Judo at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification explained

Event:Qualification for judo
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A total of athletes could qualify for judo at the 2020 Summer Olympics. 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,[1] [2] and finalized on 5 July.[3]

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.[1]

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).[1]

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).[1]

Qualification summary

NOCMenWomenMixedTotal
+100 kg+78 kgTeam
 
1
2
1
2
1
3
6
9
3
4
1
1
1
13
3
1
2
6
1
1
1
6
3
1
1
1
3
6
2
1
1
1
1
1
3
3
1
1
13
1
1
9
13
1
6
2
1
1
1
1
1
7
6
1
2
12
8
1
14
1
6
1
5
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
12
1
2
1
1
10
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
6
8
3
1
14
2
3
13
1
1
2
1
5
1
1
5
1
7
1
1
4
2
4
1
1
3
6
1
7
2
4
1
10
1
3
1
1
1
Total: 128 NOCs 23 27 35 35 33 25 22 28 29 25 31 28 24 27 12 392
References[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]
Source:[18]

Men's events

Extra-lightweight (60 kg)

Source: [4]

Section Places NOC Qualified judoka
Host nation align=center 1 Naohisa Takato
IJF World Ranking List
(as of June 28, 2021)
18 Robert Mshvidobadze
Yeldos Smetov
Francisco Garrigos
Sharafuddin Lutfillaev
Kim Won-jin
Yang Yung-wei
Tornike Tsjakadoea
Jorre Verstraeten
Ashley McKenzie
Karamat Huseynov
Luka Mkheidze
Amartuvshin Dashdavaa
Lenin Preciado
Artem Lesiuk
Yanislav Gerchev
Moritz Plafky
Additional places (Europe) align=center 1Mihraç Akkuş
Additional places (Africa) align=center colspan=2
Additional places (America) align=center 1José Ramos
Additional places (Asia) align=center 1Soukphaxay Sithisane
Additional places (Oceania) align=center colspan=2
Invitational align=center 1Ngawang Namgyel
Total 23

Half-lightweight (66 kg)

Source: [5]

Section Places NOC Qualified judoka
Host nation align=center 1 Hifumi Abe
IJF World Ranking List
(as of June 28, 2021)
18 Manuel Lombardo
An Baul
Vazha Margvelashvili
Baskhuu Yondonperenlei
Baruch Shmailov
Alberto Gaitero Martin
Sardor Nurillaev
Yakub Shamilov
Daniel Cargnin
Yerlan Serikzhanov
Denis Vieru
Orkhan Safarov
Mohamed Abdelmawgoud
Georgii Zantaraia
Kilian Le Blouch
Adrian Gomboc
Dzmitry Minkou
Sebastian Seidl
Additional places (Europe) align=center colspan=2
Additional places (Africa) 3Steven Mungandu
Kevin Loforte
Ismael Alhassane
Additional places (America) 2Juan Postigos
Ian Sancho Chinchila
Additional places (Asia) align=center 1Ayoub Elidrissi
Additional places (Oceania) align=center 1Nathan Katz
Invitational align=center 1Indrit Cullhaj
Total 27

Lightweight (73 kg)

Source: [6]

Section Places NOC Qualified judoka
Host nation align=center 1 Shohei Ono
IJF World Ranking List
(as of June 28, 2021)
18
Lasha Shavdatuashvili
An Changrim
Tommy Macias
Tsogtbaatar Tsend-Ochir
Tohar Butbul
Arthur Margelidon
Bilal Çiloğlu
Khikmatillokh Turaev
Akil Gjakova
Fabio Basile
Musa Mogushkov
Somon Makhmadbekov
Zhansay Smagulov
Victor Scvortov
Igor Wandtke
Victor Sterpu
Nils Stump
Additional places (Europe) 3Guillaume Chaine
Alexandru Raicu
Ferdinand Karapetian
Additional places (Africa) 4Fethi Nourine
Aden-Alexandre Houssein
Faye Njie
Lucas Diallo
Additional places (America) 2Magdiel Estrada
Eduardo Barbosa
Additional places (Asia) 2Younis Eyal Slman
Sulaiman Hamad
Additional places (Oceania) align=center colspan=2
Invitational 5Cédric Bessi
Mamadou Samba Bah
Ahmed Ayash
Ahmad Alikaj
Chamara Dharmawardana
Mohamed Abdalarasool
Total 35

Half-middleweight (81 kg)

Source: [7]

Section Places NOC Qualified judoka
Host nation align=center 1 Takanori Nagase
IJF World Ranking List
(as of June 28, 2021)
18 Matthias Casse
Sagi Muki
Tato Grigalashvili
Vedat Albayrak
Frank de Wit
Saeid Mollaei
Sharofiddin Boltaboev
Alan Khubetsov
Antoine Valois-Fortier
Dominic Ressel
Ivaylo Ivanov
Christian Parlati
Alexios Ntanatsidis
Shamil Borchashvili
Murad Fatiyev
Eduardo Yudy Santos
Additional places (Europe) align=center 1Robin Pacek
Additional places (Africa) 1Mohamed Abdelaal
Additional places (America) 3Adrián Gandía
Emmanuel Lucenti
Alain Mikael Aprahamian
Additional places (Asia) 4Vladimir Zoloev
Didar Khamza
Akmal Murodov
Nacif Elias
Additional places (Oceania) 3Joshter Andrew
Peniamina Percival
Hugo Cumbo
Invitational 3 Wesam Abu Rmilah
Housni Thaoubani
Frederick Harris
Re-allocation of unused quota 1Lee Sung-ho
Total 35

Middleweight (90 kg)

Source: [8]

Section Places NOC Qualified judoka
Host nation align=center 1 Shoichiro Mukai
IJF World Ranking List
(as of June 28, 2021)
18 Nikoloz Sherazadishvili
Krisztián Tóth
Lasha Bekauri
Davlat Bobonov
Nemanja Majdov
Iván Felipe Silva Morales
Mikhail Igolnikov
Marcus Nyman
Mammadali Mehdiyev
Mihael Žgank
Eduard Trippel
Gwak Dong-han
Axel Clerget
Altanbagana Gantulga
Rafael Macedo
Islam Bozbayev
Komronshokh Ustopiriyon
Additional places (Europe) 5Nicholas Mungai
Li Kochman
David Klammert
Quedjau Nhabali
Piotr Kuczera
Additional places (Africa) 2Rémi Feuillet
Kwadjo Anani
Additional places (America) 2Colton Brown
Robert Florentino
Additional places (Asia) align=center colspan=2
Additional places (Oceania) align=center colspan=2
Invitational 5 Raphael Schwendinger
Celtus Dossou Yovo
Nantenaina Finesse
Paolo Persoglia
Popole Misenga
Total 33

Half-heavyweight (100 kg)

Source: [9]

Section Places NOC Qualified judoka
Host nation align=center 1 Aaron Wolf
IJF World Ranking List
(as of June 28, 2021)
18 Varlam Liparteliani
Michael Korrel
Jorge Fonseca
Peter Paltchik
Cho Gu-ham
Niyaz Ilyasov
Shady El Nahas
Zelym Kotsoiev
Alexandre Iddir
Ramadan Darwish
Mukhammadkarim Khurramov
Lkhagvasürengiin Otgonbaatar
Toma Nikiforov
Rafael Buzacarini
Benjamin Fletcher
Karl-Richard Frey
Grigori Minaškin
Aleksandar Kukolj
Additional places (Europe) 3Mikita Sviryd
Jevgeņijs Borodavko
Miklós Cirjenics
Additional places (Africa) align=center colspan=2
Additional places (America) align=center colspan=2
Additional places (Asia) 2Hussain Shah Shah
Ivan Remarenco
Additional places (Oceania) 1Tevita Takayawa
Invitational align=center
Total 25

Heavyweight (+100 kg)

as per June 14 2021Source: [10]

Section Places NOC Qualified judoka
Host nation align=center 1 Hisayoshi Harasawa
IJF World Ranking List
(as of June 28, 2021)
18 Tamerlan Bashaev
Lukáš Krpálek
Guram Tushishvili
Rafael Silva
Henk Grol
Yakiv Khammo
Or Sasson
Kim Min-jong
Teddy Riner
Temur Rakhimov
Ushangi Kokauri
Stephan Hegyi
Andy Granda
Bekmurod Oltiboev
Johannes Frey
Vlăduț Simionescu
Duurenbayar Ulziibayar
Maciej Sarnacki
Additional places (Europe) align=center colspan=2
Additional places (Africa) 2Mbagnick Ndiaye
Ali Omar
Additional places (America) align=center colspan=2
Additional places (Asia) align=center colspan=2
Additional places (Oceania) align=center colspan=2
Invitational 1
Total 22

Women's events

Extra-lightweight (48 kg)

Source: [11]

Section Places NOC Qualified judoka
Host nation align=center 1 Funa Tonaki
IJF World Ranking List
(as of June 28, 2021)
18 Distria Krasniqi
Daria Bilodid
Urantsetseg Munkhbat
Paula Pareto
Julia Figueroa
Catarina Costa
Irina Dolgova
Shirine Boukli
Maruša Štangar
Galbadrakhyn Otgontsetseg
Shira Rishony
Milica Nikolić
Francesca Milani
Katharina Menz
Li Yanan
Éva Csernoviczki
Kang Yu-jeong
Gabriela Chibana
Additional places (Europe) 2Gülkader Şentürk
Aisha Gurbanli
Additional places (Africa) 2Geronay Whitebooi
Priscilla Morand
Additional places (America) align=center 1Mary Dee Vargas Lee
Additional places (Asia) 2Chen-Hao Lin
Shushila Devi Likmabam
Additional places (Oceania) align=center colspan=2
Invitational 2Harriet Boniface
Soniya Bhatta
Total 28

Half-lightweight (52 kg)

Source: [12]

Section Places NOC Qualified judoka
Host nation align=center 1 Uta Abe
IJF World Ranking List
(as of June 28, 2021)
18 Amandine Buchard
Odette Giuffrida
Majlinda Kelmendi
Ana Perez Box
Charline van Snick
Chelsie Giles
Natalia Kuziutina
Diyora Keldiyorova
Gili Cohen
Larissa Pimenta
Fabienne Kocher
Joana Ramos
Sosorbaram Lkhagvasuren
Réka Pupp
Angelica Delgado
Park Da-sol
Andreea Chitu
Agatha Perenc
Additional places (Europe) align=center 1Tetiana Levytska-Shukvani
Additional places (Africa) 2Taciana Cesar
Soumiya Iraoui
Additional places (America) 3Ecaterina Guica
Kristine Jiménez
Sabiana Anestor
Additional places (Asia) 2Gulbadam Babamuratova
Kachakorn Warasiha
Additional places (Oceania) align=center colspan=2
Invitational align=center 1Arbresha Rexhepi
Re-allocation of unused quota place 1Nguyễn Thủy
Total 29

Lightweight (57 kg)

Source: [13]

Section Places NOC Qualified judoka
Host nation align=center 1 Tsukasa Yoshida
IJF World Ranking List
(as of June 28, 2021)
18 Jessica Klimkait
Nora Gjakova
Sarah-Léonie Cysique
Theresa Stoll
Lien Chen-ling
Timna Nelson-Levy
Telma Monteiro
Hedvig Karakas
Sumiya Dorjsuren
Julia Kowalczyk
Kaja Kajzer
Daria Mezhetskaia
Eteri Liparteliani
Marica Perišić
Kim Ji-su
Lu Tongjuan
Ivelina Ilieva
Miryam Roper
Additional places (Europe) 2Sanne Verhagen
Sabrina Filzmoser
Additional places (Africa) 3Ghofran Khelifi
Diassonema Mucungui
Zouleiha Abzetta Dabonne
Additional places (America) align=center colspan=2
Additional places (Asia) align=center colspan=2
Additional places (Oceania) align=center colspan=2
Invitational 1 Sanda Aldass
Total 25

Half-middleweight (63 kg)

Source: [14]

Section Places NOC Qualified judoka
Host nation 1 Miku Tashiro
IJF World Ranking List
(as of June 28, 2021)
18 Clarisse Agbegnenou
Tina Trstenjak
Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard
Ketleyn Quadros
Martyna Trajdos
Maylín del Toro Carvajal
Juul Franssen
Anriquelis Barrios
Daria Davydova
Yang Junxia
Magdalena Krssakova
Lucy Renshall
Katharina Haecker
Gankhaich Bold
Agata Ozdoba-Błach
Szofi Özbas
Gili Sharir
Maria Centracchio
Additional places (Europe) 3Anja Obradović
Lærke Olsen
Additional places (Africa) 2Damiella Nomenjanahary
Sandrine Billiet
Additional places (America) 2Prisca Awiti Alcaraz
Estefania Garcia
Additional places (Asia) 3Han Hee-ju
Kiyomi Watanabe
Additional places (Oceania) colspan=2
Invitational 2Muna Dahouk
Cergia David
Total 31

Middleweight (70 kg)

Source: [15]

Section Places NOC Qualified judoka
Host nation align=center 1 Chizuru Arai
IJF World Ranking List
(as of June 28, 2021)
18Sanne van Dijke
Margaux Pinot
Barbara Matić
Michaela Polleres
Giovanna Scoccimarro
Maria Portela
Anna Bernholm
Madina Taimazova
Barbara Timo
Gemma Howell
Elvismar Rodriguez
María Bernabéu
María Pérez
Megan Fletcher
Assmaa Niang
Gulnoza Matniyazova
Aoife Coughlan
Elisavet Teltsidou
Additional places (Europe) 1Alice Bellandi
Additional places (Africa) 2Ayuk Otay Arrey Sophina
Demos Memneloum
Additional places (America) align=center 1Ebony Drysdale Daley
Additional places (Asia) 2Kim Seong-yeon
Sun Xiaoqian
Additional places (Oceania) align=center 1Kinaua Biribo
Invitational align=center 1
Re-allocation of unused quota place align=center 1Nihel Landolsi
Total 28

Half-heavyweight (78 kg)

Source: [16]

Section Places NOC Qualified judoka
Host nation 1 Shori Hamada
IJF World Ranking List
(as of June 28, 2021)
18 Madeleine Malonga
Anna-Maria Wagner
Guusje Steenhuis
Natalie Powell
Mayra Aguiar
Loriana Kuka
Kaliema Antomarchi
Ma Zhenzhao
Beata Pacut
Bernadette Graf
Patricia Sampaio
Aleksandra Babintseva
Vanessa Chalá
Karla Prodan
Yoon Hyun-ji
Anastasiya Turchyn
Inbar Lanir
Nefeli Papadakis
Additional places (Europe) colspan=2
Additional places (Africa) 2 Sarah-Myriam Mazouz
Marie Branser
Additional places (America) 1 Karen León
Additional places (Asia) 1 Otgony Mönkhtsetseg
Additional places (Oceania) colspan=2
Invitational 1 Jovana Peković
Total 24

Heavyweight (+78 kg)

Source: [17]

Section Places NOC Qualified judoka
Host nation align=center 1Akira Sone
IJF World Ranking List
(as of June 28, 2021)
18Idalys Ortiz
Iryna Kindzerska
Maria Suelen Altheman
Romane Dicko
Kayra Sayit
Maryna Slutskaya
Nihel Cheikh Rouhou
Rochele Nunes
Larisa Cerić
Xu Shiyan
Hortence Vanessa Mballa Atangana
Yelyzaveta Kalanina
Kim Ha-yun
Tessie Savelkouls
Raz Hershko
Melissa Mojica
Anamari Velenšek
Jasmin Grabowski
Additional places (Europe) 3Sandra Jablonskytė
Sarah Adlington
Ivana Maranić
Additional places (Africa) align=center 1 Sonia Asselah
Additional places (America) 2Gabriella Wood
Izayana Marenco
Additional places (Asia) align=center 1Tahani Alqahtani
Additional places (Oceania) align=center colspan=2
Re-allocation of unused quota place 1Nina Cutro-Kelly
Total 27

Continental quotas

Africa

Men
Weight NOC Qualified judoka Points
-81 2631
-73 2262
+100 2035
-73 1487
-90 1279
-73 1105
-66 960
-66 807
-81 506
+100 460
-66 381
-73 353
Women
Weight NOC Qualified judoka Points
-57 2362
-52 2249
-52 2065
-78 1760
-57 1657
-57 1654
-48 1536
-78 1290
-70 1213
-63 878
-70 779
-63 647

America

Men
Weight NOC Qualified judoka Points
-73 2649
-90 2453
-90 2312
-81 2134
-73 2096
-66 1843
-81 1383
-60 930
-66 814
-81 585
Women
Weight NOC Qualified judoka Points
-70 2856
-52 2551
-63 2227
-48 2102
-63 1493
-78 1466
-52 732
-70 578
+78 268
+78 187
-52 167
-57 151

Asia

Men
Weight NOC Qualified judoka Points
-81 2380
-81 2222
-100 1208
-81 1060
-100 1028
-73 818
-66 689
-81 646
-73 445
-60 318
Women
Weight NOC Qualified judoka Points
-70 2794
-63 Han Hee-ju 2314
-70 1834
-48 1753
-48 1508
-63 1496
-52 1161
-52 1038
-48 989
-63 662
-78 621

Europe

Men
Weight NOC Qualified judoka Points
-90 2875
-90 2837
-73 2694
-90 2528
-90 2495
-81 2417
-73 2339
-100 2247
-100 2244
-100 2190
-60 2157
-73 2148
-90 2103
Women
Weight NOC Qualified judoka Points
-70 2842
-70 Alice Bellandi 2533
-57 2337
+78 2326
-57 1985
-63 1872
+78 1825
-52 1786
-48 1753
-63 1712
-63 1688

Oceania

Men
Weight NOC Qualified judoka Points
-100 1792
-100 595
-81 278
-81 76
-81 62
Women
Weight NOC Qualified judoka Points
-57 654
-70 10
+78 6

Mixed team

In order to qualify for mixed team competition, an NOC had to have individual competitors in each of six groups of divisions:

  • Men's lower third (extra-lightweight, half-lightweight, or lightweight)
  • Men's middle third (lightweight, half-middleweight, or middleweight)
  • Men's upper third (middleweight, half-heavyweight, or heavyweight)
  • Women's lower third (extra-lightweight, half-lightweight, or lightweight)
  • Women's middle third (lightweight, half-middleweight, or middleweight)
  • Women's upper third (middleweight, half-heavyweight, or heavyweight)

Male qualifiers

Qualified male judoka
Lower third Upper third
  1. of judokas
NOC
2. Hisayoshi Harasawa7
5. Rafael Silva7
10. Teddy Riner6
16. Johannes Frey7
8. Or Sasson6
4
18. Duurenbayar Ulziibayar7
6. Henk Grol5
9. Kim Min-jong7
15. Bekmurod Oltiboev7
22. Javad Mahjoub3
1. Tamerlan Bashaev7
Total teams: 12 9 10 11 10 12 10 11 73
References
Middle third

Female qualifiers

Qualified female judoka
Lower third Upper third
NOC !
  1. of judokas
3. Akira Sone7
4. Maria Suelen Altheman6
5. Romane Dicko7
19. Jasmin Grabowski6
16. Raz Hershko6
4
5
14. Tessie Savelkouls5
15. Han Mi-jin7
3
3
6
Total teams: 12 9 9 9 12 10 9 7 65
References
Middle third

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Tokyo 2020 – IJF Qualification System . . 23 August 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200622170730/https://78884ca60822a34fb0e6-082b8fd5551e97bc65e327988b444396.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com/up/2020/05/Tokyo_OG_2020_Revised_Qualific-1590063735.pdf . 22 June 2020 . 12 May 2020 . dead.
  2. Web site: IJF Olympic Qualification List . . 23 August 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210623124742/https://78884ca60822a34fb0e6-082b8fd5551e97bc65e327988b444396.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com/up/2021/06/IJF%20Olympic%20Games%20Qualification%20Judo%202020%20-%20by%20category.pdf . 23 June 2021.
  3. News: Messner . Nicolas . The Day of Reckoning Has Come . 23 August 2022 . . 28 June 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210628144403/https://www.ijf.org/news/show/the-day-of-reckoning-has-come . 28 June 2021.
  4. Web site: Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 — Judoka — Men –60 kg . . 6 July 2021.
  5. Web site: Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 — Judoka — Men –66 kg . . 6 July 2021.
  6. Web site: Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 — Judoka — Men –73 kg . . 6 July 2021.
  7. Web site: Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 — Judoka — Men –81 kg . . 6 July 2021.
  8. Web site: Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 — Judoka — Men –90 kg . . 6 July 2021.
  9. Web site: Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 — Judoka — Men –100 kg . . 6 July 2021.
  10. Web site: Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 — Judoka — Men +100 kg . . 6 July 2021.
  11. Web site: Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 — Judoka — Women –48 kg . . 6 July 2021.
  12. Web site: Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 — Judoka — Women –52 kg . . 6 July 2021.
  13. Web site: Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 — Judoka — Women –57 kg . . 6 July 2021.
  14. Web site: Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 — Judoka — Women –63 kg . . 6 July 2021.
  15. Web site: Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 — Judoka — Women –70 kg . . 6 July 2021.
  16. Web site: Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 — Judoka — Women –78 kg . . 6 July 2021.
  17. Web site: Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 — Judoka — Women +78 kg . . 6 July 2021.
  18. Web site: Team Ranking for Olympic Games . . 6 July 2021.