Judo at the 1980 Moskva Summer Games:

There were four favorites in this category. Robert Van de Walle (BEL) had been runner-up at the 1979 World Championships; Jean-Luc Rougé (FRA) was the 1980 European Champion and runner-up in the heavyweight class at the 1979 Worlds; Dietmar Lorenz (GDR) was the 1979 European Champion; joined by the reigning World Champion, Soviet Georgian Tengiz Khubuluri. Khubuluri and Lorenz met in the semi-finals with the Soviet winning. He made it to the final, where he faced Van de Walle. The final was close, with Van de Walle having a slight edge by koka to win the gold medal. Lorenz went thru the repêchage for bronze, shared with Dutch judoka Henk Numan.