Judo
Heavy
Weight- David
Douillet
wins Gold
With
Judo being a very popular sport of Japan it is of no supprise that
many of the medals won in this sport are going to the Japanese,
however we do have one medal in this sport very much dominated by
its motherland.
British girl Kate Howey wins Silver
After a grewling round and very nearly clinching the Gold medal
with an attempted arm lock in the dying seconds British girl Kate
Howey walks away a proud silver medalist at the Womans 70kg division.
World
champion Kosei Inoue of Japan beat Nicolas Gill of Canada on Thursday
night with a powerful ippon to win the 100-kilogram class of judo
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Women's
48 kg: Final
Gold -Japan- Ryoko Tamura
Silver -Russia- Lioubov Brouletova
Bronze -Germany- Anna-Maria Gradante
& Belgium- Ann Simons
Womens
52kg final results
Gold -Cuba- Legna Verdecia
Silver - Japan- Noriko Narazaki
Bronze -China- Yuxiang Liu
& NKorea- Sun Hui Kye
Men's
66 kg: Final results
Gold -Turkey- Huseyin Ozkan
Silver -France- Larbi Benboudaoud
Bronze -Italy- Girolamo Giovinazzo
& Georgia- Giorgi Vazagashvili
Women's
52 kg: Final results
Gold -Cuba- Legna Verdecia
Silver - Japan- Noriko Narazaki
Bronze -China- Yuxiang Liu WAI
& NKorea- Sun Hui Kye
Women's
57 kg: Final results
Gold -Spain- Isabel Fernandez
Silver -Cuba- Driulys Gonzalez
Bronze -China- Jun Shen
& Japan- Kie Kusakabe
Men's
73 kg: Final results
Gold -Italy- Giuseppe Maddaloni
Silver -Brazil- Tiago Camilo
Bronze -Belarus- Anatoly Laryukov
& Latvia- Vsevolods Zelonijs
Men's
60 kg: Final results
Gold -Japan- Tadahiro Nomura
Silver -SKorea- Bu-Kyung Jung
Bronze -Cuba- Manolo Poulot
& Kyrgyzstan- Aidyn Smagulov
Women's
70 kg: Final results
Gold -Cuba- Sibelis Veranes
Silver -Great Britain- Kate Howey
Bronze -Belgium- Ulla Werbrouck
& SKorea- Min-Sun Cho
Men's
90 kg: Final results
Gold -Dutch- Mark Huizinga
Silver -Brazil- Carlos Honorato
Bronze -Azerbaijan- Rasul Salimov
& France- Frederic Demontfaucon
Mens
100kg: Final Results
Gold -Japan- Kosei Inoue
Silver -Canada- Nicolas Gill
Bronze -Russia Iouri Stepkine & Italy -Luigi Guido
Women's
78 kg: Final
Gold -China- Lin Tang
Silver -France- Celine Lebrun
Bronze -Romania- Simona Marcela Richter & Italy- Emanuela
Pierantozzi
Women's
Over 78 kg: Final
Gold -China- Hua Yuan
Silver -Cuba- Daima Mayelis Beltran
Bronze -SKorea- Seon-Young Kim
& -Japan- Mayumi Yamashita
Men's
Over 100 kg: Final
Gold -France- David Douillet
Silver -Japan- Shinichi Shinohara
Bronze -Estonia- Indrek Pertelson
& -Russia- Tamerlan Tmenov
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Taekwondo
Fist
ever Gold in Taekwondo won by Aussie.
Australian Lauren Burns won the first gold medal in taekwondo as
a full Olympic sport when she beat Cuban Urbia Melendez Rodriguez
in the women's under-49 Flyweight Title
British girl
misses out on medal by a point
Sarah Stevenson put up a brave fight against Japans
Yoriko Okamoto in the Womens
67kg division - at one stage Sarah was ahead with great high Axe
kicks landing to the head of her opponent, yet the Japanese girl
kept the pressure up and as Sarah watched the score board her opponent
watched for target area's and won by one point.
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Women's
49 kg: Final
Gold - Australia -Lauren Burns
Silver -Cuba- Urbia Melendez Rodriguez
Bronze -Taiwan- Shu-Ju Chi
Men's
58 kg: Final
Gold -Greece- Michail Mouroutsos
Silver -Spain- Gabriel Esparza
Bronze -Taiwan- Chih-Hsiung Huang
Women's
57 kg: Final
Gold - Turkey- Hamide Bikcin
Silver -Dutch- Virginia Lourens
Bronze -SKorea- Jae-Eun Jung
Men's
68 kg: Final
Gold -Iran- Hadi Saeibonehkohal
Silver -Austria- Tuncay Caliskan
Bronze -US- Steven Lopez
Women's
67 kg: Final
Gold -SKorea- Sun-Hee Lee
Silver -Norway- Trude Gundersen
Bronze -Japan- Yoriko Okamoto
Men's
80 kg: Final
Gold -Cuba- Angel Valodia Matos
Silver -Germany- Faissal Ebnoutalib
Bronze -Mexico- Victor Manuel Estrada Garibay
Women's
Over 67 kg: Final
Gold -China- Zhong Chen
Silver -Russia- Natalia Ivanova
Bronze -Canada- Dominique Bosshart
Men's
Over 80 kg: Final
Gold -SKorea- Kyong-Hun Kim
Silver -Australia- Daniel Trenton
Bronze -France- Pascal Gentil
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