The quadrennial multi-sport event will span 14 days, hosting over 4000 athletes across 29 sports. The judo competition will take place at the Parque Olimpico, inside Paraguay’s Olympic Training Centre.
The 2025 judo event will feature 116 athletes from 21 nations; a significant increase from the 60 athletes and 13 countries present at the inaugural event in Cali, Columbia in 2021.
As usual, Brazil will send a full team of 14 athletes, comprising 3 medallists from the 2024 World Junior Championships in Dushanbe: Clarice Ribeiro, Bianca Reis, and Dandara Camilo.
Other strong young talents include recent junior European cup medallists Christopher Velasco (USA), Daniel Liubimovski (USA), 2022 cadet world champion John Messe A Bessong (CAN) and junior Pan-American champions Jhonathan Benavides (COL), Alfredo Valdivieso (COL), Zail Ramirez (CUB) and Dayanara Curbelo Travieso (CUB).
In addition, a 9-strong Paraguayan team will compete in the event for the first time, looking to secure a maiden medal in front of a passionate home crowd.
The judo competition will run over 3 days from Saturday 9th August until Tuesday 12th August and will include a teams event on the final day.
The preliminaries will commence at 10:30am and the final block at 3pm on each of the competition days.
