Judo at the 1998 Asian Games

Judo at the 1998 Asian Games
Venue	Thammasat Gymnasium 1
Dates	7–10 December 1998
Competitors	184 from 25 nations

The Judo competition at the 1998 Asian Games was contested in fourteen weight classes, seven each for men and women, held at the Thammasat University in Thailand.

Schedule

P

Preliminary rounds & Repechage

F

Finals

Event↓/Date →	7th Mon		8th Tue		9th Wed		10th Thu
Men's 60 kg	P	F
Men's 66 kg	P	F
Men's 73 kg			P	F
Men's 81 kg					P	F
Men's 90 kg					P	F
Men's 100 kg							P	F
Men's +100 kg							P	F
Women's 48 kg	P	F
Women's 52 kg			P	F
Women's 57 kg			P	F
Women's 63 kg					P	F
Women's 70 kg					P	F
Women's 78 kg							P	F
Women's +78 kg							P	F

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra lightweight (−60 kg) details	Kazuhiko Tokuno  Japan	Yang Bo  China	Nurbol Suleimenov  Kazakhstan
			Hyun Seung-hoon  South Korea
Half lightweight (−66 kg) details	Yukimasa Nakamura  Japan	Ivan Baglayev  Kazakhstan	Erdenebaataryn Uuganbayar  Mongolia
			Arash Miresmaeili  Iran
Lightweight (−73 kg) details	Khaliuny Boldbaatar  Mongolia	Kenzo Nakamura  Japan	Kim Dae-wook  South Korea
			Andrey Shturbabin  Uzbekistan
Half middleweight (−81 kg) details	Cho In-chul  South Korea	Kwak Ok-chol  North Korea	Kazem Sarikhani  Iran
			Ruslan Seilkhanov  Kazakhstan
Middleweight (−90 kg) details	Yoo Sung-yeon  South Korea	Yoshio Nakamura  Japan	Kamol Muradov  Uzbekistan
			Dashzevegiin Pürevsüren  Mongolia
Half heavyweight (−100 kg) details	Kosei Inoue  Japan	Armen Bagdasarov  Uzbekistan	Farhad Maabi  Iran
			Park Sung-keun  South Korea
Heavyweight (+100 kg) details	Shinichi Shinohara  Japan	Mahmoud Miran  Iran	Ochiryn Odgerel  Mongolia
			Pan Song  China

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra lightweight (−48 kg) details	Tomoe Makabe  Japan	Cha Hyon-hyang  North Korea	Gao Lijuan  China
			Nuanchan Tangprapassorn  Thailand
Half lightweight (−52 kg) details	Kye Sun-hui  North Korea	Kim Hye-sook  South Korea	Li Ying  China
			Kazue Nagai  Japan
Lightweight (−57 kg) details	Khishigbatyn Erdenet-Od  Mongolia	Shen Jun  China	Kie Kusakabe  Japan
			Jung Sung-sook  South Korea
Half middleweight (−63 kg) details	Wang Xianbo  China	Nami Kimoto  Japan	Wu Mei-ling  Chinese Taipei
			Kim Hwa-soo  South Korea
Middleweight (−70 kg) details	Lim Jung-sook  South Korea	Miki Amao  Japan	Chen Chiu-ping  Chinese Taipei
			Song Jianfeng  China
Half heavyweight (−78 kg) details	Tang Lin  China	Varvara Massyagina  Kazakhstan	Kang Min-jeong  South Korea
			Sambuugiin Dashdulam  Mongolia
Heavyweight (+78 kg) details	Yuan Hua  China	Lee Hsiao-hung  Chinese Taipei	Miho Ninomiya  Japan
			Paradawdee Pestonyee  Thailand

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	5	4	3	12
2	China (CHN)	3	2	4	9
3	South Korea (KOR)	3	1	6	10
4	Mongolia (MGL)	2	0	4	6
5	North Korea (PRK)	1	2	0	3
6	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	2	2	4
7	Iran (IRI)	0	1	3	4
8	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	1	2	3
	Uzbekistan (UZB)	0	1	2	3
10	Thailand (THA)	0	0	2	2
Totals (10 entries)		14	14	28	56

Participating nations

A total of 184 athletes from 25 nations competed in judo at the 1998 Asian Games:

•  China (12)
•  Chinese Taipei (10)
•  Hong Kong (5)
•  India (5)
•  Indonesia (3)
•  Iran (7)
•  Japan (14)
•  Jordan (3)
•  Kazakhstan (11)
•  Kuwait (4)
•  Kyrgyzstan (9)
•  Laos (2)
•  Lebanon (2)
•  Macau (6)
•  Mongolia (13)
•  North Korea (7)
•  Palestine (5)
•  Philippines (5)
•  South Korea (14)
•  Syria (3)
•  Tajikistan (7)
•  Thailand (14)
•  Turkmenistan (10)
•  Uzbekistan (9)
•  Vietnam (4)

References

• Results
• Top 8

External links

• judo at the 1998 Asian Games at JudoInside.com
• Olympic Council of Asia Archived 2018-09-06 at the Wayback Machine