Paris 2024: Weight categories for the Olympic judo competition

At the Olympic Games Paris 2024, 14 sets of medals will be awarded for the individual events of the judo competition.

In line with the IOC's aim of reaching full gender equality, the number of male and female categories will be once again the same: seven for each. It has been the case since Barcelona 1992 when women were first included in the judo programme. 32 years later at Paris 2024, there are exactly the same number of quotas on offer for men and for women.

Weight classes for the individual events haven’t changed since Sydney 2000. The mixed team event that was introduced at Tokyo 2020 will once again feature at Paris 2024, with three weight categories for each gender.

Weight classes in judo qualification events for Paris 2024

Men's weight classes:

• -60kg
• -66kg
• -73kg
• -81kg
• -90kg
• -100kg
• +100kg

Women's weight classes:

• -48kg
• -52kg
• -57kg
• -63kg
• -70kg
• -78kg
• +78kg

Mixed team event weight classes:

• -57kg women
• -70kg women
• +70kg women
• -73kg men
• -90kg men
• +90kg men

What happened during the Tokyo 2020 judo competition

At home in the Nippon Budokan, the Japanese team were a dominant force during Tokyo 2020. A Japanese athlete reached the podium in 11 of the 14 individual weight categories - with nine of the medals gold.

25 July was a very special day, with Abe Uta winning gold in the -52kg women’s category a few minutes before her brother Hifumi did the same in the -66kg men’s category. It was the first time in the history of the Summer Olympic Games that two siblings won gold on the same day.

Ono Shohei, who retained his title in the -73kg men’s and Sone Akira who won Olympic gold after three world titles in the +78kg women’s category are among the other Japanese athletes who ended the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 with a title to their name.

Kosovo is the only other country whose athletes won multiple gold medals in the Nippon Budokan thanks to their female judokas Distria Krasniqi (-48kg) and Nora Gjakova (-57kg).

France won seven medals at Tokyo 2020 but only one gold: Clarisse Agbegnenou was crowned champion in the -63kg category. Georgia’s Lasha Bekauri (-90kg men) and Czech Republic’s Lukas Krpalek (+100kg men) also came home from Japan with an Olympic gold medal.

With Teddy Riner and Romane Dicko, both bronze-medalists in the heavyweight categories, part of the team, France won the first mixed team event in the history of the Olympic Games.