Judo at the 1986 Asian Games
Venue	Saemaul Sports Hall
Dates	1–4 October 1986
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The Judo competition at the 1986 Asian Games was held at Saemaul Sports Hall from 1 to 4 October 1986 and contested in eight weight classes, for only men. This was the first competition of Judo for Asian Games.

The host nation South Korea dominated the competition winning six out of eight possible gold medals.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra lightweight (−60 kg) details	Kim Jae-yup  South Korea	Koji Ono  Japan	Zhang Guojun  China
			Morteza Khodadadi  Iran
Half lightweight (−65 kg) details	Lee Kyung-keun  South Korea	Yosuke Yamamoto  Japan	Wang Xiaojie  China
			Sandeep Byala  India
Lightweight (−71 kg) details	Ahn Byeong-keun  South Korea	Yukiharu Yoshitaka  Japan	Chong Siao Chin  Hong Kong
			Zhu Changhe  China
Half middleweight (−78 kg) details	Cho Hyung-soo  South Korea	Tang Haili  China	Marut Techawanit  Thailand
			Hisham Al-Sharaf  Kuwait
Middleweight (−86 kg) details	Park Kyung-ho  South Korea	Noriyuki Sannohe  Japan	Su Jungen  China
			Hassabodin Rojanachiva  Thailand
Half heavyweight (−95 kg) details	Ha Hyung-joo  South Korea	Hitoshi Sugai  Japan	Cawas Billimoria  India
			Tareq Al-Ghareeb  Kuwait
Heavyweight (+95 kg) details	Hitoshi Saito  Japan	Xu Guoqing  China	Kim Ik-soo  South Korea
			Shyam Singh Gurjar  India
Openweight details	Yoshimi Masaki  Japan	Cho Yong-chul  South Korea	Ding Mingjing  China
			Bannu Singh  India

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea (KOR)	6	1	1	8
2	Japan (JPN)	2	5	0	7
3	China (CHN)	0	2	5	7
4	India (IND)	0	0	4	4
5	Kuwait (KUW)	0	0	2	2
	Thailand (THA)	0	0	2	2
7	Hong Kong (HKG)	0	0	1	1
	Iran (IRN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		8	8	16	32

• Medalists from previous Asian Games – Men

• judo at the 1986 Asian Games at JudoInside.com
• Olympic Council of Asia