Judo at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Final results for the Judo events at the 2000 Summer Olympics:^[1]

Judo Judo at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Venue	Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre
Location	Sydney, Australia
Dates	16 to 22 September 2000
Competition at external databases
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Medal table

  *   Host nation (Australia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	4	2	2	8
2	France	2	2	2	6
3	Cuba	2	2	1	5
4	China	2	1	1	4
5	Italy	1	0	3	4
6	Netherlands	1	0	0	1
	Spain	1	0	0	1
	Turkey	1	0	0	1
9	South Korea	0	2	3	5
10	Brazil	0	2	0	2
11	Russia	0	1	2	3
12	Canada	0	1	0	1
	Great Britain	0	1	0	1
14	Belgium	0	0	2	2
	Estonia	0	0	2	2
16	Australia*	0	0	1	1
	Belarus	0	0	1	1
	Georgia	0	0	1	1
	Germany	0	0	1	1
	Kyrgyzstan	0	0	1	1
	Latvia	0	0	1	1
	North Korea	0	0	1	1
	Portugal	0	0	1	1
	Romania	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine	0	0	1	1
Totals (25 entries)		14	14	28	56

Medal summary

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra lightweight 60 kg details	Tadahiro Nomura  Japan	Jung Bu-kyung  South Korea	Manolo Poulot  Cuba
			Aidyn Smagulov  Kyrgyzstan
Half lightweight 66 kg details	Hüseyin Özkan  Turkey	Larbi Benboudaoud  France	Girolamo Giovinazzo  Italy
			Giorgi Vazagashvili  Georgia
Lightweight 73 kg details	Giuseppe Maddaloni  Italy	Tiago Camilo  Brazil	Anatoly Laryukov  Belarus
			Vsevolods Zeļonijs  Latvia
Half middleweight 81 kg details	Makoto Takimoto  Japan	Cho In-chul  South Korea	Nuno Delgado  Portugal
			Aleksei Budõlin  Estonia
Middleweight 90 kg details	Mark Huizinga  Netherlands	Carlos Honorato  Brazil	Frédéric Demontfaucon  France
			Ruslan Mashurenko  Ukraine
Half heavyweight 100 kg details	Kosei Inoue  Japan	Nicolas Gill  Canada	Yuri Stepkine  Russia
			Stéphane Traineau  France
Heavyweight +100 kg details	David Douillet  France	Shinichi Shinohara  Japan	Indrek Pertelson  Estonia
			Tamerlan Tmenov  Russia

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra lightweight 48 kg details	Ryoko Tamura  Japan	Lioubov Brouletova  Russia	Anna-Maria Gradante  Germany
			Ann Simons  Belgium
Half lightweight 52 kg details	Legna Verdecia  Cuba	Noriko Narazaki  Japan	Kye Sun-Hi  North Korea
			Liu Yuxiang  China
Lightweight 57 kg details	Isabel Fernández  Spain	Driulis González  Cuba	Kie Kusakabe  Japan
			Maria Pekli  Australia
Half middleweight 63 kg details	Séverine Vandenhende  France	Li Shufang  China	Gella Vandecaveye  Belgium
			Jung Sung-sook  South Korea
Middleweight 70 kg details	Sibelis Veranes  Cuba	Kate Howey  Great Britain	Cho Min-sun  South Korea
			Ylenia Scapin  Italy
Half heavyweight 78 kg details	Tang Lin  China	Céline Lebrun  France	Simona Richter  Romania
			Emanuela Pierantozzi  Italy
Heavyweight +78 kg details	Yuan Hua  China	Daima Beltrán  Cuba	Kim Seon-young  South Korea
			Mayumi Yamashita  Japan

Participating nations

A total of 386 Judokas from 89 countries competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics.

•  Algeria (7)
•  Argentina (9)
•  Armenia (1)
•  Aruba (1)
•  Australia (14)
•  Austria (3)
•  Azerbaijan (3)
•  Barbados (1)
•  Belarus (5)
•  Belgium (9)
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina (1)
•  Brazil (12)
•  Bulgaria (2)
•  Cameroon (3)
•  Canada (6)
•  Chile (1)
•  China (11)
•  Chinese Taipei (6)
•  Republic of the Congo (1)
•  Cuba (14)
•  Czech Republic (3)
•  Ivory Coast (3)
•  Dominican Republic (5)
•  North Korea (5)
•  Ecuador (2)
•  Egypt (3)
•  El Salvador (1)
•  Estonia (2)
•  Fiji (2)
•  Finland (1)
•  France (14)
•  Gabon (2)
•  Georgia (6)
•  Germany (11)
•  Great Britain (9)
•  Guatemala (1)
•  Guinea (1)
•  Haiti (1)
•  Hungary (6)
•  India (1)
•  Indonesia (2)
•  Iran (3)
•  Israel (3)
•  Italy (9)
•  Japan (14)
•  Kazakhstan (8)
•  Kyrgyzstan (1)
•  Latvia (1)
•  Liechtenstein (1)
•  Lithuania (1)
•  Madagascar (1)
•  Mali (1)
•  Malta (1)
•  Mauritius (1)
•  Mexico (1)
•  Mongolia (8)
•  Morocco (2)
•  Moldova (4)
•  Netherlands (10)
•  New Zealand (3)
•  Nigeria (1)
•  Panama (1)
•  Peru (1)
•  Poland (4)
•  Portugal (6)
•  Puerto Rico (4)
•  Romania (7)
•  Russia (10)
•  Samoa (1)
•  Senegal (1)
•  Seychelles (1)
•  Slovakia (1)
•  South Africa (1)
•  South Korea (12)
•  Spain (12)
•  Sweden (2)
•  Switzerland (4)
•  Togo (1)
•  Tunisia (9)
•  Turkey (3)
•  Turkmenistan (2)
•  Ukraine (6)
•  United States (13)
•  Uruguay (1)
•  Uzbekistan (6)
•  Venezuela (9)
•  FR Yugoslavia (1)

Qualification

Main article: Judo at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Qualification

An NOC may enter up to one athlete per weight category. The qualifying places were allocated as follows:^[2]

Event/Union		Location	Men	Women	Totals
World Championships		Birmingham	8	8	112
Unions	African Judo Union	—	3	2	35
	Judo Union of Asia	—	5	3	56
	European Judo Union	—	9	5	98
	Oceania Judo Union	—	1	1	14
	Pan American Judo Union	—	6	3	63
Host Nation (AUS)		—	4	3	7
Tripartite Commission Invitation places		—			15
TOTAL					400