A total of athletes could qualify for judo at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter a maximum of 14 judokas (one in each division). Host nation Japan had reserved a spot in each of the 14 events, while twenty were made available to NOCs through a Tripartite Commission Invitation.
The remaining judoka underwent a qualifying process to earn a spot for the Games through the world ranking list prepared by International Judo Federation on June 28, 2021, and finalized on 5 July.
The top 18 athletes in each division directly qualify, though each NOC is subjected to a limit of 1 judoka per division. If the NOC contains more than a single athlete ranked in the top 18 of the world ranking list, the NOC can decide which of their athletes obtain the quota places.
Further continental quotas (13 men and 12 women for Europe, 12 of each gender for Africa, 10 men and 11 women for Pan America, 10 of each gender for Asia, and 5 of each gender for Oceania are also available. These quotas are assigned by creating a list of all athletes for each continent across all divisions and both genders. The top-ranked athletes qualify in turn, subject to the general rule of 1 athlete per NOC per division as well as the additional rule that each NOC may only qualify one judoka through the continental quotas (that is, ensuring that 100 different NOCs are represented through this qualification system).
Mixed team qualification was based on NOCs qualifying enough individual judokas across various divisions to have a six-person team meeting specific requirements (one man and one woman in each of three groups of divisions).
Qualification summary NOCMenWomenMixedTotal 60 kg 66 kg 73 kg 81 kg 90 kg 100 kg +100 kg 48 kg 52 kg 57 kg 63 kg 70 kg 78 kg +78 kg Team 1 2 1 2 1 3 6 9 3 4 1 1 1 13 3 1 2 6 1 1 1 6 3 1 1 1 3 6 2 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 1 1 13 1 1 9 13 1 6 2 1 1 1 1 1 7 6 1 2 12 8 1 14 1 6 1 5 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 12 1 2 1 1 10 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 6 8 3 1 14 2 3 13 1 1 2 1 5 1 1 5 1 7 1 1 4 2 4 1 1 3 6 1 7 2 4 1 10 1 3 1 1 1 Total: 128 NOCs 23 27 35 35 33 25 22 28 29 25 31 28 24 27 12 392 References Source:
Men's events Extra-lightweight (60 kg) Source: Section Places NOC Qualified judoka Host nation 1 Naohisa Takato IJF World Ranking List(as of June 28, 2021) 18 Robert Mshvidobadze Yeldos Smetov Francisco Garrigos Sharafuddin Lutfillaev Kim Won-jin Lukhumi Chkhvimiani Yang Yung-wei Tornike Tsjakadoea Eric Takabatake Jorre Verstraeten Ashley McKenzie Karamat Huseynov Luka Mkheidze Amartuvshin Dashdavaa Lenin Preciado Artem Lesiuk Yanislav Gerchev Moritz Plafky Additional places (Europe) 1 Mihraç Akkuş Additional places (Africa) —colspan=2 Additional places (America) 1 José Ramos Additional places (Asia) 1 Soukphaxay Sithisane Additional places (Oceania) —colspan=2 Invitational 1 Ngawang Namgyel Total 23
Half-lightweight (66 kg) Source: Section Places NOC Qualified judoka Host nation 1 Hifumi Abe IJF World Ranking List(as of June 28, 2021) 18 Manuel Lombardo An Baul Vazha Margvelashvili Baskhuu Yondonperenlei Baruch Shmailov Alberto Gaitero Martin Sardor Nurillaev Yakub Shamilov Daniel Cargnin Yerlan Serikzhanov Denis Vieru Orkhan Safarov Mohamed Abdelmawgoud Georgii Zantaraia Kilian Le Blouch Adrian Gomboc Dzmitry Minkou Sebastian SeidlAdditional places (Europe) —colspan=2 Additional places (Africa) 3 Steven Mungandu Kevin Loforte Ismael AlhassaneAdditional places (America) 2 Juan Postigos Ian Sancho Chinchila Additional places (Asia) 1 Ayoub Elidrissi Additional places (Oceania) 1 Nathan Katz Invitational 1 Indrit Cullhaj Total 27
Lightweight (73 kg) Source: Section Places NOC Qualified judoka Host nation 1 Shohei Ono IJF World Ranking List(as of June 28, 2021) 18 Rustam Orujov Lasha Shavdatuashvili An Changrim Tommy Macias Tsogtbaatar Tsend-Ochir Tohar Butbul Arthur Margelidon Bilal Çiloğlu Khikmatillokh Turaev Akil Gjakova Fabio Basile Musa Mogushkov Somon Makhmadbekov Zhansay Smagulov Victor Scvortov Igor Wandtke Victor Sterpu Nils StumpAdditional places (Europe) 3 Guillaume Chaine Alexandru Raicu Ferdinand KarapetianAdditional places (Africa) 4 Fethi Nourine Aden-Alexandre Houssein Faye Njie Lucas DialloAdditional places (America) 2 Magdiel Estrada Eduardo BarbosaAdditional places (Asia) 2 Younis Eyal Slman Sulaiman Hamad Additional places (Oceania) —colspan=2 Invitational 5 Cédric Bessi Mamadou Samba Bah Ahmed Ayash Ahmad Alikaj Chamara Dharmawardana Mohamed Abdalarasool Total 35
Half-middleweight (81 kg) Source: Section Places NOC Qualified judoka Host nation 1 Takanori Nagase IJF World Ranking List(as of June 28, 2021) 18 Matthias Casse Sagi Muki Tato Grigalashvili Vedat Albayrak Frank de Wit Saeid Mollaei Sharofiddin Boltaboev Alan Khubetsov Antoine Valois-Fortier Dominic Ressel Ivaylo Ivanov Christian Parlati Attila Ungvári Anri Egutidze Alexios Ntanatsidis Shamil Borchashvili Murad Fatiyev Eduardo Yudy Santos Additional places (Europe) 1 Robin PacekAdditional places (Africa) 1 Mohamed AbdelaalAdditional places (America) 3 Adrián Gandía Emmanuel Lucenti Alain Mikael AprahamianAdditional places (Asia) 4 Vladimir Zoloev Didar Khamza Akmal Murodov Nacif EliasAdditional places (Oceania) 3 Joshter Andrew Peniamina Percival Hugo CumboInvitational 3 Wesam Abu Rmilah Housni Thaoubani Frederick Harris Re-allocation of unused quota 1 Lee Sung-ho Total 35
Middleweight (90 kg) Source: Section Places NOC Qualified judoka Host nation 1 Shoichiro Mukai IJF World Ranking List(as of June 28, 2021) 18 Nikoloz Sherazadishvili Noël van 't End Krisztián Tóth Lasha Bekauri Davlat Bobonov Nemanja Majdov Iván Felipe Silva Morales Mikhail Igolnikov Marcus Nyman Mammadali Mehdiyev Mihael Žgank Eduard Trippel Gwak Dong-han Axel Clerget Altanbagana Gantulga Rafael Macedo Islam Bozbayev Komronshokh UstopiriyonAdditional places (Europe) 5 Nicholas Mungai Li Kochman David Klammert Quedjau Nhabali Piotr KuczeraAdditional places (Africa) 2 Rémi Feuillet Kwadjo AnaniAdditional places (America) 2 Colton Brown Robert Florentino Additional places (Asia) —colspan=2 Additional places (Oceania) —colspan=2 Invitational 5 Raphael Schwendinger Celtus Dossou Yovo Nantenaina Finesse Paolo Persoglia Popole Misenga Total 33
Half-heavyweight (100 kg) Source: Section Places NOC Qualified judoka Host nation 1 Aaron Wolf IJF World Ranking List(as of June 28, 2021) 18 Varlam Liparteliani Michael Korrel Jorge Fonseca Peter Paltchik Cho Gu-ham Niyaz Ilyasov Shady El Nahas Zelym Kotsoiev Alexandre Iddir Ramadan Darwish Mukhammadkarim Khurramov Lkhagvasürengiin Otgonbaatar Toma Nikiforov Rafael Buzacarini Benjamin Fletcher Karl-Richard Frey Grigori Minaškin Aleksandar KukoljAdditional places (Europe) 3 Mikita Sviryd Jevgeņijs Borodavko Miklós Cirjenics Additional places (Africa) —colspan=2 Additional places (America) —colspan=2 Additional places (Asia) 2 Hussain Shah Shah Ivan RemarencoAdditional places (Oceania) 1 Tevita Takayawa Invitational Total 25
Heavyweight (+100 kg) as per June 14 2021 Source: Section Places NOC Qualified judoka Host nation 1 Hisayoshi Harasawa IJF World Ranking List(as of June 28, 2021) 18 Tamerlan Bashaev Lukáš Krpálek Guram Tushishvili Rafael Silva Henk Grol Yakiv Khammo Or Sasson Kim Min-jong Teddy Riner Temur Rakhimov Ushangi Kokauri Stephan Hegyi Andy Granda Bekmurod Oltiboev Johannes Frey Vlăduț Simionescu Duurenbayar Ulziibayar Maciej Sarnacki Additional places (Europe) —colspan=2 Additional places (Africa) 2 Mbagnick Ndiaye Ali Omar Additional places (America) —colspan=2 Additional places (Asia) —colspan=2 Additional places (Oceania) —colspan=2 Invitational 1 Javad Mahjoub Total 22
Women's events
Extra-lightweight (48 kg) Source: Section Places NOC Qualified judoka Host nation 1 Funa Tonaki IJF World Ranking List(as of June 28, 2021) 18 Distria Krasniqi Daria Bilodid Urantsetseg Munkhbat Paula Pareto Julia Figueroa Catarina Costa Irina Dolgova Shirine Boukli Maruša Štangar Galbadrakhyn Otgontsetseg Shira Rishony Milica Nikolić Francesca Milani Katharina Menz Li Yanan Éva Csernoviczki Kang Yu-jeong Gabriela ChibanaAdditional places (Europe) 2 Gülkader Şentürk Aisha Gurbanli Additional places (Africa) 2 Geronay Whitebooi Priscilla Morand Additional places (America) 1 Mary Dee Vargas LeeAdditional places (Asia) 2 Chen-Hao Lin Shushila Devi Likmabam Additional places (Oceania) —colspan=2 Invitational 2 Harriet Boniface Soniya Bhatta Total 28
Half-lightweight (52 kg) Source: Section Places NOC Qualified judoka Host nation 1 Uta Abe IJF World Ranking List(as of June 28, 2021) 18 Amandine Buchard Odette Giuffrida Majlinda Kelmendi Ana Perez Box Charline van Snick Chelsie Giles Natalia Kuziutina Diyora Keldiyorova Gili Cohen Larissa Pimenta Fabienne Kocher Joana Ramos Sosorbaram Lkhagvasuren Réka Pupp Angelica Delgado Park Da-sol Andreea Chitu Agatha Perenc Additional places (Europe) 1 Tetiana Levytska-ShukvaniAdditional places (Africa) 2 Taciana Cesar Soumiya IraouiAdditional places (America) 3 Ecaterina Guica Kristine Jiménez Sabiana AnestorAdditional places (Asia) 2 Gulbadam Babamuratova Kachakorn Warasiha Additional places (Oceania) —colspan=2 Invitational 1 Arbresha Rexhepi Re-allocation of unused quota place 1 Nguyễn Thủy Total 29
Lightweight (57 kg) Source: Section Places NOC Qualified judoka Host nation 1 Tsukasa Yoshida IJF World Ranking List(as of June 28, 2021) 18 Jessica Klimkait Nora Gjakova Sarah-Léonie Cysique Theresa Stoll Lien Chen-ling Timna Nelson-Levy Telma Monteiro Hedvig Karakas Sumiya Dorjsuren Julia Kowalczyk Kaja Kajzer Daria Mezhetskaia Eteri Liparteliani Marica Perišić Kim Ji-su Lu Tongjuan Ivelina Ilieva Miryam RoperAdditional places (Europe) 2 Sanne Verhagen Sabrina FilzmoserAdditional places (Africa) 3 Ghofran Khelifi Diassonema Mucungui Zouleiha Abzetta DabonneAdditional places (America) —colspan=2 Additional places (Asia) —colspan=2 Additional places (Oceania) —colspan=2 Invitational 1 Sanda Aldass Total 25
Half-middleweight (63 kg) Source: Section Places NOC Qualified judoka Host nation 1 Miku Tashiro IJF World Ranking List(as of June 28, 2021) 18 Clarisse Agbegnenou Tina Trstenjak Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard Ketleyn Quadros Martyna Trajdos Maylín del Toro Carvajal Juul Franssen Anriquelis Barrios Daria Davydova Yang Junxia Magdalena Krssakova Lucy Renshall Katharina Haecker Gankhaich Bold Agata Ozdoba-Błach Szofi Özbas Gili Sharir Maria CentracchioAdditional places (Europe) 3 Anja Obradović Cristina Cabaña Perez Lærke OlsenAdditional places (Africa) 2 Damiella Nomenjanahary Sandrine BillietAdditional places (America) 2 Prisca Awiti Alcaraz Estefania GarciaAdditional places (Asia) 3 Han Hee-ju Kiyomi Watanabe Farangiz Khojieva Additional places (Oceania) —colspan=2 Invitational 2 Muna Dahouk Cergia David Total 31
Middleweight (70 kg) Source: Section Places NOC Qualified judoka Host nation 1 Chizuru Arai IJF World Ranking List(as of June 28, 2021) 18 Sanne van Dijke Margaux Pinot Barbara Matić Michaela Polleres Giovanna Scoccimarro Maria Portela Anna Bernholm Madina Taimazova Barbara Timo Gemma Howell Elvismar Rodriguez María Bernabéu María Pérez Megan Fletcher Assmaa Niang Gulnoza Matniyazova Aoife Coughlan Elisavet TeltsidouAdditional places (Europe) 1 Alice BellandiAdditional places (Africa) 2 Ayuk Otay Arrey Sophina Demos Memneloum Additional places (America) 1 Ebony Drysdale DaleyAdditional places (Asia) 2 Kim Seong-yeon Sun Xiaoqian Additional places (Oceania) 1 Kinaua BiriboInvitational 1 Nigara Shaheen Re-allocation of unused quota place 1 Nihel Landolsi Total 28
Half-heavyweight (78 kg) Source: