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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 Afganistan. 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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| Pos | 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 Nikolay Solodukhin, URS | Tsendying Damdin, MGL | Ilian Nedkov, BUL Ezio Gamba, ITA | Neil Adams, GBR | Ravdan Davaadalai, MGL Shota Khabaleri, URS | Juan Ferrer la Hera, CUB | Harald Heinke, GDR Jürg Röthlisberger, SUI | Isaac Azcuy, CUB | Detlef Ultsch, GDR Robert van de Walle, BEL | Tengiz Khubuluri, URS | Dietmar Lorenz, GDR Angelo Parisi, FRA | Dimitar Zaprianov, BUL | Radomir Kovacevic, YUG Dietmar Lorenz, GDR | Angelo Parisi, FRA | Arthur Mapp, GBR Judo at the Summer Olympics |
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