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Top Ranked Rewards

Finishing the year as world number one always means a lot.

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Future of judo in Mongolia

HE Mr Battulga Khaltmaa, former President of Mongolia and the President of the Mongolian Judo Association, ...

Abu Dhabi Grand Slam 2021 Highlights

Watch the best moments from the Abu Dhabi Grand Slam 2021.

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Japan and the Others

With or without a pandemic, there are things that do not change.

Abu Dhabi Grand Slam - Day 3
So Long Everyone

We can draw a handful of conclusions after the last day of the Abu Dhabi Grand Slam: Germany and Great ...

Abu Dhabi, Day 3
Technical Analysis: When Timing Meets Power

The team of judo experts who make up the IJF Referee Commission and the panel of supervisors ensuring ...

Athlete Stories
Vieru: More Than Everyone’s Favourite Technician

There are athletes we can recognise simply from a movement, from a style, those who strike us because ...

Abu Dhabi Grand Slam Day 2
Shaken, Not Stirred

Some bloom in the autumn. They like the cold and the aroma of the end of the year.

Abu Dhabi, Day 2
Technical Analysis: A Two-Tiered Assembly

1992 Olympic champion and former French national team coach Cathy Fleury is one of the heavy hitters ...

Abu Dhabi Grand Slam Day 1
A Real Treat

We will miss this. In a few days the World Judo Tour, 2021 edition, will end in Abu Dhabi and it will ...

Technical Analysis: Olympians Show Their Colours

IJF Head Sport Director Vladimir Barta has spent his life accumulating expertise on and around the tatami, ...

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The Unseen Moments

The warm-up room at any World Judo Tour event is a special place, protected from everything outside, ...