1999 World Judo Championships

The 1999 World Judo Championships were the 21st edition of the World Judo Championships, and were held in Birmingham, Great Britain in 1999.

Judo 1999 World Judo Championships
Venue	Arena Birmingham
Location	Birmingham, Great Britain
Dates	7–10 October 1999
Competitors	619 from 91 nations
Competition at external databases
Links	IJF • JudoInside
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Medal overview

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra-lightweight (60 kg) details	Manolo Poulot (CUB)	Kazuhiko Tokuno (JPN)	Natig Bahirov (BLR)
			Nestor Khergiani (GEO)
Half-lightweight (66 kg) details	Larbi Benboudaoud (FRA)	Hüseyin Özkan (TUR)	Patrick van Kalken (NED)
			Yordanis Arencibia (CUB)
Lightweight (73 kg) details	Jimmy Pedro (USA)	Vitaliy Makarov (RUS)	Sebastian Pereira (BRA)
			Georgi Revazichvili (GEO)
Half-middleweight (81 kg) details	Graeme Randall (GBR)	Farkhod Turaev (UZB)	Kwak Ok-chol (PRK)
			Cho In-chul (KOR)
Middleweight (90 kg) details	Hidehiko Yoshida (JPN)	Victor Florescu (MDA)	Yoo Sung-yeon (KOR)
			Adrian Croitoru (ROM)
Half-heavyweight (100 kg) details	Kosei Inoue (JPN)	Jang Sung-ho (KOR)	Alexandre Mikhaylin (RUS)
			Nicolas Gill (CAN)
Heavyweight (+100 kg) details	Shinichi Shinohara (JPN)	Indrek Pertelson (EST)	Pan Song (CHN)
			Selim Tataroğlu (TUR)
Openweight details	Shinichi Shinohara (JPN)	Selim Tataroğlu (TUR)	Dennis van der Geest (NED)
			Harry Van Barneveld (BEL)

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra-lightweight (48 kg) details	Ryoko Tamura (JPN)	Amarilis Savón (CUB)	Sarah Nichilo-Rosso (FRA)
			Anna Maria Gradante (GER)
Half-lightweight (52 kg) details	Noriko Narazaki (JPN)	Legna Verdecia (CUB)	Kye Sun-hui (PRK)
			Marie-Claire Restoux (FRA)
Lightweight (57 kg) details	Driulis González (CUB)	Isabel Fernández (ESP)	Jessica Gal (NED)
			Michaela Vernerová (CZE)
Half-middleweight (63 kg) details	Keiko Maeda (JPN)	Gella Vandecaveye (BEL)	Sara Álvarez (ESP)
			Karen Roberts (GBR)
Middleweight (70 kg) details	Sibelis Veranes (CUB)	Ulla Werbrouck (BEL)	Kate Howey (GBR)
			Ylenia Scapin (ITA)
Half-heavyweight (78 kg) details	Noriko Anno (JPN)	Yin Yufeng (CHN)	Céline Lebrun (FRA)
			Diadenis Luna (CUB)
Heavyweight (+78 kg) details	Beata Maksymow (POL)	Yuan Hua (CHN)	Miho Ninomiya (JPN)
			Karina Bryant (GBR)
Openweight details	Daima Beltrán (CUB)	Miho Ninomiya (JPN)	Tsvetana Bozhilova (BUL)
			Choi Sook-ie (KOR)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	8	2	1	11
2	Cuba (CUB)	4	2	2	8
3	France (FRA)	1	0	3	4
	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	3	4
5	Poland (POL)	1	0	0	1
	United States (USA)	1	0	0	1
7	Belgium (BEL)	0	2	1	3
	China (CHN)	0	2	1	3
	Turkey (TUR)	0	2	1	3
10	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	3	4
11	Russia (RUS)	0	1	1	2
	Spain (ESP)	0	1	1	2
13	Estonia (EST)	0	1	0	1
	Moldova (MDA)	0	1	0	1
	Uzbekistan (UZB)	0	1	0	1
16	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	3	3
17	Georgia (GEO)	0	0	2	2
	North Korea (PRK)	0	0	2	2
19	Belarus (BLR)	0	0	1	1
	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	1	1
	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	1	1
	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	0	1	1
	Germany (GER)	0	0	1	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (26 entries)		16	16	32	64

Results overview

Men

60 kg

Position	Judoka	Country
1.	Manuelo Poulot	Cuba
2.	Kazuhiko Tokuno	Japan
3.	Natig Bahirov	Belarus
3.	Nestor Khergiani	Georgia
5.	John Buchanan	Great Britain
5.	Dorjpalamyn Narmandakh	Mongolia
7.	Vardan Voskanyan	Armenia
7.	Evguani Stanev	Russia

66 kg

Position	Judoka	Country
1.	Larbi Benboudaoud	France
2.	Hüseyin Özkan	Turkey
3.	Patrick van Kalken	Netherlands
3.	Yordanis Arencibia	Cuba
5.	Ludwing Ortiz	Venezuela
5.	Han Ji-hwan	South Korea
7.	Kiyoshi Uematsu	Spain
7.	Purevdor Nyamlkhagva	Mongolia

73 kg

Position	Judoka	Country
1.	Jimmy Pedro	United States
2.	Vitaliy Makarov	Russia
3.	Sebastian Pereira	Brazil
3.	Georgi Revazichvili	Georgia
5.	Rafał Kozielewski	Poland
5.	Miklós Illyés	Hungary
7.	inCarlos Méndez	Puerto Rico
7.	Anatoly Laryukov	Belarus

81 kg

Position	Judoka	Country
1.	Graeme Randall	Great Britain
2.	Farkhod Turaev	Uzbekistan
3.	Kwak Ok-chol	North Korea
3.	Cho In-chul	South Korea
5.	Nuno Delgado	Portugal
5.	Djamel Bouras	France
7.	Maarten Arens	Netherlands
7.	Patick Reiter	Austria

90 kg

Position	Judoka	Country
1.	Hidehiko Yoshida	Japan
2.	Victor Florescu	Moldova
3.	Yoo Sung-yeon	South Korea
3.	Adrian Croitoru	Romania
5.	Carlos Honorato	Brazil
5.	Sergey Shakimov	Kazakhstan
7.	Keith Morgan	Canada
7.	Yosvany Despaigne	Cuba

100 kg

Position	Judoka	Country
1.	Kosei Inoue	Japan
2.	Jang Sung-ho	South Korea
3.	Alexandre Mikhaylin	Russia
3.	Nicolas Gill	Canada
5.	Stéphane Traineau	France
5.	Ariel Ze'evi	Israel
7.	Martin van den Berg	Netherlands
7.	Leonid Svirid	Belarus

+100 kg

Position	Judoka	Country
1.	Shinichi Shinohara	Japan
2.	Indrek Pertelson	Estonia
3.	Pan Song	China
3.	Selim Tataroğlu	Turkey
5.	Jérôme Dreyfus	France
5.	Frank Möller	Germany
7.	Tamerlan Tmenov	Russia
7.	Rafał Kubacki	Poland

Open class

Position	Judoka	Country
1.	Shinichi Shinohara	Japan
2.	Selim Tataroğlu	Turkey
3.	Dennis van der Geest	Netherlands
3.	Harry Van Barneveld	Belgium
5.	Aleksi Davidashvili	Georgia
5.	Daniel Hernandes	Brazil
7.	Koba Nadiradze	Ukraine
7.	Patrice Rognon	France

Women

48 kg

Position	Judoka	Country
1.	Ryoko Tamura	Japan
2.	Amarilis Savón	Cuba
3.	Sarah Nichilo-Rosso	France
3.	Anna Maria Gradante	Germany
5.	Vanesa Arenas	Spain
5.	Park Sung-ja	South Korea
7.	Huang Lihong	China
7.	Victoria Dunn	Great Britain

52 kg

Position	Judoka	Country
1.	Noriko Narasaki	Japan
2.	Legna Verdecia	Cuba
3.	Kye Sun-hui	North Korea
3.	Marie-Claire Restoux	France
5.	Liu Yuxiang	China
5.	Salima Souakri	Algeria
7.	Luce Baillargeon	Canada
7.	Deborah Allan	Great Britain

57 kg

Position	Judoka	Country
1.	Driulis González	Cuba
2.	Isabel Fernández	Spain
3.	Jessica Gal	Netherlands
3.	Michaela Vernerová	Czech Republic
5.	Pernilla Andersson	Sweden
5.	Zulfiyya Huseynova	Azerbaijan
7.	Magali Baton	France
7.	Orit Bar-On	Israel

63 kg

Position	Judoka	Country
1.	Keiko Maeda	Japan
2.	Gella Vandecaveye	Belgium
3.	Sara Álvarez	Spain
3.	Karen Roberts	Great Britain
5.	Eszter Csizmadia	Hungary
5.	Celita Schutz	United States
7.	Sun Xiaofang	China
7.	Kenia Rodríguez	Cuba

70 kg

Position	Judoka	Country
1.	Sibelis Veranes	Cuba
2.	Ulla Werbrouck	Belgium
3.	Kate Howey	Great Britain
3.	Ylenia Scapin	Italy
5.	Masae Ueno	Japan
5.	Yvonne Wansart	Germany
7.	Úrsula Martín	Spain
7.	Qin Dongya	China

78 kg

Position	Judoka	Country
1.	Noriko Anno	Japan
2.	Yin Yufeng	China
3.	Céline Lebrun	France
3.	Diadenis Luna	Cuba
5.	Karin Kienhuis	Netherlands
5.	Kang Min-jung	South Korea
7.	Esther San Miguel	Spain
7.	Sandra Godinho	Portugal

+78 kg

Position	Judoka	Country
1.	Beata Maksymow	Poland
2.	Yuan Hua	China
3.	Miho Ninomiya	Japan
3.	Karina Bryant	Great Britain
5.	Christine Cicot	France
5.	?	?
7.	Colleen Rosensteel	United States
7.	Tsvetana Bozilova	Bulgaria

Open class

Position	Judoka	Country
1.	Daima Beltrán	Cuba
2.	Miho Ninomiya	Japan
3.	Tsvetana Bozilova	Bulgaria
3.	Choi Sook-ie	South Korea
5.	Svetlana Goundarenko	Russia
5.	Priscila Marques	Brazil
7.	Zhang Qingli	China
7.	Françoise Harteveld	Netherlands

External links

• 1999 World Judo Championships at the International Judo Federation
• 1999 World Judo Championships at JudoInside.com
• Competition Results - 1999 World Judo Championships (International Judo Federation)