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  • When Did Women’s Judo Become an Olympic Sport? The Complete History

    Women’s judo became a full Olympic medal sport at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics — but the story of how it got there spans more than three decades of organized effort, institutional resistance, and individual persistence. The single most important date in that story is not 1992 but November 29–30, 1980, when the first Women’s World…

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  • History of the Judo World Championships: The First Edition in 1956

    The Judo World Championships held their first edition on May 3–5, 1956, at the Kuramae Kokugikan in Tokyo — a single day of competition that drew 31 athletes from 21 nations and crowned Japan’s Shokichi Natsui as the first world judo champion in history. That event looks almost unrecognizable by today’s standards: no weight classes,…

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