Judo at the 1980 Summer Olympics
# Judo at the 1980 Summer Olympics

The Judo competition at the 1980 Summer Olympics was the first time that the medal count was not dominated by Japan, since 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.

## Medal summary

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

## Participating nations

A total of 182 judokas from 42 nations competed at the Moscow Games

| Algeria (3)  Australia (3)  Austria (5)  Belgium (1)  Brazil (7)  Bulgaria (4)  Cameroon (5)  Costa Rica (3)  Cuba (6)  Cyprus (5) | East Germany (6)  Finland (3)  France (7)  Great Britain (8)  Guinea (3)  Hungary (8)  Ireland (2)  Iceland (2)  Italy (1) | Kuwait (5)  Lebanon (2)  Madagascar (2)  Mexico (2)  Mongolia (8)  Ecuador (2)  Spain (2)  Mali (3)  Netherlands (2)  Poland (7) | Portugal (3)  North Korea (4)  Romania (8)  Senegal (7)  San Marino (2)  Switzerland (4)  Sweden (4)  Syria (7)  Czechoslovakia (5) | Soviet Union (8)  Yugoslavia (6)  Zambia (6)  Zimbabwe (2) |
| - | - | - | - | - |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 2 | France | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | East Germany | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 4 | Belgium | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Italy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Switzerland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Cuba | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | Bulgaria | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | Great Britain | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | Mongolia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 11 | Hungary | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 12 | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Poland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Yugoslavia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (15 entries) | Totals (15 entries) | 8 | 8 | 16 | 32 |
