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|---|---|
| Venue | El Menzah Sports Palace |
| Location | Tunis, Tunisia |
| Dates | 19–21 January 2018 |
| Competitors | 335 from 46 nations |
| Competition at external databases | |
| Links | IJF • EJU • JudoInside |
The 2018 Judo Grand Prix Tunis was held at the El Menzah Sports Palace in Tunis, Tunisia, from 19 to 21 January 2018. [1] [2]
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extra-lightweight (−60 kg) |  Walide Khyar (FRA) |  Matjaž Trbovc (SLO) |  Gusman Kyrgyzbayev (KAZ) |
 Seiya Miyanohara (JPN) | |||
| Half-lightweight (−66 kg) |  Shakhram Akhadov (UZB) | Taroh Fujisaka (JPN) |  Aram Grigoryan (RUS) |
| Yerlan Serikzhanov (KAZ) | |||
| Lightweight (−73 kg) | Zhansay Smagulov (KAZ) |  Akil Gjakova (KOS) | Mirzohid Farmonov (UZB) |
| Yuhei Yoshida (JPN) | |||
| Half-middleweight (−81 kg) | Stanislav Semenov (RUS) |  Vedat Albayrak (TUR) | Kenya Kohara (JPN) |
 Eduardo Yudy Santos (BRA) | |||
| Middleweight (−90 kg) | Islam Bozbayev (KAZ) |  Krisztián Tóth (HUN) |  David Klammert (CZE) |
 Noël van 't End (NED) | |||
| Half-heavyweight (−100 kg) |  Benjamin Fletcher (IRL) | Ramazan Malsuigenov (RUS) | Viktor Demyanenko (KAZ) |
| Leonardo Gonçalves (BRA) | |||
| Heavyweight (+100 kg) |  Oleksandr Gordiienko (UKR) |  Javad Mahjoub (IRI) | Ruslan Shakhbazov (RUS) |
| Tamerlan Bashaev (RUS) |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extra-lightweight (−48 kg) | Daria Bilodid (UKR) |  Alexandra Pop (ROU) | Mei Tanaka (JPN) |
| Maryna Cherniak (UKR) | |||
| Half-lightweight (−52 kg) | Jéssica Pereira (BRA) | Distria Krasniqi (KOS) | Mai Kose (JPN) |
| Anja Štangar (SLO) | |||
| Lightweight (−57 kg) | Nora Gjakova (KOS) |  Kwon You-jeong (KOR) |  Miryam Roper (PAN) |
| Sarah-Léonie Cysique (FRA) | |||
| Half-middleweight (−63 kg) | Tina Trstenjak (SLO) | Aimi Nouchi (JPN) |  Katharina Haecker (AUS) |
 Magdalena Krssakova (AUT) | |||
| Middleweight (−70 kg) | Kim Polling (NED) |  Roxane Taeymans (BEL) |  Gemma Howell (GBR) |
| Saki Niizoe (JPN) | |||
| Half-heavyweight (−78 kg) | Mao Izumi (JPN) | Karen Stevenson (NED) | Chloe Dollin (FRA) |
| Klara Apotekar (SLO) | |||
| Heavyweight (+78 kg) |  Maryna Slutskaya (BLR) | Beatriz Souza (BRA) | Galyna Tarasova (UKR) |
 Nihel Cheikh Rouhou (TUN) |
Source Results [1]
* Host nation (Tunisia)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 2 | Ukraine (UKR) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | Japan (JPN) | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 |
| 4 | Kosovo (KOS) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | Russia (RUS) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 6 | Brazil (BRA) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Slovenia (SLO) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
| 8 | Netherlands (NED) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | France (FRA) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 10 | Uzbekistan (UZB) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 11 | Belarus (BLR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Ireland (IRL) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 13 | Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Iran (IRI) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Romania (ROU) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| South Korea (KOR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Turkey (TUR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 19 | Australia (AUS) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Austria (AUT) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Czech Republic (CZE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Panama (PAN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Tunisia (TUN)* | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (24 entries) | 14 | 14 | 28 | 56 | |
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