World Judo Championships

The Judo World Championships are organized by the International Judo Federation (IJF). The Judo World Championships were held for the first time in 1956 in Tokyo with a competition in the open class. Other weight classes were introduced later. The women held their first Judo World Championships in 1980 in New York City . The championships have been held annually since 2009; there is no separate tournament in the years with the Summer Olympics .

Venues

year	venue
	Men	Women
1956	Japan , Tokyo	-
1958	Japan , Tokyo	-
1961	France , Paris	-
1965	Brazil , Rio de Janeiro	-
1967	United States , Salt Lake City	-
1969	Mexico , Mexico City	-
1971	Federal Republic of Germany , Ludwigshafen am Rhein	-
1973	Switzerland , Lausanne	-
1975	Austria , Vienna	-
1979	France , Paris	-
1980	-	United States , New York
1981	Netherlands , Maastricht	-
1982	-	France , Paris
1983	Soviet Union , Moscow	-
1984	-	Austria , Vienna
1985	South Korea , Seoul	-
1986	-	Netherlands , Maastricht
1987	Federal Republic of Germany , Essen
1989	Yugoslavia , Belgrade
1991	Spain , Barcelona
1993	Canada , Hamilton
1995	Japan , Chiba
1997	France , Paris
1999	United Kingdom , Birmingham
2001	Germany , Munich
2003	Japan , Osaka
2005	Egypt , Cairo
2007	Brazil , Rio de Janeiro
2009	Netherlands , Rotterdam
2010	Japan , Tokyo
2011	France , Paris
2013	Brazil , Rio de Janeiro
2014	Russia , Chelyabinsk
2015	Kazakhstan , Astana
2017	Hungary , Budapest
2018	Azerbaijan , Baku
2019	Japan , Tokyo
2021	Austria , Vienna

Medal table

As of September 6, 2019

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Japan	151	97	103	351
2	France	55	35	76	166
3	South Korea	29	10	60	99
4th	Cuba	18th	22nd	38	78
5	People's Republic of China	18th	12	17th	47
6th	United Kingdom	16	18th	32	66
7th	Netherlands	15th	21st	46	82
8th	Germany including GDR	12	24	70	106
9	Soviet Union	11	13	33	57
10	Belgium	8th	14th	20th	42
11	Russia	7th	17th	36	60
12	Brazil	7th	15th	29	51
13	Poland	6th	4th	23	33
14th	Georgia	5	10	19th	34
15th	Italy	5	7th	17th	29
16	North Korea	5	5	8th	18th
17th	United States	4th	8th	17th	29
18th	Mongolia	4th	4th	16	24
19th	Austria	4th	2	8th	14th
20th	Spain	3	9	10	22nd
21st	Ukraine	3	4th	10	17th
22nd	Greece	3	2	2	7th
23	Iran	3	0	5	8th
24	Colombia	3	0	3	6th
25th	Hungary	2	6th	15th	22nd
26th	Kazakhstan	2	4th	5	11
27	Israel	2	4th	4th	10
28	Uzbekistan	2	2	7th	11
29	Argentina	2	2	1	5
28	Czech Republic	2	0	4th	6th
31	Azerbaijan	1	6th	12	19th
32	Portugal	1	5	5	11
33	Slovenia	1	4th	8th	13
34	Canada	1	2	8th	11
35	Tunisia	1	0	3	4th
35	Kosovo	1	0	3	4th
37	Serbia	1	0	2	6th
37	Yugoslavia	1	0	2	6th
39	Venezuela	1	0	0	1
40	Romania	0	4th	8th	12
41	Turkey	0	3	7th	10
42	Australia	0	3	3	6th
43	Estonia	0	3	1	4th
44	Belarus	0	2	7th	9
45	Egypt	0	2	3	5
46	Switzerland	0	2	2	4th
47	Czechoslovakia	0	2	1	3
48	Bulgaria	0	1	3	4th
48	Moldova	0	1	3	4th
50	Norway	0	1	1	2
	Algeria	0	1	1	2
	Puerto Rico	0	1	1	2
53	Sweden	0	1	0	1
	Montenegro	0	1	0	1
55	United Arab Emirates	0	0	2	2
56	Finland	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand	0	0	1	1
	Chinese Taipei	0	0	1	1
	Latvia	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania	0	0	1	1
	Armenia	0	0	1	1
	Tajikistan	0	0	1	1
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0	1	1
All in all		416	416	832	1264

Tong Wen was stripped of a 2009 gold medal for doping in 2010, which she was awarded again a year later.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Venues for men , accessed on September 10, 2010
2. ↑ Venues for women , accessed on September 10, 2010
3. ^ Judo champ's doping ban overturned (Associated Press report of February 23, 2011, accessed February 23, 2020)

Web links

• International Judo Union