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Summer Games Medals -Judo-2008

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China’s Xian, Japan’s Masato defend Olympic judo titles

Defending lightweight judo champions Xian Dongmei of China and Uchishiba Masato of Japan won their second straight Olympic gold medals on Day 2 of the Beijing Games.

Xian did so on home turf in the 52-kilogram division on the women’s side, earning China’s first judo medal and the country’s fifth gold of the Games. She beat Korea’s An Kum-ae in the final with two koka, or 10-second holds.

Bronze medals on the women’s side were won by Algeria’s Soraya Haddad and Nakamura Misato of Japan. Haddad beat Kazakhstan’s Sholpan Kaliyeva in the first bronze medal final, and Misato beat Korea’s Kim Kyun-gok.

In the men’s 66-kg division, Masato beat Benjamin Darbalet of France in the gold medal final with an ippon, a throw that means instant victory.

One bronze medal went to Cuba’s Yordanis Arencibia, who also won bronze at the 2004 Games and is a three-time world championship bronze medallist.

Korea’s Pak Chol-min won the other bronze medal.

Canada’s Sasha Mehmedovic, 23, lost in the third round of the repechage to Russian Alim Gadanov.

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Last Updated: Sunday, August 10, 2008 | 9:11 AM ET

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Judo, Olympic sport since 1964

Ryoko TAMURA Yawara-Chan

Ryoko Tamura was only sixteen years old when she upset Karen Briggs in the semifinals of the Judo extra-lightweight division at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. She lost to world champion Cécile Nowak of France in the final, but it was clear that the future belonged to Tamura. Indeed, she went undefeated for the next four years. Only 1.46m tall, Tamura was hugely popular in Japan, where her success had spawned an interest in women’s judo. She was known as “Yawara-chan” because of her resemblance to a popular comic book character. She entered the final of the 1996 Olympics with an 84-match winning streak. Her opponent was a complete unknown: 16-year-old Kye Sun-hi of North Korea, who had never heard of Tamura. Kye startled Tamura by attacking from the start and the double world champion was unable to establish her rhythm. With 22 seconds left, Kye scored with a leg hook and then added an insurance point when Tamura, on her knees, was penalized for “false attack.” Between the 1996 and 2000 Olympics, Tamura again won all of her matches. No Japanese athlete at the Sydney Games bore the weight of her nation’s expectations more than Tamura. “My goal at Sydney?” she said. “At best a gold, at worst a gold.” Tamura survived a near-upset in the semifinals when she was awarded a decision over North Korean Cha Hyon-hyang. As a contest, her final match against Lyubov Bruletova of Russia was an anticlimax, as Tamura used an uchimata (inner thigh throw) to score ippon after only 36 seconds. Tamura was mobbed by photographers and cameramen who broke down the barrier separating the athletes from the media. She was kept up doing live television interviews until 3am, when she was finally able to lock herself into her room at the Olympic Village. Alone at least, she burst into tears and then placed her gold medal on her pillow and fell asleep. At the Athens Olympic Games in 2004, Ryoko Tamura, whose name is now RyokoTani – her husband Yoshitomo Tani is a member of the Japanese baseball team – defended her title won in Sydney in 2000 and won the gold medal in the – 48kg, ahead of French woman Frédérique Jossinet. She thus became the first judoka to retain her Olympic title.

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Other names: TANI, Ryoko Born : 6 September 1975 Birthplace: Fukuoka (Japan) Nationality: Japan Sport : Judo

ATTENDANCE AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES Barcelona 1992 Atlanta 1996 Sydney 2000 Athens 2004

AWARDS Olympic medals: Gold: 2 Silver: 2 Details Other results: World Championships Gold: 6 (93, 95, 97, 99, 01, 03) Bronze: 1 (91)

Judo, Olympic sport since 1964

Sun Hui KYE Fearless youth

The extra-lightweight division of women’s judo saw one of the biggest upsets of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. The overwhelming favorite was Japan’s Ryoko Tamura, who entered the final with an 84-match winning streak. Her opponent was 16-year-old Sun-Hi Kye, who had never competed outside her native country, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and who had been given a wildcard entry to the Olympics by the International Judo Federation. Kye had never heard of Ryoko Tamura and had never seen her fight until she watched videos of her before the final. Kye startled Tamura by attacking from the start and the double world champion was unable to establish her rhythm. With 22 seconds left, Kye scored with a leg hook and then added an insurance point when Tamura, on her knees, was penalized for “false attack.” At the 2000 Sydney Games, Kye moved up to the half-lightweight division and earned a bronze medal, while being cheered on by hundreds of Korean fans who, in the spirit of solidarity, sang songs from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in her honor. Kye won the world championship in 2001 and successfully defended her world title in 2003. At the Athens Olympic Games in 2004, Sun-Hui Kye won the silver medal in the -57kg, the gold medal going to Germany’s Yvonne Boenisch.

Other names: KYE, Sun-Hi Born : 2 August 1979 Birthplace: Pyongyang (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) Nationality: Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Sport : Judo

ATTENDANCE AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES Atlanta 1996 Sydney 2000 Athens 2004

AWARDS Olympic medals: Gold: 1 Silver: 1 Bronze: 1 Details Other results: World Championships Gold: 2 (01, 03) Silver: 1 (97) Bronze: 1 (99)