Judo at the Olympic Games
Judo · International Olympic Committee, with the International Judo Federation (IJF)
2024LatestParis 2024: 15 events (7 men's, 7 women's weight classes and the mixed team)
- Next
- Los Angeles 2028, 14 to 30 July
- Most golds
- Japan, 51; then France, 18
- Most golds (judoka)
- Teddy Riner (France): 3 individual golds (heavyweight 2012, 2016, 2024) and 2 bronzes, plus the mixed team golds of 2020 and 2024
- India
- No medal; best place =9th, Lourembam Brojeshori Devi (2000) and Akram Shah (2004)
- Cycle
- Every four years, with the Summer Games
Most individual golds
20121 gold, 3 silvers, 3 bronzes2 golds, 5 bronzesJudoka: Teddy Riner · Nation: France
- Golds
- 3
19963 golds, 4 silvers, 1 bronze3 golds, 3 bronzes1 gold, 1 silverJudoka: Tadahiro Nomura · Nation: Japan
- Golds
- 3
20209 golds, 2 silvers, 1 bronze2 golds, 3 silvers, 3 bronzesJudoka: Takanori Nagase · Nation: Japan
- Golds
- 2
19963 golds, 4 silvers, 1 bronze3 golds, 3 bronzes1 gold, 1 silverJudoka: David Douillet · Nation: France
- Golds
- 2
20048 golds, 2 silversSilverJudoka: Masato Uchishiba · Nation: Japan
- Golds
- 2
20209 golds, 2 silvers, 1 bronze2 golds, 3 silvers, 3 bronzesJudoka: Hifumi Abe · Nation: Japan
- Golds
- 2
20163 golds, 1 silver, 8 bronzes2 golds, 2 silvers, 1 bronzeJudoka: Shohei Ono · Nation: Japan
- Golds
- 2
19881 gold, 3 bronzes1 gold, 1 bronze1 gold, 1 silverJudoka: Waldemar Legień · Nation: Poland
- Golds
- 2
Mixed team medals are not counted here.
India at the Olympic Games
India has no Olympic judo medal. Indian judoka have been entered at every Games since Seoul 1988, where both entries did not start. India's best place is =9th: Lourembam Brojeshori Devi in the women's half lightweight at Sydney 2000, and Akram Shah in the men's extra lightweight at Athens 2004. Tulika Maan (women's heavyweight) was =17th at Paris 2024. At the 2018 Youth Olympic Games, Thangjam Tababi Devi won silver in the girls' extra lightweight.
More about this tournament
Paris 2024 champions
| Weight class | Men | Women |
|---|---|---|
| Extra lightweight | Yeldos Smetov (Kazakhstan) | Natsumi Tsunoda (Japan) |
| Half lightweight | Hifumi Abe (Japan) | Diyora Keldiyorova (Uzbekistan) |
| Lightweight | Hidayat Heydarov (Azerbaijan) | Christa Deguchi (Canada) |
| Half middleweight | Takanori Nagase (Japan) | Andreja Leški (Slovenia) |
| Middleweight | Lasha Bekauri (Georgia) | Barbara Matić (Croatia) |
| Half heavyweight | Zelym Kotsoiev (Azerbaijan) | Alice Bellandi (Italy) |
| Heavyweight | Teddy Riner (France) | Beatriz Souza (Brazil) |
Mixed team: France; silver Japan.
Medal table (1964 to 2024, top 10)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japan | 51 | 23 | 30 | 104 |
| 2 | France | 18 | 15 | 34 | 67 |
| 3 | South Korea | 11 | 19 | 21 | 51 |
| 4 | China | 8 | 3 | 12 | 23 |
| 5 | Cuba | 6 | 15 | 16 | 37 |
| 6 | Georgia | 5 | 7 | 3 | 15 |
| 7 | Soviet Union | 5 | 5 | 13 | 23 |
| 8 | Brazil | 5 | 4 | 19 | 28 |
| 9 | Italy | 5 | 4 | 9 | 18 |
| 10 | Russia | 5 | 4 | 7 | 16 |