The Sports Almanac

Summer Olympics
Judo - Half-Middleweight

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

JAPAN - 11 Medals

FRANCE - 11 Medals

SOUTH KOREA - 7 Medals

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

Men's  Women's  Medal Total
Through 2020 Tokyo Games

YEAR
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
1972
Toyokazu Nomura - Japan
Antoni Zajkowski - Poland
Dietmar Hotger - East Germany
Anatoliy Novikov - Soviet Union
1976
Vladimir Nevzorov - Soviet Union
Koji Kuramoto - Japan
Marian Tałaj - Poland
Patrick Vial - France
1980
Shota Khabareli - Soviet Union
Juan Ferrer - Cuba
Harald Heinke - East Germany
Bernanrd Tchoullouyan - France
1984
Frank Wieneke - West Germany
Neil Adams - Great Britain
Mircea Frăţică - Romania
Michel Nowak - France
1988
Waldemar Legień - Poland
Frank Wieneke - West Germany Torsten Bréchôt - East Germany
Bashir Varaev - Soviet Union
1992
Hidehiko Yoshida - Japan
Jason Morris - United States
Kim Byung-joo - South Korea
Bertrand Damaisin - France
1996
Djamel Bouras - France
Toshihiko Koga - Japan
Cho In-chul - South Korea
Soso Liparteliani - Georgia
2000
Makoto Takimoto - Japan
Cho In-chul - South Korea Aleksei Budõlin - Estonia
Nuno Delgado - Portugal
2004
Ilias Iliadis - Greece
Roman Gontiuk - Ukraine
Flávio Canto - Brazil
Dmitri Nossov - Russia
2008
Ole Bischof - Germany
Kim Jae-bum - South Korea
Tiago Camilo - Brazil
Roman Gontiuk - Ukraine
2012
Kim Jae-bum - South Korea Ole Bischof - Germany Ivan Nifontov - Russia
Antoine Valois-Fortier - Canada
2016
Khasan Khalmurzaev - Russia
Travis Stevens - United States
Sergiu Toma - United Arab Emirates
Takanori Nagase - Japan
2020
Takanori Nagase - Japan Saeid Mollaei - Mongolia Shamil Borchashvili - Austria
Matthias Casse - Belgium

Women's  Men's  Medal Total
Through 2020 Tokyo Games

YEAR
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
1992
Catherine Fleury - France
Yael Arad - Isreal
Yelena Petrova - Unified Team
Zhang Di - China
1996
Yuko Emoto - Japan
Gella Vandecaveye - Belgium
Jenny Gal - Netherlands
Jung Sung-sook - South Korea
2000
Séverine Vandenhende - France
Li Shufang - China
Jung Sung-sook - South Korea
Gella Vandecaveye - Belgium
2004
Ayumi Tanimoto - Japan
Caludia Heill - Austria
Urška Žolnir - Slovenia
Driulis González - Cuba
2008
Ayumi Tanimoto - Japan Lucie Décosse - France
Elisabeth Willeboordse - Netherlands
Won Ok-im - North Korea
2012
Urška Žolnir - Slovenia Xu Lili - China
Yoshie Ueno - Japan
Gévrise Émane - France
2016
Tina Trstenjak - Slovenia
Clarisse Agbegnenou - France
Yarden Gerbi - Isreal
Anicka van Emden - Netherlands
2020
Clarisse Agbegnenou - France Tina Trstenjak - Slovenia Maria Centracchio - Italy
Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard - Canada

Medal Total  Women's  Men's
RANK
COUNTRY
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
TOTAL
1
Japan
7
2
2
11
2
France
4
2
5
11
3
South Korea
1
2
4
7
4
Slovenia 2
1
1
4
5
Soviet Union
2
0
2
4
6
Poland
1
1
1
3
7
Russia
1
0
2
3
8
China
0
2
1
3
9
Belgium 0
1
2
3
10
Netherlands
0
0
3
3
11
East Germany
0
0
3
3
12
Germany
1
1
0
2
13
West Germany
1
1
0
2
14
United States
0
2
0
2
15
Cuba
0
1
1
2
16
Ukraine
0
1
1
2
17
Isreal
0
1
1
2
18
Austria 0
1
1
2
19
Brazil
0
0
2
2
20
Canada 0
0
2
2
21
Greece
1
0
0
1
22
Great Britain
0
1
0
1
23
Mongolia
0
1
0
1
24
Romania
0
0
1
1
25
Georgia
0
0
1
1
26
Estonia
0
0
1
1
27
Portugal
0
0
1
1
28
United Arab Emirates
0
0
1
1
29
North Korea
0
0
1
1
30
Italy
0
0
1
1
31
Unified Team
0
0
1
1