Judo at the 1980 Summer Olympics Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
The Judo competition at the 1980 Summer Olympics was the first time that the medal count was not dominated by Japan, as the country joined the boycott of the games because of the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Medals were awarded in to male judoka 7 weight classes and in the open competition, two more weight classes than in 1976.
| Judo at the 1980 Summer Olympics medal count | |||||
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| Ranking | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | USSR | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 2 | France | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | East Germany | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 4 | Belgium | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Italy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Switzerland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Cuba | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | Bulgaria | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | Great Britain | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | Mongolia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 11 | Hungary | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 12 | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Poland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Yugoslavia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: |
| Thierry Rey, FRA | Rafael Carbonell, CUB | Aramby Emizh, URS Tibor Kincses, HUN |
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| Nikolay Solodukhin, URS | Tsendying Damdin, MGL | Ilian Nedkov, BUL Janusz Pawlowski, POL |
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| Ezio Gamba, ITA | Neil Adams, GBR | Ravdan Davaadalai, MGL Karl-Heinz Lehmann, GDR |
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| Shota Khabaleri, URS | Juan Ferrer la Hera, CUB | Harald Heinke, GDR Bernard Tchoullouyan, FRA |
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| Jürg Röthlisberger, SUI | Isaac Azcuy, CUB | Detlef Ultsch, GDR Aleksandr Yatskevich, URS |
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| Robert van de Walle, BEL | Tengiz Khubuluri, URS | Dietmar Lorenz, GDR Henk Numan, NED |
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| Angelo Parisi, FRA | Dimitar Zaprianov, BUL | Radomir Kovacevic, YUG Vladimir Kocman, TCH |
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| Dietmar Lorenz, GDR | Angelo Parisi, FRA | Arthur Mapp, GBR András Ozsvar, HUN |