2009 World Judo Championships

The 2009 World Judo Championships was held in the Ahoy indoor sporting arena in Rotterdam, the Netherlands on 26 to 30 August.

Judo 2009 World Judo Championships
Venue	Rotterdam Ahoy
Location	Rotterdam, Netherlands
Dates	26–30 August 2009
Competitors	538 from 97 nations
Competition at external databases
Links	IJF • EJU • JudoInside

Women's heavyweight champion Tong Wen was stripped of her gold medal because of a doping offence, but was later reinstated.

Categories

• Men's: 60 kg, 66 kg, 73 kg, 81 kg, 90 kg, 100 kg, +100 kg
• Women's: 48 kg, 52 kg, 57 kg, 63 kg, 70 kg, 78 kg, +78 kg

Schedule

• Wednesday the 26th of August
  • Men -60 kg and -66 kg
  • Women -48 kg
• Thursday the 27th of August
  • Men -73 kg
  • Women -52 kg and -57 kg
• Friday the 28th of August
  • Men -81 kg
  • Women -63 kg
• Saturday the 29th of August
  • Men -90 kg
  • Women -70 kg and -78 kg
• Sunday the 30th of August
  • Men -100 kg and +100 kg
  • Women +78 kg

Medal overview

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra-lightweight (60 kg)	Georgii Zantaraia (UKR)	Hiroaki Hiraoka (JPN)	Hovhannes Davtyan (ARM)
			Elio Verde (ITA)
Half-lightweight (66 kg)	Khashbaataryn Tsagaanbaatar (MGL)	Sugoi Uriarte (ESP)	Miklós Ungvari (HUN)
			An Jeong-Hwan (KOR)
Lightweight (73 kg)	Wang Ki-Chun (KOR)	Kim Chol-Su (PRK)	Dirk Van Tichelt (BEL)
			Mansur Isaev (RUS)
Half-middleweight (81 kg)	Ivan Nifontov (RUS)	Siarhei Shundzikau (BLR)	Ole Bischof (GER)
			Kim Jae-Bum (KOR)
Middleweight (90 kg)	Lee Kyu-Won (KOR)	Kirill Denisov (RUS)	Hesham Mesbah (EGY)
			Dilshod Choriev (UZB)
Half-heavyweight (100 kg)	Maxim Rakov (KAZ)	Henk Grol (NED)	Ramadan Darwish (EGY)
			Takamasa Anai (JPN)
Heavyweight (+100 kg)	Teddy Riner (FRA)	Óscar Braison (CUB)	Abdullo Tangriev (UZB)
			Marius Paškevičius (LTU)

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra-lightweight (48 kg)	Tomoko Fukumi (JPN)	Oiana Blanco (ESP)	Chung Jung-Yeon (KOR)
			Frédérique Jossinet (FRA)
Half-lightweight (52 kg)	Misato Nakamura (JPN)	Yanet Bermoy (CUB)	Ana Carrascosa (ESP)
			Romy Tarangul (GER)
Lightweight (57 kg)	Morgane Ribout (FRA)	Telma Monteiro (POR)	Kifayat Gasimova (AZE)
			Hedvig Karakas (HUN)
Half-middleweight (63 kg)	Yoshie Ueno (JPN)	Elisabeth Willeboordse (NED)	Claudia Malzahn (GER)
			Alice Schlesinger (ISR)
Middleweight (70 kg)	Yuri Alvear (COL)	Anett Mészáros (HUN)	Mina Watanabe (JPN)
			Houda Miled (TUN)
Half-heavyweight (78 kg)	Marhinde Verkerk (NED)	Marina Pryschepa (UKR)	Heide Wollert (GER)
			Yi Sun (CHN)
Heavyweight (+78 kg)	Tong Wen (CHN)	Karina Bryant (GBR)	Idalys Ortiz (CUB)
			Maki Tsukada (JPN)

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Netherlands)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	3	1	3	7
2	South Korea	2	0	3	5
3	France	2	0	1	3
4	Netherlands*	1	2	0	3
5	Russia	1	1	1	3
6	Ukraine	1	1	0	2
7	China	1	0	1	2
8	Colombia	1	0	0	1
	Kazakhstan	1	0	0	1
	Mongolia	1	0	0	1
11	Cuba	0	2	1	3
	Spain	0	2	1	3
13	Hungary	0	1	2	3
14	Belarus	0	1	0	1
	Great Britain	0	1	0	1
	North Korea	0	1	0	1
	Portugal	0	1	0	1
18	Germany	0	0	4	4
19	Egypt	0	0	2	2
	Uzbekistan	0	0	2	2
21	Armenia	0	0	1	1
	Azerbaijan	0	0	1	1
	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	Israel	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania	0	0	1	1
	Tunisia	0	0	1	1
Totals (27 entries)		14	14	28	56

See also

• Judo at the 2008 Summer Olympics

External links

• 2009 World Judo Championships at the International Judo Federation
• 2009 World Judo Championships at JudoInside.com
• 2009 World Judo Championships at the European Judo Union
• Official Website at the Wayback Machine (archived 2009-05-06)