These are the results of the women's 78 kg (also known as half-heavyweight) competition in judo at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Judo at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Judo at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in the Ano Liossia Olympic Hall and featured 368 judoka competing for 14 gold medals with seven different weight categories in both the men's and women's competitions. Japan dominated the event by taking 8 gold and 2 silver medals.Gold and silver medals...

in Athens

Athens

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. A total of 21 women competed in this event, limited to jūdōka

Judo

is a modern martial art and combat sport created in Japan in 1882 by Jigoro Kano. Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the object is to either throw or takedown one's opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue one's opponent with a grappling maneuver, or force an...

 whose body weight

Body weight

The term body weight is used in daily English speech as well as in the contexts of biological and medical sciences to describe the mass of an organism's body. Body weight is measured in kilograms throughout the world, although in some countries it is still measured in pounds or stones and pounds...

 was less than 78 kilograms. Competition took place in the Ano Liosia Olympic Hall

Ano Liosia Olympic Hall

Ano Liossia Olympic Hall was the host to judo and wrestling at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. The arena seats up to 9,300, but only 6,000 seats were made available for the Olympics. The hall is situated in Ano Liosia, a suburb northwest of central Athens...

 on August 19.

Medalists

Main bracket

The gold and silver medalists were determined by the final match of the main single-elimination bracket.

Repechage

Those judoka eliminated in earlier rounds by the four semifinalists of the main bracket advanced to the repechage

Repechage

Repechage is a practice amongst ladder competitions that allows participants that failed to meet qualifying standards by a small margin to continue to the next round.- Types of repechage :...

. These matches determined the two bronze medalists for the event.