Judo World Masters

The Judo World Masters is an annual invite-only judo competition.^[1][2] After being open for only the top 16 ranked judoka in each weight class for its first eight installments, the tournament was expended to host the top 36 of each weight class in 2019.^[3][4] The world masters is the only world tour event with no limitation on the number of judoka competing from any single national association.^[5]

Judo World Masters

Current event or competition: 2023 Judo World Masters
Competition details
Discipline	Judo
Type	Annual
Organiser	International Judo Federation (IJF)
History
First edition	Suwon 2010
Editions	11
Most recent	Budapest 2023

Competitions

Edition	Year	Dates	City and host country	Venue	# Countries	# Athletes	Ref.
1	2010	16–17 January	Suwon, South Korea		33	168	^[6]^[7]
2	2011	15–16 January	Baku, Azerbaijan	Heydar Aliyev Sports and Concert Complex	41	205	^[8]^[9]
3	2012	14–15 January	Almaty, Kazakhstan		44	218	^[10]^[11]
4	2013	25–26 May	Tyumen, Russia		41	199	^[12]^[13]
5	2015	23–24 May	Rabat, Morocco		51	223	^[14]^[15]
6	2016	27–29 May	Guadalajara, Mexico	Lopez Mateo Sports Centre	51	233	^[16]^[17]
7	2017	16–17 December	Saint Petersburg, Russia	Yubileyny Sports Palace	46	214	^[18]^[19]
8	2018	15–16 December	Guangzhou, China	Guangzhou Gymnasium	53	231	^[20]^[21]
9	2019	12–14 December	Qingdao, China	Conson Gymnasium	67	445	^[22]^[23]
10	2021	11–13 January	Doha, Qatar	Lusail Sports Arena	69	398	^[24]^[25]^[26]
11	2022	20–22 December	Jerusalem, Israel	Pais Arena	58	367	^[27]^[28]^[29]^[30]
12	2023	4–6 August	Budapest, Hungary	László Papp Budapest Sports Arena	59	419	^[31]^[32]^[33]

Past winners

Men's

Year	–60 kg	–66 kg	–73 kg	–81 kg	–90 kg	–100 kg	+100 kg	Ref.
2010	Rishod Sobirov	Sanjaasürengiin Miyaaragchaa	Bang Gui-man	Kim Jae-bum	Takashi Ono	Takamasa Anai	Teddy Riner	^[7]^[34]
2011	Rishod Sobirov	Khashbaataryn Tsagaanbaatar	Wang Ki-chun	Elnur Mammadli	Elkhan Mammadov	Sergei Samoilovich	Teddy Riner	^[9]^[35]
2012	Arsen Galstyan	Sanjaasürengiin Miyaaragchaa	Wang Ki-chun	Elnur Mammadli	Masashi Nishiyama	Maxim Rakov	Rafael Silva	^[11]^[36]
2013	Naohisa Takato	Sergey Lim	Sainjargalyn Nyam-Ochir	Ivan Nifontov	Ilias Iliadis	Elkhan Mammadov	Adam Okruashvili	^[13]^[37]
2015	Naohisa Takato	Georgii Zantaraia	Denis Iartsev	Takanori Nagase	Beka Gviniashvili	Elmar Gasimov	Teddy Riner	^[15]^[38]
2016	Orkhan Safarov	An Ba-ul	Soichi Hashimoto	Travis Stevens	Mashu Baker	Elmar Gasimov	Daniel Natea	^[17]^[39]
2017	Ryuju Nagayama	Ganboldyn Kherlen	Soichi Hashimoto	Khasan Khalmurzaev	Beka Gviniashvili	Varlam Liparteliani	Guram Tushishvili	^[19]^[40]
2018	Robert Mshvidobadze	Joshiro Maruyama	Rustam Orujov	Takeshi Sasaki	Nikoloz Sherazadishvili	Varlam Liparteliani	Guram Tushishvili	^[21]^[41]
2019	Ryuju Nagayama	Manuel Lombardo	Soichi Hashimoto	Matthias Casse	Lasha Bekauri	Michael Korrel	Hisayoshi Harasawa	^[23]^[42]
2021	Kim Won-jin	An Ba-ul	An Chang-rim	Tato Grigalashvili	Noël van 't End	Varlam Liparteliani	Teddy Riner	^[25]^[43]
2022	Lee Ha-rim	Baruch Shmailov	Daniel Cargnin	Tato Grigalashvili	Sanshiro Murao	Ilia Sulamanidze	Tatsuru Saito	^[29]^[44]
2023	Ryuju Nagayama	Ryoma Tanaka	Soichi Hashimoto	Matthias Casse	Lasha Bekauri	Muzaffarbek Turoboyev	Martti Puumalainen	^[32]^[45]

Women's

Year	–48 kg	–52 kg	–57 kg	–63 kg	–70 kg	–78 kg	+78 kg	Ref.
2010	Haruna Asami	Misato Nakamura	Kaori Matsumoto	Yoshie Ueno	Hwang Ye-sul	Céline Lebrun	Qin Qian	^[7]^[46]
2011	Haruna Asami	Misato Nakamura	Telma Monteiro	Gévrise Émane	Lucie Décosse	Yang Xiuli	Megumi Tachimoto	^[9]^[47]
2012	Tomoko Fukumi	Yuka Nishida	Kaori Matsumoto	Yoshie Ueno	Lucie Décosse	Mayra Aguiar	Qin Qian	^[11]^[48]
2013	Hiromi Endō	Majlinda Kelmendi	Dorjsürengiin Sumiyaa	Kana Abe	Kim Polling	Mayra Aguiar	Yu Song	^[13]^[49]
2015	Mönkhbatyn Urantsetseg	Natalia Kuziutina	Dorjsürengiin Sumiyaa	Miku Tashiro	Kim Polling	Kayla Harrison	Yu Song	^[15]^[50]
2016	Ami Kondo	Misato Nakamura	Dorjsürengiin Sumiyaa	Miku Tashiro	Kim Polling	Kayla Harrison	Idalys Ortiz	^[17]^[51]
2017	Funa Tonaki	Natalia Kuziutina	Dorjsürengiin Sumiyaa	Miku Tashiro	Maria Portela	Marhinde Verkerk	Kim Min-jeong	^[19]^[52]
2018	Distria Krasniqi	Natsumi Tsunoda	Tsukasa Yoshida	Clarisse Agbegnenou	Saki Niizoe	Mami Umeki	Akira Sone	^[21]^[53]
2019	Distria Krasniqi	Ai Shishime	Kim Jin-a	Nami Nabekura	Kim Polling	Fanny Estelle Posvite	Tessie Savelkouls	^[23]^[54]
2021	Distria Krasniqi	Amandine Buchard	Tsukasa Yoshida	Clarisse Agbegnenou	Yoko Ono	Madeleine Malonga	Romane Dicko	^[25]^[55]
2022	Shirine Boukli	Distria Krasniqi	Christa Deguchi	Miku Takaichi	Michaela Polleres	Alice Bellandi	Romane Dicko	^[29]^[56]
2023	Wakana Koga	Amandine Buchard	Jessica Klimkait	Laura Fazliu	Sanne van Dijke	Inbar Lanir	Romane Dicko	^[32]^[57]

Points

As in any IJF World Tour tournament, athletes earn WRL points by competing in IJF World Masters events. points are awarded based on judoka placement in the competition.^[1]

Place	Points
1st	1800
2nd	1260
3rd	900
5th	648
7th	468
1/16th	288
participation	200

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