Judo at the 1984 Summer Olympics

The Judo competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics continued the seven weight classes first used at the 1980 Games. With the open division, there were eight competitions, which were restricted to male judoka. Japan returned to the top of the medal count, after boycotting the Moscow games. Because of the Soviet led counter-boycott of the Los Angeles games, several traditionally strong judo countries, including Cuba and the Soviet Union, did not participate. The Judo competition was held at California State University, Los Angeles.

Austrian Peter Seisenbacher in the 86 kg class won the gold medal, as did Hitoshi Saito of Japan in the over 95 kg class, feats they would repeat in 1988, becoming the first judoka to win gold at two Olympics.

Popular pro wrestler/judoka Chris Adams appeared as an advisor to the UK Judo squad, where his brother Neil Adams won a silver medal in the 78 kg class. It was the third and final Olympics the Adams brothers were involved in, competitor or otherwise.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra Lightweight 60 kg	Shinji Hosokawa  Japan	Kim Jae-Yup 23x15px South Korea	Neil Eckersley  Great Britain Edward Liddie  United States
Half Lightweight 65 kg	Yoshiyuki Matsuoka  Japan	Hwang Jung-Oh 23x15px South Korea	Marc Alexandre  France Josef Reiter  Austria
Lightweight 71 kg	Ahn Byeong-Keun 23x15px South Korea	Ezio Gamba  Italy	Kerrith Brown  Great Britain Luis Onmura  Brazil
Half Middleweight 78 kg	Frank Wieneke  West Germany	Neil Adams  Great Britain	Mircea Frăţică  Romania Michel Nowak  France
Middleweight 86 kg	Peter Seisenbacher  Austria	Robert Berland  United States	Walter Carmona  Brazil Seiki Nose  Japan
Half Heavyweight 95 kg	Ha Hyung-Joo 23x15px South Korea	Douglas Vieira  Brazil	Bjarni Friðriksson  Iceland Günther Neureuther  West Germany
Heavyweight +95 kg	Hitoshi Saito  Japan	Angelo Parisi  France	Mark Berger  Canada Cho Yong-Chul 23x15px South Korea
Open category	Yasuhiro Yamashita  Japan	Mohamed Ali Rashwan 23x15px Egypt	Mihai Cioc  Romania Arthur Schnabel  West Germany

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	4	0	1	5
2	South Korea South Korea (KOR)	2	2	1	5
3	West Germany (FRG)	1	0	2	3
4	Austria (AUT)	1	0	1	2
5	Brazil (BRA)	0	1	2	3
	France (FRA)	0	1	2	3
	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	2	3
8	United States (USA)	0	1	1	2
9	Egypt Egypt (EGY)	0	1	0	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	1	0	1
11	Romania (ROU)	0	0	2	2
12	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
	Iceland (ISL)	0	0	1	1
Total		8	8	16	32

See also

• Judo at the Friendship Games

References

• Sports123.com
• Videos of the 1984 Judo Summer Olympics
• Sports123.com
• 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games Judo Event Magazine