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Tokyo GS 2025
The Continued Unification of Understanding

Referee meetings prior to World Judo Tour events are now very well established as an important part of ...

Referee Stories
Frank Doetsch: Time For a New Challenge

The IJF staff is diverse in heritage, in role and in experience.

Referee Stories
Judit Pisarova: Respecting People and Opportunities

Judit Pisarova is now a regular on the IJF World Judo Tour, a self-confessed judo lifer who fills her ...

IBSA WC 2025
Janos Tardos: How I Arrived Here

IBSA Judo Chair Janos Tardos has been instrumental in the modernisation and popularisation of Para Judo, ...

Referee Stories
Denis Amelin: Learning and Sharing Will Always be my Priority Over Material Things

Being invited to referee on the World Judo Tour is not a casual occasion.

Refereeing and Coaching
IJF-PJC International Refereeing Seminar

From 15th to 16th April the city of Lima in Peru hosted an international refereeing seminar organised ...

Paris GS 25
A New Era

The Paris Grand Slam has begun. As every year, it attracts thousands of spectators who already filled ...

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New Rules: What to Remember

The important IJF Technical Meeting which has just taken place in Istanbul, Turkiye, in the presence ...

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Judo Presents the New Rules

With the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and more recently with the Tokyo Grand Slam, the last event of the ...

Veterans Worlds
An Extraordinary Chance

Nathalie Mellac is one of the team of referees who will be in action for the next four days refereeing ...

News
International Experts Work on the Future of Judo

With the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, a cycle has ended and a new one has opened the day after the event, ...

Referee Stories
Taking Time to Reflect

The referees of the World Judo Tour are an incredibly committed group of sportsmen and sportswomen.