The Sports Almanac

Summer Olympics
Judo - Half-Middleweight

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

JAPAN - 12 Medals
FRANCE - 12 Medals
SOUTH KOREA - 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
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 Budőlin - 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
2024
 Takanori Nagase - Japan Tato Grigalashvili - Georgia
 Lee Joon-hwan - South Korea
Somon Makhmadbekov - Tajikistan

Women's  Men's  Medal Total
Through 2024 Paris 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
2024
 Andreja Leški -Slovenia
 Prisca Awiti Alcaraz - Mexico
 Clarisse Agbegnenou - France
Laura Fazliu - Kosovo

Medal Total  Women's  Men's
RANK
 COUNTRY
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
 TOTAL
1
 Japan
 8
 2
 2
 12
2
 France
 4
 2
 6
 12
3
 South Korea
 1
 2
 5
 8
4
 Slovenia 3
 1
 1
 5
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
 Israel
 0
 1
 1
 2
18
 Austria 0
 1
 1
 2
19
 Georgia 0
 1
 1
 2
20
 Brazil
 0
 0
 2
 2
21
 Canada 0
 0
 2
 2
22
 Greece
 1
 0
 0
 1
23
 Great Britain
 0
 1
 0
 1
24
 Mongolia
 0
 1
 0
 1
25
 Mexico
 0
 1
 0
 1
26
 Romania
 0
 0
 1
 1
27
 Estonia
 0
 0
 1
 1
28
 Portugal
 0
 0
 1
 1
29
 United Arab Emirates
 0
 0
 1
 1
30
 North Korea
 0
 0
 1
 1
31
 Italy
 0
 0
 1
 1
32
 Tajikistan
 0
 0
 1
 1
33
 Kosovo
 0
 0
 1
 1
34
 Unified Team
 0
 0
 1
 1