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The World Judo Championships are the highest level of international judo competition, along with the Olympic judo competition. The championships are held once every year (except the years when the Olympics take place) by the International Judo Federation, and qualified judoka compete in their respective categories as representatives of their home countries. Team competitions have also been held since 1994. The men's championships began in 1956, though the format and periodicity of the championships have changed overtime. The 29th edition of the championships took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2013.

History

The first World Judo Champion, Shokichi Natsui in 1956

The first edition of the world championships took place in Tokyo, Japan in 1956. There were no weight classes at the time and Japanese judoka Shokichi Natsui became the first world champion in history, defeating fellow countryman Yoshihiko Yoshimatsu in the final. The second world championship was also held in Tokyo two years later, with the Japanese winning the top two spots in the competition for the second time. In 1961, the championship was held outside of Japan for the first time, and Dutch judoka Anton Geesink defeated the prior world champion, Koji Sone, in Paris, France, to become the first non-Japanese world champion.

The 1965 World Judo Championships were held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and weight classes were implemented for the first time with the addition of the -68 kg, -80 kg, and +80 kg categories. Judo had become an Olympic sport at the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, and a permanent sport after a brief absence at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Despite this progressive enlargement, it took until 1980 for women to participate in the world championships. The first women's world championships were held in New York in 1980, and were held in alternating years as the men's championships until the 1987 World Judo Championships in Essen, where the two competitions were merged into one world championship. The mixed championships have been held biannually since 1987. In 2005, the world championships made its debut on the African continent in Cairo, Egypt. In the International Judo Federation meeting held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2007 (during the 2007 World Judo Championships), it was decided that France would host the world championships for the fifth time in 2011.

Weight classes

There are currently 16 tournaments in the world championships, with 8 weight classes for each gender.

Men

1956–1963	1965	1967–1975	1979–1997	1999–present
Open category (no weight limits)	Open category (no weight limits)
	Heavyweight +80 kg	Heavyweight +93 kg	Heavyweight +95 kg	Heavyweight +100 kg
		Half heavyweight -93 kg	Half heavyweight -95 kg	Half heavyweight -100 kg
	Middleweight -80 kg	Middleweight -80 kg	Middleweight -86 kg	Middleweight -90 kg
		Half middleweight -70 kg	Half middleweight -78 kg	Half middleweight -81 kg
	Lightweight -68 kg	Lightweight -63 kg	Lightweight -71 kg	Lightweight -73 kg
			Half lightweight -65 kg	Half lightweight -66 kg
			Extra lightweight -60 kg

Women

1980–1997	1999–present
Open category (no weight limits)
Heavyweight +72 kg	Heavyweight +78 kg
Half heavyweight -72 kg	Half heavyweight -78 kg
Middleweight -66 kg	Middleweight -70 kg
Half middleweight -61 kg	Half middleweight -63 kg
Lightweight -56 kg	Lightweight -57 kg
Half lightweight -52 kg
Extra lightweight -48 kg

Competitions

The world championships have been held in every continent except Oceania and Antarctica.

Men's competitions

Year	Dates	City and host country	Venue	# Countries	# Athletes
1956	3 May	Tokyo, Japan	Kuramae Kokugikan	21	31
1958	30 November	Tokyo, Japan	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium	18	39
1961	2 December	Paris, France	Stade Pierre de Coubertin	25	57
1965	14–17 October	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil		28	150
1967	9–11 August	Salt Lake City, United States	Gymnasium at the University of Utah	29	129
1969	23–25 October	Mexico City, Mexico		36	250
1971	2–4 September	Ludwigshafen, West Germany	Friedrich-Ebert-Halle	49
1973	22–24 June	Lausanne, Switzerland		42
1975	23–25 October	Vienna, Austria		42
1977	Cancelled
1979	6–9 December	Paris, France	Stade Pierre de Coubertin	60	about 240
1981	3–6 September	Maastricht, Netherlands	Euro Hall	54	250
1983	13–16 October	Moscow, Soviet Union	Luzhniki Palace of Sports	41
1985	26–29 September	Seoul, South Korea	Jamsil Arena	37

Women's competitions

Year	Dates	City and host country	Venue	# Countries	# Athletes
1980	29–30 November	New York, United States	Madison Square Garden	27	135
1982	4–5 December	Paris, France	Stade Pierre de Coubertin	35	174
1984	10–11 November	Vienna, Austria		33	about 180
1986	24–26 October	Maastricht, Netherlands	Geusselt Sports Hall	35	162

Mixed competitions

Year	Dates	City and host country	Venue	# Countries	# Athletes
1987	19–22 November	Essen, West Germany	Grugahalle	65
1989	10–15 October	Belgrade, Yugoslavia	Pionir Hall	61
1991	25–28 July	Barcelona, Spain	Palau Blaugrana	57	487
1993	30 September – 3 October	Hamilton, Canada	Copps Coliseum	78
1995	28 September – 1 October	Chiba, Japan	Makuhari Messe	100	625
1997	9–12 October	Paris, France	Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy	92	531
1999	7–10 October	Birmingham, United Kingdom	National Indoor Arena	87	572
2001	26–29 July	Munich, Germany	Olympiahalle	88	554
2003	11–14 September	Osaka, Japan	Osaka-jō Hall	97	671
2005	8–11 September	Cairo, Egypt	Cairo Stadium Indoor Halls Complex	93	544
2007	13–16 September	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	HSBC Arena	138	748
2009	27–30 August	Rotterdam, Netherlands	Ahoy Rotterdam	100	543
2010	9–13 September	Tokyo, Japan	Yoyogi National Gymnasium	111	847
2011	23–28 August	Paris, France	Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy	132	871
2013	26 August – 1 September	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Maracanãzinho	123	673
2014	25–31 August	Chelyabinsk, Russia	Traktor Arena
2015		Astana, Kazakhstan	Baluan Sholak Sport Palace
2016		Astana, Kazakhstan	Baluan Sholak Sport Palace

Openweight competitions

Year	Dates	City and host country	Venue	# Countries	# Athletes
2008	20–21 December	Levallois-Perret, France	Marcel Cerdan Palace of Sports	18	51
2009	Cancelled
2011	29–30 October	Tyumen, Russia	Judo Centre	21	40

All-time medal

All-time medal count as 2013 World Judo Championships.

排名	国家／地区	金牌	银牌	铜牌	總數
1	日本	116	76	84	276
2	法國	44	29	64	137
3	韩国	25	8	50	83
4	古巴	17	18	34	69
5	英國	16	17	29	62
6	中國	16	12	17	45
7	荷蘭	14	21	39	74
8	德国	11	23	62	96
9	苏联	11	13	33	57
10	比利时	8	13	19	40
11	俄羅斯	7	7	24	38
12	波蘭	6	3	20	29
13	巴西	5	12	19	36
14	義大利	5	6	17	28
15	朝鲜	5	4	8	17
16	美国	4	8	16	28
17	奥地利	4	2	8	14
18	西班牙	2	8	9	19
19	匈牙利	2	5	15	22
20	蒙古国	2	2	4	8
21	希腊	2	2	2	6
22	乌兹别克斯坦	2	1	5	8
23	伊朗	2	0	3	5
24	哥伦比亚	2	0	0	2
25	格鲁吉亚	1	8	9	18
26	烏克蘭	1	4	6	11
27	以色列	1	3	2	6
28	阿塞拜疆	1	2	9	12
29	哈萨克斯坦	1	2	2	5
30	阿根廷	1	1	0	2
31	突尼西亞	1	0	3	4
32	南斯拉夫	1	0	2	3
33	科索沃	1	0	0	1
34	委內瑞拉	1	0	0	1
35	葡萄牙	0	3	5	8
36	土耳其	0	3	4	7
37	澳大利亞	0	3	3	6
38	阿尔及利亚	0	2	4	5
39	白俄羅斯	0	2	3	5
40	埃及	0	2	3	5
41	捷克斯洛伐克	0	2	2	4
42	瑞士	0	2	2	4
43	羅馬尼亞	0	1	9	10
44	加拿大	0	1	5	6
45	斯洛維尼亞	0	1	5	6
46	保加利亚	0	1	3	4
47	摩尔多瓦	0	1	2	3
48	爱沙尼亚	0	1	1	2
49	挪威	0	1	1	2
50	蒙特內哥羅	0	1	0	1
51	瑞典	0	1	0	1
52	捷克	0	0	3	3
53	塔吉克斯坦	0	0	1	1
54	中華臺北	0	0	1	1
55	芬兰	0	0	1	1
56	拉脫維亞	0	0	1	1
57	立陶宛	0	0	1	1
58	新西兰	0	0	1	1
59	波多黎各	0	0	1	1
60	塞爾維亞與蒙特內哥羅	0	0	1	1
61	亞美尼亞	0	0	1	1
		339	339	678	1356

Records

Category	Men	Women
Most world titles	Teddy Riner : 7 titles (5 at +100 kg, 1 in the Open category, 1 with Men's Team) Naoya Ogawa : 4 titles (3 in the Open category, 1 at +95 kg) 藤猪省三 : 4 titles (3 at -80 kg, 1 at -78 kg) Yasuhiro Yamashita : 4 titles (3 at +95 kg, 1 in the Open category) David Douillet : 4 titles (3 at +95 kg, 1 in the Open category)	Ryoko Tamura : 7 titles (all at -48 kg) Tong Wen : 7 titles (3 in the Open category, 4 at +78 kg) Ingrid Berghmans : 6 titles (4 in the Open category, 2 at +72 kg) Kye Sun-Hui : 4 titles (1 at -52 kg, 3 at -57 kg) Gao Fenglian : 4 titles (3 at +72 kg, 1 in the Open category) Karen Briggs : 4 titles (all at -48 kg) Noriko Anno : 4 titles (1 at -72 kg, 3 at +78 kg)
Most medals	Teddy Riner : 8 medals (7 gold, 1 silver) Naoya Ogawa : 7 medals (4 gold, 3 bronze) Robert van de Walle : 7 medals (2 silver, 5 bronze)	Ingrid Berghmans : 11 medals (6 gold, 4 silver, 1 bronze) Ryoko Tamura : 8 medals (7 gold, 1 bronze) Tong Wen : 8 titles (7 gold, 1 bronze) Driulis González : 7 medals (3 gold, 1 silver, 3 bronze)
Youngest world champion	Teddy Riner : 18 years and 5 months (in 2007)	Ryoko Tamura : 18 years and 1 month (in 1993)

Judo Team World Chanpionships

The World Judo Championships team competition began in 1994, and was held once every four years until 2006. The competition will be held every year from 2007. Judoka who participate in the individual world championships often do not participate in the team competition.

Year	Location	Men			Women
		Gold	Silver	Bronze	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1994	Paris, France	法國	英国	日本 俄羅斯	no women's competition
1998	Minsk, Belarus	日本	巴西	俄羅斯 法國	古巴	法國	比利时 中國
2002	Basel, Switzerland	日本	格鲁吉亚	法國 義大利	日本	古巴	義大利 中國
2006	Paris, France	格鲁吉亚	俄羅斯	法國 韩国	法國	古巴	日本 中國
2007	Beijing, China	日本	巴西	中國 韩国	中國	古巴	日本 蒙古国
2008	Tokyo, Japan	格鲁吉亚	乌兹别克斯坦	俄羅斯 巴西	日本	法國	中國 德国
2010	Antalya, Turkey	日本	巴西	俄羅斯 韩国	荷蘭	德国	日本 土耳其
2011	Paris, France	法國	巴西	韩国 日本	法國	日本	德国 古巴
2012	Salvador, Bahia, Brazil	俄羅斯	日本	巴西 格鲁吉亚	日本	中國	巴西 古巴
2013	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	格鲁吉亚	俄羅斯	德国 日本	日本	巴西	古巴 法國

Judo Team World Championships

Judo National Team	Men	Women	All
	Gold	Gold	Gold
日本	4	4	8
法國	2	2	4
格鲁吉亚	3		3
俄羅斯	1		1
古巴		1	1
中國		1	1

Video footage

• World Championship 2013 in Rio de Janeiro
• World Championships 2011 in Paris
• World Championships 2010 in Tokyo
• World Championships 2009 in Rotterdam
• World Championships 2007 in Rio de Janeiro
• World Championships 2005 in Cairo
• World Championships 2003 in Osaka
• World Championships 2001 in Munich
• World Championships 1999 in Birmingham
• World Championships 1997 in Paris
• World Championships 1995 in Chiba
• World Championships 1993 in Hamilton
• World Championships 1991 in Barcelona
• World Championships 1989 in Belgrade
• World Championships 1987 in Essen
• World Championships 1985 in Seoul
• World Championships 1983 in Moscow
• World Championships 1981 in Maastricht
• World Championships 1980 in New York
• World Championships 1979 in Paris
• World Championships 1961 in Paris
• World Championships 1956 in Tokyo

External links

• International Judo Federation official website