Judo at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
Judo pictogram for the 2020 Summer Olympics
Venue	Nippon Budokan
Dates	24–31 July 2021
Competitors	393, 128 from 128 nations

Judo at the 2020 Summer Olympics
List of judoka Qualification
	Men	Mixed	Women
	60 kg		48 kg
	66 kg		52 kg
	73 kg		57 kg
	81 kg		63 kg
	90 kg		70 kg
	100 kg		78 kg
	+100 kg		+78 kg
		team

Judo at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo featured around 393, 128 judoka (柔道家: judo practitioners) competing in 15 events, seven each for both men and women as well as a new mixed team event.^[1] The 2020 Summer Olympics were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic,^[2][3] and the judo competitions were held in July 2021 at Nippon Budokan.

The tournament brackets were drawn on 23 July, with the top 8 judoka in each weight class seeded.^[4][5]

Qualification

A total of 393, 128 athletes could qualify for judo at the 2020 Summer Olympics. The 2020 Olympics were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[6] Each NOC could enter a maximum of 14 judokas (one in each division). Host nation Japan has reserved a spot in each of all 14 events, while twenty are made available to NOCs through a Tripartite Commission Invitation.

The remaining judoka underwent a qualifying process to earn a spot for the Games through the world ranking list prepared by International Judo Federation on June 28, 2021,^[7][8] and finalized on 5 July.^[9]

The top 18 athletes in each division directly qualify, though each NOC is subjected to a limit of 1 judoka per division. If the NOC contains more than a single athlete ranked in the top 18 of the world ranking list, the NOC can decide which of their athletes obtain the quota places.^[7]

Further continental quotas (13 men and 12 women for Europe, 12 of each gender for Africa, 10 men and 11 women for Pan America, 10 of each gender for Asia, and 5 of each gender for Oceania are also available. These quotas are assigned by creating a list of all athletes for each continent across all divisions and both genders. The top-ranked athletes qualify in turn, subject to the general rule of 1 athlete per NOC per division as well as the additional rule that each NOC may only qualify one judoka through the continental quotas (that is, ensuring that 100 different NOCs are represented through this qualification system).^[7]

Mixed team qualification was based on NOCs qualifying enough individual judokas across various divisions to have a six-person team meeting specific requirements (one man and one woman in each of three groups of divisions).^[7]

Competition schedule

^[10][11]

Participating nations

Source: ^[12]

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Japan)

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan*	9	2	1	12
2	France	2	3	3	8
3	Kosovo	2	0	0	2
4	Georgia	1	3	0	4
5	Czech Republic	1	0	0	1
6	Germany	0	1	2	3
	Mongolia	0	1	2	3
	South Korea	0	1	2	3
9	Austria	0	1	1	2
10	Chinese Taipei	0	1	0	1
	Cuba	0	1	0	1
	Slovenia	0	1	0	1
13	ROC	0	0	3	3
14	Brazil	0	0	2	2
	Canada	0	0	2	2
	Italy	0	0	2	2
17	Azerbaijan	0	0	1	1
	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
	Hungary	0	0	1	1
	Israel	0	0	1	1
	Kazakhstan	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
	Portugal	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine	0	0	1	1
	Uzbekistan	0	0	1	1
Totals (26 entries)		15	15	30	60

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra-lightweight (60 kg)	Naohisa Takato  Japan	Yang Yung-wei  Chinese Taipei	Yeldos Smetov  Kazakhstan
			Luka Mkheidze  France
Half-lightweight (66 kg)	Hifumi Abe  Japan	Vazha Margvelashvili  Georgia	An Ba-ul  South Korea
			Daniel Cargnin  Brazil
Lightweight (73 kg)	Shohei Ono  Japan	Lasha Shavdatuashvili  Georgia	An Chang-rim  South Korea
			Tsend-Ochiryn Tsogtbaatar  Mongolia
Half-middleweight (81 kg)	Takanori Nagase  Japan	Saeid Mollaei  Mongolia	Shamil Borchashvili  Austria
			Matthias Casse  Belgium
Middleweight (90 kg)	Lasha Bekauri  Georgia	Eduard Trippel  Germany	Davlat Bobonov  Uzbekistan
			Krisztián Tóth  Hungary
Half-heavyweight (100 kg)	Aaron Wolf  Japan	Cho Gu-ham  South Korea	Jorge Fonseca  Portugal
			Niyaz Ilyasov  ROC
Heavyweight (+100 kg)	Lukáš Krpálek  Czech Republic	Guram Tushishvili  Georgia	Teddy Riner  France
			Tamerlan Bashaev  ROC

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra-lightweight (48 kg)	Distria Krasniqi  Kosovo	Funa Tonaki  Japan	Daria Bilodid  Ukraine
			Mönkhbatyn Urantsetseg  Mongolia
Half-lightweight (52 kg)	Uta Abe  Japan	Amandine Buchard  France	Odette Giuffrida  Italy
			Chelsie Giles  Great Britain
Lightweight (57 kg)	Nora Gjakova  Kosovo	Sarah-Léonie Cysique  France	Jessica Klimkait  Canada
			Tsukasa Yoshida  Japan
Half-middleweight (63 kg)	Clarisse Agbegnenou  France	Tina Trstenjak  Slovenia	Maria Centracchio  Italy
			Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard  Canada
Middleweight (70 kg)	Chizuru Arai  Japan	Michaela Polleres  Austria	Madina Taimazova  ROC
			Sanne van Dijke  Netherlands
Half-heavyweight (78 kg)	Shori Hamada  Japan	Madeleine Malonga  France	Anna-Maria Wagner  Germany
			Mayra Aguiar  Brazil
Heavyweight (+78 kg)	Akira Sone  Japan	Idalys Ortiz  Cuba	Iryna Kindzerska  Azerbaijan
			Romane Dicko  France

Mixed events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mixed team[13]	France Clarisse Agbegnenou Amandine Buchard Guillaume Chaine Axel Clerget Sarah-Léonie Cysique Romane Dicko Alexandre Iddir Kilian Le Blouch Madeleine Malonga Margaux Pinot Teddy Riner	Japan Hifumi Abe Uta Abe Chizuru Arai Shori Hamada Hisayoshi Harasawa Shoichiro Mukai Takanori Nagase Shohei Ono Akira Sone Miku Tashiro Aaron Wolf Tsukasa Yoshida	Israel Tohar Butbul Raz Hershko Li Kochman Inbar Lanir Sagi Muki Timna Nelson-Levy Peter Paltchik Shira Rishony Or Sasson Gili Sharir Baruch Shmailov
			Germany Johannes Frey Karl-Richard Frey Jasmin Grabowski Katharina Menz Dominic Ressel Giovanna Scoccimarro Sebastian Seidl Theresa Stoll Martyna Trajdos Eduard Trippel Anna-Maria Wagner Igor Wandtke

New rules

Judo, the sports first introduced in 1964 Tokyo Olympics, has changed and evolved over time. There were several rule changes made to empower this sports in the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Based on the 2016 IJF Judo rule changes, the game time for men has shortened one minute and the length of a game became four minutes which is the same as women's game. There was also a change in scores of a Waza-Ari, a technic that requires a judoka to pin his/her opponent for 10 to 20 seconds or to throw the opponent successfully but not well-controlled to be awarded as Ippon. As basic Judo rules, there are three ways to win: 1)to throw the opponent to the ground in a certain efficiency, 2) to hold down the opponent for 20 seconds, 3) to force the opponent to submission by arm lock or strangulation. Originally, gaining points of Ippon ended the game but now Waza-aris are awarded equally to Ippons in the 2020 summer Olympics. With this rule change, penalty scores no longer ended the game.^[5] In addition, the mixed team competition was added as a new content of Judo games in the Olympics. Six individuals in their national mixed team compete with individuals of the same weight category from another national team. A team wins when it won at least four rounds of six. This new content aims to engage in gender equality as well as a union through sport.^[14]

In addition, the mixed team competition was added as a new content of Judo games in the Olympics. Six individuals in their national mixed team compete with individuals of the same weight category from another national team. A team wins when it won at least four rounds of six. This new content aims to engage in gender equality as well as a union through sport. It is considered one of the most gender equal competition in Olympic games^[15] France, the next summer olympic host country, became the very first team to gain a gold medal for this new competition of mixed teams. It defeated Japan with 4-1. This was considered as a memorable moment of judo games in the 2020 Summer Olympics.^[16]

Politically motivated withdrawal

Selected to compete at the 2020 Summer Games in the -73 kg weight class, Algerian judoka Fethi Nourine and his coach Amar Benikhlef announced his withdrawal following the conclusion of the draw of competitors.

Nourine was quoted as saying his political support for the Palestinian cause made it impossible for him to compete against an Israeli; Tohar Butbul, the #5 seed in the tournament, whom he was drawn to potentially face in the second round (had he won in the first round), was Israeli.^{[17][18][19][20]}

The International Judo Federation (IJF) announced the immediate suspension of Nourine and his coach on 24 July 2021, pending a further investigation, while the Algerian Olympic Committee revoked their accreditation, and sent Nourine and his coach back home to Algeria.^[21][22] The Federation explained:

"According to the IJF rules, in line with the Olympic Charter and especially with rule 50.2 that provides for the protection of the neutrality of sport at the Olympic Games and the neutrality of the Games themselves, which states that 'no kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas,' Fethi Nourine and Amar Benikhlef are now suspended and will face a decision by the IJF Disciplinary Commission, as well as disciplinary sanctions by the National Olympic Committee of Algeria back in their country.'"^[20]

See also

• Judo at the 2018 Asian Games
• Judo at the 2019 Pan American Games
• Judo at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
• Judo wrap-up from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Judo at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

• judo at the 2020 Summer Olympics at the International Judo Federation
• judo at the 2020 Summer Olympics at JudoInside.com
• judo at the 2020 Summer Olympics at the European Judo Union
• Results Book Archived 1 August 2021 at the Wayback Machine