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Judo was first included in the Summer Olympic Games at the 1964 Games in Tokyo, Japan. [1] After not being included in 1968, [2] judo has been an Olympic sport in each Olympiad since then. Only male judoka participated until the 1988 Summer Olympics, when women's judo was organized as a demonstration sport.
Judo was a sport at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, and featured around 393 judoka (柔道家: judo practitioners) competing in 15 events, seven each for both men and women as well as a new mixed team event. [1]
Judo competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris took place from 27 July to 3 August at Grand Palais Éphémère in Champ de Mars. [1] The number of judokas competing across fourteen weight categories at these Games has been reduced from 393 in Tokyo 2020 to 372, with an equal distribution between men and women.
High ranking "Judoka" 5th dan to 10th dan are Kōdan-sha (高段者) "high grades" and 6th, 7th, and 8th dan have alternating red and white panel belts (紅白帯) Kōhaku-obi, and for 9th and 10th dan, the belts are solid red. This ranking system was introduced by Kanō Jigorō, the founder of judo, in 1883. However, the current system is not ...
This is a list of achievements in major international judo events according to gold, silver and bronze medal results obtained by athletes representing different nations. The objective is not to create a combined medal table; the focus is on listing the best positions achieved by athletes in major global events, ranking the countries according ...
[27] [28] If teams are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by their IOC country code. [ 29 ] In boxing , judo , karate , taekwondo , and wrestling , two bronze medals are awarded in each weight class.
The Abe siblings' dream of winning judo gold medals for Japan on the same day in their second straight Olympics ended early on Sunday with Uta Abe's shocking loss to Diyora Keldiyorova of ...
The remaining judoka underwent a qualifying process to earn a spot for the Games through the world ranking list prepared by International Judo Federation on June 28, 2021, [2] [3] and finalized on 5 July. [4] The top 18 athletes in each division directly qualify, though each NOC is subjected to a limit of 1 judoka per division.