The Men's up to 60 kg
judo
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competition at the
2004 Summer Paralympics
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, nations = 136
, athletes = 3,806
, events = 519 in 19 sports
, opening = 17 September
, closing = 28 September
, opened_by = President Costis Stephanopoulos
, cauldron = Georgios Toptsis
, stadium = Olympi ...
was held on 18 September at the
Ano Liossia Olympic Hall
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.
The tournament bracket consisted of a single-elimination contest culminating in a gold medal match. There was also a
repechage
Repechage (; french: repêchage, "fishing out, rescuing") is a practice in series competitions that allows participants who failed to meet qualifying standards by a small margin to continue to the next round. A well known example is the wild car ...
to determine the winners of the two bronze medals. Each judoka who had lost to a semifinalist competed in the repechage. The two judokas who lost in the semifinals faced the winner of the opposite half of the bracket's repechage in bronze medal bouts.
The competition winner on the day was
Sergio Arturo Perez, representing . However, he tested positive for the prohibited anti-inflammatory drug
prednisolone
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, received a warning and reprimand and lost his results and his gold medal. It does not appear that the minor medalists were promoted in consequence of this.
Results
The four digits represent scores of ''
ippon
is the highest score a fighter can achieve in a Japanese martial arts ''ippon-wazari'' contest, usually kendo, judo, karate or jujitsu.
In Judo
In Judo, an ippon may be scored for a throw, a pin, a choke or a jointlock.
For throws, the four ...
'', ''
waza-ari
is the second highest score a fighter can achieve in a Japanese martial arts ''ippon'' or ''waza-ari'' contest, usually judo, karate or jujutsu.
''Waza-ari'' in judo
A ''waza-ari'' is the second highest score a fighter can achieve in judo, the ...
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''yuko'' and ''koka'' (which was still used at the time). A letter indicates a
penalty
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of ''shido'', ''chui'', ''keikoku'' or ''hansoku make'', which (at the time) also registered a score of ''koka'', ''yuko'', ''waza-ari'' or ''ippon'', respectively, to the opponent. Penalties are escalated, thus 2 ''shido'' = ''chui'', 3 ''shido'' = ''keikoku'', 4 ''shido'' = ''hansoku make'', save that a penalty of ''hansoku make'' direct results in exclusion from the remainder of the competition, while if it results from escalation it does not.
Competition bracket
Repechage
References
External links
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Judo at the Summer Paralympics Men's Extra Lightweight