# Judo at the 1988 Summer Olympics

The Judo competition at the 1988 Summer Olympics continued the seven weight classes first used at the 1980 Games. The open division was eliminated from the competition. Women's judo made its first appearance at the Olympic Games, as a demonstration sport. Japan failed to claim the top of the medal count for the first time in an Olympics in which they participated, coming in third behind South Korea and Poland.
Peter Seisenbacher from Austria and Hitoshi Saito from Japan won the gold medal in their weight classes, defending their titles from 1984, and becoming the first judoka to win gold at two Olympics.

## Medal summary

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Extra Lightweight 60 kg details | Kim Jae-yup South Korea | Kevin Asano United States | Shinji Hosokawa Japan Amiran Totikashvili Soviet Union |
| Half Lightweight 65 kg details | Lee Kyung-keun South Korea | Janusz Pawłowski Poland | Bruno Carabetta France Yosuke Yamamoto Japan |
| Lightweight 71 kg details | Marc Alexandre France | Sven Loll East Germany | Mike Swain United States Georgy Tenadze Soviet Union |
| Half Middleweight 78 kg details | Waldemar Legień Poland | Frank Wieneke West Germany | Torsten Bréchôt East Germany Bashir Varaev Soviet Union |
| Middleweight 86 kg details | Peter Seisenbacher Austria | Vladimir Shestakov Soviet Union | Akinobu Osako Japan Ben Spijkers Netherlands |
| Half Heavyweight 95 kg details | Aurélio Miguel Brazil | Marc Meiling West Germany | Dennis Stewart Great Britain Robert Van de Walle Belgium |
| Heavyweight +95 kg details | Hitoshi Saito Japan | Henry Stöhr East Germany | Cho Yong-chul South Korea Grigory Verichev Soviet Union |

## Participating nations

* Algeria (3)
* Angola (3)
* Argentina (1)
* Australia (2)
* Austria (1)
* Belgium (1)
* Benin (1)
* Bolivia (1)
* Brazil (3)
* Bulgaria (2)
* Canada (3)
* China (2)
* Chinese Taipei (3)
* Colombia (1)
* Costa Rica (1)
* Cyprus (2)
* Czechoslovakia (2)
* Denmark (1)
* Dominican Republic (1)
* East Germany (2)
* Egypt (1)
* El Salvador (1)
* France (3)
* Great Britain (3)
* Guam (1)
* Hong Kong (3)
* Hungary (3)
* Ireland (1)
* Italy (2)
* Japan (3)
* Kenya (2)
* Kuwait (2)
* Liechtenstein (2)
* Lebanon (2)
* Mali (2)
* Malta (2)
* Mexico (2)
* Monaco (1)
* Mongolia (3)
* Morocco (2)
* Nepal (2)
* Netherlands (1)
* New Zealand (1)
* Nigeria (1)
* North Yemen (2)
* Paraguay (1)
* Philippines (1)
* Poland (3)
* Portugal (2)
* Puerto Rico (3)
* San Marino (2)
* Senegal (2)
* South Korea (3)
* Soviet Union (3)
* Spain (2)
* Suriname (1)
* Sweden (2)
* Turkey (3)
* United States (3)
* West Germany (3)
* Yugoslavia (1)
* Zimbabwe (1)

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | South Korea | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | Poland | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | Japan | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 4 | France | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | Austria | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Brazil | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | East Germany | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | West Germany | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | Soviet Union | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 10 | United States | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 11 | Belgium | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | Great Britain | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (13 entries) | Totals (13 entries) | 7 | 7 | 14 | 28 |

## Women's demonstration events

Women's judo made its first appearance at the Olympic Games, as a demonstration sport. The following were the results of the women's competition. Women's Judo became an official part of the Olympic games from the 1992 Barcelona games and has been an integral part of the games since.
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| −48 kg | Li Zhongyun China | Fumiko Ezaki Japan | Cho Min-sun South Korea Julie Reardon Australia |
| −52 kg | Sharon Rendle United Kingdom | Dominique Brun France | Alessandra Giungi Italy Kaori Yamaguchi Japan |
| −56 kg | Suzanne Williams Australia | Liu Guizhu China | Catherine Arnaud France Regina Philips West Germany |
| −61 kg | Diane Bell United Kingdom | Lynn Roethke United States | Boguslawa Olechnowicz Poland Noriko Mochida Japan |
| −66 kg | Hikari Sasaki Japan | Brigitte Deydier France | Park Ji-young South Korea Roswitha Hartl Austria |
| −72 kg | Ingrid Berghmans Belgium | Bae Mi-jung South Korea | Yoko Tanabe Japan Barbara Claßen West Germany |
| +72 kg | Angelique Seriese Netherlands | Gao Fenglian China | Regina Sigmund West Germany Margaret Castro United States |