Tag: judo world championships
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Doha 2023 Judo World Championships: Key Moments and Results
The 2023 Judo World Championships were held at the Ali Bin Hamad al-Attiyah Arena in Doha, Qatar, from May 7 to May 14, 2023 — the 62nd edition of the event. A total of 657 athletes from 99 nations competed for 15 world titles: seven individual weight categories for men, seven for women, and the…
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Biggest Upsets in Judo World Championship History
The structure of top-level judo competition — elimination brackets, single-match results, no aggregate scoring — means that any given day can end a run that took years to build. The competitive history of the World Championships includes results that went directly against the established hierarchy and, in some cases, changed the sport’s trajectory permanently. Some…
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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,…