The Sports Almanac

Summer Olympics
Judo - Half-Lightweight

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

JAPAN - 16 Medals

FRANCE - 8 Medals

CUBA - 8 Medals

Medal Table
Heavyweight
Half-Heavyweight
Middleweight
Half-Middleweight
Lightweight
Half-Lightweight
Extra Lightweight
Mixed Team
Open

Men's  Women's  Medal Total
Through 2024 Paris Games

YEAR
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
1980
Nikolai Solodukhin - Soviet Union
Tsendiin Damdin - Mongolia
Illiyan Nedkov - Bulgaria
Janusz Pawłowski - Poland
1984
Yoshiyuki Matsuoka - Japan
Hwang Jung-Oh - South Korea
Marc Alexandre - France
Josef Reiter - Austria
1988
Lee Kyung-Keun - South Korea
Janusz Pawłowski - Poland Bruno Carabetta - France
Yosuke Yamamoto - Japan
1992
Rogério Sampio - Brazil
József Csák - Hungary
Israel Hernández - Cuba
Udo Quellmalz - Germany
1996
Udo Quellmalz - Germany Yukimasa Nakamura - Japan
Henrique Guimarăes - Brazil
Israel Hernández - Cuba
2000
Hüseyin Özkan - Turkey
Larbi Benboudaoud - France
Girolamo Giovinnaazzo - Italy
Giorgi Vazagashvili - Georgia
2004
Masato Uchishiba - Japan
Jozef Krnáč - Slovakia
Yordanis Arencibia - Cuba
Georgi Georgiev - Bulgaria
2008
Masato Uchishiba - Japan Benjamin Darbelet - France
Yordanis Arencibia - Cuba
Pak Chol-Min - North Korea
2012
Lasha Shavdatuashvili - Georgia
Miklós Ungvári - Hungary
Masashi Ebinuma - Japan
Cho Jun-Ho - South Korea
2016
Fabio Basile - Italy
An Ba-ul - South Korea
Rishod Sobirov - Uzbekistan
Masashi Ebinuma - Japan
2020
Hifumi Abe - Japan Vazha Margvelashvili - Georgia An Baul - South Korea
Daniel Cargnin - Brazil
2024
Hifumi Abe - Japan Willian Lima - Brazil Gusman Kyrgyzbayev - Kazakhstan
Denis Vieru - Moldova

Women's  Men's  Medal Total
Through 2024 Paris Games

YEAR
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
1992
Almudena Muńoz - Spain
Noriko Mizoguchi - Japan
Li Zhongyun - China
Sharon Rendle - Great Britain
1996
Marie-Claire Restoux - France
Hyun Sook-hee - South Korea
Noriko Sugawara - Japan
Legna Verdecia - Cuba
2000
Legna Verdecia - Cuba Noriko Narazaki - Japan
Liu Yuxiang - China
Kye Sun-hui - North Korea
2004
Xian Dongmei - China
Yuki Yokosawa - Japan
Amarilis Savón - Cuba
Ilse Heylen - Belgium
2008
Xian Dongmei - China An Kum-ae - North Korea
Soraya Haddad - Algeria
Misato Nakamura - Japan
2012
An Kum-ae - North Korea Yaney Bermoy - Cuba
Rosalba Forciniti - Italy
Priscilla Gneto - France
2016
Majlinda Kelmendi - Kosovo
Odette Giuffrida - Italy
Misato Nakamura - Japan
Natalia Kuziutina - Russia
2020
Uta Abe - Japan Amandine Buchard - France Odette Giuffrida - Italy
Chelsie Giles - Great Britain
2024
Diyora Keldiyorova - Uzbekistan Distria Krasniqi - Kosovo Larissa Pimenta - Brazil
Amandine Buchard - France

Medal Total  Women's  Men's
RANK
COUNTRY
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
TOTAL
1
Japan
6
4
6
16
2
France 1
3
4
8
3
Cuba
1
1
6
8
4
South Korea 1
3
2
6
5
Italy 1
1
3
5
6
Brazil 1
1
3
5
7
China
2
0
2
4
8
North Korea
1
1
2
4
9
Georgia 1
1
1
3
10
Kosovo 1
1
0
2
11
Germany
1
0
1
2
12
Uzbekistan 1
0
1
2
13
Hungary
0
2
0
2
14
Poland
0
1
1
2
15
Bulgaria
0
0
2
2
16
Great Britain 0
0
2
2
17
Turkey
1
0
0
1
18
Spain
1
0
0
1
19
Soviet Union
1
0
0
1
20
Mongolia
0
1
0
1
21
Slovakia
0
1
0
1
22
Austria
0
0
1
1
23
Belgium
0
0
1
1
24
Algeria
0
0
1
1
25
Russia
0
0
1
1
26
Kazakhstan
0
0
1
1
27
Moldova
0
0
1
1