Kovačević
Open class	Dietmar Lorenz	Angelo Parisi	Arthur Mapp András Ozsvár

Results

Super light weight (up to 60 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	FRA	Thierry Rey
2	CUB	José Rodríguez
3	URS	Arambi Jemish
	HUN	Tibor Kincses
5	GBR	John Holliday
	TCH	Pavel Petřikov
7th	SYR	Samir El-Najjar
	FIN	Reino Fagerlund
13	GDR	Reinhardt Arndt
	SUI	Marcel Burkhard
19th	AUT	Josef Reiter

Date: August 1, 1980
29 participants from 29 countries

Half light weight (up to 65 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	URS	Nikolai Soloduchin
2	MGL	Tsendiin Damdin
3	BUL	Ilijan Nedkow
	POLE	Janusz Pawłowski
5	FRA	Yves Delvingt
	GDR	Torsten Reissmann
7th	SWE	Wolfgang Biedron
	TCH	Jaroslav Kříž

The medal winners at the award ceremony (from left: Pawłowski, Nedkow, Soloduchin, Damdin)

Date: July 31, 1980
29 participants from 29 countries

Lightweight (up to 71 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	ITA	Ezio Gamba
2	GBR	Neil Adams
3	MGL	Rawdangiin Dawaadalai
	GDR	Karl-Heinz Lehmann
5	POLE	Edward Alkśnin
	FRA	Christian Dyot
7th	PRK	Kim Byong-gun
	OUT	Michael peck
19th	AUT	Johann Leo

Date: July 30, 1980
30 participants from 30 countries

Medium weight (up to 78 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	URS	Shota Khabareli
2	CUB	Juan Ferrer
3	GDR	Harald Heinke
	FRA	Bernard Tchoullouyan
5	ROME	Mircea Frățică
	ESP	Ignacio Sanz
7th	BUL	Georgi Petrov
	YUG	Slavko Sikirić
12	SUI	Thomas Hagmann

Bernard Tchoullouyan (right) versus Ignacio Sanz (left)

Date: July 29, 1980
24 participants from 24 countries

Middle weight (up to 86 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	SUI	Jürg Röthlisberger
2	CUB	Isaac Azcuy
3	URS	Aleksandrs Jackēvičs
	GDR	Detlef Ultsch
5	BRA	Walter Carmona
	SWE	Bertil Ström
7th	GBR	Peter Donnelly
	CMR	Henri-Richard Lobe
19th	AUT	Peter Seisenbacher

Date: July 28, 1980
27 participants from 27 countries

Light heavyweight (up to 95 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	BEL	Robert Van de Walle
2	URS	Tengis Chubuluri
3	GDR	Dietmar Lorenz
	NED	Henk Numan
5	HUN	István Szepesi
	CUB	Rolando José Tornés
7th	ROME	Daniel Radu
	FRA	Jean-Luc Rougé
13	AUT	Robert Köstenberger

from left to right: Chubuluri, Van de Walle, Lorenz and Numan

Date: July 27, 1980
23 participants from 23 countries

Heavy weight (over 95 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	FRA	Angelo Parisi
2	BUL	Dimitar Sapryanov
3	TCH	Vladimír Kocman
	YUG	Radomir Kovačević
5	PRK	Kim Myong-gyu
6th	GBR	Paul Radburn
7th	POLE	Wojciech Reszko
8th	SUI	Jean Zinniker

Date: July 27, 1980
16 participants from 16 countries

Open class

space	country	athlete
1	GDR	Dietmar Lorenz
2	FRA	Angelo Parisi
3	GBR	Arthur Mapp
	HUN	András Ozsvár
5	URS	Sergei Novikov
	MGL	Dambadschawyn Tsend-Ayuush
7th	ROME	Pavel Drăgoi
8th	AUT	Franz Berger

Date: August 2, 1980
18 participants from 18 countries

Web links

Commons : Judo at the 1980 Winter Olympics  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Judo at the 1980 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official results of the 1980 Summer Games (PDF, 27.6 MB)