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|---|---|
| Venue | Heydar Aliyev Sports and Exhibition Complex |
| Location | Baku, Azerbaijan |
| Dates | 10–12 May 2019 |
| Competitors | 431 from 57 nations |
| Competition at external databases | |
| Links | IJF • EJU • JudoInside |
The 2019 Judo Grand Slam Baku was held in Baku, Azerbaijan from 10 to 12 May 2019. [1] [2] [3]
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extra-lightweight (−60 kg) |  Felipe Kitadai (BRA) |  Temur Nozadze (GEO) |  Yago Abuladze (RUS) |
 Dashdavaagiin Amartüvshin (MGL) | |||
| Half-lightweight (−66 kg) |  Denis Vieru (MDA) |  Nijat Shikhalizada (AZE) | Yondonperenlein Baskhüü (MGL) |
 Bogdan Iadov (UKR) | |||
| Lightweight (−73 kg) | Hidayat Heydarov (AZE) |  Tohar Butbul (ISR) | Rustam Orujov (AZE) |
| Telman Valiyev (AZE) | |||
| Half-middleweight (−81 kg) | Sagi Muki (ISR) |  Ivaylo Ivanov (BUL) | Tato Grigalashvili (GEO) |
 Matthias Casse (BEL) | |||
| Middleweight (−90 kg) |  Nemanja Majdov (SRB) | Mammadali Mehdiyev (AZE) |  Krisztián Tóth (HUN) |
 Nikoloz Sherazadishvili (ESP) | |||
| Half-heavyweight (−100 kg) |  Michael Korrel (NED) | Kazbek Zankishiev (RUS) | Zelym Kotsoiev (AZE) |
 Benjamin Fletcher (IRL) | |||
| Heavyweight (+100 kg) | Gela Zaalishvili (GEO) | Ruslan Shakhbazov (RUS) | Anton Krivobokov (RUS) |
 Vlăduț Simionescu (ROU) |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extra-lightweight (−48 kg) | Laura Martínez (ESP) | Julia Figueroa (ESP) |  Catarina Costa (POR) |
| Milica Nikolić (SRB) | |||
| Half-lightweight (−52 kg) |  Amandine Buchard (FRA) |  Ai Shishime (JPN) | Larissa Pimenta (BRA) |
| Gefen Primo (ISR) | |||
| Lightweight (−57 kg) | Rafaela Silva (BRA) | Tsukasa Yoshida (JPN) | Hedvig Karakas (HUN) |
| Hélène Receveaux (FRA) | |||
| Half-middleweight (−63 kg) | Miku Tashiro (JPN) |  Tina Trstenjak (SLO) |  Martyna Trajdos (GER) |
| Juul Franssen (NED) | |||
| Middleweight (−70 kg) | Chizuru Arai (JPN) |  Anna Bernholm (SWE) |  Gemma Howell (GBR) |
| María Bernabéu (ESP) | |||
| Half-heavyweight (−78 kg) | Luise Malzahn (GER) | Anna-Maria Wagner (GER) | Shori Hamada (JPN) |
| Madeleine Malonga (FRA) | |||
| Heavyweight (+78 kg) | Yelyzaveta Kalanina (UKR) |  Larisa Cerić (BIH) | Iryna Kindzerska (AZE) |
| Anamari Velenšek (SLO) |
* Host nation (Azerbaijan)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japan (JPN) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | Brazil (BRA) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Azerbaijan (AZE)* | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| 4 | Spain (ESP) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | Georgia (GEO) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Germany (GER) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| Israel (ISR) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| 8 | France (FRA) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 9 | Netherlands (NED) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Serbia (SRB) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| Ukraine (UKR) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 12 | Moldova (MDA) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Russia (RUS) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 14 | Slovenia (SLO) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 15 | Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Bulgaria (BUL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 18 | Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Mongolia (MGL) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 20 | Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Ireland (IRL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Portugal (POR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Romania (ROU) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (24 entries) | 14 | 14 | 28 | 56 | |
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