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| Venue | Yoyogi National Gymnasium |
| Location |  Tokyo, Japan |
| Dates | 9–13 September |
| Competitors | 847 from 112 nations |
| Competition at external databases | |
| Links | IJF • EJU • JudoInside |
| 2010 World Judo Championships | ||
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| Men | Women | |
| 60 kg | 48 kg | |
| 66 kg | 52 kg | |
| 73 kg | 57 kg | |
| 81 kg | 63 kg | |
| 90 kg | 70 kg | |
| 100 kg | 78 kg | |
| +100 kg | +78 kg | |
| Open | Open | |
The 2010 World Judo Championships were held at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan from 9 to 13 September. [1] [2]
| Event Date | Starting Time | Event Details |
|---|---|---|
| 9 September | 17:00 | Men +100 kg |
| Men -100 kg | ||
| Women +78 kg | ||
| Women -78 kg | ||
| 10 September | 17:00 | Men -90 kg |
| Men -81 kg | ||
| Women -70 kg | ||
| 11 September | 17:00 | Men -73 kg |
| Women -63 kg | ||
| Women -57 kg | ||
| 12 September | 17:00 | Men -66 kg |
| Men -60 kg | ||
| Women -52 kg | ||
| Women -48 kg | ||
| 13 September | 17:00 | Open Categories Men & Women |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extra-lightweight (60 kg) |  Rishod Sobirov (UZB) |  Georgii Zantaraia (UKR) |  Arsen Galstyan (RUS) |
| Hiroaki Hiraoka (JPN) | |||
| Half-lightweight (66 kg) | Junpei Morishita (JPN) |  Leandro Cunha (BRA) |  Khashbaataryn Tsagaanbaatar (MGL) |
 Loic Korval (FRA) | |||
| Lightweight (73 kg) | Hiroyuki Akimoto (JPN) |  Dex Elmont (NED) |  Wang Ki-chun (KOR) |
| Yasuhiro Awano (JPN) | |||
| Half-middleweight (81 kg) | Kim Jae-Bum (KOR) | Leandro Guilheiro (BRA) | Masahiro Takamatsu (JPN) |
 Euan Burton (GBR) | |||
| Middleweight (90 kg) |  Ilias Iliadis (GRE) | Daiki Nishiyama (JPN) |  Elkhan Mammadov (AZE) |
| Kirill Denisov (RUS) | |||
| Half-heavyweight (100 kg) | Takamasa Anai (JPN) | Henk Grol (NED) |  Oreidis Despaigne (CUB) |
| Thierry Fabre (FRA) | |||
| Heavyweight (+100 kg) | Teddy Riner (FRA) |  Andreas Tölzer (GER) | Matthieu Bataille (FRA) |
 Islam El Shehaby (EGY) | |||
| Openweight | Daiki Kamikawa (JPN) | Teddy Riner (FRA) | Keiji Suzuki (JPN) |
| Hiroki Tachiyama (JPN) |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extra-lightweight (48 kg) | Haruna Asami (JPN) | Tomoko Fukumi (JPN) |  Alina Dumitru (ROU) |
| Sarah Menezes (BRA) | |||
| Half-lightweight (52 kg) | Yuka Nishida (JPN) | Misato Nakamura (JPN) | Natalia Kuzyutina (RUS) |
| Mönkhbaataryn Bundmaa (MGL) | |||
| Lightweight (57 kg) | Kaori Matsumoto (JPN) |  Telma Monteiro (POR) |  Sabrina Filzmoser (AUT) |
| Ioulietta Boukouvala (GRE) | |||
| Half-middleweight (63 kg) | Yoshie Ueno (JPN) | Miki Tanaka (JPN) | Yaritza Abel (CUB) |
| Ramila Yusubova (AZE) | |||
| Middleweight (70 kg) | Lucie Décosse (FRA) |  Anett Meszaros (HUN) | Yoriko Kunihara (JPN) |
 Raša Sraka (SLO) | |||
| Half-heavyweight (78 kg) |  Kayla Harrison (USA) | Mayra Aguiar (BRA) | Akari Ogata (JPN) |
 Yang Xiuli (CHN) | |||
| Heavyweight (+78 kg) | Mika Sugimoto (JPN) | Qin Qian (CHN) | Idalys Ortiz (CUB) |
| Maki Tsukada (JPN) | |||
| Openweight | Mika Sugimoto (JPN) | Qin Qian (CHN) | Tea Donguzashvili (RUS) |
| Megumi Tachimoto (JPN) |
* Host nation (Japan)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japan (JPN)* | 10 | 4 | 9 | 23 |
| 2 | France (FRA) | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 3 | Greece (GRE) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| South Korea (KOR) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 5 | United States (USA) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Uzbekistan (UZB) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 7 | Brazil (BRA) | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 8 | China (CHN) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | Germany (GER) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Portugal (POR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Ukraine (UKR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 14 | Russia (RUS) | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 15 | Cuba (CUB) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 16 | Azerbaijan (AZE) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Mongolia (MGL) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 18 | Austria (AUT) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Egypt (EGY) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Romania (ROU) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Slovenia (SVN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (22 entries) | 16 | 16 | 32 | 64 | |
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