South Korean Choi Minho defeated Ludgwig Paischer of Austria by ippon to take the men's 60kg judo gold medal at the Beijing Olympic Games on Saturday.

The bronze medal was shared by Rishod Sobirov of Uzbekistan and Ruben Houkes of the Netherlands, who beat Dimitri Dragin of France and Gal Yekutiel of Israel respectively.

(Xinhua News Agency August 9, 2008)