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Judo, the martial arts event of Olympics

There are 14 Judo events that are held in Olympics based on the seven weight categories. These categories are Extra-lightweight, Half-lightweight, Lightweight, Half-middleweight, Middleweight, Half-heavyweight and Heavyweight. Men and women participate in each of these seven categories. The weight ranges are 60Kg, 66Kg, 73Kg, 81Kg, 90Kg, 100Kg and 100Kg+ for men while for women, it is 48Kg, 52Kg, 57Kg, 63Kg, 70Kg, 78Kg and 78Kg+ respectively.

Ippon is the term in Judo that is achieved by throwing the opponent on back with defined force, control and speed or holding the opponent on ground continuously for 25 seconds. Ippon is given the perfect 10 score. Other terms are Waza-ari for 7 points, Yuko for 5 points and Koka for 3 points based on the number of elements missing from that of Ippon quality. Similar to positive scores, there are penalties namely hansoku for 10 points, keikoku for 7 points, chui for 5 points and shido for 3 points.

Whoever scores the highest value of points is declared winner. Men game is held for 5 minutes while women game is for 4 minutes. Participants in Olympics are divided into two pools and all the games are played as knockout games, reducing participants one by one. When 4 competitors are left, they are the semifinalists and the winner of semifinals move to finals to fight for Gold. Losing semifinalists compete with two lucky judokas who lost to semifinalists in the preliminary stages and winner of these two matches, are awarded bronze medals.

Sarit
Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:49:35 +0000

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