Judo news by topic
Asian Games, continental championships, Commonwealth and regional events.
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Paris Saint-Germain Judo beat Red Star Belgrade 4-3 at the Dojo de Paris on 24 October to win the ECC Champions League for the third year running, with Joan-Benjamin Gaba sealing the decider in Golden Score.
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The 2026 European Judo Veterans Championships are being held at the Portimao Arena in Portugal from 22 to 25 October, with more than 1,370 athletes from 36 countries, the largest edition in the event's history.
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Japan beat Kazakhstan 4-0 in the mixed team final at the Aichi International Arena on 3 October, a third consecutive Asian Games title and Japan's ninth judo gold of the Games. China and Uzbekistan took bronze; Hong Kong, China was not entered.
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Day three of judo at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games decided five more categories. Japan took gold through Okada Riku, Masuchi Ryotaro and Sugimura Mizuki, silver through Ota Hyoga and bronze through Mukunoki Miki, closing the individual events with 8 gold, 1 silver and 4 bronze.
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At the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, China's Tang Jing was disqualified for biting Japan's Maeda Rin on the arm in the women's -70 kg quarter-final. Maeda went on to win gold; Tang Jing did not appear for her repechage contest.
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Japan's second day at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games judo brought three gold medals — Fujiwara Sotaro (men's -81 kg), Tanioka Narumi (women's -63 kg) and Maeda Rin (women's -70 kg) — plus bronze for Ishihara Tatsuki (men's -73 kg) and Shirakane Mio (women's -57 kg).
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Day two of judo at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games decided all five categories. Japan took three golds — Fujiwara Sotaro, Tanioka Narumi and Maeda Rin — and bronzes for Ishihara Tatsuki and Shirakane Mio.
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KONDO Hayato and KONDO Mitsuki won gold on the opening day of the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games judo, where Uzbekistan and Mongolia also took a title each.
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Brazil took eleven of the fourteen individual gold medals at the South American Games judo competition in Rosario, then won the mixed team final against Peru. Venezuela's Anriquelis Barrios and Elvismar Rodriguez also won gold, and Colombia and Argentina shared the kata titles.
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The 2026 Skopje Senior European Cup took place on 19–20 September with 384 athletes from 40 nations. Russia topped the medal table with four gold, four silver and ten bronze, ahead of France on 2-3-2 and Georgia on 2-1-1. Serbia's Lazar Zdrale won at under-100 kg with five wins from five.
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The 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games open on 19 September, but the accommodation arrangements have drawn days…
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Japan's women's head coach Tsukada Maki explains the build-up to the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games and the Baku World Championships, which run back to back from 30 September to 11 October.
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Korea's Huh Mimi says her shoulder is no longer painful and she wants to win Asian Games gold in Japan, the country where she grew up, and take the medal to her grandfather's grave.
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World champion Georgii Zantaraia hosted the third Judo Summer Camp in Ukraine, with Manuel Lombardo, Luka Maisuradze and Zebeda Rekhviashvili sharing fundamentals in repeated randori with young judoka.
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Japanese judo great Misato Nakamura visits the Final Four of France's Judo Pro League, where Paris Olympic medallist Haruka Funakubo helped AC Boulogne-Billancourt to the title. Beyond the results, France offers a different way to present team judo.
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In the EJU's third Belt of Life episode, Croatia's women's head coach Dragan Crnov and his long-time athletes Lara Cvjetko, Ana Viktorija Puljiz and Helena Vukovic reflect on the black belt as a symbol of their shared journey.
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The European Judo Union Executive Committee met in Sarajevo on 11 and 12 August to approve the 2027 EJU calendar, with the Mixed Team European Championships joining the European Games as a two-day event for the first time.
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The EJU will hold its only online photography workshop of 2026 on 24 September. Certification is required for EJU event accreditation.
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England finished first in the judo medal table at Glasgow 2026 with four gold, two silver and six bronze. Canada placed second with four gold and India third with two gold across all fourteen categories.
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Judo at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games begins on 31 July at the SEC, with 174 athletes from 41 nations competing for fourteen gold medals across three days.
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Judo at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games runs from 31 July to 2 August, with 174 athletes from 41 countries and territories currently listed by the IJF.
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Latvia topped the medals at the inaugural standalone European Ne-Waza Championships in Riga, with 150 judoka from 18 countries. EJU will move the event to Estonia in 2027.
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The European Judo Union has placed Safe Sport, human rights education, uniformed services championships and IJF Academy self-defence education at the centre of its recent agenda.
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The Taipei Asian Open 2026 will take place on 11 and 12 July, with 243 athletes from 23 countries and regions currently listed by the IJF.
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The International Judo Federation has confirmed that Georgia will host the 2029 World Judo Championships. With Georgia's deep judo culture, strong national...
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The individual judo events at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games are complete and all six Hong Kong, China judoka competed. Wong Ka Lee (women's -48 kg) and Lee Kwok Wing (men's -81 kg) both finished seventh, Hong Kong's best results of the tournament.
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Croatia's JudoFest opened in Poreč on 8 June with 600+ senior and 200+ cadet judoka training in Zelena Laguna. Olympians and world champions including Luká...
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The IJF, Kazakhstan's Ministry of Science and Higher Education, and the Jenys International Sports Foundation have signed an MoU to introduce judo programm...
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The IJF has announced the inaugural World Judo Continental Team Championships for Peace, to be held in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2026.
