Our mission
The Martial Archive exists to make the international judo circuit legible. Every athlete on the IJF World Tour fights under the same rules, scores the same ippons, and walks off the same tatami — yet most of their performance history is scattered across event pages, federation sites, and one-off tournament reports. We pull those fragments together, normalize them into a single relational record, and publish an open, searchable archive so that fans, coaches, journalists, and athletes themselves can answer concrete questions with concrete data.
What we cover
- Athletes. Every competitor tracked on the IJF World Tour, with contest history, weight class, country, win rate, and ippon breakdown.
- Weight classes. All 14 senior divisions — seven men’s and seven women’s — with top athletes and national representation.
- Countries. Every nation fielding judoka at international events, with its active roster, weight distribution, and aggregate performance.
- Editions. The IJF season as a year-by-year record: competitions, contests, ippons, and season-over-season trends.
How we work
The archive is assembled from international judo competition records that are updated as IJF events finish. A syncing pipeline pulls new contests as they are posted, normalizes athletes across the tournament calendar, and regenerates affected pages. We compute our own statistics (win rate, ippon rate, quartile tier, year-on-year trends) rather than re-publishing third-party rankings, so every number on a page is traceable to the contests underneath it.
Editorial independence
We are not affiliated with the International Judo Federation, any national judo federation, any club, or any athlete. We accept no sponsored placements, no paid profiles, and no editorial direction from outside contributors. The archive is maintained by an independent editorial team and funded out of pocket.