World Judo Championships

World Judo Championships

Current event or competition: 2021 World Judo Championships
Competition details
Discipline	Judo
Type	Judo, annual
Organiser	International Judo Federation (IJF)
History
First edition	1956 in Tokyo, Japan
Editions	59 (2021)
Most wins	Japan – 382 medals (164 gold medals)

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 over time. The last edition of the championships took place in Tokyo, Japan in 2019.

History[]

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 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 City 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.

Competitions by year[]

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

Men's competitions[]

Number	Year	Dates	City and host country	Venue	# Countries	# Athletes	Ref.
1	1956	3 May	Tokyo, Japan	Kuramae Kokugikan	21	31	[1][2]
2	1958	30 November	Tokyo, Japan	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium	18	39	[3][4]
3	1961	2 December	Paris, France	Stade Pierre de Coubertin	25	57	[5][6]
4	1965	14–17 October	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Marrocanzinho gymnasium	42	150	[7][8]
5	1967	9–11 August	Salt Lake City, United States	Gymnasium at the University of Utah	25	115	[9][10]
6	1969	23–25 October	Mexico City, Mexico	Palacio de los Deportes	39	187	[11][12]
7	1971	2–4 September	Ludwigshafen, West Germany	Friedrich-Ebert-Halle	52	310	[13][14]
8	1973	22–24 June	Lausanne, Switzerland	Pavillon des Sports de Beaulieu	50	288	[15][16]
9	1975	23–25 October	Vienna, Austria		46	274	[17][18]
	1977	19–24 September	Barcelona, Spain	Palau dels Esports	Cancelled		[19]
10	1979	6–9 December	Paris, France	Stade Pierre de Coubertin	54	273	[20][21]
11	1981	3–6 September	Maastricht, Netherlands	Euro Hall	51	255	[22] [23]
12	1983	13–16 October	Moscow, Soviet Union	Lenin Palace of Sports	44	226	[24][25]
13	1985	26–29 September	Seoul, South Korea	Jamsil Arena	39	189	[26][27]

Women's competitions[]

Number	Year	Dates	City and host country	Venue	# Countries	# Athletes	Ref.
1	1980	29–30 November	New York, United States	Madison Square Garden	27	149	[28][29]
2	1982	4–5 December	Paris, France	Stade Pierre de Coubertin	35	174	[30][31]
3	1984	10–11 November	Vienna, Austria		32	183	[32][33]
4	1986	24–26 October	Maastricht, Netherlands	Geusselt Sports Hall	35	162	[34][35]

Mixed competitions[]

Number M/W	Year	Dates	City and host country	Venue	# Countries	# Athletes	Ref.
14/5	1987	19–22 November	Essen, West Germany	Grugahalle	63	456	[36][37]
15/6	1989	10–15 October	Belgrade, Yugoslavia	Pionir Hall	63	355	[38][39]
16/7	1991	25–28 July	Barcelona, Spain	Palau Blaugrana	64	465	[40][41]
17/8	1993	30 September – 3 October	Hamilton, Canada	Copps Coliseum	79	508	[42][43]
18/9	1995	28 September – 1 October	Chiba, Japan	Makuhari Messe	100	627	[44][45]
19/10	1997	9–12 October	Paris, France	Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy	91	585	[46][47]
20/11	1999	7–10 October	Birmingham, United Kingdom	National Indoor Arena	91	619	[48][49]
21/12	2001	26–29 July	Munich, Germany	Olympiahalle	89	586	[50][51]
22/13	2003	11–14 September	Osaka, Japan	Osaka-jō Hall	100	631	[52][53]
23/14	2005	8–11 September	Cairo, Egypt	Cairo Stadium Indoor Halls Complex	93	579	[54][55]
24/15	2007	13–16 September	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	HSBC Arena	139	743	[56][57]
25/16	2009	27–30 August	Rotterdam, Netherlands	Rotterdam Ahoy	197	538	[58][59]
26/17	2010	9–13 September	Tokyo, Japan	Yoyogi National Gymnasium	112	847	[60][61]
27/18	2011	23–28 August	Paris, France	Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy	131	864	[62][63]
28/19	2013	26 August – 1 September	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Maracanãzinho	123	673	[64][65]
29/20	2014	25–31 August	Chelyabinsk, Russia	Traktor Arena	110	637	[66][67]
30/21	2015	24–30 August	Astana, Kazakhstan	Alau Ice Palace	120	723	[68][69]
31/22	2017	28 August – 3 September	Budapest, Hungary	László Papp Budapest Sports Arena	126	728	[70][71]
32/23	2018	20–27 September	Baku, Azerbaijan	National Gymnastics Arena	124	755	[72][73]
33/24	2019	25 August – 1 September	Tokyo, Japan	Nippon Budokan	143	828	[74][75]
34/25	2021	6–13 June	Budapest, Hungary	László Papp Budapest Sports Arena	118	661	[76][77][78]
35/26	2022	7–14 August	Tashkent, Uzbekistan				[79][80]
36/27		TBD	Doha, Qatar	Ali Bin Hamad al-Attiyah Arena			[81][82]
37/28			TBD[a]

Openweight competitions[]

Number	Year	Dates	City and host country	Venue	# Countries	# Athletes	Ref.
1	2008	20–21 December	Levallois-Perret, France	Marcel Cerdan Palace of Sports	18	51	[85][86]
—	2009	Cancelled
2	2011	29–30 October	Tyumen, Russia	Judo Centre	22	49	[87][88]
3	2017	11–12 November	Marrakech, Morocco	Palais des Congrès	28	58	[89][90]

Medal tables[]

Men's medal count – individual events (1956–2021)[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	100	52	59	211
2	South Korea	24	8	39	71
3	France	23	17	27	67
4	Soviet Union	11	12	33	56
5	Netherlands	8	11	18	37
6	Russia	7	14	27	48
7	Georgia	5	11	19	35
8	Germany	5	6	12	23
9	Brazil	4	7	14	25
10	Poland	4	2	14	20
11	Great Britain	3	4	13	20
12	East Germany	3	3	14	20
13	Uzbekistan	3	3	7	13
14	Greece	3	2	1	6
15	Iran	3	0	5	8
16	Cuba	2	6	9	17
17	Hungary	2	5	11	18
18	Kazakhstan	2	5	3	10
19	United States	2	3	7	12
20	Mongolia	2	2	9	13
21	Spain	2	2	3	7
22	Portugal	2	0	3	5
23	Czech Republic	2	0	2	4
24	Azerbaijan	1	6	11	18
	Belgium	1	6	11	18
26	Ukraine	1	3	9	13
27	Israel	1	2	2	5
28	Austria	1	1	3	5
29	Russian Judo Federationc	1	1	1	3
	Serbia	1	1	1	3
31	Tunisia	1	0	2	3
	Yugoslavia	1	0	2	3
33	West Germany	0	5	13	18
34	Italy	0	5	9	14
35	Turkey	0	3	5	8
36	North Korea	0	3	4	7
37	Estonia	0	3	1	4
38	Canada	0	2	7	9
39	Belarus	0	2	6	8
40	Egypt	0	2	3	5
41	Czechoslovakia	0	2	2	4
42	Switzerland	0	2	1	3
43	Romania	0	1	4	5
44	Moldova	0	1	3	4
45	Bulgaria	0	1	2	3
46	Sweden	0	1	1	2
47	Algeria	0	1	0	1
	Montenegro	0	1	0	1
	Slovenia	0	1	0	1
50	China	0	0	3	3
51	United Arab Emirates	0	0	2	2
52	Armenia	0	0	1	1
	Finland	0	0	1	1
	Latvia	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania	0	0	1	1
	Tajikistan	0	0	1	1
Total		231	231	462	924

Women's medal count – individual events (1980–2021)[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	49	48	49	146
2	France	32	17	48	97
3	China	20	12	14	46
4	Cuba	16	16	29	61
5	Great Britain	13	14	19	46
6	Belgium	8	9	9	26
7	Netherlands	7	11	33	51
8	Italy	5	3	8	16
9	North Korea	5	2	4	11
10	South Korea	5	1	18	24
11	Brazil	3	5	16	24
12	Germany	3	5	15	23
13	Austria	3	1	6	10
14	Colombia	3	0	3	6
15	Spain	2	8	9	19
16	West Germany	2	5	12	19
17	United States	2	5	10	17
18	Argentina	2	2	1	5
19	Poland	2	1	10	13
20	Mongolia	2	1	8	11
21	Ukraine	2	1	1	4
22	Canada	2	0	1	3
23	Slovenia	1	4	8	13
24	Israel	1	2	3	6
25	Kosovo	1	0	4	5
26	Croatia	1	0	0	1
	Independent Participantsa	1	0	0	1
	Venezuela	1	0	0	1
29	Portugal	0	5	3	8
30	Russia	0	3	10	13
31	Romania	0	3	5	8
32	Australia	0	3	3	6
33	Hungary	0	2	5	7
34	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	1	1	2
	Norway	0	1	1	2
	Puerto Rico	0	1	1	2
37	Soviet Union	0	1	0	1
	Sweden	0	1	0	1
39	Azerbaijan	0	0	3	3
	Turkey	0	0	3	3
41	Kazakhstan	0	0	2	2
	Switzerland	0	0	2	2
	Tunisia	0	0	2	2
44	Algeria	0	0	1	1
	Belarus	0	0	1	1
	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
	Chinese Taipei	0	0	1	1
	Czech Republic	0	0	1	1
	Greece	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand	0	0	1	1
	Serbia	0	0	1	1
	Serbia and Montenegro	0	0	1	1
Total		194	194	388	776

Total medal count – individual events (1956–2021)[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	149	100	108	357
2	France	55	34	75	164
3	South Korea	29	9	57	95
4	China	20	12	17	49
5	Cuba	18	22	38	78
6	Great Britain	16	18	32	66
7	Netherlands	15	22	51	88
8	Soviet Union	11	13	33	57
9	Belgium	9	15	20	44
10	Germany	8	11	27	46
11	Russia	7	17	37	61
12	Brazil	7	12	30	49
13	Poland	6	3	24	33
14	Georgia	5	11	19	35
15	Italy	5	8	17	30
16	North Korea	5	5	8	18
17	Spain	4	10	12	26
18	United States	4	8	17	29
19	Mongolia	4	3	17	24
20	Austria	4	2	9	15
21	Ukraine	3	4	10	17
22	East Germany	3	3	14	20
23	Uzbekistan	3	3	7	13
24	Greece	3	2	2	7
25	Iran	3	0	5	8
26	Colombia	3	0	3	6
27	West Germany	2	10	25	37
28	Hungary	2	7	16	25
29	Portugal	2	5	6	13
30	Kazakhstan	2	5	5	12
31	Israel	2	4	5	11
32	Canada	2	2	8	12
33	Argentina	2	2	1	5
34	Czech Republic	2	0	3	5
35	Azerbaijan	1	6	14	21
36	Slovenia	1	5	8	14
37	Serbia	1	1	2	4
38	Russian Judo Federationc	1	1	1	3
39	Kosovo	1	0	4	5
	Tunisia	1	0	4	5
41	Yugoslavia	1	0	2	3
42	Croatia	1	0	0	1
	Independent Participantsa	1	0	0	1
	Venezuela	1	0	0	1
45	Romania	0	4	9	13
46	Turkey	0	3	8	11
47	Australia	0	3	3	6
48	Estonia	0	3	1	4
49	Belarus	0	2	7	9
50	Egypt	0	2	3	5
	Switzerland	0	2	3	5
52	Czechoslovakia	0	2	2	4
53	Sweden	0	2	1	3
54	Bulgaria	0	1	3	4
	Moldova	0	1	3	4
56	Algeria	0	1	1	2
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	1	1	2
	Norway	0	1	1	2
	Puerto Rico	0	1	1	2
60	Montenegro	0	1	0	1
61	United Arab Emirates	0	0	2	2
62	Armenia	0	0	1	1
	Chinese Taipei	0	0	1	1
	Finland	0	0	1	1
	Latvia	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand	0	0	1	1
	Serbia and Montenegro	0	0	1	1
	Tajikistan	0	0	1	1
Total		425	425	850	1700

Judo Team World Championships[]

The World Judo Championships team competition began in 1994. women's competition began in 1997,^[91] and after 1998 it 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		France	Germany	Japan  Russia		no women's competition
1997	Osaka, Japan		no men's competition				Cuba	South Korea	France  Japan
1998	Minsk, Belarus		Japan	Brazil	France  Russia		Cuba	France	Belgium  China
2002	Basel, Switzerland		Japan	Georgia	France  Italy		Japan	Cuba	China  Italy
2006	Paris, France		Georgia	Russia	France  South Korea		France	Cuba	China  Japan
2007	Beijing, China		Japan	Brazil	China  South Korea		China	Cuba	Japan  Mongolia
2008	Tokyo, Japan		Georgia	Uzbekistan	Brazil  Russia		Japan	France	China  Germany
2010	Antalya, Turkey		Japan	Brazil	Russia  South Korea		Netherlands	Germany	Japan  Turkey
2011	Paris, France		France	Brazil	Japan  South Korea		France	Japan	Cuba  Germany
2012	Salvador, Brazil		Russia	Japan	Brazil  Georgia		Japan	China	Brazil  Cuba
2013	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil		Georgia	Russia	Germany  Japan		Japan	Brazil	Cuba  France
2014	Chelyabinsk, Russia		Japan	Russia	Georgia  Germany		France	Mongolia	Germany  Japan
2015	Astana, Kazakhstan		Japan	South Korea	Georgia  Mongolia		Japan	Poland	Germany  Russia

Judo Team World Championships — Mixed team[]

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2017	Budapest, Hungary	Japan	Brazil	France  South Korea
2018	Baku, Azerbaijan	Japan	France	Korea  Russia
2019	Tokyo, Japan	Japan	France	Brazil  Russia
2021	Budapest, Hungary	Japan	France	Brazil  Uzbekistan
	Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Medal tables[]

Total medal count – team events (1994–2021)[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	15	2	8	25
2	France	5	5	6	16
3	Georgia	3	1	3	7
4	Cuba	2	3	3	8
5	Russia	1	3	7	11
6	China	1	1	5	7
7	Netherlands	1	0	0	1
8	Brazil	0	6	5	11
9	Germany	0	2	6	8
10	South Korea	0	2	5	7
11	Mongolia	0	1	2	3
12	Uzbekistan	0	1	1	2
13	Poland	0	1	0	1
14	Italy	0	0	2	2
15	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	Koreab	0	0	1	1
	Turkey	0	0	1	1
Totals (17 nations)		28	28	56	112

All-time medal count[]

List of World Judo Championships medalists

Updated after the 2021 World Judo Championships.

This table include all medals in the individual and team competitions won at the World Judo Championships as well as at the separate Judo Team World Championships and separate World Judo Open Championships.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	164	102	116	382
2	France	60	39	81	180
3	South Korea	29	11	62	102
4	China	21	13	22	56
5	Cuba	20	25	41	86
6	Netherlands	16	22	51	89
7	Great Britain	16	18	32	66
8	Soviet Union	11	13	33	57
9	Belgium	9	15	21	45
10	Russia	8	20	44	72
11	Germany	8	13	33	54
12	Georgia	8	12	22	42
13	Brazil	7	18	35	60
14	Poland	6	4	24	34
15	Italy	5	8	19	32
16	North Korea	5	5	8	18
17	Spain	4	10	12	26
18	United States	4	8	17	29
19	Mongolia	4	4	19	27
20	Austria	4	2	9	15
21	Ukraine	3	4	10	17
22	Uzbekistan	3	4	8	15
23	East Germany	3	3	14	20
24	Greece	3	2	2	7
25	Iran	3	0	5	8
26	Colombia	3	0	3	6
27	West Germany	2	10	25	37
28	Hungary	2	7	16	25
29	Portugal	2	5	6	13
30	Kazakhstan	2	5	5	12
31	Israel	2	4	5	11
32	Canada	2	2	8	12
33	Argentina	2	2	1	5
34	Czech Republic	2	0	3	5
35	Azerbaijan	1	6	14	21
36	Slovenia	1	5	8	14
37	Serbia	1	1	2	4
38	Russian Judo Federationc	1	1	1	3
39	Kosovo	1	0	4	5
	Tunisia	1	0	4	5
41	Yugoslavia	1	0	2	3
42	Croatia	1	0	0	1
	Independent Participantsa	1	0	0	1
	Venezuela	1	0	0	1
45	Romania	0	4	9	13
46	Turkey	0	3	9	12
47	Australia	0	3	3	6
48	Estonia	0	3	1	4
49	Belarus	0	2	7	9
50	Egypt	0	2	3	5
	Switzerland	0	2	3	5
52	Czechoslovakia	0	2	2	4
53	Sweden	0	2	1	3
54	Bulgaria	0	1	3	4
	Moldova	0	1	3	4
56	Algeria	0	1	1	2
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	1	1	2
	Norway	0	1	1	2
	Puerto Rico	0	1	1	2
60	Montenegro	0	1	0	1
61	United Arab Emirates	0	0	2	2
62	Armenia	0	0	1	1
	Chinese Taipei	0	0	1	1
	Finland	0	0	1	1
	Koreab	0	0	1	1
	Latvia	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand	0	0	1	1
	Serbia and Montenegro	0	0	1	1
	Tajikistan	0	0	1	1
Totals (70 nations)		453	453	906	1812

a^ Unlike in 2013, Majlinda Kelmendi did not compete at the 2014 World Judo Championships under the Kosovo flag but under the International Judo Federation flag, as Russia does not recognise Kosovo's independence. Kosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Serbia. The Republic of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence on 17 February 2008. Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory. The two governments began to normalise relations in 2013, as part of the 2013 Brussels Agreement. Kosovo is currently recognised as an independent state by 97 out of the 193 United Nations member states. In total, 112 UN member states have recognised Kosovo at some point, of which 15 later withdrew their recognition.

b^ At the 2018 World Championships, judokas from North Korea and South Korea completed for unified Korean team and won bronze medals in the Mixed team competition.

c^ At the 2021 World Championships, in accordance with a ban by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and a decision by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), judokas from Russia were not permitted to use the Russian name, flag, or anthem. They instead participated as "the team of the Russian Judo Federation (RJF)", and used the flag of the Russian Olympic Committee.

Multiple gold medalists[]

Boldface denotes active judokas and highest medal count among all judokas (including these who not included in these tables) per type.

Men[]

Individual events[]

Rank	Judoka	Country	Weights	From	To	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Teddy Riner	France	+100 kg / Open	2007	2017	10	1	–	11
2	Naoya Ogawa	Japan	+95 kg / Open	1987	1995	4	–	3	7
3	David Douillet	France	+95 kg / Open	1993	1997	4	–	–	4
	Shōzō Fujii	Japan	−80 kg / −78 kg	1971	1979	4	–	–	4
	Yasuhiro Yamashita	Japan	+95 kg / Open	1979	1983	4	–	–	4
6	Ilias Iliadis	Greece	−90 kg	2005	2014	3	2	1	6
7	Alexander Mikhaylin	Russia	−100 kg / +100 kg / Open	1999	2011	3	1	3	7
8	Toshihiko Koga	Japan	−71 kg / −78 kg	1987	1995	3	–	1	4
	Naohisa Takatō	Japan	−60 kg	2013	2018	3	–	1	4
10	Masashi Ebinuma	Japan	−66 kg	2011	2014	3	–	–	3
	Kōsei Inoue	Japan	−100 kg	1999	2003	3	–	–	3
	Jeon Ki-young	South Korea	−78 kg / −86 kg	1993	1997	3	–	–	3
	Shōhei Ōno	Japan	−73 kg	2013	2019	3	–	–	3

All events[]

Rank	Judoka	Country	Events	From	To	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Teddy Riner	France	+100 kg / Open / Team	2007	2017	11	1	# 1 #	# 13 #
2	Shōhei Ōno	Japan	−73 kg / Team	2013	2019	* 6 *	–	1	* 7 *
3	Masashi Ebinuma	Japan	−66 kg / Team	2011	2015	5	1	1	7
	Soichi Hashimoto	Japan	−73 kg / Team	2017	2021	*# 5 *#	1	1	*# 7 *#
	Riki Nakaya	Japan	−73 kg / Team	2011	2017	** 5 **	1	* 1 *	*** 7 ***
6	David Douillet	France	+95 kg / Open / Team	1993	1997	* 5 *	–	–	* 5 *
7	Alexander Mikhaylin	Russia	−100 kg / +100 kg / Open / Team	1998	2013	4	* 3 *	5	* 12 *
8	Naoya Ogawa	Japan	+95 kg / Open	1987	1995	4	–	3	7
9	Shōzō Fujii	Japan	−80 kg / −78 kg	1971	1979	4	–	–	4
	Kōsei Inoue	Japan	−100 kg / Team	1999	2003	4	–	–	4
	Takanori Nagase	Japan	−81 kg / Team	2014	2017	# 4 #	–	–	# 4 #
	Yasuhiro Yamashita	Japan	+95 kg / Open	1979	1983	4	–	–	4

# including one medal of the Team World Championships won as reserve
* including one medal of the Team World Championships won for participation in the qualifying only
*# including one medal of the Team World Championships won for participation in the qualifying only and one won as reserve
** including two medals of the Team World Championships won for participation in the qualifying only
*** including three medals of the Team World Championships won for participation in the qualifying only

Women[]

Individual events[]

Rank	Judoka	Country	Weights	From	To	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Ryōko Tani (Tamura)	Japan	−48 kg	1991	2007	7	–	1	8
	Tong Wen	China	+78 kg / Open	2001	2011	7	–	1	8
3	Ingrid Berghmans	Belgium	+72 kg / −72 kg / Open	1980	1989	6	4	1	11
4	Clarisse Agbegnenou	France	−63 kg	2013	2021	5	2	–	7
5		China	+72 kg / Open	1984	1989	4	1	1	6
	Kye Sun-hui	North Korea	−52 kg / −57 kg	1997	2007	4	1	1	6
7	Noriko Anno	Japan	+72 kg / −72 kg / −78 kg	1993	2003	4	1	–	5
	Karen Briggs	Great Britain	−48 kg	1982	1991	4	1	–	5
9	Driulis González	Cuba	−56 kg / −57 kg / −63 kg	1993	2007	3	2	2	7
10	Sarah Asahina	Japan	+78 kg / Open	2017	2021	3	1	1	5
	Gévrise Émane	France	−70 kg / −63 kg	2005	2015	3	1	1	5

All events[]

Rank	Judoka	Country	Events	From	To	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Tong Wen	China	+78 kg / Open / Team	2001	2011	8	–	2	10
2	Clarisse Agbegnenou	France	−63 kg / Team	2011	2021	# 7 #	* 3 *	* 2 *	**# 12 **#
3	Ryōko Tani (Tamura)	Japan	−48 kg	1991	2007	7	–	1	8
4	Ingrid Berghmans	Belgium	+72 kg / −72 kg / Open	1980	1989	6	4	1	11
5	Chizuru Arai	Japan	−70 kg / Team	2015	2019	# 6 #	–	–	# 6 #
6	Driulis González	Cuba	−56 kg / −57 kg / −63 kg / Team	1993	2007	5	4	2	11
7	Misato Nakamura	Japan	−52 kg / Team	2006	2015	5	2	1	8
8	Gévrise Émane	France	−70 kg / −63 kg / Team	2005	2015	* 5 *	1	2	* 8 *
9	Noriko Anno	Japan	+72 kg / −72 kg / −78 kg / Team	1993	2003	5	1	1	7
	Sarah Asahina	Japan	+78 kg / Open / Team	2017	2021	5	1	1	7

# including one medal of the Team World Championships won as reserve
* including one medal of the Team World Championships won for participation in the qualifying only
*# including one medal of the Team World Championships won for participation in the qualifying only and one won as reserve
**# including two medals of the Team World Championships won for participation in the qualifying only and one won as reserve

Records[]

Category	Men	Women
Youngest world champion	Teddy Riner : 18 years and 159 days (in 2007)	Daria Bilodid : 17 years and 345 days (in 2018)
Oldest world champion	Anton Geesink : 31 years and 194 days (in 1965)	Driulis González : 33 years and 358 days (in 2007)

Video footage[]

• World Championship 2013 in Rio de Janeiro
• World Championships 2012 in Salvador
• 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

References[]

External links[]

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