1988 Summer Olympics / Judo

Judo at the 1988 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Seoul
Competition venue	Jangchung Sports Hall
Nations	69
Athletes	243 (243 )
date	September 25 - October 1, 1988
decisions	7th
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At the XXVII. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul there were seven judo competitions for men. The venue was the Jangchung sports hall in the Jung-gu district . Compared to 1984, there was one less competition as the open class was removed from the program.

Balance sheet

Jangchung Sports Hall

Medal table

space	country				total
1	South Korea	2	-	1	3
2	Poland	1	1	-	2
3	Japan	1	-	3	4th
4th	France	1	-	1	2
5	Brazil	1	-	-	1
	Austria	1	-	-	1
7th	GDR	-	2	1	3
8th	BR Germany	-	2	-	2
9	Soviet Union	-	1	4th	5
10	United States	-	1	1	2
11	Belgium	-	-	1	1
	Great Britain	-	-	1	1
	Netherlands	-	-	1	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Super light weight	Kim Jae-yup	Kevin Asano	Shinji Hosokawa Amiran Totikashvili
Half light weight	Lee Kyung-keun	Janusz Pawłowski	Bruno Carabetta Yosuke Yamamoto
lightweight	Marc Alexandre	Sven Loll	Mike Swain Giorgi Tenadze
Light middleweight	Waldemar Legień	Frank Wieneke	Torsten Bréchôt Baschir Varajew
Middle heavyweight	Peter Seisenbacher	Vladimir Shestakov	Akinobu Ōsako Ben Spijkers
Light heavyweight	Aurélio Miguel	Marc Meiling	Dennis Stewart Robert Van de Walle
Heavyweight	Hitoshi Saitō	Henry Stöhr	Cho Yong-chul Grigory Werichev

Results

Super light weight (up to 60 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	COR	Kim Jae-yup
2	United States	Kevin Asano
3	JPN	Shinji Hosokawa
	URS	Amiran Totikashvili
5	FRA	Patrick Roux
	TPE	Sheu Tsay-chwan
7th	FRG	Helmut Dietz
	TCH	Petr Šedivák
20th	LIE	Daniel Brunhart

Date: September 25, 1988
36 participants from 36 countries

Half light weight (up to 65 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	COR	Lee Kyung-keun
2	POLE	Janusz Pawłowski
3	FRA	Bruno Carabetta
	JPN	Yōsuke Yamamoto
5	HUN	Tamás Bujkó
	NZL	Brent Cooper
7th	BEL	Philip Laats
	ARG	Claudio Yafuso
12	AUT	Josef Reiter
20th	GDR	Udo Quellmalz
	FRG	Guido Schumacher

Date: September 26, 1988
42 participants from 42 countries

Lightweight (up to 71 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	FRA	Marc Alexandre
2	GDR	Sven Loll
3	United States	Mike Swain
	URS	Giorgi Tenadze
5	HUN	Bertalan Hajtós
	FRG	Steffen Stranz
7th	ESP	Joaquín Ruiz
	LIE	Johannes Wohlwend

Date: September 27, 1988
42 participants from 42 countries

The Brit Kerrith Brown was disqualified for doping with furosemide , which is why Mike Swain moved up to the bronze rank.

Medium weight (up to 78 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	POLE	Waldemar Legień
2	FRG	Frank Wieneke
3	GDR	Torsten Bréchôt
	URS	Bashir Varayev
5	CAN	Kevin Doherty
	FRA	Pascal Tayot
7th	ARG	Gastón García
	ESP	Vítorino González
11	AUT	Peter Reiter
34	CHE	Olivier Schaffter

Date: September 28, 1988
41 participants from 41 countries

Middle weight (up to 86 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	AUT	Peter Seisenbacher
2	URS	Vladimir Shestakov
3	JPN	Akinobu Ōsako
	NED	Ben Spijkers
5	FRA	Fabien Canu
	GBR	Densign White
7th	TPE	Chiu Heng-an
	COR	Kim Seung-gyu
33	FRG	Michael Bazynski

Date: September 29, 1988
36 participants from 36 countries

Light heavyweight (up to 95 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	BRA	Aurélio Miguel
2	FRG	Marc Meiling
3	GBR	Dennis Stewart
	BEL	Robert Van de Walle
5	POLE	Jacek Beutler
	TCH	Jiří Sosna
7th	ITA	Yuri Fazi
	United States	Robert Berland

Date: September 30, 1988
21 participants from 21 countries

Heavy weight (over 95 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	JPN	Hitoshi Saitō
2	GDR	Henry Stöhr
3	COR	Cho Yong-chul
	URS	Grigory Werichev
5	HUN	István Dubrovszky
	BUL	Dimitar Sapryanov
7th	EGY	Mohamed Ali Rashwan
	FIN	Juha saloons
19th	SUI	Clemens Jehle
	FRG	Alexander von der Groeben

Date: October 1st, 1988
26 participants from 26 countries

Web links

• Judo at the 1988 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official results of the 1988 Summer Games (PDF, 24.7 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gemma Gibbons backs Kerrith Brown as British Judo chairman. BBC Sport , October 23, 2012, accessed October 15, 2018 .