Kate Louise Howey is a former elite British judoka. She remains the only British woman to have won two Olympic judo medals and shares with fellow Olympic medalist Karina Bryant the record of being the only British judoka to have competed at four Olympic Games.
Jun Konno is a Japanese judoka. He is four times Asian champion and also won All-Japan Judo Championships in 1994 and 1997.
World Victory Road (WVR) is a defunct Japanese mixed martial arts (MMA) organization which promoted the Sengoku Raiden Championship (SRC) in Japan. The organization was formed in 2007 following the purchase of PRIDE FC by Zuffa. It operated in conjunction with the Japan Mixed Martial Arts Federation (JMM). The Sengoku championship was broadcast on Fuji TV and pay-per-view in Japan, and on HDNet in United States.
Hirotaka Okada is a retired judoka who competed in the –78 kg and –86 kg divisions.
Frank Wieneke is a German judoka and olympic champion. He won a gold medal in the half middleweight division at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He is a member of Germany's Sports Hall of Fame.
Kim Min-soo is a South Korean former judoka, professional mixed martial artist and K-1 kickboxer. He is best known for becoming a K-1 World Grand Prix 2006 in Seoul finalist and also winning a Silver Medal in Judo at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He is also known for his fights with WWE professional wrestler and UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar, WWE wrestler and K-1 fighter Sean O'Haire, and NFL player turned kickboxer and New Japan Pro-Wrestling contender Bob Sapp. Min-soo holds a notable kickboxing win over Muay Thai world champion Mourad Bouzidi. He announced his retirement from contact sports in 2011, with subsequent stints as color commentator for Japanese and Korean mixed martial arts and professional wrestling events. Kim is also the head judo coach for the Korean Top Team.
Tatsuhiro Muramoto is a retired Japanese judoka.
Davaadorjiin Tömörkhüleg is a Mongolian judoka who competes in the men's -66 kg category.
The 2015 World Judo Championships were held in Astana, Kazakhstan, from 24–30 August 2015. The competition was held at the Alau Ice Palace.
Diane Bell is a British former judoka. She won the 56–61 kg event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, but at the time women's judo was then still a demonstration sport, so unlike the men Bell did not enter the list of Olympic medalists in judo. She also won two World Judo Championships, a Commonwealth Games gold and three European Judo Championships.
The judo competition at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games was held in Barranquilla, Colombia from 30 July to 2 August at the Coliseo Colegio Marymount.
The Mixed team competition in judo at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo was held on 31 July 2021 at the Nippon Budokan.
Manuel Lombardo is an Italian judoka. He is a two-time silver medalist at the World Judo Championships. He is also a gold medalist at both the Mediterranean Games and the European Judo Championships.
Cho Hyung-soo (KOR)
Tang Haili (CHN)
Hisham Al-Sharaf (KUW)
Marut Techawanit (THA)
Yoshiyuki Takanami (JPN)
Liaw Der-cheng (TPE)
Vladimir Shmakov (UZB)
Cho In-chul (KOR)
Kwak Ok-chol (PRK)
Kazem Sarikhani (IRI)
Ruslan Seilkhanov (KAZ)
Yoshihiro Akiyama (JPN)
Damdinsürengiin Nyamkhüü (MGL)
Kim Jae-bum (KOR)
Nacif Elias (LIB)
Vladimir Zoloev (KGZ)
Bannu Singh (IND)
Badmaanyambuugiin Bat-Erdene (MGL)
