European Judo Union

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As President of the British Judo Association , Gunji Koizumi organized a meeting of the leading members of the national judo bodies from Great Britain, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland in 1948 to re-establish the European Judo Union (EJU). At Koizumi's suggestion, the European John Barnes was elected founding president. When the European judo representatives met in London in 1951, Austria also joined the EJU. In 1951, the EJU organized the first European Judo Championships and invited leading representatives of the Kodokan from Japan as guests of honor. The EJU's efforts to have judo recognized as an Olympic discipline were first discussed. The publisher and Budo athlete Henry D. Plée proposed, on behalf of the French Association and at the request of Mikinosuke Kawaishi , that the Kodokan's monthly magazine be translated into English and French. The EJU made this magazine an official publication of the EJU.

The EJU consists of 51 national judo associations and is one of the five continental associations of the International Judo Federation (IJF). The administrative organization of judo is based on a pyramid system with the IJF as the global, highest level, the EJU, which covers Europe, and the national judo associations that are responsible for their respective countries.

Well-known European judokas

Women

Men

Most successful female judoka at European level

Most successful male judoka at European level

President of the EJU

  • United KingdomUnited Kingdom John Barnes , 1948-1949
  • ItalyItaly Aldo Torti, 1949-1952
  • NetherlandsNetherlands Jacobus Nauwelaerts de Agé, 1952–1956
  • Germany BRBR Germany Heinrich Frantzen , 1956–1959
  • FranceFrance André J. Ertel, 1959-1984
  • AustriaAustria Kurt Kucera , 1984-1996
  • NetherlandsNetherlands Frans Hoogendijk, 1996-2000
  • AustriaAustria Marius Vizer, 2000-2007
  • RussiaRussia Sergey Soloveychik, 2007-present

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ On the initiative of the Deutscher Judo-Ring and Alfred Rhodes , a European Judo Union was formed for the first time in Zurich in 1932 , but it perished in the turmoil of World War II due to the political influence of the Nazi state .