Judo at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venue	Palace of Sports of the Central Lenin Stadium
Dates	27 July to 2 August 1980
Competitors	182 from 42 nations

Judo at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Men
	60 kg
	65 kg
	71 kg
	78 kg
	86 kg
	95 kg
	+95 kg
	Open

Palace of Sports of the Central Lenin Stadium as it appears today

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.^[1]

Victory ceremony of the 95 kg event. RIAN photo.

Medal summary

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

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
	Italy	1	0	0	1
	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
7	Cuba	0	3	0	3
8	Bulgaria	0	1	1	2
	Great Britain	0	1	1	2
	Mongolia	0	1	1	2
11	Hungary	0	0	2	2
12	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
	Yugoslavia	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 entries)		8	8	16	32

References

External links

• judo at the 1980 Summer Olympics at the International Judo Federation
• judo at the 1980 Summer Olympics at JudoInside.com
• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 20 February 2008.
• Sports123.com