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Paris 2024
200 Days to Go

Not long ago we were counting the years before the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

2024 Season
Are You Ready?

Are you ready for an extraordinary year of judo? We are and we will support you throughout this season ...

The World Number Ones: Men

We are here, already! It's 2024, Olympic year; Paris is around the corner and the race for seedings is ...

Happy Birthday Judo Portugal

With the end of the year approaching, it's time to take stock of 2023.

World Championships 2024
The 2024 World Championships to be Hosted in Abu Dhabi

The International Judo Federation is pleased to announce that the 2024 edition of the World Judo Championships, ...

What a Year that Was!

After the second day of the Tokyo Grand Slam, the curtain fell on twelve months of competition on the ...

Tokyo GS
+100kg: Bashaev Activates Beast Mode

With 6 of the world’s top 10 athletes in the +100kg category present at the Tokyo Grand Slam 2023, ...

Tokyo GS
-48kg: Tsunoda Knows No Equal

Japan’s Natsumi Tsunoda is the current and 3-time consecutive world champion at -48kg, and her recent ...

Tokyo GS
-63kg: Takaichi Takes Third Tokyo Title

Japan took a clean sweep of the medals in the -63kg category at their home grand slam in 2022, and with ...

Tokyo GS
-60kg: Nagayama’s Time To Shine

Though Ryuju Nagayama was pipped at the post by Naohisa Takato to become the Japanese athlete selected ...

Tokyo GS
-78kg: Aguiar’s Experience Betters Lanir’s Youth

Despite a 4-strong Japanese team featuring former world champions and the current Olympic champion, the ...

Tokyo GS
-66kg: The Return of the King

In our preview for the Tokyo Grand Slam 2023, we highlighted the return of Hifumi Abe and his sister ...