Judo Grand Slam Tokyo Explained

The Grand Slam Tokyo (formerly) is an international judo competition held as part of the International Judo Federation (IJF) World Tour Grand Slam series.

The first Jigoro Kano Cup was held at the Nippon Budōkan from November 23 to 26, 1978 and was a consequence of the canceled 1977 World Judo Championships.^[1]

Venues

1978–2006: Nippon Budokan
2007–2017, 2020–present: Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium
2018^[2] –2019: Maruzen Intec Arena, Osaka

Past winners

Men

Year	Extra-lightweight	Half-lightweight	Heavyweight	Openweight
as Jigoro Kano Cup
1978				Yasuhiro Yamashita
1982			rowspan=4	Yasuhiro Yamashita
1986			Hitoshi Saito
1990			Naoya Ogawa
1992			Harry Van Barneveld
1994				Yoshiharu Makishi
1996				Shinichi Shinohara
1999
2001	colspan=7	Yoshinori Shimode
2003
2005	colspan=7	Kōsei Inoue
2006				rowspan=3
2007			Satoshi Ishii
2008			Yohei Takai
as Judo Grand Slam
2009			Kazuhiko Takahashi	rowspan=13
2010			Kim Sung-min
2011			Alexander Mikhaylin
2012			Kim Sung-min
2013			Kim Sung-min
2014			Renat Saidov
2015			Hisayoshi Harasawa
2016			Takeshi Ōjitani
2017			Yusei Ogawa
2018			Henk Grol
2019			Inal Tasoev
2022
2023			Tamerlan Bashaev

Women

Year	Extra-lightweight	Half-lightweight	Lightweight	Half-middleweight	Middleweight	Half-heavyweight	Heavyweight
as Jigoro Kano Cup
2007							Mai Tateyama
2008							Elena Ivashchenko
as Judo Grand Slam
2009							Maki Tsukada
2010							Megumi Tachimoto
2011							Mika Sugimoto
2012							Megumi Tachimoto
2013							Megumi Tachimoto
2014							Nami Inamori
2015							Nami Inamori
2016							Sarah Asahina
2017							Sarah Asahina
2018							Idalys Ortiz
2019							Akira Sone
2022							Akira Sone
2023							Mao Arai

External links

Notes and References

Oon Oon Yeoh: Great Judo Championships of the World. Page 198
Web site: OSAKA GRAND SLAM 2018 JAPAN .