The Sports Almanac

Summer Olympics
Judo - Heavyweight

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

JAPAN - 17 Medals

FRANCE - 15 Medals

CUBA - 9 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
1964
Isao Inokuma - Japan
Doug Rogers - Canada
Parnaoz Chikviladze - Soviet Union
Anzor Kiknadze - Soviet Union
1972
Willem Ruska - Netherlands
Klaus Glahn - West Germany
Motoki Nishimura - Japan
Givi Onashvili - Soviet Union
1976
Sergei Novikov - Soviet Union
Günther Neureuther - West Germany
Allen Coage - United States
Sumio Endo - Japan
1980
Angelo Parisi - France
Dimitar Zaprianov - Bulgaria
Radomir Kovačević - Yugoslavia
Vladimir Kocman - Czechoslovakia
1984
Hitoshi Saito - Japan
Angelo Parisi - France
Mark Berger - Canada
Cho Young-chul - South Korea
1988
Hitoshi Saito - Japan Henry Stöhr - East Germany
Cho Young-chul - South Korea
Grigory Verichev - Soviet Union
1992
David Khakhaleishvili - Unified Team
Naoya Ogawa - Japan
Imre Csősz - Hungary
David Douillet - France
1996
David Douillet - France Ernesto Pérez - Spain
Frank Möller - Germany
Harry van Barneveld - Belgium
2000
David Douillet - France Shinichi Shinohara - Japan
Indrek Pertelson - Estonia
Tamerlan Tmenov - Russia
2004
Keiji Suzuki - Japan
Tamerlan Tmenov - Russia Indrek Pertelson - Estonia
Dennis van der Geest - Netherlands
2008
Satoshi Ishii - Japan
Abdullo Tangriev - Uzbekistan
Teddy Riner - France
Oscar Braison - Cuba
2012
Teddy Riner - France
Aleksandr Mikhailine - Russia
Rafael Silva - Brazil
Andreas Tölzer - Germany
2016
Teddy Riner - France Hisayoshi Harasawa - Japan
Rafael Silva - Brazil
Or Sasson - Isreal
2020
LukᚠKrpálek - Czech Republic Guram Tushishvili - Georgia Teddy Riner - France
Tamerlan Bashaev - Russian Olympic Committee
2024
Teddy Riner - France Kim Min-jong - South Korea
Temur Rakhimov - Tajikistan
Alisher Yusupov - Uzbekistan

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

YEAR
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
1992
Zhuang Xiaoyan - China
Estela Rodríguez - Cuba
Natalia Lupino - France
Yoko Sakaue - Japan
1996
Sun Fuming - China
Estela Rodríguez - Cuba Johanna Hagn - Germany
Christine Cicot - France
2000
Yuan Hua - China
Daima Beltrán - Cuba
Kim Seon-young - South Korea
Mayumi Yamashita - Japan
2004
Maki Tsukada - Japan
Daima Beltrán - Cuba Tea Donguzashvili - Russia
Sun Fuming - China
2008
Tong Wen - China
Maki Tsukada - Japan Idalys Ortiz - Cuba
Lucija Polavder - Slovenia
2012
Idalys Ortiz - Cuba Mika Sugimoto - Japan
Karina Bryant - Great Britain
Tong Wen - China
2016
Émile Andéol - France
Idalys Ortiz - Cuba Kanae Yamabe - Japan
Yu Song - China
2020
Akira Sone - Japan Idalys Ortiz - Cuba Iryna Kindzerska - Azerbaijan
Romane Dicko - France
2024
Beatriz Souza - Brazil
Raz Hershko - Israel
Kim Ha-yun - South Korea
Romane Dicko - France

Medal Total  Women's  Men's
RANK
COUNTRY
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
TOTAL
1
Japan
7
5
5
17
2
France
7
1
7
15
3
Cuba
1
6
2
9
4
China
4
0
3
7
5
Soviet Union
1
0
4
5
6
South Korea 0
1
4
5
7
Russia
0
2
2
4
8
Brazil 1
0
2
3
9
Germany
0
0
3
3
10
Netherlands
1
0
1
2
11
West Germany
0
2
0
2
12
Canada
0
1
1
2
13
Uzbekistan 0
1
1
2
14
Israel 0
1
1
2
15
Estonia
0
0
2
2
16
Czech Republic
1
0
0
1
17
Unified Team
1
0
0
1
18
Bulgaria
0
1
0
1
19
Spain
0
1
0
1
20
East Germany
0
1
0
1
21
Georgia
0
1
0
1
22
United States
0
0
1
1
23
Hungary
0
0
1
1
24
Belgium
0
0
1
1
25
Slovenia
0
0
1
1
26
Great Britain
0
0
1
1
27
Azerbaijan
0
0
1
1
28
Tajikistan
0
0
1
1
29
Yugoslavia
0
0
1
1
30
Czechoslovakia
0
0
1
1
31
Russian Olympic Committee
0
0
1
1