| Current event or competition: Judo at the 2023 Jeux de la Francophonie | |
| Competition details | |
|---|---|
| Discipline | Judo |
| Type | Quadrennial |
| Organiser | Comité international des Jeux de la Francophonie (CIJF) |
| History | |
| First edition | Casablanca 1989 |
| Editions | 9 |
| Most recent | Abidjan 2017 |
Judo is one of the sports at the quadrennial Jeux de la Francophonie (Francophone Games) competition. It has been one of the sports held at the event since the inaugural edition in 1989.
| Edition | Games | Host city | Host country | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | 1989 | Casablanca and Rabat |  Morocco | [1] |
| II | 1994 | Paris (Évry) and Bondoufle |  France | [2] |
| III | 1997 | Antananarivo |  Madagascar | [3] |
| IV | 2001 | Ottawa and Gatineau |  Canada | [4] |
| V | 2005 | Niamey |  Niger | [5] |
| VI | 2009 | Beirut |  Lebanon | [6] |
| VII | 2013 | Nice | France | [7] |
| VIII | 2017 | Abidjan |  Ivory Coast | [8] |
| IX | 2023 | Kinshasa |  Democratic Republic of the Congo | [9] |
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