Brazil won four gold medals and Argentina got one in the judo competition which opened on Thursday in Buenos Aires during the 8th South American Games 2006 Odesur.

The event was held in the Sports High Performance National Center (Cenard).

The four gold winners were Marcia Lima in the 70 kg class for women, Priscila Marques in the over 78 kg for women, Thiago Aito in the men's 55 kg category and Walter Santos in the men's over 100 kg category.

Brazil is the leader of the competition with six medals: four gold medals, one silver and one bronze.

Argentina has won four medals so far: One gold (Emanuel Lucenti, men's over 81 kilos category), one silver (Paula Pareto over 48 kg) and two bronzes (Jesica Briceto, women's over 78 kg category and Diego Rodriguez, over 55 kg category).