Judo Grand Slam Tokyo

The Grand Slam Tokyo (formerly Jigoro Kano Cup Tokyo International Judo Tournament (嘉納治五郎杯東京国際柔道大会, Kanō Jigorō Hai Tōkyō Kokusai Jūdō Taikai)) is an international judo competition held as part of the International Judo Federation (IJF) World Tour Grand Slam series.

The first Jigoro Kano Cup was held at the Nippon Budōkan from November 23 to 26, 1978 and was a consequence of the canceled 1977 World Judo Championships.^[1]

Venues

1978–2006: Nippon Budokan
2007–2017, 2020–present: Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium
2018^[2]–2019: Maruzen Intec Arena, Osaka

Past winners

Men

Year	Extra-lightweight	Half-lightweight	Lightweight	Half-middleweight	Middleweight	Half-heavyweight	Heavyweight	Openweight
as Jigoro Kano Cup
1978	Katsumi Suzuki	Katsunori Akimoto	Kazuo Yoshimura	Shōzō Fujii	Isamu Sonoda	Dietmar Lorenz	Yasuhiro Yamashita	Yasuhiro Yamashita
1982	Shinji Hosokawa	Katsuhiko Kashiwazaki	Hidetoshi Nakanishi	Nobutoshi Hikage	Davit Bodaveli	Takeshi Suwa	—	Yasuhiro Yamashita
1986	Sérgio Pessoa	Yōsuke Yamamoto	Toshihiko Koga	Hirotaka Okada	Alexander Sivtsev	Hitoshi Sugai		Hitoshi Saito
1990	Tadashi Itakusu	Sergei Kosmynin	Toshihiko Koga	Hidehiko Yoshida	Jean-Luc Geymond	Stéphane Traineau		Naoya Ogawa
1992	Tadashi Itakusu	Kenji Maruyama	Daisuke Hideshima	Tatsuto Mochida	Masahiko Nakamashi	Paweł Nastula		Harry Van Barneveld
1994	Ryuji Sonoda	Yukimasa Nakamura	Martin Schmidt	Yoichi Nakamura	Hidehiko Yoshida	Shigeru Okaizumi	Frank Möller	Yoshiharu Makishi
1996	Tadahiro Nomura	Yukimasa Nakamura	Kim Dae-wook	Kazunori Kubota	Vincenzo Carabetta	Yoshio Nakamura	Yoshiharu Makishi	Shinichi Shinohara
1999	Masato Uchishiba	Larbi Benboudaoud	Andrey Shturbabin	Masahiko Tomouchi	Mark Huizinga	Tomokazu Inoue	Yasuyuki Muneta	—
2001	—							Yoshinori Shimode
2003	Takeshi Ogawa	Tomoo Torii	Yusuke Kanamaru	Kenzo Nakamura	Yuta Yazaki	Keiji Suzuki	Yasuyuki Muneta	—
2005	—							Kōsei Inoue
2006	Ludwig Paischer	Hiroyuki Akimoto	Francesco Bruyere	Hirotaka Kato	Hwang Hee-tae	Takamasa Anai	Yohei Takai	—
2007	Hiroaki Hiraoka	Tomasz Kowalski	Wang Ki-chun	Song Dae-nam	Ilias Iliadis	Daisuke Kobayashi	Satoshi Ishii
2008	Kisei Akimoto	Tatsuaki Egusa	Wang Ki-chun	Masahiko Tomouchi	Takashi Ono	Takamasa Anai	Yohei Takai
as Judo Grand Slam
2009	Masaaki Fukuoka	Masashi Ebinuma	Wang Ki-chun	Euan Burton	Takashi Ono	Hwang Hee-tae	Kazuhiko Takahashi	—
2010	Hirofumi Yamamoto	Masaaki Fukuoka	Riki Nakaya	Takahiro Nakai	Masashi Nishiyama	Takamasa Anai	Kim Sung-min
2011	Hirofumi Yamamoto	Tomofumi Takajo	Hiroyuki Akimoto	Tomohiro Kawakami	Masashi Nishiyama	Sergei Samoilovich	Alexander Mikhaylin
2012	Naohisa Takato	Junpei Morishita	Shohei Ono	Kim Jae-bum	Lee Kyu-won	Daisuke Kobayashi	Kim Sung-min
2013	Naohisa Takato	Tomofumi Takajo	Riki Nakaya	Takanori Nagase	Mashu Baker	Lukáš Krpálek	Kim Sung-min
2014	Won-Jin Kim	Hifumi Abe	Hiroyuki Akimoto	Takanori Nagase	Dong-han Gwak	Cho Gu-ham	Renat Saidov
2015	Naohisa Takato	Tomofumi Takajo	Hiroyuki Akimoto	Avtandili Tchrikishvili	Mashu Baker	Ryunosuke Haga	Hisayoshi Harasawa
2016	Ryuju Nagayama	Hifumi Abe	Soichi Hashimoto	Takanori Nagase	Aleksandar Kukolj	Kirill Denisov	Takeshi Ōjitani
2017	Naohisa Takato	Hifumi Abe	Arata Tatsukawa	Otgonbaataryn Uuganbaatar	Kenta Nagasawa	Cho Gu-ham	Yusei Ogawa
2018	Ryuju Nagayama	Joshiro Maruyama	Shohei Ono	Takeshi Sasaki	Shoichiro Mukai	Aaron Wolf	Henk Grol
2019	Naohisa Takato	Hifumi Abe	Masashi Ebinuma	Takanori Nagase	Beka Gviniashvili	Ryunosuke Haga	Inal Tasoev
2022	Jeon Seung-beom	Joshiro Maruyama	Soichi Hashimoto	Kenya Kohara	Kosuke Mashiyama	Gennaro Pirelli	Hyōga Ōta
2023	Ryuju Nagayama	Hifumi Abe	Hidayat Heydarov	Lee Joon-hwan	Sanshiro Murao	Matvey Kanikovskiy	Tamerlan Bashaev

Women

Year	Extra-lightweight	Half-lightweight	Lightweight	Half-middleweight	Middleweight	Half-heavyweight	Heavyweight
as Jigoro Kano Cup
2007	Yanet Bermoy	Misato Nakamura	Aiko Sato	Yoshie Ueno	Masae Ueno	Céline Lebrun	Mai Tateyama
2008	Tomoko Fukumi	Yuka Nishida	Kaori Matsumoto	Urška Žolnir	Lucie Décosse	Yang Xiuli	Elena Ivashchenko
as Judo Grand Slam
2009	Tomoko Fukumi	Misato Nakamura	Hitomi Tokuhisa	Yoshie Ueno	Mina Watanabe	Akari Ogata	Maki Tsukada
2010	Tomoko Fukumi	Yuka Nishida	Kaori Matsumoto	Clarisse Agbegnenou	Haruka Tachimoto	Audrey Tcheuméo	Megumi Tachimoto
2011	Haruna Asami	Takumi Miyakawa	Kaori Matsumoto	Urška Žolnir	Tomoe Ueno	Akari Ogata	Mika Sugimoto
2012	Haruna Asami	Yuki Hashimoto	Anzu Yamamoto	Megumi Horikawa	Linda Bolder	Ruika Sato	Megumi Tachimoto
2013	Ami Kondo	Yuki Hashimoto	Nae Udaka	Kana Abe	Chizuru Arai	Marhinde Verkerk	Megumi Tachimoto
2014	Ami Kondo	Yuki Hashimoto	Kaori Matsumoto	Tina Trstenjak	Gévrise Émane	Kayla Harrison	Nami Inamori
2015	Ami Kondo	Misato Nakamura	Tsukasa Yoshida	Martyna Trajdos	Chizuru Arai	Kayla Harrison	Nami Inamori
2016	Mönkhbatyn Urantsetseg	Natsumi Tsunoda	Tsukasa Yoshida	Kathrin Unterwurzacher	Saki Niizoe	Ruika Sato	Sarah Asahina
2017	Ami Kondo	Uta Abe	Tsukasa Yoshida	Miku Tashiro	Yoko Ono	Shori Hamada	Sarah Asahina
2018	Funa Tonaki	Uta Abe	Jessica Klimkait	Masako Doi	Chizuru Arai	Ruika Sato	Idalys Ortiz
2019	Funa Tonaki	Amandine Buchard	Momo Tamaoki	Masako Doi	Yoko Ono	Mami Umeki	Akira Sone
2022	Kano Miyaki	Uta Abe	Haruka Funakubo	Miku Takaichi	Saki Niizoe	Rika Takayama	Akira Sone
2023	Natsumi Tsunoda	Uta Abe	Christa Deguchi	Miku Takaichi	Sanne van Dijke	Mayra Aguiar	Mao Arai