Judo at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Judo at the XIII Paralympic Games
Paralympic Judo
Venue	Beijing Workers' Gymnasium
Dates	7–9 September 2008
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Judo at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
	Men	Women
	60 kg	48 kg
	66 kg	52 kg
	73 kg	57 kg
	81 kg	63 kg
	90 kg	70 kg
	100 kg	+70 kg
	+100 kg
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The Judo competition of the 2008 Summer Paralympics was held in Beijing Workers' Gymnasium from September 7 to September 9. There were 13 events, corresponding to seven weight classes for men and six for women. At the Paralympics, judo is contested by visually impaired athletes.

Events[]

These were the 13 judo events, followed by the date they were contested.

• Men's 60 kg - September 7
• Men's 66 kg - September 7
• Men's 73 kg - September 8
• Men's 81 kg - September 8
• Men's 90 kg - September 9
• Men's 100 kg - September 9
• Men's +100 kg - September 9
• Women's 48 kg - September 7
• Women's 52 kg - September 7
• Women's 57 kg - September 8
• Women's 63 kg - September 8
• Women's 70 kg - September 9
• Women's +70 kg - September 9

Competitors[]

There were 129 judoka (82 male, 47 female) taking part.

Medal summary[]

Medal table[]

This ranking sorts countries by the number of gold medals earned by their judoka (in this context a country is an entity represented by a National Paralympic Committee). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	4	2	1	7
2	Algeria (ALG)	2	0	1	3
3	Brazil (BRA)	1	2	2	5
4	Azerbaijan (AZE)	1	2	1	4
5	Spain (ESP)	1	1	1	3
6	Mexico (MEX)	1	1	0	2
7	Russia (RUS)	1	0	5	6
8	Cuba (CUB)	1	0	2	3
9	Venezuela (VEN)	1	0	1	2
10	France (FRA)	0	2	3	5
11	Germany (GER)	0	1	1	2
12	Iran (IRI)	0	1	0	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
14	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	2	2
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	2	2
16	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	United States (USA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 nations)		13	13	26	52

Men's events[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra-lightweight (60 kg) details	Mouloud Noura  Algeria	Iran	Ramin Ibrahimov  Azerbaijan
			Li Xiaodong  China
Half-lightweight (66 kg) details	Algeria	Satoshi Fujimoto  Japan	Jani Kallunki  Finland
			Cuba
Lightweight (73 kg) details	Eduardo Ávila Sánchez  Mexico	China	Argentina
			Ukraine
Half-middleweight (81 kg) details	Isao Cruz Alonso  Cuba	Cyril Jonard  France	Jorge Lencina  Argentina
			Venezuela
Middleweight (90 kg) details	Oleg Kretsul  Russia	Tofig Mammadov  Azerbaijan	France
			Samuel Ingram  Great Britain
Half-heavyweight (100 kg) details	Antonio Tenorio Silva  Brazil	Azerbaijan	Cuba
			Ukraine
Heavyweight (+100 kg) details	Ilham Zakiyev  Azerbaijan	China	France
			United States

Women's events[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg details	China	Karla Cardoso  Brazil	Victoria Potapova  Russia
			Carmen Brussig  Germany
52 kg details	China	Sandrine Aurières-Martinet  France	Alesya Stepanyuk  Russia
			Brazil
57 kg details	Wang Lijing  China	Ramona Brussig  Germany	Daniele Silva  Brazil
			Maria Monica Merenciano  Spain
63 kg details	Naomi Soazo  Venezuela	Marta Arce  Spain	Angelique Quessandier  France
			Madina Kazakova  Russia
70 kg details	Carmen Herrera  Spain	Lenia Ruvalcaba  Mexico	Tatiana Savostyanova  Russia
			Sanneke Vermeulen  Netherlands
+70 kg details	Yuan Yanping  China	Brazil	Irina Kalyanova  Russia
			Zoubida Bouazoug  Algeria

See also[]

• Judo at the 2008 Summer Olympics

References[]

• "Schedules and Results - Judo". The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. Archived from the original on 2008-09-28. Retrieved 2008-09-08.

External links[]

• Official site of the 2008 Summer Paralympics