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Tokyo 2020 Qualification Match
ABE vs MARUYAMA

Planet Judo has been waiting for that moment for months.

JUDO FOR PEACE
Judo for Peace Among the Baobabs

The IJF Judo for Peace programme has been present in South Africa since 2017 and has been working incessantly ...

News
Introducing JUDOFEST 2020!

As a special holiday treat for the end of a complicated and difficult year for everyone, the International ...

JudoFit Kids Turns Green

A few days ago, we announced the appointment of Sabrina Filzmoser (AUT) and Flavio Canto (BRA) as IJF ...

Massao Shinohara: Brazilian Judo in Mourning

Brazilian judo is in mourning and rest of the judo world feels joins them.

Sabrina Filzmoser and Flavio Canto appointed IJF Climate Ambassadors

Sabrina Filzmoser of Austria and Flavio Canto of Brazil were just appointed as 'IJF Climate Ambassadors’ ...

News
What Happens on Thursday?

As we have grown used to for several weeks now, Thursday has become the day of the JudoFit Kids Golden ...

Video
Judogi Control

This video will show you how judogi control works and why it is so important for our sport.

News
Women's Worlds: Happy Anniversary

For several weeks we have been talking about it and for several weeks the tension was mounting, but a ...

IJF Mourns the Passing Away of Josef Letosnik

It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Mr.

Interview
Kaori Yamaguchi: I Was So Young

As we have just celebrated the first Women’s World Championships, held in New York in 1980, we still ...

1980 Women’s World Championships: Interview
The Witness and The Beneficiary

In 1937 a dictatorship-style government was in power in Brazil, gaining strength and imposing rules that ...