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Judo at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in the Ano Liossia Olympic Hall and featured 368 judoka competing for 14 gold medals with seven different weight categories in both the men's and women's competitions. Japan dominated the event by taking 8 gold and 2 silver medals.

Gold and silver medals in each weight class were determined by a single-elimination bracket. There was a repechage for those who are eliminated by one of the eventual semifinalists. Since there are four semifinalists, this means that four of the losers of the round of 32 (i.e., 25%) faced four of the losers from the round of 16 (50%). The winners of these matches faced the four judokas who have lost in the quarterfinals. The winners, then, of these four matches faced each other to narrow the repechage field down to two judokas. Until this stage, the repechage has been segregated into two distinct halves, with each successive competitor facing another one from the same half of the original bracket; but each of the two judokas who emerge from the repechage challenged the loser of the other bracket's semifinal. (Since these two always come from opposite halves of the original bracket, they could not have faced each other already.) The winners of these two matches were each awarded a bronze medal, making judo unusual among Olympic events in not determining a single third-place finisher.

There was controversy in the men's competition, when Iranian competitor and two-times world champion Arash Miresmaeili weighed in overweight and was disqualified before a match in which he would have faced Israeli judoka Ehud Vaks. Miresmaeili's comments strongly suggested that he had intentionally disqualified himself so as not to compete against an Israeli.^[1]

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra-lightweight (60 kg) details	Tadahiro Nomura Japan (JPN)	Nestor Khergiani Georgia (GEO)	Khashbaataryn Tsagaanbaatar Mongolia (MGL)
			Choi Min-Ho South Korea (KOR)
Half-lightweight (66 kg) details	Masato Uchishiba Japan (JPN)	Jozef Krnáč Slovakia (SVK)	Georgi Georgiev Bulgaria (BUL)
			Yordanis Arencibia Cuba (CUB)
Lightweight (73 kg) details	Lee Won-Hee South Korea (KOR)	Vitaliy Makarov Russia (RUS)	Leandro Guilheiro Brazil (BRA)
			Jimmy Pedro United States (USA)
Half-middleweight (81 kg) details	Ilias Iliadis Greece (GRE)	Roman Gontyuk Ukraine (UKR)	Dmitri Nossov Russia (RUS)
			Flavio Canto Brazil (BRA)
Middleweight (90 kg) details	Zurab Zviadauri Georgia (GEO)	Hiroshi Izumi Japan (JPN)	Mark Huizinga Netherlands (NED)
			Khasanbi Taov Russia (RUS)
Half-heavyweight (100 kg) details	Ihar Makarau Belarus (BLR)	Jang Sung-Ho South Korea (KOR)	Ariel Zeevi Israel (ISR)
			Michael Jurack Germany (GER)
Heavyweight (+100 kg) details	Keiji Suzuki Japan (JPN)	Tamerlan Tmenov Russia (RUS)	Indrek Pertelson Estonia (EST)
			Dennis van der Geest Netherlands (NED)

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra-lightweight (48 kg) details	Ryoko Tani Japan (JPN)	Frédérique Jossinet France (FRA)	Gao Feng China (CHN)
			Julia Matijass Germany (GER)
Half-lightweight (52 kg) details	Xian Dongmei China (CHN)	Yuki Yokosawa Japan (JPN)	Ilse Heylen Belgium (BEL)
			Amarilis Savón Cuba (CUB)
Lightweight (57 kg) details	Yvonne Bönisch Germany (GER)	Kye Sun-Hui North Korea (PRK)	Deborah Gravenstijn Netherlands (NED)
			Yurisleidy Lupetey Cuba (CUB)
Half-middleweight (63 kg) details	Ayumi Tanimoto Japan (JPN)	Claudia Heill Austria (AUT)	Driulis González Cuba (CUB)
			Urška Žolnir Slovenia (SLO)
Middleweight (70 kg) details	Masae Ueno Japan (JPN)	Edith Bosch Netherlands (NED)	Qin Dongya China (CHN)
			Annett Böhm Germany (GER)
Half-heavyweight (78 kg) details	Noriko Anno Japan (JPN)	Liu Xia China (CHN)	Yurisel Laborde Cuba (CUB)
			Lucia Morico Italy (ITA)
Heavyweight (+78 kg) details	Maki Tsukada Japan (JPN)	Daima Beltrán Cuba (CUB)	Tea Donguzashvili Russia (RUS)
			Sun Fuming China (CHN)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	8	2	0	10
2	China (CHN)	1	1	3	5
3	South Korea (KOR)	1	1	1	3
4	Georgia (GEO)	1	1	0	2
5	Germany (GER)	1	0	3	4
6	Belarus (BLR)	1	0	0	1
	Greece (GRE)	1	0	0	1
8	Russia (RUS)	0	2	3	5
9	Cuba (CUB)	0	1	5	6
10	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	3	4
11	Austria (AUT)	0	1	0	1
	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
	North Korea (PRK)	0	1	0	1
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	1	0	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	1	0	1
16	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	2	2
17	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	1	1
	Estonia (EST)	0	0	1	1
	Israel (ISR)	0	0	1	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
	Mongolia (MGL)	0	0	1	1
	Slovenia (SLO)	0	0	1	1
	United States (USA)	0	0	1	1

References

• International Olympic Committee results database
• Video's of the 2004 Judo Summer Olympics

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