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

Past winners

Men

Year Extra-lightweight Half-lightweight Lightweight Half-middleweight Middleweight Half-heavyweight Heavyweight Openweight
as Jigoro Kano Cup
1978 Yasuhiro Yamashita
1982rowspan=4 Yasuhiro Yamashita
1986 Hitoshi Saito
1990 Naoya Ogawa
1992 Harry Van Barneveld
1994 Yoshiharu Makishi
1996 Shinichi Shinohara
1999
2001colspan=7 Yoshinori Shimode
2003
2005colspan=7 Kōsei Inoue
2006rowspan=3
2007 Satoshi Ishii
2008 Yohei Takai
as Judo Grand Slam
2009 Kazuhiko Takahashirowspan=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

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