| Jessica Klimkait | |
| Birth Date: | 31 December 1996 |
| Birth Place: | Whitby, Ontario, Canada |
| Height: | 1.65 m |
| Weight Class: | 57 kg |
| Olympics Rank: | 3 |
| Olympics Year: | 2020 |
| Olympics Weight: | Women's 57 kg |
| Worlds Rank: | 1 |
| Worlds Year: | 2021 |
| Worlds Weight: | Women's 57 kg |
| Regionals Type: | AM |
| Regionals Rank: | 1 |
| Regionals Year: | 2017 |
| Commonwealth Rank: | 5 |
| Commonwealth Year: | 2014 |
| Commonwealth Weight: | Women's 57 kg |
| Updated: | 20 May 2024 |
Jessica Klimkait (born 31 December 1996) is a Canadian Judoka who competes in the women's 57 kg category.[1] In 2021 she became Canada's second judo world champion, defeating Momo Tamaoki of Japan in the women's lightweight (57 kg) final at the championships in Budapest, Hungary; the win also qualified her for the Tokyo Olympic Games.[2] She won one of the bronze medals in the women's 57 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[3]
In 2013 at the Cadet (U18) World Championship in Miami she became the first Canadian female judoka to win an age group world championship.[4] She won gold at the 2017 Pan American Judo Championships.[5]
In 2021, she won one of the bronze medals in her event at the 2021 Judo World Masters held in Doha, Qatar.[6] [7] A few months later, she won the silver medal in her event at the 2021 Judo Grand Slam Antalya held in Antalya, Turkey.[8]
In June 2021, Klimkait was named to Canada's 2020 Olympic team.[9] She won the bronze medal in the 57kg (126lb) class with a win over Kaja Kajzer of Slovenia, by waza-ari.[10] [3]
Klimkait began practicing judo at the age of five at the Ajax Budokan Judo Club after watching her older brother's involvement in the sport.[11]
| Olympic games | 1 | |||
| World Championships | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| World Masters | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Grand Slam | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Continental Championships | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Grand Prix | 1 | 4 | 2 | |
| Continental Open | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Continental Cup | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Totals | 6 | 7 | 8 |
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| World Judo Championships | 3R | 3R | 2R | |||||||
| Pan American Judo Championships | 5 | 1R | 5 | |||||||
| IJF World Masters | ||||||||||
| Grand Slam Abu Dhabi | 1R | 5 | ||||||||
| Grand Slam Düsseldorf | 1R | |||||||||
| Grand Slam Ekaterinburg | ||||||||||
| Grand Slam Osaka | ||||||||||
| Grand Slam Paris | 1R | 2R | ||||||||
| Grand Slam Tokyo | 1R | 2R | 1R | |||||||
| Grand Prix Budapest | 5 | |||||||||
| Grand Prix Cancún | ||||||||||
| Grand Prix Hohhot | ||||||||||
| Grand Prix Montreal | ||||||||||
| Grand Prix Zagreb | 1R | 1R | ||||||||
| European Open Glasgow | ||||||||||
| European Open Madrid | 2R | |||||||||
| European Open Oberwart | ||||||||||
| Oceanian Open Wollongong | ||||||||||
| Pan American Open San Salvador | ||||||||||
| European Cup Orenburg | ||||||||||
| European Cup Podcetrtek |