TABLE OF CONTENTS FORWORD 05 From the IJF President IJF WORLD JUDO TOUR 06 MAJOR IJF EVENTS REPORTS 08 World Cadet Championship 2009 09 World Senior Championship 2009 17 World Junior Championship 2009 28 Judo Grand Prix Abu Dhabi 2009 38 Judo Grand Prix Qingdao 2009 46 Judo Grand Slam Tokyo 2009 55 World Judo Masters Suwon 2010 63 Judo Grand Slam Paris 2010 71 Judo Grand Prix Dusseldorf 2010 78 INTERVIEWS 86 Lucie Decosse, Takamasa Anai, Alina Dumitru TECHNIQUE 90 Uchi-Mata by Takashi Ono WORLD RANKING LIST 92 Interview with Vladimir Barta 94 NEW REFEREEING RULES 97 Interview with Peter Seisenbacher 99 JUDO FOR PEACE ACTIVITIES 102 WORLD CUPS 108 JUDO AMBASSADORS 111 IJF NEWS 114 WORLD CUP RESULTS 116 International Judo Federation Editor: Tamas Zahonyi - Vlad Marinescu • Graphic Designer: Nicolas Messner • Author: Manoela Penna - Nicolas Messner - John Goodbody Photo: Tamas Zahonyi - Gabriela Saba u Editorial Office: 1051 Budapest - Hungary, József Attila u. 1. Tel.:+36 1 302 72 70, Fax: +361 302-7271 • Email: [email protected], www.ijf.org Printing office: Pauker Nyomdaipari Kft. • Arpad Miklos • 1 ISSN 1587-432X p.3 - IJF JUDO Magazine POLITENESS It is respecting other people COURAGE It is doing what is right SINCERITY FOREWORD It is talking without flase hood of the President of the International Judo Federation HONOUR It is keeping your word Dear Judo Family and Friends MODESTY It is talking about oneself he IJF Strategy will be to increase the technical level without pride in our sport, to harmonize the vision between referee RESPECT Tgroup and the coaching group and to start the promo- It is instilling confidence tion of three important sectors: SELF-CONTROL 1) Children, Peace and Education, Judo for ALL Is is knowing how to keep 2) Promoting a group of JUDO HEROES your anger in check FRIENDSHIP 3) General promotion of JUDO It is the purest of all human feelings Our continuous priority will be to promote Judo more and Marius L. Vizer more in the media. Special thanks to all our marketing partners, sponsors, tech- nical staff, IJF Executive, National Federations and Judoka for their cooperation and support. WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS TOKYO 2010 - JAP Teddy Riner Teddy JUDO GRAND PRIX ROTTERDAM 2010 - NED JUDO GRAND SLAM JUDO GRAND SLAM MOSCOU 2010 - RUS TOKYO 2010 - JAP JUDO GRAND PRIX JUDO WORLD MASTERS JUDO GRAND SLAM DUSSELDORF 2010 - GER SUWON 2010 - KOR PARIS 2010 - FRA WORLD TEAM CHAMP. YOUTH OLYMP. GAMES ISTANBUL 2010 - TUR SINGAPORE 2010 - SGP WORLD JUNIOR CHAMP. AGADIR 2010 - MAR JUDO GRAND PRIX ABU DHABI 2010 - UAE JUDO GRAND PRIX TUNIS 2010 - TUN JUDO GRAND SLAM RIO 2010 - BRA IJF WORLD JUDO TOUR IN 2010 More than 35 Events throughout the World With 38 Major Events (4 Grand Slam, 5 Grand Prix, 24 World Cups and 5 World Championships), IJF is present in 35 countries in all five continents, what proofs once more the universality of the Judo Sport. WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS May TOKYO 2010 - JPN 07-09 Grand Prix TUN Tunis World Senior + Open Cham- 15-16 World Cup EGY Cairo pionships from September 9th 22-23 Grand Slam BRA Rio de Janeiro to September 13th 2010. 29-30 World Cup BRA m+w BRA Sao Paulo JUDO GRAND PRIX 25-30 2nd Otp Bank Kata ROTTERDAM 2010 - NED JUDO GRAND SLAM & Grand Masters JUDO GRAND SLAM MOSCO W 2010 - RUS World ChampionshipsHUN Budapest Organized in Rotterdam from TOKYO 2010 - JPN June October 16th to October 17th. Organized in Moscow from July 3rd to July 4th From December 10th 05-06 World Cup ESP m / ROU w Madrid / Bucharest to December 12th 2010. 12-13 World Cup POR m / EST w Lisbon / Tallinn TBC World Cup COL m+w TBC TBC World Cup VEN m+w Isla de Margarita JUDO GRAND PRIX JUDO WORLD MASTERS July JUDO GRAND SLAM DÜSSELDORF 2010 - GER SUWON 2010 - KOR 03-04 Grand Slam RUS Moscow PARIS 2010 - FRA Organized from February 1st Judo World Masters 24-25 World Cup MGL m+w Ulaanbaatar Orgnized in Paris Bercy from 20th to October 21st. ever organized from January February 6th to February 7th. August 16th to January 17th 2010. 14-15 OJU Continental AUS Canberra 21-25 Youth Olympic Games SIN Singapore 26-28 World Cup USA m+w Miami WORLD TEAM CHAMP. YOUTH OLYMP. GAMES September ISTANBUL 2010 - TUR SINGAPORE 2010 - SGP WORLD JUNIOR. CHAMP. 09-13 World Championships The Team World Championship First Youth Olympic Games ever Senior + Open JPN Tokyo AGADIR 2010 - MAR will be organized in Turkey from organized from August 21st to 25-26 World Cup KAZ m / UZB w Almata / Tashkent Organized from October 21st October 30th to October 31st. August 25th. October to October 24th. JUDO GRAND PRIX WORLD CUPS 2010 02-03 World Cup ITA m / GBR w Rome / Birmingham ABU DHABI 2010 - UAE 09-10 World Cup BLR m / AZE w Minsk / Baku The 24 World Cups (some exclusive male, JUDO GRAND PRIX Second editon of the Abu Dhabi 16-17 Grand Prix NED Rotterdam other exclusive female and other mixed events) 21-24 World Championships Grand Prix from November TUNIS 2010 - TUN bring top level judo to distant places like Sa- Junior MAR Agadir 23rd to November 24th. 30-31 World Championships Organized in Tunis from May moa, in Oceania, Isla Margarita, Venezuela, or Team TUR Istanbul 7th to May 9th. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Sharing points to the World Ranking List, the World Cups are a ne- November cessary step for athletes wishing to compete 12-13 World Cup SAM m+w Apia JUDO GRAND SLAM in Grand Slams. 13-16 Asian Games RIO 2010 - BRA TBILISSI - GEO TALLINN - EST JUA Continental CHN Guangzhou SOFIA - BUL LISBON - POR 23-24 Grand Prix UAE Abu Dhabi Organized in Rio from May 22nd to May 23rd. VIENNA - AUT MIAMI - USA December BUDAPEST - HUN TASHKENT - UZB 03-04 World Cup KOR m+w Suwon WARSAW - POL ALMATA - KAZ 10-12 Grand Slam JPN Tokyo PRAGUE - CZE BIRMINGHAM - GBR 18-19 Grand Prix CHN Qingdao ULAANBAATAR -MGL ROME - ITA SAO PAULO - BRA BAKU - AZE BUCHAREST -ROM MINSK - BLR Jun TBC World Cup COL m+w TBC MADRID - ESP APIA, SAMOA - WSM ISLA MARGERITA - VEN SUWON - KOR CAIRO - EGY TBC - COL p.6 - IJF JUDO Magazine p.7 - IJF JUDO Magazine :ʛʞʘʐ&ʍʐʑʠ&ʔʍʙʜʕʛʚʟʔʕʜʟ Budapest • 06/08/2009 to 09/08/2009 Education makes better judoka : when Jigoro Kano founded judo some 130 years ago, Education was one of the pillars, alongside with Sport. Discipline and respect are key words for real judokas. developing judo. That’s our All medal winning countries are eligible to future”, comments the Head take part at the Youth Olympic Games, to be of the Education Commission held in Singapore in August 2010. According at the International Judo Fe- to the rules of the YOC, each nation can be deration (IJF), Mr. Mohamed represented maximum by one boy and one girl Meridja, reminding that the in the judo competition. The country invita- IJF President, Mr. Marius tion quota will be sent by IJF to the National Vizer, has been carrying on Olympic Committees and National Judo Fe- development projects in seve- derations in the coming weeks. Once received ral places, helping them im- the letter, the countries need to confirm their prove the sport with not only participation in the event. There are 104 financial but places to be allo- also technical cated as follows: 2 support, what to the host country also touches (one per gender), the young ca- 64 through World here is a big hope that judo will conti- tegories of the Championships (32 nue to be such a fascinating sport as sport. Japan, Russia, Korea, per gender) and 38 Tit is today. From what could be seen Brazil and Italy were the top five universality places in Budapest during the first IJF World Cadet nations at the medals table: 11 (19 per gender). Championships, young talented athletes are medals for Japan (with six world Athletes must be coming under the spotlight for the delight of champions), 10 for Russia (five born between 1st the sport’s fans. gold), 6 January 1993 and for Korea (two gold), 31st December 1994. Four male and four fe- Beautiful uchimata 5 for Brazil (one gold) male categories will have competition in Sin- like the ones perfor- and 3 for Italy (one gapore 2010, where also a mixed team event med by Ryosuke Iga- gold). will take place. Male categories are -55kg, rashi (-90kg) to win all -66kg, -81kg, -100kg, while fe- male weights his five contests with “Also countries that will be -44kg, -52kg, -63kg and -78kg • the same technique, are not in the medal great judo fights as table showed an im- Reported by Manoela Penna, IJF Media Director seen in the -57kg fi- pressive judo, with nal between Brazilian nice techniques. We Flavia Gomes and Yuri had good surprises JUDO WORLD CADET Okamoto (JPN), 22 like Kuwait, Peru, Ve- countries with medals nezuela... Denmark BUDAPEST 2009 - HUN (among 74 participating nations)... a breath with one bronze... It was a very high quality of fresh air for world judo. event in terms of technical level and also orga- nization”, says IJF Head Sports Director, Mr. “It is great to see that most of the countries Vladimír Bárta. and Continental Unions are really working for p.8 - IJF JUDO Magazine p.9 - IJF JUDO Magazine World Cadet Championships 2009 Budapest • 06/08/2009 to 09/08/2009 ʙʑʚʟʒʕʚʍʘʟ -50kg IGARASHI, Ryosuke (JPN) - NIKIFOROV, Toma (BEL) -81kg -55kg LEE, Jae-Hyung (KOR) - SILVA, Henrique (BRA) FUJISAWA, Seiken (JPN) - GATAYEV, Jeyhun (AZE) -90kg GADZHIEV, Sakhavat (RUS) - CHAE, Jun-Hee (KOR) -66kg KHAMKHOEV, Arbi (RUS) - JALILOV, Jalil (AZE) -73kg KHALMURZAEV, Khasan (RUS) - TOTH, Krisztian (HUN) -60kg +90kg KRIVOBOKOV, Anton (RUS) - KHAKHALEISHVILI, Rostomi (GEO) TAKATO, Naohisa (JPN) - MACHADO, Matheus (BRA) p.10 - IJF JUDO Magazine p.11 - IJF JUDO Magazine World Cadet Championships 2009 Budapest • 06/08/2009 to 09/08/2009 ʣʛʙʑʚʟʒʕʚʍʘʟ -52kg LI, Ning (CHN) - LEE, Eun-Ju (PRK) TASHIRO, Miku (JPN) - MATNIYAZOVA, Gulnoza (UZB) -40kg NIZAMOVA, Venera (RUS) - BAE, Seul-bi (KOR) -44kg MORISHITA, Mai (JPN) - POP, Alexandra (ROU) -63kg +70kg -48kg ENDO, Hiromi (JPN) - GIUFFRIDA, Odette (ITA) GOMES, Flávia (BRA) - OKAMOTO, Yuri (JPN) -66kg YU, Ji-yeon (KOR) - FUJIWARA, Emi (JPN) -57kg -70kg FERRARI, Valeria (ITA) - MANSOUR, Lola (BEL) p.12 - IJF JUDO Magazine p.13 - IJF JUDO Magazine (68/76 (68/76 5ʙʑʚ 5ʣʛʙʑʚ -50 kg -40 kg 1.