2015 World Judo Championships

The 2015 World Judo Championships were held in Astana, Kazakhstan, from 24–30 August 2015.^[2] The competition was held at the Alau Ice Palace.^[3][4][5]

Judo 2015 World Judo Championships
Venue	Alau Ice Palace
Location	Astana, Kazakhstan
Dates	24–30 August 2015
Competitors	723 from 120 nations
Total prize money	300,000$[1]
Champions
Men's team	Japan (6th title)
Women's team	Japan (5th title)
Competition at external databases
Links	IJF • EJU • JudoInside
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Schedule

All times are local (UTC+6).^[6]

Event Date	Starting Time	Event Details
24 August	11:00	Men −60 kg
		Women −48 kg
25 August	11:00	Men −66 kg
		Women −52 kg
26 August	11:00	Men −73 kg
		Women −57 kg
27 August	11:00	Men −81 kg
		Women −63 kg
28 August	11:00	Men −90 kg
		Women −70 kg
		Women −78 kg
29 August	11:00	Men −100 kg
		Men +100 kg
		Women +78 kg
30 August	10:00	Men team
		Women team

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Kazakhstan)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	8	4	5	17
2	France (FRA)	2	2	2	6
3	South Korea (KOR)	2	1	3	6
4	Kazakhstan (KAZ)*	1	1	0	2
	Slovenia (SLO)	1	1	0	2
6	Argentina (ARG)	1	0	0	1
	China (CHN)	1	0	0	1
8	Russia (RUS)	0	2	1	3
9	Romania (ROU)	0	2	0	2
10	Germany (GER)	0	1	3	4
11	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	1	0	1
13	Mongolia (MGL)	0	0	4	4
14	Georgia (GEO)	0	0	3	3
15	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	2	2
16	Belarus (BLR)	0	0	1	1
	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
	Colombia (COL)	0	0	1	1
	Cuba (CUB)	0	0	1	1
	Israel (ISR)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	1	1
	Uzbekistan (UZB)	0	0	1	1
Totals (24 entries)		16	16	32	64

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra-lightweight (60 kg)[7] details	Yeldos Smetov  Kazakhstan	Rustam Ibrayev  Kazakhstan	Toru Shishime  Japan
			Kim Won-jin  South Korea
Half-lightweight (66 kg)[8] details	An Ba-ul  South Korea	Mikhail Pulyaev  Russia	Golan Pollack  Israel
			Rishod Sobirov  Uzbekistan
Lightweight (73 kg)[9] details	Shohei Ono  Japan	Riki Nakaya  Japan	Sainjargalyn Nyam-Ochir  Mongolia
			An Chang-rim  South Korea
Half-middleweight (81 kg)[10] details	Takanori Nagase  Japan	Loïc Pietri  France	Antoine Valois-Fortier  Canada
			Victor Penalber  Brazil
Middleweight (90 kg)[11] details	Gwak Dong-han  South Korea	Kirill Denisov  Russia	Varlam Liparteliani  Georgia
			Mashu Baker  Japan
Half-heavyweight (100 kg)[12] details	Ryunosuke Haga  Japan	Karl-Richard Frey  Germany	Toma Nikiforov  Belgium
			Dimitri Peters  Germany
Heavyweight (+100 kg)[13] details	Teddy Riner  France	Ryu Shichinohe  Japan	Adam Okruashvili  Georgia
			Iakiv Khammo  Ukraine
Team[14] details	Japan	South Korea	Georgia
			Mongolia

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra-lightweight (48 kg)[15] details	Paula Pareto  Argentina	Haruna Asami  Japan	Jeong Bo-kyeong  South Korea
			Ami Kondo  Japan
Half-lightweight (52 kg)[16] details	Misato Nakamura  Japan	Andreea Chițu  Romania	Érika Miranda  Brazil
			Darya Skrypnik  Belarus
Lightweight (57 kg)[17] details	Kaori Matsumoto  Japan	Corina Căprioriu  Romania	Automne Pavia  France
			Sumiya Dorjsuren  Mongolia
Half-middleweight (63 kg)[18] details	Tina Trstenjak  Slovenia	Clarisse Agbegnenou  France	Tsedevsürengiin Mönkhzayaa  Mongolia
			Miku Tashiro  Japan
Middleweight (70 kg)[19] details	Gévrise Émane  France	María Bernabéu  Spain	Fanny Estelle Posvite  France
			Yuri Alvear  Colombia
Half-heavyweight (78 kg)[20] details	Mami Umeki  Japan	Anamari Velenšek  Slovenia	Luise Malzahn  Germany
			Marhinde Verkerk  Netherlands
Heavyweight (+78 kg)[21] details	Yu Song  China	Megumi Tachimoto  Japan	Kanae Yamabe  Japan
			Idalys Ortiz  Cuba
Team[22] details	Japan	Poland	Germany
			Russia

Prize money

The sums written are per medalist, bringing the total prizes awarded to 200,000$ for the individual events and 100,000$ for the team events.^[1]

Medal		Individual				Team
		Total	Judoka	Coach		Total	Judoka	Coach
Gold		6,000$	4,800$	1,200$		25,000$	20,000$	5,000$
Silver		4,000$	3,200$	800$		15,000$	12,000$	3,000$
Bronze		2,000$	1,600$	400$		5,000$	4,000$	1,000$