2009 World Judo Championships

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
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The 2009 World Judo Championships was held in the Ahoy indoor sporting arena in Rotterdam, the Netherlands on 26 to 30 August.^[1]

Women's heavyweight champion Tong Wen was stripped of her gold medal because of a doping offence, but was later reinstated.^[2]

• 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

• 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

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

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

  *   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

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