Judo at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 78 kg
| Women's judo 78 kg category at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
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| Venue | ExCeL Exhibition Centre | ||||||||||||||||
| Date | 2 August | ||||||||||||||||
| Competitors | 21 from 21 nations | ||||||||||||||||
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Kayla Harrison |
 United States
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Gemma Gibbons |
 Great Britain
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Audrey Tcheuméo |
 France
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Mayra Aguiar |
 Brazil
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The women's 78 kg category in judo at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place between 28 July and 2 August at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre.
The gold and silver medals were determined by a single-elimination tournament, with the winner of the final taking gold and the loser receiving silver. Judo events awarded two bronze medals. Quarter-final losers competed in a repechage match for the right to face a semi-final loser for a bronze medal (that is, the judokas defeated in quarter-finals 'A' and 'B' competed against each other, with the winner of that match facing the semi-final loser from the other half of the bracket).
Kayla Harrison, representing the United States, won the gold medal, defeating Great Britain's Gemma Gibbons in the final; Gibbons was awarded the silver medal.
The event took place on 2 August 2012, with the following results:
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