# 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.

## Venues

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

## Past winners
### Men

| Year | Extra-lightweight | Half-lightweight | Lightweight | Half-middleweight | Middleweight | Half-heavyweight | Heavyweight | Openweight |
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| 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 | — |
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| 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 | — |
| 2024 | Taiki Nakamura [ja] | Takeshi Takeoka [ja] | Ryuga Tanaka [ja] | Sotaro Fujiwara | Sanshiro Murao | Matvey Kanikovskiy | Kanta Nakano [ja] | — |

### Women

| Year | Extra-lightweight | Half-lightweight | Lightweight | Half-middleweight | Middleweight | Half-heavyweight | Heavyweight |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
| 2024 | Wakana Koga | Kisumi Omori [ja] | Mika Adachi [ja] | Haruka Kaju [ja] | Mayu Honda | Kurena Ikeda [ja] | Mao Arai |