The schedule for the 2018 World Championships

Almost two weeks in advance of the 2018 Baku World Championships the countdown has really started. The National Gymnastics Arena and its 5,000 spectator capacity will vibrate to the rhythm of ippons and the performance of more than 800 competitors, from 133 countries, registered to date is close to the records of the 138 Worlds in Rio in 2007 and the participation record of Paris in 2011.

Such a distribution across the five continents perfectly illustrates the global dimension of modern judo.

Every day the competition will start at 10am, except for the teams where the first matches are fixed at 9am. The final block will start every day at 16:00.

DAY 1 - Thursday 20 September: M-60 / W-48

DAY 2 - Friday 21 September: M-66 / W-52

DAY 3 - Saturday 22 September: M-73 / W-57

DAY 4 - Sunday 23 September: M-81 / W-63

DAY 5 - Monday 24 September: M-90 / W-70

DAY 6 - Tuesday 25 September: M-100 / W-78

DAY 7 - Wednesday 26 September: M+100 / W+78

DAY 8 - Thursday 27 September: Mixed Teams

This year the competition will be spread over eight days, instead of seven in previous editions. Eight days of passion and high performance. Each day there will be two weight classes that will compete for the world title, while the last day will be dedicated to the mixed team tournament.

After a particularly successful first edition last year in Budapest, this format of competition will appear again on the international scene at the Baku 2018 Championships, before being honoured next year in Japan for the 2019 Worlds and especially before the 2020 Tokyo Games where for the first time in history a team tournament will be part of the Olympic program.